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The Poorbuthappy Guide to Ethnography in Design and Business

This site’s layout looks like as if it was last updated in the early 90s, but this is because it is a traditional wiki – a site that everybody is allowed to edit. Besides the guide “How to do Ethnographic Research”, you’ll also find a list of “Companies That Do Ethno” >> continue

This site's layout looks like as if it was last updated in the early 90s, but this is because it is a traditional wiki - a site that everybody is allowed to edit. Besides the guide "How to do Ethnographic…

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New Slideshow: The Colours of Rajasthan

Charu from A Time To Reflect (formerly “Peek into my mind”) has put online beautiful and colorful pictures from Rajastan and other travels in India. She writes:

“Rajasthan must be the most vibrant and colourful place in India, if not the world. And this, despite the harsh conditions in which people there live… Kota, Bundi, Jaipur and Jodhpur – October 2004”

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Charu from A Time To Reflect (formerly "Peek into my mind") has put online beautiful and colorful pictures from Rajastan and other travels in India. She writes:

"Rajasthan must be the most vibrant and colourful place in India, if not the…

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maitres-fous.net – a Website devoted to ethnographer Jean Rouch’s films

maitres-fous.net

The filmmaker and ethnographer Jean Rouch died in northern Niger on February 19, 2004. He was 86 years old. He left behind a legacy of over 120 films – the bulk of which were recorded in West Africa.

Rouch’s work in Africa is characterized by what is referred to as “shared anthropology” and “ethno-fiction.” Rouch’s films illustrate a keen rethinking of the practice of both ethnography and filmmaking. Rouch’s practices blur the distinctions between subject and observer, reality and fiction.

Rouch elaborated a style of filming through which he not only recorded events, but also participated in their creation. According to Rouch, the relationship between the filmmaker and his subject reaches its creative zenith when the filmmaker “can really get into the subject”- when he slips into what Rouch called a ciné-trance. >> continue

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The filmmaker and ethnographer Jean Rouch died in northern Niger on February 19, 2004. He was 86 years old. He left behind a legacy of over 120 films - the bulk of which were recorded in West Africa.

Rouch's work in…

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AnthroSource – AAA announces new anthropology portal. Great, but….

(via Ethno::log)

“The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is proud to announce the development of AnthroSource, the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Combining low-cost digital access to the AAA’s peer reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins with high-level electronic content functionality, AnthroSource is an indispensable research tool for your patrons.”

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Sounds good, but it looks like to be one more of those scientific pay-sites. Shouldn’t knowledge circulate freely and be free accessible to all of us?

>> Budapest Open Access Initiative >> Creative Commons – an alternative to full copyright

>> Copyleft

>> Paper in First Monday on AnthroSource and anthropologists’ use of the Internet

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"The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is proud to announce the development of AnthroSource, the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Combining low-cost digital access to the AAA's peer reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins…

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New link: Pictures from Tibet

Tibet Information Network has published a huge collection of pictures about different topics like Culture and Society, Education, Environment and Religion >> continue

(via tibet.ethno.info)

Tibet Information Network has published a huge collection of pictures about different topics like Culture and Society, Education, Environment and Religion >> continue

(via tibet.ethno.info)

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