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New fieldwork blog: Struggling with antipathy for the field and “anthropology-fed-up-ness”

Published on October 30, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, fieldwork / methods, religion cosmology, websites

Norwegian anthropologist Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme has started blogging. He is currently on fieldwork in the Philippines among the Pentecostal Christians in Ifugao.

In his first two posts of his blog Jon Henrik in Ifugao, he describes parts of the fieldwork process that are familiar for most anthropologists but that rarely make it into papers or monograps: “anthropology-fed-up-ness” and antipathy for the field.

“Back in Ifugao, the first thing that struck me was that I was already tired of being here”, he writes in his first post Chasing Ifugao Christians with a lack of motivation….

“One of the main impressions I had of my previous fieldwork was that this type of research is very inefficient. (…) Today I had such an experience again”, he writes in his second post When the time is right…

>> visit Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme’s blog

For information on his first research project, see the project website.

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Norwegian anthropologist Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme has started blogging. He is currently on fieldwork in the Philippines among the Pentecostal Christians in Ifugao.

In his first two posts of his blog Jon Henrik in Ifugao, he describes parts of…

AfricaWrites – Videos from rural Africa

Published on October 28, 2007 by lorenz Posted in Africa, anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Visual Anthropology, websites

Patrick Gorham, editor of AfricaWrites: Heroes, Rituals & Legends writes to me. He created AfricaWrites several years ago “with the intent and goals of research, exploration, preservation and documentation of traditional African culture”. On the website you can watch several videos from rural Africa.

>> visit AfricaWrites.com

>> Ugotrade.com with more info on AfricaWrites

Patrick Gorham, editor of AfricaWrites: Heroes, Rituals & Legends writes to me. He created AfricaWrites several years ago "with the intent and goals of research, exploration, preservation and documentation of traditional African culture". On the website you can watch several…

MANAO – new Open Access repository for anthropology to be launched

Published on October 11, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia, websites

As the open access to Annual Review of Anthropology only was a temporary pleasure, it is good to know that the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i is going to launch MANAO – an Open Access repository for anthropology:

The Mana’o project combines anthropology’s commitment with the ideal of ‘open access’ with open source software’s focus on free technology. The goal is to provide tools that allow scholars to better communicate with each other and with the world.

Mana’o will ‘soft-launch’ in late-November 2007 during the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington D.C. We are currently inviting early adopters to submit work that will be featured in this launch.

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Anthropologists have long been concerned with making their world available to the public, including the communities with whom they have lived and conducted fieldwork. Mana’o represents an important step forward in creating concrete open access solutions for anthropology. I hope that you will be part of our initial program, and I look forward to receiving your submission!

>> read the whole announcement over at Savage Minds

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Sexual anthropologist explains how technology changes dating, love and relationships

Published on September 30, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, gender, journal articles / papers, persons and theories, technology, websites

Bella Ellwood-Clayton is sexual anthropologist. As we read in the Washington Post, Bella Ellwood-Clayton has studied texting and dating in the Philippines. On her website you can download the texts Desire and loathing in the cyber Philippines and Unfailthful: Enchantment and disenchantment through mobile use, some of her weekly sex and relationship columns and some poems and short stories.

You can even watch some videos and follow her on her fieldwork in Sumatra, researching beauty as a cultural notion.

>> visit her website

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Connecting Art and Anthropology

Published on September 15, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, art, interdisciplinary, websites

What happens when artists and anthropologists are asked to do something together rather than talk from the safety of their own practice? The result can be seen on the website Connecting Art & Anthropology: Transcripts of discussions, short reports, a video and even a sound notebook based on the workshop! Read also Anne Galloway’s comments on this website/workshop.

Last year we had a similar event in Oslo, see Cosmoculture: Preferably more art than books!. Thomas Hylland Eriksen said: “The most important thing the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said did was to establish a Jewish-Arabic youth orchestra. This was more important than writing 100 books.”