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Hylland Eriksen: – Kjemp for retten til å være stygg og fet!

Published on June 21, 2005 by lorenz Posted in framtid, livet, Norge, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, vi og de andre

NRK P1

Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen tror retten til å være moralsk ukorrekt blir en politisk kampsak. Hylland Eriksen er professor i sosialantropologi, er kjent for å snakke svært fort, og svært mye, noe han også rakk å gjøre innenfor tiden han hadde til å inspirere P1-regjeringen i sitt arbeidet med manifestet om Norge i de neste 100 årene. >> les mer

SE OGSÅ:
Hvordan blir Norge i 2105? (Kulturell kompleksitet i det nye Norge, UiO)

NRK P1

Harde tider for samene etter 1905

Published on June 21, 2005 by lorenz Posted in minoriteter og urbefolkninger, Norge, samer, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, vi og de andre

Jon Gustavsen, Ny Tid

Den norsk-svenske separasjonen i 1905 førte ikke til lettere vilkår for samene. Den norske stat åpnet med sin fornorskningspolitikk døren for de mest effektive i faget. I Sverige dreide politikken seg i mer sosialdarwinistisk retning og det utviklet det seg et romantisk rasesyn på samene. >> les mer (OBS: NyTid har fjernet teksten fra det åpne nettet)

SE OGSÅ:
Hva feirer vi? I 1905 lærte barn at tatere, negere og samer var lavtstående

Jon Gustavsen, Ny Tid

Book review: Ritual praxis in modern Japan

Published on June 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, books, culture traditions, religion cosmology

The Japan Times Online

Anthropologist Satsuki Kawano in her study of various ritual practices in the city of Kamakura wishes to see religious rites as being both culturally constructed and socially generated. Kawano prefers to demonstrate that partaking in religious rituals does not necessarily involve “belief” in its ordinary sense. Rather “ritual life is not so much about individual faith as it is about securing the well-being of families and communities.” >> continue

The Japan Times Online

Radio interview on African Village/ “Germans&Japanese less sensitive about race”

Published on June 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Africa, anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, Europe, Us and Them

The African Village at the zoo in Augsburg, Germany is still debated in the international media.

“An African culture festival creates a storm in Germany. Critics say it’s like shows in colonial times that degraded Africans. The flap has sparked a broader discussion about racism in Germany, and what it’s like to be both dark-skinned and a native German”, the National Public Radio (NPR) summarizes the debate around the african village in the zoo in Augsburg. >> listen to the radio report by NPR

On L’express and several other news sites comment the African Village like this: “Germans and Japanese are less sensitive about race in general and about Africa in particular than, say, people in France or the United States, where a significant minority of the population is of African descent >> continue

The African Village at the zoo in Augsburg, Germany is still debated in the international media.

"An African culture festival creates a storm in Germany. Critics say it's like shows in colonial times that degraded Africans. The flap has sparked a…

Rituals – mechanisms for both creating solidarity and for increasing conflict

Published on June 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, Asia, culture traditions, politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

Dutch-sponsored researcher Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta analysed the dynamics of the conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Molucca Islands. The anthropologist proposes that rituals play an important role in this. Ritual was found to unite and mobilise people in a confrontation with real or supposed outsiders, but it also helped them to reach an agreement after the confrontation. >> continue

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research