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Intervju med Fredrik Barth: – Mangler et språk for avmakt

Published on April 18, 2005 by lorenz Posted in antropologi allment, globalisering transnajonalt, Kultur tradisjon kunnskap, portretter og intervjuer, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, vi og de andre

Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, Utveier Nr 5 (18.4.05)

Fredrik Barth er en bauta innenfor sosialantropologi, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Gjennom en mannsalder har han bodd i og blitt kjent med småsamfunn over hele verden. Utveier spurte hvordan han har sett disse forandre seg i takt med den økonomiske globaliseringen.

– Det jeg synes er trist, er at jeg hadde en naiv forhåpning om at den tredje verden skulle få mer autonomi, at vanlige mennesker skulle få styre sine liv. Men slik ble det ikke. Føringene er så overveldende, at alt må lønne seg, gi bedre avkastning og avkastningen skal måles utelukkende i en forretningsmessig ramme. Det betyr at det blir dype og grunnleggende forandringer i folks livsmønstre som de ikke velger, men som fremtrer som om de er nødvendige og uavvennlige. Det fører til at vårt samfunn, og små samfunn rundt omkring ikke har styring over seg selv.

– Vi blir lett beruset av vår egen kunnskap innenfor vår egen kulturelle ramme. Om folk i større grad kan leve med en antropologisk snert sånn at de nærmer seg andre ting i ydmykhet, ta det innover seg og få det omgjort til egenerfaring, så utvider det deres horisont og deres eget livsrom, sier Fredrik Barth. >> les mer

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Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, Utveier Nr 5 (18.4.05)

Samerna vill synas i EU

Published on April 18, 2005 by lorenz Posted in EU, globalisering transnajonalt, samer, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Hufvudstadsbladet (Helsinki)

Sametinget vill att Finland ska bli mer aktivt när det gäller att lyfta fram samerna på unionsnivå. – EU har väldigt bra principer för ursprungsbefolkningar när man har att göra med ett tredje land. Men inom unionen finns det ingen policy för samerna, säger Anne Nuorgam, vice ordförande för Sametinget i Finland. Sametinget i Finland hoppas att Finlands regering ska kunna vara initiativtagare till en mer aktiv politik. >> les mer

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Hufvudstadsbladet (Helsinki)

Sametinget vill att Finland ska bli mer aktivt när det gäller att lyfta fram samerna på unionsnivå. - EU har väldigt bra principer för ursprungsbefolkningar när man har att göra med ett tredje land. Men inom unionen finns det…

UPDATED: Ethnographic Study on "Digital Kids"

Published on April 17, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods, media, technology, youth

Linux Electronics

A University of California, Berkeley, professor is spearheading a team just awarded $3.3 million to study “digital kids.” The study will document how youth from ages 10 to 20 are using new digital media to create and exchange knowledge, assess how these phenomena affect learning, and encourage use of its conclusions for the improvement of schools.

Principal investigators include anthropologist Mizuko Ito, who has studied youths’ use of digital media in the United States and Japan.

Half of the ethnographic study’s research sites will be online and include the use of blogs, new online play sites such as Neopets and online games. The other half will include sites like libraries, community centers, game centers and after-school programs that have digital media. >> continue

UPDATE: Judd Antin (University of California Berkeley!) has more information. He writes – among others: “There is practically no research on how youth in the United States use, perceive, and value ICTs. It’s a gigantic gap. We aim to fill it. (..) Educational technology has been stagnant since about 1990. There have been practically no new developments in teaching software. Through our study we hope to provide the ammunition to develop educational software that works, and which capitalizes on the new, digital, networked environment in which many kids are growing up. >> continue
He also points to the research project’s homepage

LINKS UPDATED 5.1.2023

Linux Electronics

A University of California, Berkeley, professor is spearheading a team just awarded $3.3 million to study "digital kids." The study will document how youth from ages 10 to 20 are using new digital media to create and exchange knowledge,…

Donna Goldstein has been named winner of the 2005 Margaret Mead Award

Published on April 17, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, gender

Denver Post

University of Colorado anthropologist Donna Goldstein has been named winner of the 2005 Margaret Mead Award, given every other year to a young anthropologist in recognition of excellent research. The American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology recognized Goldstein for her 2003 book, “Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown.”

Goldstein originally visited the shantytown to study an AIDS epidemic among women there, she said in a statement. But she ended up writing about how the women use storytelling and black humor to deal with their sometimes tragic lives. (article no longer online) / >> more info on the website of Society for Applied Anthropology (they might have mistaken 2004 and 2005?

Denver Post

Die Chanten bangen um Taiga und Tundra. Ölfirmen bedrohen ihre Lebensgrundlage

Published on April 17, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Natur und Umwelt, Politik / Oekonomie, Russland, Urbevölkerungen und Minderheiten

Ethnologin Vera Thümmel, Rheinischer Merkur

Die Chanten, der indigenen Bevölkerung Westsibiriens – zählt zu den „kleinen Völkern des Nordens“, wie sie auf Russisch genannt werden. Viele leben an den unzähligen Nebenarmen des Ob, der zu den größten Flüssen der Erde zählt und wie eine Ader das gesamte Territorium der Westsibirischen Tiefebene durchzieht. Doch Hecht, Stör und sibirischer Weißlachs haben es hier nicht mehr so gut wie einst. Taiga und Tundra sind getränkt vom Erdöl. Über die Hälfte des russischen Erdöls wird in Westsibirien, im autonomen Bezirk der Chanten und Mansen, gefördert.

Mitte der neunziger Jahre raste Westsibirien mit mehr als 3100 registrierten Unfällen einer Ökokatastrophe entgegen. Eine starke Protestbewegung unter der indigenen Bevölkerung schaffte es, neue Rechte und Gesetze sowie eine Vertretung in der staatlichen Duma und der Duma des autonomen Bezirks durchzusetzen und die Tragödie abzuwenden. Kulturzentren und Museen wurden eröffnet, Kulturfestivals und internationale Forschungsprojekte finanziert.

Beträchtliche Teile der veralteten Ölleitungen wurden jedoch bisher nicht erneuert. Die Importmenge hat sich in den letzten Jahren sogar erhöht, ungeachtet der Verschmutzung und Probleme, die es bewirkt. >> weiter

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Ethnologin Vera Thümmel, Rheinischer Merkur