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Smithsonian Folkways to Open MP3 Music Store

Published on April 1, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, indigenous people / minorities, music, technology

Washington Post

The Smithsonian Institution is entering the highly competitive world of music downloads by offering the Smithsonian Folkways collection of ethnic and traditional music in an online music store. Smithsonian Global Sound, the new project, will be formally launched during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in June.

Global Sound will charge 99 cents a song, which are available in MP3 format. The Smithsonian will pay royalties to the artists, as its recording label has done with records and CDs. The Web site, www.smithsonianglobalsound.org, will allow searches by artist, geographic location, language, cultural group or instrument. All of the Folkways archives, including photographs, can be downloaded onto a screen. >> continue

Washington Post

New book: Divination and Healing: Potent Vision

Published on April 1, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, religion cosmology

Tucson Weekly

Divination and Healing: Potent Vision, a scholarly collection of articles from the University of Arizona Press, examines a number of divinatory systems in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Divination is present, to some extent, in all cultures, ranging from well-known types like astrology, tarot and a variety of psychic activities, to those a bit more arcane, involving such diverse phenomenon as umbilical cords, comet tails, bouncing pearls, roosters, rats and cheese.

For the most part, social scientists have viewed these pursuits from a materialist perspective, seeing them as the illusionary byproducts of the human desire for control in a perilous and unpredictable world. However, in recent years, anthropologists have begun reassessing divinatory frameworks and the subjective meaning they have for participants, because of the growing recognition that many of these techniques actually work. >> continue

Tucson Weekly

Reconstructing tribal history

Published on April 1, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, history, indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them

The Telegraph, Calcutta

Tribal societies have seldom recorded their own history. They usually relied on oral transmission of events, which raises definite difficulties for mainstream historians, who have seldom given serious thought or space to tribal struggles or movements. Recently, Sussex University celebrated the 150th anniversary of the historic Santhal Hul calling for reconstruction of tribal history.

In the wake of this memorable event, a researcher should not forget that writing history has always been determined by the dominant ideologies and class interests, creating products more or less of specialised brands. >> continue

The Telegraph, Calcutta

Er suchte nach den Gemeinsamkeiten der Völker

Published on April 1, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Ethnologie allgemein, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Forscher / Theorien / Richtungen, Kultur Tradition, Wir und die Anderen

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Alle Kulturen haben gemeinsame Wurzeln. Aber durch den Kontakt mit Fremden entwickeln sich einige schneller als andere. Davon war Adolf Bastian überzeugt, der im Jahr 1873 das Königliche Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin gründete.
25 Jahre reiste Adolf Bastian durch die Welt: Kein Ethnologe besuchte mehr Völker und sammelte mehr Zeugnisse ihrer Kulturen. Doch die Expeditionen des Begründers des Völkerkunde-Museums wurden vergessen. 100 Jahre nach seinem Tod zeigt eine Ausstellung Bastians Wirken >> weiter

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Schock des Kulturkontakts: Ethnologisches Museum erinnert an Adolf Bastian

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Kvinner i Eritrea og Etiopia: Stilltiende, men ikke passiv

Published on April 1, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Afrika, kjønn, konflikter katastrofer, master-/ hovedoppgaver, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Kilden, Forskningsrådet

Sosialantropolog Thera Mjaaland vil gjerne utfordre våre bilder fra de katastroferammede områdene i Eritrea og Etiopia. Kvinnene her er ikke kun ofre for krig, sult og et patriarkalsk system. Ser vi dem slik, underkjenner vi deres faktiske handlinger, erfaringer og kunnskap. Gjennom en årrekke har Thera Mjaaland reist i Eritrea og Etiopia som fotograf. Nå har hun også skrevet hovedfagsoppgave i sosialantropologi hvor hun fokuserer på kvinneliv i Tigray-regionen i Nord-Etiopia. >> les mer

Kilden, Forskningsrådet