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Barrierer for dansk statsborgerskab

Published on March 21, 2005 by lorenz Posted in identitet etnisitet, innvandring migrasjon, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Berlingske Tidende

At være født her i Danmark er langt fra ensbetydende med at have dansk statsborgerskab. Både rent formelle hindringer og en følelse af manglende tilhørsforhold i det danske samfund har betydning for, at en tredjedel af de , som fødes i Danmark af udenlandske forældre, stadig har deres udenlandske statsborgerskab. »Søger man om statsborgerskab, så fravælger man sin anden identitet. Så er man dansker og ikke længere tyrker eller pakistaner eller iraker. Og det er et stort psykologisk pres,« siger etnisk konsulent og medlem af Københavns borgerrepræsentation Manu Sareen. >> les mer

Berlingske Tidende

Besitzen Sie eine ethnische Herkunft?

Published on March 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Deutschland, Oesterreich, Schweiz, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Migration Integration, Wir und die Anderen

BETTINA RÖHL, taz

Sind Sie Frau? Unbedingt bleiben. Haben Sie eine andere Rasse? Besser geht’s gar nicht. Besitzen Sie eine ethnische Herkunft? Fein. Haben Sie eine Religion zur Hand? Wenn nein, machen Sie sich eine. Eine Weltanschauung werden sie sicher irgendwo auftreiben. Nennen sie eine Behinderung Ihr Eigen – das wäre sehr günstig. Was soll das alles? Es soll Gesetz werden. Und zwar in Gestalt eines Gesamtkunstwerks mit dem Namen Antidiskriminierungsgesetz (ADG). Sieht man sich das konkrete Regelwerk genauer an, in das Gegenteil dessen kippen, was es bewirken soll. >> weiter

BETTINA RÖHL, taz

Sind Sie Frau? Unbedingt bleiben. Haben Sie eine andere Rasse? Besser geht's gar nicht. Besitzen Sie eine ethnische Herkunft? Fein. Haben Sie eine Religion zur Hand? Wenn nein, machen Sie sich eine. Eine Weltanschauung werden sie sicher irgendwo…

Book review: Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

Published on March 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, history, language

Martin Jacques, The Guardian

There are many ways of recounting the history of the world – via the rise and fall of civilisations, the fortunes of nation states, socio-economic systems and patterns, the development of technology, or the chronology of war and military prowess. This book tells the story through the rise and decline of languages. It is a compelling read, one of the most interesting books I have read in a long while.

Nicholas Ostler does not adopt a narrowly linguistic approach – based on the structure of languages and their evolution – but instead looks at the history of languages, the reasons for their rise and, as a rule, also their fall. While it is a history of languages, it is at the same time a history of the cultures and civilisations from which they sprang. >> continue

(via Arts & Letters Daily)

Martin Jacques, The Guardian

There are many ways of recounting the history of the world - via the rise and fall of civilisations, the fortunes of nation states, socio-economic systems and patterns, the development of technology, or the chronology of war…

Modern American family: Strained and losing intimacy

Published on March 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Northern America, Us and Them

The intimate moments that once were the glue of American family life are disappearing amid job demands and nonstop activities. Scientists at UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families have spent the past four years observing 32 Los Angeles families in a study of how working America somehow gets it done. Day after day. “We’ve scheduled and outsourced a lot of our relationships,” says the study’s director, Elinor Ochs, a linguistic anthropologist. “There isn’t much room for the flow of life, those little moments when things happen spontaneously.

For Ochs, the most worrisome trend is how indifferently people treat each other, especially when they reunite at day’s end. In her view, the chilly exchanges repeated in so many of the study’s households suggests something has gone awry. >> continue

The power of dead bodies in Eastern Europe

Published on March 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, Europe, politics

The Oberlin Review

“Dead bodies have enjoyed political life the world over,” said anthropologist Katherine Verdery on Monday. She did not, however, mean this literally. Verdery’s lecture, appropriately called “The Political Lives of Dead Bodies” after the title of her new book, aimed to explore the tremendous changes across Eastern Europe that accompanied the end of Communist rule. By studying the dead for political purposes, Verdery hopes to gain better understanding of these changes and their impacts. >> continue

SEE ALSO:
Book review: The Political Lives of Dead Bodies Reburial and Postsocialist Change by Katherine Verdery (Commonweal, June 4, 1999 / findarticles.com)

The Oberlin Review