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Ukjent samehistorie

Published on by lorenz Posted in historie, samer, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

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Rørosmuseet viser akkurat nå utstillingen «Sørsamer i sør». Dette er en nokså ukjent og lite påaktet del av sørsamenes historie, som Kjell Bitustøyl setter fokus på i fotoutstillingen som nå kan beskues på Rørosmuseet. >> les mer

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Artikkel om sørsamene i Laagendalsposten

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Rørosmuseet viser akkurat nå utstillingen «Sørsamer i sør». Dette er en nokså ukjent og lite påaktet del av sørsamenes historie, som Kjell Bitustøyl setter fokus på i fotoutstillingen som nå kan beskues på Rørosmuseet. >> les mer

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Open Access – Freies Wissen für jedermann bald im Netz?

Published on by lorenz Posted in "Open Access"- Ethnologie, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Wissensvermittlung

FAZ

Immer mehr Forscher, Bibliothekare, Autoren und Wissenschaftsmanager gehen auf die Barrikaden. Sie beklagen die ihrer Ansicht nach zu hohen Kosten wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften sowie die Monopolstellung der Fachverlage bei der Verbreitung von Forschungsergebnissen.

In einigen Jahren, so ihre Vision, soll ein Großteil der Fachliteratur für jedermann kostenlos und frei über das Internet zugänglich sein, begutachtet, aufbereitet und archiviert von den Wissenschaftlern selbst.

„Open Access” heißt das Schlagwort, das durch die Berliner Erklärung großer europäischer Forschungsorganisationen vor einem Jahr starke Unterstützung erfahren hat, aber für viele Verlage mittlerweile zum Reizthema geworden ist. >> weiter

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Immer mehr Forscher, Bibliothekare, Autoren und Wissenschaftsmanager gehen auf die Barrikaden. Sie beklagen die ihrer Ansicht nach zu hohen Kosten wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften sowie die Monopolstellung der Fachverlage bei der Verbreitung von Forschungsergebnissen.

In einigen Jahren, so ihre Vision, soll ein Großteil…

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“Anthropologists must get more involved in IT design and security

Published on by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, technology

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People are the biggest security threat facing IT, a report says. That is not where the problem lies. People should come first, programmers second. We especially see it in online security, where the user is supposed to remember all manner of things – tiny yellow padlocks, checking URLs for https://, and a different password for every site.

Computer security is designed by engineers and sold by marketing departments. Neither group is known for its deep insights into human behaviour. There are two groups of people who must get much more involved in IT design, security: Humanities experts are one group – anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, graphics designers, even dramatists – while the other is the user base itself. >> continue

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People are the biggest security threat facing IT, a report says. That is not where the problem lies. People should come first, programmers second. We especially see it in online security, where the user is supposed to remember all…

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Religious divide grows amid Thai unrest

Published on by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, religion cosmology, Us and Them

Asia Times

BANGKOK – Though southern Thailand’s ethnic-Malay Muslims are drawing closer together in the face of heavy-handed government tactics to quash a simmering separatist insurgency, religion is splitting them as Islamic fundamentalists, or reformists, challenge the prevailing Sufi Islam.

Thailand’s Muslims are a mixed bunch, comprising ethnic Malays, Thais, Indians and a smattering of others. “Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala, most of the Muslims there are Malay, but there are Thai Muslim communities there as well, some local and some from other parts of the country,” says Michiko Tsuneda, a University of Wisconsin cultural anthropologist studying Thai-Malay Muslim communities in southern Thailand. >> continue

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BANGKOK - Though southern Thailand's ethnic-Malay Muslims are drawing closer together in the face of heavy-handed government tactics to quash a simmering separatist insurgency, religion is splitting them as Islamic fundamentalists, or reformists, challenge the prevailing Sufi Islam.

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‘Duh! We knew that!’ – The Goal of Ethnography

Published on by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods

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I was reading recently in Weiss’ book Learning From Strangers, and was struck by one simple passage. It stated that the goal of any research, ethnography included, was to answer a question – to provide some information that wasn’t previously known. I think ethnography is different.

Anthropologists have developed the habit of delivering the final ethnography to the group under study, and gathering their reactions as a sort of postscript. When I have done this, I have encountered a reaction that I think many ethnographers have: the study participants all say ‘Duh! We knew that!’

In the context of ethnography I consider this the mark of success, not of failure. Here’s why >> continue

TechnoTaste

I was reading recently in Weiss’ book Learning From Strangers, and was struck by one simple passage. It stated that the goal of any research, ethnography included, was to answer a question - to provide some information that wasn’t previously…

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