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Intervju med Hanne Miriam om visuell antropologi

Gumsagumalo.dk

– På Etnografistudiet har de sidste par år vist at er der flere studerende end nogensinde før som interesserer sig for den visuelle antropologi. Også udenfor universiteternes rammer er vilkårene for den visuelle antropologi som udgangspunkt gode. Fremfor kun at se den visuelle antropologi som en afgrænset “niche” indefor vores fag, mener jeg man kan overveje, hvorvidt antropologien som sådan ikke i høj grad er visuel i sit udgangspunkt – les mer

Gumsagumalo.dk

- På Etnografistudiet har de sidste par år vist at er der flere studerende end nogensinde før som interesserer sig for den visuelle antropologi. Også udenfor universiteternes rammer er vilkårene for den visuelle antropologi som udgangspunkt gode. Fremfor kun at…

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Poverty and health policies: Listening to the poor in Bangladesh

Medical anthropologist Sabina Faiz Rashid, The Daily Star Bangladesh

The assumption often among policymakers is that mere provision of health services and better choices will improve health of the poor. Universal education in public health and biology and the availability of Western medical care are seen as preferred forms of intervention to improve the health situation of the country. However, throughout my fieldwork, I was confronted by overwhelming structural and social inequalities which have led to high unemployment, crime, widespread substance abuse and the breakdown of family networks and marital relations in slums.

For the poor, health cannot be separated from social and political — economic conditions of everyday life. If we truly want to see improvements in the health of poor women and men in Bangladesh, we need a more radical and broader based approach to health, where social and economic justice need to be an integral part of medicine and public health interventions. >> continue

Medical anthropologist Sabina Faiz Rashid, The Daily Star Bangladesh

The assumption often among policymakers is that mere provision of health services and better choices will improve health of the poor. Universal education in public health and biology and the availability of…

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Did the First Americans Come From, Er, Australia?

Reuters

Anthropologists stepped into a hornets’ nest on Monday, revealing research that suggests the original inhabitants of America may in fact have come from what is now known as Australia. The claim will be extremely unwelcome to today’s native Americans who came overland from Siberia and say they were there first.

Silvia Gonzalez from John Moores University in Liverpool said skeletal evidence pointed strongly to this unpalatable truth and hinted that recovered DNA would corroborate it. She said there was very strong evidence that the first migration came from Australia via Japan and Polynesia and down the Pacific Coast of America. >>continue

Reuters

Anthropologists stepped into a hornets' nest on Monday, revealing research that suggests the original inhabitants of America may in fact have come from what is now known as Australia. The claim will be extremely unwelcome to today's native Americans who…

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Den danske antropologisida Gumsagumlao.dk er på nettet igjen

Etter noen måneder pause er nettstedet blitt starta opp igjen. Redaktør Lars Sønderby skriver:

“Gumsagumlao.dk er en nicheportal, der henvender sig til alle som arbejder med mennesker og derfor kunne have interesse i anvendt antropologi. Målet med sitet er at oplyse om nye tiltag, tendenser og trends indenfor alle områder hvor antropologien anvendes og gør en forskel i praksis.” Link

Etter noen måneder pause er nettstedet blitt starta opp igjen. Redaktør Lars Sønderby skriver:

"Gumsagumlao.dk er en nicheportal, der henvender sig til alle som arbejder med mennesker og derfor kunne have interesse i anvendt antropologi. Målet med sitet er at oplyse…

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Stolen remains coming home to Aborigines

The Australian/ eniar

THE skeletal remains of up to 18 Aborigines, stolen by a Swedish anthropologist 90 years ago, will be returned to Australia this month in a landmark repatriation agreement. Aboriginal elders from Western Australia, Queensland, NSW and Victoria will travel to Stockholm in late September to receive the ancestral remains and begin the process of spiritual healing.

Most of the remains – which are held in Sweden’s Museum of Ethnography – were removed from the Kimberley by Swedish anthropologist Eric Mjoberg between 1910 and 1911.

Mjoberg’s methods were said to include bribing Aborigines to lead him to remains and then smuggling the skeletons out of Australia by telling authorities the bones were from kangaroos. >> continue

The Australian/ eniar

THE skeletal remains of up to 18 Aborigines, stolen by a Swedish anthropologist 90 years ago, will be returned to Australia this month in a landmark repatriation agreement. Aboriginal elders from Western Australia, Queensland, NSW and Victoria will…

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