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The complex relationship between culture and technology

Published on August 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities, internet, technology

Telepolis

During the 4th conference on “Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication”, Internet researchers from about 30 countries focused on the differences, the potential conflicts and cultural discrepancies in cyberspace understood as a “urban metropolis”.

A special focus was laid on the investigation of the ICT access and usage by indigenous peoples. The ritual collective artwork of Australian aborigines seems to be endangered by a second expropriation in the anonymous global data worlds. On the other hand, a multi-lingual Internet could help to rescue small languages at the edge of extinction to survive in a kind of virtual reservoir.

Especially exciting were those presentations paying attention to alternative forms of Internet usage by the seemingly unprivileged and marginalized cultures. Thus the escape from spatially closed Internet-environments in South America or India underlined the potential creativity of these non-conventional solutions (Rodrigues). >>continue

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Telepolis

During the 4th conference on "Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication", Internet researchers from about 30 countries focused on the differences, the potential conflicts and cultural discrepancies in cyberspace understood as a "urban metropolis".

A special focus was laid on the…

Splitvision – et av Nordens største antropologiske konsulentbyråer?

Published on August 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in antropologi utenfor akademia, business antropologi, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

På vår jakt etter antropologiske konsulentbyråer har vi kommet til Splitvision. Det er sannsynlig et av de største av sitt slag i Norden. I Splitvision er det ansatt fem antropologer og en internettpedagog. De har kontorer i Stockholm og Gøteborg:

“Splitvision Business Anthropology arbetar med samhälls- och marknadsundersökningar, organisationskultur och Cross Culture Management.

Centralt i vårt arbete är att vi fångar upp människors attityder och värderingar – vad de säger att de gör, vad de tänker om det de gör och vad de i själva verket gör. Vi kan på detta sätt hjälpa våra kunder att nå sina mål.”

“Bland våra kunder finns: Folkhälsorådet, Orust kommun, Lunds Stadsbyggnadskontor, Folkuniversitetet i Göteborg och Industriellt Utvecklingscentrum (IUC) i Gnosjöregionen AB. Splitvision har ett ramavtal gällande samhälls- och marknadsundersökningar med Göteborgs stad, Mölndals kommun, Partille kommun, Öckerö kommun samt Göteborgs kyrkliga samfällighet.”

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The ‘earth house’ recreates a traditional Lebanese lifestyle in exacting detail

Published on August 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Middle East

The Daily Star – Lebanon News

TERBOL, Lebanon: In an old peasant house in the village of Terbol, everything is so perfect, so miniature that you’d think you were wandering around in a doll house. The “Earth House,” as this newly opened museum in the Western Bekaa is called, aims to revive the traditional house style of the rural Bekaa region.

“This project was conceived thanks to a book by anthropologist, ethnologist and photographer Hoda Kassatly called “Terres de Bekaa””, said the museum’s coordinator Nicole Nachnouk.

“The Earth house is just what we and the younger generations need to get over our ‘lost memory’ and to remember how our ancestors used to live,” the Bekaa photographer Kassatly said. And indeed, as Kassatly explained further, the museum is specially dedicated to the Bekaa inhabitants whose “ignorance and lack of interest” in their ancestors’ culture is “alarming.” >> continue

The Daily Star - Lebanon News

TERBOL, Lebanon: In an old peasant house in the village of Terbol, everything is so perfect, so miniature that you'd think you were wandering around in a doll house. The "Earth House," as this newly…

Etter 11.september: Antropologer etterspurt som spioner

Published on August 20, 2004 by lorenz Posted in antropologi allment, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, utdanning

Jyllands-posten

Studier med fokus på terrorisme og Mellemøsten oplever en øget søgning efter 11. september 2001. Efterretningstjenesterne efterspørger akademikere med netop sådanne specialer.

At Carsten Niebuhr Instituttet, Center for Mellemøstlige Studier, antropologi og de højere IT-uddannelser de seneste år har leveret kandidater til spiontjenesterne er almindeligt kendt i de akademiske miljøer, og institutleder på Carsten Niebuhr Instituttet, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, bekræfter, at studiet leverer flere kandidater til spiontjenesterne end tidligere.

Men ikke kun spiontjenesterne interesserer sig for de færdige kandidater. De studerende har også fået øjnene op for en fremtid med blåt skæg og briller. >> les mer

Jyllands-posten

Studier med fokus på terrorisme og Mellemøsten oplever en øget søgning efter 11. september 2001. Efterretningstjenesterne efterspørger akademikere med netop sådanne specialer.

At Carsten Niebuhr Instituttet, Center for Mellemøstlige Studier, antropologi og de højere IT-uddannelser de seneste år har leveret kandidater…

Anthropological Films online

Published on August 20, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, Visual Anthropology

For those of you with a fast broadband connection: On the website of the Visual Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Tromsø, you can download / view several anthropological films:

Conversation with the Weyto (by Zerihun Abebe):
This film is about a small group of people, found in northwest Ethiopia and categorized as Weyto. In the conversation, which my friend and I made with some members of the group, I tried to convey the voices of the Weyto and also the virtual experience of being Weyto. >> continue

Boys Will Be Boys (by Brigt Dale):
A film shot during student fieldwork in social and visual anthropology, “Boys Will Be Boys” tells the story of the inexperienced fieldworker, trying to master a foreign environment, and how his appearance and behaviour produce knowledge. >> continue

Across troubled Water (by Petia Mankova):
The film is about the everyday life in Krasnoschelye, an isolated village in the heart of the tundra on Kola peninsula (North-West Russia) and how the local eople experience the political and economic reforms of the last ten years. >> continue

UPDATE: The Nordic Anthropological Film Association has listed around 110 films that you can watch online (broadband)

Conversation with the Weyto (by Zerihun Abebe):
This…