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The Magic Mountains: New Book on British Hill Stations and Hill Tribes in India

Published on August 11, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, books

Ideas Bazaar Weblog

An article about a book I retrieved from the shelves before I went away on the Raj in India and Hill Stations. The Magic Mountains examines the importance of these settlements as a means of racial separation and a subsuquent demonstration of superiority. More convincely, the author shows how much of ‘home’ was recreated up the hill rather than down on the plains. Fascinating stuff. >>continue

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Narkoballader i grenseland: Sanger om smuglere, drapsmenn og lovløse i Mexico

Published on August 11, 2004 by lorenz Posted in konflikter katastrofer, Latin-Amerika, musikk, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Aftenposten

Culiacán er Mexicos narkohovedstad. Byens selvutnevnte skytshelgen er en banditt. Her toppes hitlistene av sanger om smuglere, drapsmenn og lovløse som kalles narcocorridos – narkoballader. Selv om det er forbudt å spille disse sangene på radio i flere delstater, er genren de siste ti årene blitt farlig populær i Mexico og det sørvestlige USA.

Den mexicanske antropologen José Alejandro Huidobro-Goya skriver masteroppgave om narcocorridoer ved Universitetet i Bergen. Da han var på feltarbeid i Culiacán, kom han tett på voldskulturen i det nordlige Mexico. Han tror volden i denne delen av Mexico er et resultat av den organiserte kriminaliteten og en korrupt samfunnsstruktur.

– Kriminalitet og politikk er nært knyttet til hverandre. Det er et stort system av forbindelser. Musikken er åpning til refleksjon og et verktøy for å overleve i dette voldelige miljøet – Les mer

Aftenposten

Culiacán er Mexicos narkohovedstad. Byens selvutnevnte skytshelgen er en banditt. Her toppes hitlistene av sanger om smuglere, drapsmenn og lovløse som kalles narcocorridos - narkoballader. Selv om det er forbudt å spille disse sangene på radio i flere delstater, er…

Anthropologists dig into business

Published on August 10, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, corporate & business anthropology

Mercury News

For a summer, Dev Patnaik and his team of researchers hung out with teens preparing to go away to college. Trained in anthropology and sociology, they observed while the teens and their parents shopped for the essentials of college life. Some of the students struggled with doing their own laundry and worried about dorm living.

The strategists took it all in. Then they came up with a line of products for dorm rooms. Now items like a kitchen-in-a-box kit and a hamper with laundry instructions are marketed to the back-to-school crowds at the chain store Target.

Patnaik’s firm, San Mateo-based Jump, is part of a growing trend in which anthropologists are helping to design new products and business ventures, as well as organize the inner workings of companies.

Work done by anthropologists — who observe people in real-life settings — has translated into products including Yoplait’s portable Go-Gurt, Whirlpool’s “refrigerated oven” and Yahoo’s photo service. >>continue

Mercury News

Getting research data via the web

Published on August 9, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods

Daniel M.T. Fessler, Asst. Prof. of Anthropology at the
University of California, Los Angeles, writes to me and tells about his research method. Together with his students, he runs anthropology studies and experiments on the Web. He writes: “Folks generally find participation in our studies thought-provoking, fun, or at least better than a poke in the eye with a number 2 pencil.” You can take a look at his site here

Mary Douglas critical of the new anthropology

Published on August 9, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, books, persons and theories

Haaretz, Israel

Mary Douglas:

“Today too much dominance is given to the anthropologists themselves within the research. This is strange, as it used to be that the main criticism was that anthropologists kept themselves invisible in the research in a way that was really artificial. This accusation – pretending to be anonymous on the part of the writers – changed, and in its stead there has been an opposite phenomenon: dominance of the writers over the research material. Thus, today we are exposed far more to the experiences and thoughts of the writer, while the methodology and the orderly method have declined considerably.”

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Haaretz, Israel

Mary Douglas:
"Today too much dominance is given to the anthropologists themselves within the research. This is strange, as it used to be that the main criticism was that anthropologists kept themselves invisible in the research in a way…