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Hmong: An Endangered People

Published on July 7, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities, migration

University of California, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

There are more Hmong people today than Tibetans, yet the campaign to “Free Tibet” is widely popular in the U.S. and is internationally recognized, while the plight of Hmong people is relatively unknown. With this challenge, Dr. Eric Crystal introduced his lecture for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies on the UCLA campus. Eric Crystal is an anthropologist who has researched highland Southeast Asian cultures for over three decades.

The Hmong have had a long and distinctive history in China. Over the centuries they migrated south so that today they are dispersed throughout the highlands of southern China and northern Southeast Asia, including in Laos and Vietnam >>continue (Link updated 23.8.2022)

University of California, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

There are more Hmong people today than Tibetans, yet the campaign to "Free Tibet" is widely popular in the U.S. and is internationally recognized, while the plight of Hmong people is relatively unknown.…

The Rediff Interview/Nandini Chattopadhyay: Music and Protest

Published on July 7, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, music, persons and theories, politics

Rediff India

“I was doing my first major anthropology project studying the Baul protest movement and how it used music to talk about injustice, superstitions and hypocrisy. In Brazil too some of its most popular music and dance started in the ghettos as a protest against colonial rule and later against social inequities in general.”

“Anthropology is what I do in my everyday life. In addition to living in India, I have lived in Singapore, Montreal, Canada and San Francisco. I have also traveled extensively across Asia and Europe. Learning different languages, philosophies, belief systems and social codes of conduct are what I have been doing as part of my everyday life. Being an anthropologist is somewhat of a continuation of that” >>continue

Rediff India

"I was doing my first major anthropology project studying the Baul protest movement and how it used music to talk about injustice, superstitions and hypocrisy. In Brazil too some of its most popular music and dance started in the…

Ideas Bazaar – Ethnography and Consultancy

Published on July 7, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, corporate & business anthropology, websites

London based research-based strategy consultancy using ethnograhic methods. “Ethnographic research is highly suited to telling us what we don’t know about a given subject: it can tell us what really happens and how your product or service really fits into people’s lives. It’s good for bringing lives to life: generating intimacy but also new perspectives.”

Check their articles and weblog!

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London based research-based strategy consultancy using ethnograhic methods. "Ethnographic research is highly suited to telling us what we don't know about a given subject: it can tell us what really happens and how your product or service really fits into…

– Kast fra deg Lonely Planet og gjør reisen til din egen

Published on July 6, 2004 by lorenz Posted in sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, turisme

Verdensmagasinet X

– Lonely Planet tar eventyret ut av reisen og gjør den forutsigbar. Standardrepertoaret for masseturismen er lik overalt og har ikke nødvendigvis noe med kulturell annerledeshet å gjøre. Nå har også Lonely Planet gjort det samme for antituristene, sier Thomas Hylland Eriksen >> les mer

Verdensmagasinet X

- Lonely Planet tar eventyret ut av reisen og gjør den forutsigbar. Standardrepertoaret for masseturismen er lik overalt og har ikke nødvendigvis noe med kulturell annerledeshet å gjøre. Nå har også Lonely Planet gjort det samme for antituristene, sier…

– Næringslivet er oppskrytt!

Published on July 6, 2004 by lorenz Posted in antropologi allment, antropologi utenfor akademia, business antropologi, konferanser, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

antropologi.info

En paneldebatt under årskonferansen i Norsk Antropologisk Forening avslørte at mange antropologer utenfor akedemia lider under “faglig ensomhet”. De fleste er overbevist om at det er bruk for antropologisk kunnskap i næringslivet. Men antropologer må markedsføre seg bedre og ikke være redd for å starte en egen bedrift – les mer

antropologi.info

En paneldebatt under årskonferansen i Norsk Antropologisk Forening avslørte at mange antropologer utenfor akedemia lider under "faglig ensomhet". De fleste er overbevist om at det er bruk for antropologisk kunnskap i næringslivet. Men antropologer må markedsføre seg bedre og ikke…