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Sosialantropologi-årboka 2004 og 2001 er nå på nettet!

Published on June 30, 2006 by lorenz Posted in antropologi allment, kunnskapsdeling på Internett, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Flere nye tekster i det digitale arkivet ved Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo: Både Sosialantropologi-årboka 2004 og 2001 – skrevet av hovedfagsstudenter – er nå lagt ut på nett! Veldig bra!

Hovedfagsstudentenes årbok 2001 inneholder 16 tekster. I forordert skriver Peter Hervik:

Årets forfattere har valgt at fokusere på det metodiske i deres skriverier. Samtidig var deres tanke, at behandlingen af fremgangsmåden skulle indeholde dels en formidling af deres oplevelser og dels de specifikke problemer i felten, som optager forfatterne.

>> oversikt over artiklene i Hovedfagsstudentenes årbok 2001

Det ser ut til at også alle artikler i 2004-årboka er på nettet. ~~Dessverre er oversikten ufullstendig. Det enkleste er å finne fram til utgivelser fra år 2004 på egen hånd.~~

I forordet skriver Marianne Lien:

Regionalt er det i denne utgaven uvanlig mange bidrag fra det afrikanske og det sør- og nordamerikanske kontinent, og tilsvarende taust fra Asia og stillehavsregionen. Dette reflekterer antagelig bare tilfeldige svingninger, og svekker ikke hovedinntrykket av at studentene stadig reiser langt, og til svært ulike steder. Ikke minst er det verdt å merke seg at urbanitet nå også studeres i afrikanske storbyer, og at helsesystemer studeres – ikke bare i Norge – men for eksempel i Chile. Flere bidrag tar også opp mer generelle problemstillinger som for eksempel vilkårene for antropologiske feltarbeid i det nye masterstudiet, og antropologistudenters påståtte vegring mot å profilere sin kompetanse i et kommersielt arbeidsmarked.

OPPDATERING: Nå er oversikten på nett:
>> Hovedfagsstudentenes årbok 2004

>> min anmeldelse av 2004-årboka

Flere nye tekster i det digitale arkivet ved Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo: Både Sosialantropologi-årboka 2004 og 2001 - skrevet av hovedfagsstudenter - er nå lagt ut på nett! Veldig bra!

Hovedfagsstudentenes årbok 2001 inneholder 16 tekster. I forordert skriver Peter Hervik:

Årets…

Tropical Stonehenge found in the rainforest?

Published on June 30, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, history, indigenous people / minorities, technology

Why is everybody so surprised over the “finding” that the early inhabitants in the rainforest were “sophisticated” people? It might be a huge discovery to find a kind of Stonehenge in the rainforest, but nevertheless….This story has been published in many newspapers around the world:

A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory.(…)
Anthropologists have long known that local indigenous populations were acute observers of the stars and sun. But the discovery of a physical structure that appears to incorporate this knowledge suggests pre-Columbian Indians in the Amazon rainforest may have been more sophisticated than previously suspected.

Archaeologist Mariana Petry Cabral says:

Transforming this kind of knowledge into a monument; the transformation of something ephemeral into something concrete, could indicate the existence of a larger population and of a more complex social organization.

Scientists not involved in the discovery said it could prove valuable to understanding pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon. Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida’s Department of Anthropology, says:

Given that astronomical objects, stars, constellations etc., have a major importance in much of Amazonian mythology and cosmology, it does not in any way surprise me that such an observatory exists. (…) The traditional image is that some time thousands of years ago small groups of tropical forest horticulturists arrived in the area and they never changed _ (that) what we see today is just like it was 3,000 years ago.This is one more thing that suggests that through the past thousands of years, societies have changed quite a lot.

>> read the whole story in the Boston Globe

From Stone Age to 21st century – More “fun” with savages

Why is everybody so surprised over the "finding" that the early inhabitants in the rainforest were "sophisticated" people? It might be a huge discovery to find a kind of Stonehenge in the rainforest, but nevertheless....This story has been published in…

Ethnologen-Band soll Musiktraditionen bewahren

Published on June 30, 2006 by lorenz Posted in Afrika, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Kultur Tradition, Musik

Seit gut 30 Jahren bereisen sie Afrikas Dörfer, um die mündliche Überlieferung von Märchen, Sagen und Mythen zu sichern. Vor fuenf Jahren gruendeten die Ethnologen Gerhard Kubik und Moya Malamusi das Donald Kachamba´s Heritage Jazzquartett – um Musiktraditionen zu bewahren, u.a. Kwela-Musik.

Kuerzlich gasterierte das Quartett im Rheingau. In der Wiesbadener Zeitung gibt Ethnologieprofessor Gerhard Kubik folgendes Statement ab:

Wir haben inzwischen die weltweit größte Sammlung mündlicher Überlieferung in mehr als 80 Sprachen auf Tonband und Video aufgenommen. Der Großteil davon lagert im Berliner Ethnologie-Museum. Wir stehen so unter Zeitdruck, weil wir in den letzten Jahren einen derartigen Niedergang des Erzählens beobachten. Statt sich wie früher abends zu unterhalten und dabei Überlieferungen zu erhalten, hängen selbst Südafrikaner in entlegensten Dörfern immer häufiger vor Satelliten-TV und Computer oder kommunizieren per Handy in der Amtssprache Englisch. Mit den Erzählungen gehen auch die Kultur und die kleineren Sprachen jetzt ganz schnell verloren.

Sie benutzen nur Originalinstrumente wie Gitarre, Bass, Kwela-Flöte, Rassel und den einseitigen Musikbogen Nyakatangali. Elektronik ist verboten.

>> zum Text im Wiesbadener Kurier

Er scheint ein sehr statisches und konservatives Verstaendnis von Tradition zu haben. Informationstechnologie kann zum Bewahren von Sprachen beitragen. Das Erzaehlen lebt ja nach wie vor und steht u.a. besonders im Rap (oder Slam Poetry) sehr stark. Rapper verweisen gerne auf eine Kontinuitaet von Rap und den Erzaehlertraditionen der westafrikanischen Griots.

Ethnologe Henrik Sinding-Larsen, der norwegische Folkmusik studiert hat, sagte kuerzlich auf einer Konferenz, Tradition lebe dadurch, dass sie sich staendig veraendere. “Um ein guter Folkmusiker zu sein, musst man seinen eigenen Stil entwickelt haben”, sagte er. “Kopiert man lediglich, bricht man Tradition”. Die (norwegische) Folkmusik sei im 19. Jahrhundert viel lebendiger als im 20.Jahrhundert weil sie sich da viel mehr veraendert hat. Ein Grund fuer die mangelnde Weiterentwicklung der Folkmusik soll die staerkere Verwendung von Noten sein.

Doing fieldwork in Eastern Europe – New issue of Anthropology Matters

Published on June 29, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Europe, fieldwork / methods, history, journal articles / papers, migration, poverty, Us and Them

The new issue of Anthropology Matters – one of the few online anthropology journals – is out! The nine articles on “Doing Fieldwork in Eastern Europe” try to explore post-communism in Eastern Europe in new ways. They are based on ethnographic case studies of communities in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Georgia, Serbia and Croatia, among others among vendors in the market square, waste gatherers, Greek migrants, Transylvanian Saxons etc.

From the editorial by Michaela Schäuble, Tomasz Rakowski and Wlodzimierz Pessel:

Ethnographic micro-societal fieldwork creates new insight into the contemporary dilemmas and everyday practices of ordinary people dealing with the heritage of socialist ideology while simultaneously trying to obtain a sense of security and continuity in their identity.

(…)

Tackling everyday realities seems to be the most emblematic feature of anthropological research in post-socialist scenarios, insofar as it provides a valuable counterpart to ‘apparent history’ as featured in legal acts, political programmes, and changes of economic and monetary systems. In his influential Anthropology, Michael Herzfeld notes that anthropology and history ‘have danced a flirtatious pas de deux throughout the past century’ (Herzfeld 2001:55). In Central and Eastern Europe this flirtation has turned into a productive intellectual relationship, in that the authors’ anthropological micro-scale fieldwork brings hitherto unseen or neglected levels, ‘paces’, and cultural narratives (back) into sight.

>> visit Anthropology Matters Journal, 2006, Vol 8 (1): Doing Fieldwork in Eastern Europe

The new issue of Anthropology Matters - one of the few online anthropology journals - is out! The nine articles on "Doing Fieldwork in Eastern Europe" try to explore post-communism in Eastern Europe in new ways. They are based on…

24 minutes visual anthropology about (trans)nationalism on the Danish-German border

Published on June 27, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Europe, globalisation, migration, Us and Them, Visual Anthropology

Anthropologist and blogger Johannes Wilm has published a fascinating video about the annual meeting of the Danish minority in a small village in Northern Germany called Ascheffel. Is it possible to be both German and Danish? Why are there so many Germans who send their kids to the Danish school? As he shows, there is both nationalism and much transnational history among the participants of the annual meeting.

>> watch the video