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Neue Magisterarbeit: Interkulturelle Kommunikation Norwegen-Deutschland

“Die Internationalisierung hat in den letzten Jahren z.B. dazu beigetragen, dass die Nachfrage nach Benimmbüchern, die auf Kulturunterschiede zwischen Ländern näher eingehen, deutlich gestiegen ist”, schreibt Stian Aske in der Einleitung seiner Magisterarbeit in Germanistik an der Uni Bergen. Er hat die relevante Literatur zum Thema interkulturelles Management zusammengefasst sowie deutsche und norwegische Geschaeftsleute interviewt.

Er konnte deutliche Unterschiede ausmachen. Norwegen ist als Land demokratischer als Deutschland, daher sind die Leute auch offener fuer Neues, allerdings daher auch softer im Umgangston. Darauf basieren einige der Schlussfolgerungen der Arbeit:

Der direkte deutsche Kommunikationsstil kann von den Norwegern als arrogant und unhöflich, sogar als beleidigend aufgefasst werden.

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Die Norweger haben den Willen zu riskieren und auf den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg zu hoffen, während die Deutschen ein solches Risiko durch eine gründlichere Vorarbeit im Vorfeld vermeiden möchten.

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Den deutschen Geschäftspartnern wird von den norwegischen Informanten eine Unflexibilität unterbreitet, die dazu beiträgt, dass man wenig konstruktiv wird, was auf die hierarchischen Elemente der deutschen Unternehmen zurückgeführt wird.

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Ist Management kulturabhängig?
Ethnographisches Wissen in der Organisationsberatung

"Die Internationalisierung hat in den letzten Jahren z.B. dazu beigetragen, dass die Nachfrage nach Benimmbüchern, die auf Kulturunterschiede zwischen Ländern näher eingehen, deutlich gestiegen ist", schreibt Stian Aske in der Einleitung seiner Magisterarbeit in Germanistik an der Uni Bergen. Er…

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American Ethnologist – New book reviews on Indian Resurgence in Brazil, Anthropology of Britain, Race and Transnationalism

The August reviews of the journal American Ethnologist are now online.

Among them we’ll find:

Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. By: Kamari Maxine Clarke
Kamari Clarke is an Afro-Canadian who joins several African American anthropologists in examining how Africa and African heritage are understood by contemporary African American communities. Clarke exemplifies the best of 21st-century anthropology as she offers an insider’s sympathy without romanticism, step-back objectivity without arrogance. Clarke presents multisited research among “Yoruba” and Yoruba in South Carolina and Nigeria. >> continue

British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain. Edited by Nigel Rapport
The articles address a wide range of topics, including the royal family (Anne Rowbottom), the London ballet (Helena Wulff), the postindustrial landscape of a former mining village (Andrew Dawson), British Quakers (Peter Collins), and Rapport’s own literarily inflected work on the worldview from a British village. The collection reflects a view of Britain as largely white, tranquil, and middle class >> continue

Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil. By Jonathan W. Warren
Jonathan Warren examines the shift in which people who might once have claimed mixed-race status instead reconstruct themselves as “post-traditional” Indians. Simply because Warren explores qualitatively Brazil’s contemporary indigenous resurgence, Racial Revolutions is a must read. >> continue

Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship. By Nicholas De Genova and Anna Y. Ramos-Zayas
This book represents a unique collaboration between two anthropologists who did fieldwork separately in Chicago during the 1990s. >> continue

Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race. By Maureen Mahon
Right to Rock focuses on the Black Rock Coalition (BRC), founded in 1985 as a network of African American musicians “sick and tired of being sick and tired” from the frustration of racial segregation within the music industry. >> continue

>> all August 2005 book reviews

The August reviews of the journal American Ethnologist are now online.

Among them we'll find:

Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. By: Kamari Maxine Clarke
Kamari Clarke is an Afro-Canadian who joins several African American anthropologists in…

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Secret rituals: Folklorist studied the military as an occupational folk group

The website of The Association of Feminist Anthropology is another place to look for anthropology books and ethnographies.

One of the books reviewed is written by folklorist Carol Burke “Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-And-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture”:

Drawing from her background as a folklorist and an “insider” who served as a civilian faculty member of the Naval Academy, Carol Burke examines the military as an occupational folk group and unpacks the various aspects of military culture that continue to separate and exclude on the basis of gender. In addition to highlighting the more obvious customs and ceremonies, Burke also attends to the secret rituals and informal aspects that, even when officially “banned,” are still practiced in boot camps, military academies, and aboard submarines and aircraft carriers.

>> read the review (updated link)

>> another review at H-Net

>> more book reviews by the Association for Feminist Anthropology

The website of The Association of Feminist Anthropology is another place to look for anthropology books and ethnographies.

One of the books reviewed is written by folklorist Carol Burke "Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-And-Tight: Gender, Folklore,…

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IT-bransjen vil ha antropologer

“Flere IT-bedrifter ansetter nå antropologer i utvikling på funksjoner og miljø”, skriver digi.no og intervjuer en av de få norske IT-antropologer, Anne Lau Revil som driver firmaet CultureIt

– Men Danmark har kommet mye lengre, forteller IT-antropolog Anne Lau Revil til digi.no.

I Danmark har faktisk etterspørselen etter antropologer i næringslivet i dag blitt så stort at det er like vanskelig å komme inn på antropologstudiet som på medisin.

>> les hele saken

Samtidig skriver bl.a. Computerworld over resultatene av Anne Lau Revils studie om it-outsourcing: Advarer mot it-utflagging – Å flagge ut norske it-arbeidsplasser er stort sett dårlig butikk, viser en fersk studie.

digi.no melder dessuten: IKT-Norge-sjef Per Morten Hoff vil følge i danskenes fotspor med flere humanister i eget IT-universitet, mens en kommentator helt korrekt peker på at det ved Universitetet i Bergen allerede fins en Seksjon for humanistisk informatikk

SE OGSÅ antropologi.info’s intervju med Anne Lau Revil: Oppdaget nisje: IT-antropolog startet eget firma og artikkelen Studenter på feltarbeid for å designe espressomaskiner og lekeplasser og nyhetsarkivet design anthropology

"Flere IT-bedrifter ansetter nå antropologer i utvikling på funksjoner og miljø", skriver digi.no og intervjuer en av de få norske IT-antropologer, Anne Lau Revil som driver firmaet CultureIt

– Men Danmark har kommet mye lengre, forteller IT-antropolog Anne Lau Revil til…

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Antropologer kritisk mot økoturisme

Sosialantropolog Ragnar Skre skriver i en kronikk bl.a. om økende kritikken fra grupper i sør mot økoturismen:

På grensen mellom Thailand og Burma ble folkegruppen «Karen» fortrengt av en naturpark opprettet med støtte fra Verdensbanken. En serie slike konflikter har sørget for at det som i våre ører høres ut som en «vinn-vinn»-løsning ofte blir møtt med stor skepsis i sør.

To nye studier som ble publisert i Current Anthropology føyer seg til denne kritikken:

Forfatterne konkluderer:

Den egentlige hensikten med slike prosjekter er ofte å åpne landets økonomi,. Det er derfor amerikanske myndigheter gir så mye støtte til denslags. Økoturismen blir en brekkstang for å innlemme landene i den globale, regelbaserte økonomien.

>> les hele kronikken i Adressavisen

SE OGSÅ teksten “Forsvarlig vern av naturressurser?” – et svar fra samfunnsøkonom Anne Borge Johannesen der hun presenterer erfaringer fra sitt forskningsarbeid på afrikanske nasjonalparker.

>> Økoturisme til besvær (forskning.no)

>> Native Tours: The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism – Book Review. Australian Journal of Anthropology, The, August, 2003 by Malcolm Crick

>> From Nature Tourism to Ecotourism? The Case of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Human Organization, Spring 2005 by Charnley, Susan

>> Thesis: Conservation for Whom? Telling Good Lies in the Development of Central Kalahari

>> antropologi.info nyhetsarkiv turisme

Sosialantropolog Ragnar Skre skriver i en kronikk bl.a. om økende kritikken fra grupper i sør mot økoturismen:

På grensen mellom Thailand og Burma ble folkegruppen «Karen» fortrengt av en naturpark opprettet med støtte fra Verdensbanken. En serie slike konflikter…

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