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Unni Wikan – Uredd dame mellom to kulturer

Published on by lorenz Posted in antropologi allment, innvandring migrasjon, Kultur tradisjon kunnskap, portretter og intervjuer, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, vi og de andre

Velferd 2/05

Utskjelt på det groveste. Uthengt som rasist. Fordi hun sa ting om innvandringspolitikken som det ikke var stuerent å si. Selv så sent som i 2002, da Wikan ga ut boken «Generous Betrayal. Politics of Culture in the New Europe», blåste det kraftig rundt professoren. Det var like før hun ikke orket mer og trakk seg fra all offentlig debatt. Igjen ble hun beskyldt for å innta et grumsete ståsted.

Og Wikan er ikke i tvil om hva som gjør at mange, både forskere og andre, er redde for å uttale seg i innvandringsdebatten.
– Det er redselen for å bli stemplet som rasist. I toneangivende kretser er det en holdning som sier at moral innebærer å være snill og god uten grenser. >> les mer

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Vilje til tålmod – Unni Wikans bok “Medmennesker”

Velferd 2/05

Utskjelt på det groveste. Uthengt som rasist. Fordi hun sa ting om innvandringspolitikken som det ikke var stuerent å si. Selv så sent som i 2002, da Wikan ga ut boken «Generous Betrayal. Politics of Culture in the New…

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Sedan tsunamin är sjözigenarnas tillvaro i Thailand hotad

Published on by lorenz Posted in Asia, konflikter katastrofer, minoriteter og urbefolkninger, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Monday, April 04, 2005, 08:00

Expressen

Sedan tsunamin är sjözigenarnas tillvaro i Thailand hotad. Båtar är sönderslagna och de tvingas leva på konservfisk. Dessutom känner de att havet är i uppror, de fruktar fler dödsvågor. Expressen har tillsammans med socialantropologen Lotta Granbom följt Urak Lawois-folket. Lotta Granbom lämnade sitt jobb som turistchef i Torsås kommun och flyttade ner med sina tre döttrar till ön Ko Lanta där flera av de thailändska sjözigenarna – Urak Lawois – har sina byar. Efter hand har hon accepterats av sjözigenarna, hon har fått ett thailändskt namn och banden mellan henne och sjözigenarna är starka. >> les mer

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Tjörns fiskare hjälper thailändskt båtfolk (Dagens Nyheter, 27.1.05)

Monday, April 04, 2005, 08:00

Expressen

Sedan tsunamin är sjözigenarnas tillvaro i Thailand hotad. Båtar är sönderslagna och de tvingas leva på konservfisk. Dessutom känner de att havet är i uppror, de fruktar fler dödsvågor. Expressen har tillsammans med socialantropologen Lotta Granbom…

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Smithsonian Folkways to Open MP3 Music Store

Published on by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, indigenous people / minorities, music, technology

Washington Post

The Smithsonian Institution is entering the highly competitive world of music downloads by offering the Smithsonian Folkways collection of ethnic and traditional music in an online music store. Smithsonian Global Sound, the new project, will be formally launched during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in June.

Global Sound will charge 99 cents a song, which are available in MP3 format. The Smithsonian will pay royalties to the artists, as its recording label has done with records and CDs. The Web site, www.smithsonianglobalsound.org, will allow searches by artist, geographic location, language, cultural group or instrument. All of the Folkways archives, including photographs, can be downloaded onto a screen. >> continue

Washington Post

The Smithsonian Institution is entering the highly competitive world of music downloads by offering the Smithsonian Folkways collection of ethnic and traditional music in an online music store. Smithsonian Global Sound, the new project, will be formally launched during…

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New book: Divination and Healing: Potent Vision

Published on by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, religion cosmology

Tucson Weekly

Divination and Healing: Potent Vision, a scholarly collection of articles from the University of Arizona Press, examines a number of divinatory systems in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Divination is present, to some extent, in all cultures, ranging from well-known types like astrology, tarot and a variety of psychic activities, to those a bit more arcane, involving such diverse phenomenon as umbilical cords, comet tails, bouncing pearls, roosters, rats and cheese.

For the most part, social scientists have viewed these pursuits from a materialist perspective, seeing them as the illusionary byproducts of the human desire for control in a perilous and unpredictable world. However, in recent years, anthropologists have begun reassessing divinatory frameworks and the subjective meaning they have for participants, because of the growing recognition that many of these techniques actually work. >> continue

Tucson Weekly

Divination and Healing: Potent Vision, a scholarly collection of articles from the University of Arizona Press, examines a number of divinatory systems in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Divination is present, to some extent, in all cultures, ranging from…

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Reconstructing tribal history

Published on by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, history, indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them

The Telegraph, Calcutta

Tribal societies have seldom recorded their own history. They usually relied on oral transmission of events, which raises definite difficulties for mainstream historians, who have seldom given serious thought or space to tribal struggles or movements. Recently, Sussex University celebrated the 150th anniversary of the historic Santhal Hul calling for reconstruction of tribal history.

In the wake of this memorable event, a researcher should not forget that writing history has always been determined by the dominant ideologies and class interests, creating products more or less of specialised brands. >> continue

The Telegraph, Calcutta

Tribal societies have seldom recorded their own history. They usually relied on oral transmission of events, which raises definite difficulties for mainstream historians, who have seldom given serious thought or space to tribal struggles or movements. Recently, Sussex…

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