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Hand i hand med naturen: Kyrkan står starkare i Norge än i Sverige

Published on March 29, 2005 by lorenz Posted in islam, nordmenn, Norge, religion kosmologi, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, Sverige

Göteborgs-Posten

Kyrkan står starkare i Norge än i Sverige. Men motsättningarna inom kyrkan är också större. Det visar den hårda debatten om utnämningen av en ny biskop i Oslo. Kristendomens största högtid, påsken, markerar emellertid norrmännen som vanligt med en säregen blandning av naturdyrkan, deckare och godis.

Jämför man skidorten Beitostølen med badorten Benidorm (Spania) under påsken är man vid de religiösa ytterligheterna i Europa. Både norrmän och spanjorer stänger landet. I Spanien är den heliga veckan “Semana Santa” åtta dagar. I Norge är “den stille uken” officiellt tio dagar, men har i praktiken ofta svällt ut till två veckor.

Under påsken ska en äkta norrman helst befinna sig i en spartansk hytte och ge sig ut på skidutflykter. Ju färre människor man möter, desto mer vällyckad skidtur. Enligt socialantropologen Thomas Hyland Eriksen bottnar frånvaron av moderna bekvämligheter i ideologi och moral snarare än ekonomi. Den lutheranska kyrkan i Norge har enligt Eriksen omfamnat naturen på ett sätt som aldrig skulle gått i ett katolskt land. >> les mer

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Young Muslims: Search for a True Islam – by Anthropologist Martijn de Koning

Published on March 28, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, religion cosmology, websites

Anthropologist Martijn de Koning (Leiden University, Netherlands)

Since the murder on Van Gogh radical Muslims are the centre of attention. However, it is still a minor group that is radicalizing. In this lecture the focus will be on the life of ordinary, not radical and not criminal, young Muslims and how they negotiate in different domains (especially internet) about what Islam is, what the importance of Islam is and how they should practice Islam. In the end some concluding remarks will be made on the relationship between ‘radical’ and ‘moderate’ Islam. >> continue

SEE ALSO:
Anthropologist Martijn de Koning is one of the blogging anthropologists! I found his blog after he had left a message in my guestbook. He writes mostly in Dutch but has a huge collection of Islam-related links. Very interesting – and partly in English – is www.religionresearch.org, a blog by several academics who research religion including Martijn Koning. Check also their news aggregator with links to religion-related news stories from around the world!

Anthropologist Martijn de Koning (Leiden University, Netherlands)

Since the murder on Van Gogh radical Muslims are the centre of attention. However, it is still a minor group that is radicalizing. In this lecture the focus will be on the life of…

Book review: Reindeer People – Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia

Published on March 28, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, books, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities

Ronald Hutton, Times Online

Piers Vitebsky is one of a tiny number of British experts on the region and an internationally renowned anthropologist. This book “REINDEER PEOPLE: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia” is the record of successive visits that he has made over the past 17 years to live with members of a native people called the Eveny in the Verkhoyansk Mountains in the far north-east. Like his earlier work, it shows him to be both an excellent scholar and a gifted writer, with a feeling for landscape and character and a knack for metaphor and allusion. >> continue

SEE ALSO:
Piers Vitebsky: What is a shaman? – Worlds of the Shaman (Natural History, March 1997 / findarticles.com)
Peoples of the Russian North and Far East (Arctic Circle)

Ronald Hutton, Times Online

Piers Vitebsky is one of a tiny number of British experts on the region and an internationally renowned anthropologist. This book "REINDEER PEOPLE: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia" is the record of successive visits that…

Die letzte Generation?

Published on March 28, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Afrika, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Kultur Tradition, San - Buschleute, Urbevölkerungen und Minderheiten, Wir und die Anderen

National Geographic

Vom Sambesi bis zum Kap der Guten Hoffnung, vom Atlantik bis zum Indischen Ozean erstreckte sich einst das Reich der Buschleute in Afrika. Europäische Kolonisten, die vor 350 Jahren an Südafrikas Küsten landeten, hielten die Buschleute für eine Bedrohung ihrer Viehherden. Man behandelte sie wie Ungeziefer und tötete unzählige von ihnen. Bald siechten die Buschleute an den Rändern der Gesellschaft dahin. >> weiter

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San community is ‘fast losing hope’ (Mail and Guardian, 9.3.05)
Botswana bushmen in legal fight
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

National Geographic

The emerging field of commercial ethnography

Published on March 23, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, corporate & business anthropology

SFweekly

Since October 2004 Jesse Kipp has been working at a top San Francisco advertising firm, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, where he operates simultaneously as an anthropologist, a market research assistant, and a documentarian. Kipp is the company’s answer to a burgeoning industrywide research movement called “commercial ethnography.”

The documentaries themselves are highly stylized romps into the inner lives of target audience members — everyone from football fans bitching about a cable outage during the big game to the unguarded talk of Lisa and Amanda, which will be used to inform a new advertising campaign for Britney Spears’ perfume, Curious. In the end, the agency uses the films both to woo new clients and to better understand and craft ad messages. >> continue

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