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AnthroSource – huge anthropological archive online – but useless for non-members

Published on November 18, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing

I signed up for a free account at AnthroSource. The self-description sounds good. They encourage you top sign up, but if you’re not paying member, you don’t have access to any articles. There are no individual subscriptions to AnthroSource. Interested individuals must join the American Anthropological Association.

“Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including:

* A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003
* Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications including American Anthropologist (for AAA members and subscribing institutions)
* Current issues for 11 of the AAA’s most critical peer-reviewed publications” >> continue to AnthroSource

I signed up for a free account at AnthroSource. The self-description sounds good. They encourage you top sign up, but if you're not paying member, you don't have access to any articles. There are no individual subscriptions to AnthroSource. Interested…

Was suchen Ethnologen im Unterholz der Metropole? Der Zauber der Stadtforschung

Published on November 18, 2004 by lorenz Posted in Bücher, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Forscher / Theorien / Richtungen, Stadtforschung

Die ZEIT

Welchen Blick braucht es, um die vielen Ebenen städtischer Öffentlichkeit miteinander in den Dialog zu bringen? Welche Ansätze bieten andere Länder, etwa die USA? Wo liegen verschüttete Traditionen im eigenen Land?

Dies herauszuarbeiten, hat sich Rolf Lindner, Ordinarius für Europäische Ethnologie an der Berliner Humboldt-Universität, zur Aufgabe gemacht. Einen historischen Abriss der Stadtforschung verspricht der Untertitel seines neuen Werkes. Aber die Walks on the Wild Side bieten ungleich mehr, nämlich eine souverän verfasste Bilanz der Großstadtethnologie. >> weiter (Link aktualisiert)

Die ZEIT

Dies herauszuarbeiten, hat sich Rolf Lindner, Ordinarius für Europäische…

Nordmenn, høflighet og kunsten å omgås fremmede

Published on November 18, 2004 by lorenz Posted in doktoravhandlinger, nordmenn, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, vi og de andre

Sosialantropolog ANH NGA LONGVA, Aftenposten

Velmenende venner fra forskjellige hjørner i verden hadde advart meg mot kulden og de mørke vintermånedene, ulv og isbjørn. Men ingen hadde fortalt meg om nordmenns forhold til høflighet: menn som smeller døren rett i ditt ansikt; voksne og barn på busser og trikker hvis ordforråd ikke ser ut til å romme ordene “unnskyld” og “takk”;

I alle kulturer og til alle tider fremstår den fremmede som et usikkerhetsmoment og en trussel mot det kjente og det etablerte. Dette har gitt opphav til tradisjonen med omfattende gjestfrihet overfor fremmede, som preger flere middelhavssamfunn. Gjestfrihet kan i dette tilfellet sees på som et “forebyggende” tiltak for å avvæpne den potensielt farlige fremmede.

Jeg tror ikke noen vil bestride det norske synet om at amerikanerne “ikke mener det” når de ønsker deg en god dag. Men mens jeg synes det er hyggelig at vi utveksler disse små, “meningsløse” setningene mellom oss i den korte stund vi har med hverandre å gjøre, ser mine venner og andre nordmenn på dette som et tegn på falskhet. >> les mer

TIDLIGERE OMTALE
Ekspertblikk på nordmenn – Intervju

Sosialantropolog ANH NGA LONGVA, Aftenposten

Har minoritetene makt?

Published on November 18, 2004 by lorenz Posted in demokrati, innvandring migrasjon, minoriteter og urbefolkninger, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Institutt for samfunnsforskning

Minoritetsorganisasjoner har begrenset makt i det norske samfunnet. Makten er stort sett knyttet til å være høringsinstans. Det flerkulturelle demokratiet synes likevel å fungere, siden det er omfattende kontakt mellom organisasjoner og myndigheter. Sosiologene Grete Brochmann og Jon Rogstad har undersøkt innvandrerorganisasjoners innflytelse i Norge. >> les mer

Institutt for samfunnsforskning

How far have we come since anthropologists began to think about magic & religion?

Published on November 18, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, persons and theories, religion cosmology

Hugh Gusterson, associate professor of anthropology at MIT, Anthropology News (AAA) November

When anthropology was established as a discipline in the early 20th century the relationship between magic, science and religion was one of its central preoccupations. If anthropologists have backstaged these issues in recent decades, today they are more than ripe for revisiting and reworking.

If Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard were alive today, they would surely be intrigued to find that, while Americans often construe their global dominance in terms of their superior science and technology, they also have a president who lists Jesus as his favorite thinker and regards evangelicals as his most important voting bloc.

As an anthropologist of science I am increasingly struck by the way that magic and science, far from being opposites, are increasingly fused at the hip. Technology itself has an aura of infallibility that makes it an instrument of magic. The stakes are bigger and the interventions more expensive, but have we really traveled so far from the complex mixture of paranoia, logic and magic that characterized Evans-Pritchard’s Azande? >> continue

Hugh Gusterson, associate professor of anthropology at MIT, Anthropology News (AAA) November