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Anthropology of Food – one more Open Access Journal!

Published on November 4, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing

Obviously, there are more anthropological open access journals than supposed. Anthropology of Food is “a bilingual academic journal in French and English. It aims to publish results of latest research in Sociology and Anthropology of Food. This journal is produced and published by a network of European academic researchers sharing a common intellectual interest in the social science of food.”

There are articles on “The Culture of Milk in Argentina”, ” When We Eat What We Eat : Classifying Crispy Foods in Malaysian Tamil Cuisine”, “The Quest for Identities: Consumption of Wine in France”. Planned are issues on “Food, Religious groups and Conflicts of Norms and “Wine and globalisation” >> continue to the journal Anthropology of Food

Obviously, there are more anthropological open access journals than supposed. Anthropology of Food is "a bilingual academic journal in French and English. It aims to publish results of latest research in Sociology and Anthropology of Food. This journal is produced…

Teamwork, Not Rivalry, Marks New Era in Research

Published on November 4, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods, interdisciplinary, University / Academia

Los Angeles Times / KTLA TV

Teamwork across departmental lines was once a rarity at the nation’s most prestigious universities. But the practice, usually known as interdisciplinary research, is spreading rapidly. They are teaming psychologists and anthropologists with economists, laboratory biologists with computer-modeling experts, and scientists who study the brain with humanities professors who explore music and art.

One of the main reasons for the surge in interdisciplinary research is the complexity of today’s crucial issues. “For any problem that has some importance today, you find that, really, it doesn’t fit neatly into biology or into chemistry or into law” said Roberto Peccei, UCLA’s vice chancellor for research.

Still, some experts say, the quality of some interdisciplinary research is questionable. In certain cases in the humanities and social sciences, “interdisciplinary work simply provides a home for misfits, malcontents, those who are anti-disciplines without being pro-anything,” said Howard Gardner, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor studying interdisciplinary trends. ~~(no longer available online)~~

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Los Angeles Times / KTLA TV

Teamwork across departmental lines was once a rarity at the nation's most prestigious universities. But the practice, usually known as interdisciplinary research, is spreading rapidly. They are teaming psychologists and anthropologists with economists, laboratory biologists…

Why you always get a present you don’t want – Social Sciences and Gift-Giving

Published on November 4, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, gift economy gift giving, persons and theories, Us and Them

The Daily Telegraph

Millions of pounds are wasted each year because few understand the secret language of giving Christmas gifts. Why do we go through with it? Because the Christmas present is about kinship and power; taste and insight; symbolism and values. Over the years, it has become a rich source of PhDs, projects and papers for anthropologists, ethologists and sociologists, not to mention a legion of psychologists.

Gift-giving in primitive human societies was seen by the French ethnographer Marcel Mauss as a way of forging bonds with strangers. Decades ago, the distinguished University of Chicago anthropologist Prof Marshall Sahlins noted that the closer the kinship between the donor and the recipient, the less emphasis was placed on reciprocity and the more on sentiment. >> continue

The Daily Telegraph

Sosialantropologer i Bergen bekymret over “avdemokratiseringen av universitetet”

Published on November 4, 2004 by lorenz Posted in antropologi allment, forskning(spolitikk) akademia, kvalitetsreformen, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

På Høyden, UiB

Vi, de ansatte ved Institutt for sosialantropologi, vil med dette uttrykke vår dype bekymring over den fundamentale omskaping av universitetet som nå foregår. Det alvorlige i situasjonen er at det ikke lenger er faglige overveielser, men byråkratisk-administrative forordninger som legges til grunn for utformingen av endringene – og som dermed får bestemme universitetets innhold.

I saksframlegget forskutteres Stortingsbehandlingen av den nye universitetsloven ved at det blir gått inn for tilsatt rektor. I vedtaksforslagene i samme sak innstilles det på en nedleggelse av alle representative organer på fakultets- og instituttnivå. Det økende presset for å etablere ”store enheter” på instituttnivå er ikke begrunnet i fagpolitiske visjoner for universitetet, men i en ideologisk posisjon om antatt konkurransedyktighet.

På kort sikt svekkes fagmiljøenes innflytelse både formelt og substansielt, i et litt lenger perspektiv er det vår mening at universitetsledelsen eroderer selve fundamentet for universitetets eksistens og legitimitet. >> les mer

På Høyden, UiB

Stemningar til sals: Landskap som ressurs i kulturøkonomien

Published on November 3, 2004 by lorenz Posted in miljø og økologi, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, turisme

Bergens Tidende

Når norske bygder og regionar har lykkast så lite på reiselivsmarknaden, trur sosialantropolog Dag Jørund Lønning dei i for stor grad har prøvd å ta etter byane, og brukt krefter og ressursar på det dei ikkje har, framfor det dei har.

«Det som møtte ein i norske bygder vart etter kvart meir og meir «standardisert». Kjøpesentra, bensinstasjonane og gatekjøkkena var det same overalt. Spesielle trehus måtte vike for betongkolossar.»

Sosialantropologen Dag Jørund Lønning i Telemarksforsking har skrive rapporten «Landskap som ressurs i kulturøkonomien. Opplevingar frå det skotske Høglandet og Island». Lønning meiner at satsinga på reiselivet i det skotske Høglandet og Island er langt meir gjennomarbeidd, gjennomtenkt og prega av utstrekt samarbeid mellom alle aktørane – i motsetnad til her i landet >> les mer

LES OGSÅ
Lønning: Vest-Telemark må reindyrke det særeigne (Vest-Telemark Blad, 28.10.04)

Bergens Tidende