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Published on September 16, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, indigenous people / minorities, politics

Thursday, September 16, 2004, 14:44

UN Decade of Indigenous People Ending to Mixed Reviews

National Geographic News

2004 is the last year of the United Nations International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. The program’s accomplishments may be best described as mixed. While indigenous issues are receiving more political attention worldwide, observers say that most indigenous people remain mired in poverty. Hunter-gatherer groups, in particular, are facing persecution and attacks on their way of life.

John Scott, the UN Permanent Forum officer, says it would be a step forward if governments stopped treating indigenous people as being separate from the rest of the population and instead as being part of their countries. >> continue

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Thursday, September 16, 2004, 14:44

UN Decade of Indigenous People Ending to Mixed Reviews

National Geographic News

2004 is the last year of the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous People. The program's accomplishments may be best described as mixed. While…

Formelle svensker og beintøffe dansker

Published on September 16, 2004 by lorenz Posted in innvandring migrasjon, nasjonalisme, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

forskning.no

Frank Meyer er professor ved Høgskolen i Oslos Senter for flerkulturelt og internasjonalt arbeid, og har studert brev og andre skriftlige kilder etter de tyske flyktningene som kom til Skandinavia på 1930-tallet som et utgangspunkt for å se på kulturforskjellene mellom de skandinaviske landene. >> les mer

LES OGSÅ
Frank Meyer: Arkivene mellom enkulturell og flerkulturell nasjonsbygging (Høgskolen i Oslo / Morgenbladet)

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From Popcorn to Parkas: 16 American Indian Innovations

Published on September 16, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities, Native American

National Geographic News

Imagine our world without chocolate or chewing gum, syringes, rubber balls, or copper tubing. Native peoples invented precursors to all these and made huge strides in medicine and agriculture.

They developed pain medicines, birth-control drugs, and treatment for scurvy. Their strains of domesticated corn, potatoes, and other foods helped reduce hunger and disease in Europe—though Indians also introduced the cultivation and use of tobacco.

As the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., readies for its grand opening Tuesday, bone up on Indian innovations in food and candy, outdoor gear, and health and exercise. >> continue (LINK UPDATED 11.9.2020)

National Geographic News

Imagine our world without chocolate or chewing gum, syringes, rubber balls, or copper tubing. Native peoples invented precursors to all these and made huge strides in medicine and agriculture.

They developed pain medicines, birth-control drugs, and treatment for scurvy.…

SPIEGEL: “Wer glaubt schon an die steile Karriere eines Ethnologen?”

Published on September 16, 2004 by lorenz Posted in Ethnologie allgemein, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Ethnologie und Beruf, Jobsuche

Der Text im Spiegel ist vielleicht besonders in Hinblick auf das Image von Ethnologen in der Gesellschaft interessant. Besprochen werden Bildungskredite, bei dem private Geldgeber mit einer Renditeerwartung (d.h. zukuenftiger Job) Geld vorschießen. “Wenn Sie versuchen, so ein Modell für Ethnologen von der Uni Greifswald vermarkten, springen Ihnen die Investoren ab”, meint ein Experte. Der angespannte Arbeitsmarkt und die hohen Abbrecherquoten von 30 Prozent machten Studenten zu einem “unattraktiven Investitionsobjekt”, so der Spiegel. >> weiter (akutalisierter Link)

“It will take a long time for people to grasp the illusory nature of race”

Published on September 15, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, persons and theories, Us and Them

Washington Post

A hundred social scientists and geneticists gathered this week in Alexandria to sort out the meaning of race, and didn’t, quite. When Leith Mullings, an anthropologist from the City University of New York, sardonically said that “only people of color have race, and only women have gender,” everyone knew what she meant.

A professor who argues that race is a biological myth sat next to a professor who wants the U.S. government to pay reparations to African Americans. Their positions are not inconsistent, but they require a bit of explaining. Race is complicated.

“It doesn’t exist biologically, but it does exist socially,” said Alan Goodman, incoming president of the American Anthropological Association, which sponsored the meeting at the Holiday Inn in Old Town. It will take a long time for people to grasp the illusory nature of race at the biological level, Goodman said. It’s like understanding that the Earth isn’t flat >> continue

Washington Post

A hundred social scientists and geneticists gathered this week in Alexandria to sort out the meaning of race, and didn't, quite. When Leith Mullings, an anthropologist from the City University of New York, sardonically said that "only people of…