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Alternative Anthropologie: Transcultura tagt im Saarland

Published on August 24, 2004 by lorenz Posted in Ethnologie allgemein, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Grenzüberschreitend, multikulturell, interdiziplinär

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft

Anfang Oktober wird im saarländischen Merzig ein Kongress des internationalen Wissenschaftler-Netzwerks Transcultura stattfinden. Transcultura wurde 1988 von Professor Umberto Eco und dem Pariser Ethnologen Professor Alain le Pichon gegründet und vereint seither Wissenschaftler und unabhängige Experten verschiedener Disziplinen aus Afrika, Asien und Europa. Dem Forscher-Netzwerk liegt die Idee einer “alternativen Anthropologie” zugrunde, bei der im Gegensatz zum nur interkulturellen Austausch mit den Augen der anderen Kultur auf die eigene geschaut wird – wechselseitig und gleichberechtigt. >> weiter

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American Ethnologist: Book Reviews in Full-Text!

Published on August 24, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, books, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing

You’re not allowed to read their articles, but American Ethnologist’s book reviews are available for the general public! >> continue

Currently, the American Ethnologist seems to reorganize its homepage and plans to add some interactive features like forums and blogs. >> continue

You're not allowed to read their articles, but American Ethnologist's book reviews are available for the general public! >> continue

Currently, the American Ethnologist seems to reorganize its homepage and plans to add some interactive features like forums and blogs.…

The complex relationship between culture and technology

Published on August 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities, internet, technology

Telepolis

During the 4th conference on “Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication”, Internet researchers from about 30 countries focused on the differences, the potential conflicts and cultural discrepancies in cyberspace understood as a “urban metropolis”.

A special focus was laid on the investigation of the ICT access and usage by indigenous peoples. The ritual collective artwork of Australian aborigines seems to be endangered by a second expropriation in the anonymous global data worlds. On the other hand, a multi-lingual Internet could help to rescue small languages at the edge of extinction to survive in a kind of virtual reservoir.

Especially exciting were those presentations paying attention to alternative forms of Internet usage by the seemingly unprivileged and marginalized cultures. Thus the escape from spatially closed Internet-environments in South America or India underlined the potential creativity of these non-conventional solutions (Rodrigues). >>continue

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Telepolis

During the 4th conference on "Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication", Internet researchers from about 30 countries focused on the differences, the potential conflicts and cultural discrepancies in cyberspace understood as a "urban metropolis".

A special focus was laid on the…

Splitvision – et av Nordens største antropologiske konsulentbyråer?

Published on August 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in antropologi utenfor akademia, business antropologi, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

På vår jakt etter antropologiske konsulentbyråer har vi kommet til Splitvision. Det er sannsynlig et av de største av sitt slag i Norden. I Splitvision er det ansatt fem antropologer og en internettpedagog. De har kontorer i Stockholm og Gøteborg:

“Splitvision Business Anthropology arbetar med samhälls- och marknadsundersökningar, organisationskultur och Cross Culture Management.

Centralt i vårt arbete är att vi fångar upp människors attityder och värderingar – vad de säger att de gör, vad de tänker om det de gör och vad de i själva verket gör. Vi kan på detta sätt hjälpa våra kunder att nå sina mål.”

“Bland våra kunder finns: Folkhälsorådet, Orust kommun, Lunds Stadsbyggnadskontor, Folkuniversitetet i Göteborg och Industriellt Utvecklingscentrum (IUC) i Gnosjöregionen AB. Splitvision har ett ramavtal gällande samhälls- och marknadsundersökningar med Göteborgs stad, Mölndals kommun, Partille kommun, Öckerö kommun samt Göteborgs kyrkliga samfällighet.”

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The ‘earth house’ recreates a traditional Lebanese lifestyle in exacting detail

Published on August 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Middle East

The Daily Star – Lebanon News

TERBOL, Lebanon: In an old peasant house in the village of Terbol, everything is so perfect, so miniature that you’d think you were wandering around in a doll house. The “Earth House,” as this newly opened museum in the Western Bekaa is called, aims to revive the traditional house style of the rural Bekaa region.

“This project was conceived thanks to a book by anthropologist, ethnologist and photographer Hoda Kassatly called “Terres de Bekaa””, said the museum’s coordinator Nicole Nachnouk.

“The Earth house is just what we and the younger generations need to get over our ‘lost memory’ and to remember how our ancestors used to live,” the Bekaa photographer Kassatly said. And indeed, as Kassatly explained further, the museum is specially dedicated to the Bekaa inhabitants whose “ignorance and lack of interest” in their ancestors’ culture is “alarming.” >> continue

The Daily Star - Lebanon News

TERBOL, Lebanon: In an old peasant house in the village of Terbol, everything is so perfect, so miniature that you'd think you were wandering around in a doll house. The "Earth House," as this newly…