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Emphasis on ‘culture’ in psychology fuels stereotypes, scholar says

Published on July 24, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, culture traditions, interdisciplinary, journal articles / papers, persons and theories, Us and Them

Currents online, University of California

In an invited lead article in the current issue of the influential journal Human Development, UCSC psychology professor Per Gjerde challenges his colleagues to reconsider popular ideas about the role of culture in human development.

Much of the trouble stems from the use of nations as proxies for cultural units, said Gjerde. Notions of culture are linked to national boundaries and geographical areas, like “East” and “West,” fueling generalizations about “American individualism” and “Asian collectivism,” said Gjerde.

Gjerde is critical of the fieldwork that forms the basis for most notions of culture, saying it has been conducted in “limited and bounded social contexts” and that the fixation on groups has obscured the exploration of variation and complexity within and between human beings.

Gjerde’s model would take a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture, incorporating the writings of anthropology and other fields, and it would consider the influence of power, coercion, and class differences on individual psychological development. >>continue

Currents online, University of California

Much of…

Indigene Völker fordern von Weltbank mehr Rücksicht

Published on July 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Urbevölkerungen und Minderheiten

ORF

Die Weltbank solle Projekte der Industriestaaten in Gebieten der Ureinwohner nicht fördern, falls diese nicht deren Rechte respektiere, heißt es in einem heute in Genf am Rande der Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgruppe indigener Völker veröffentlichten Brief an die Weltbank. Die Industriestaaten verschärften mit ihrem Engagement vielfach die Armut in der Bevölkerung, unterminierten deren sozio- kulturelle Identität und bedrohten manchmal sogar das Überleben der angestammten Bevölkerung. >>weiter

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Currently in Geneve: Meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Population

Published on July 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, indigenous people / minorities, Native American

Main theme for the annual meeting is conflict resolution, the UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation) writes.

A report was launched at the meeting in Geneva that states the potential for indigenous people to help curb the destruction of forests is being overlooked by the international community, according to a report, the BBC reports.

– The Guaraní community of Tentayapi, in southern Bolivia, one of the last bastions of the indigenous group’s traditional way of life, is fighting to keep a foreign oil company out of its ancestral territory. One of the community’s leaders, Saúl Carayury, told the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations, meeting this week in Geneva, that Maxus Energy, a subsidiary of the Spanish-Argentine firm Repsol-YPF based in Spain, intends to explore and drill for hydrocarbons on communally-owned indigenous land in Tentayapi according to One World England

Main theme for the annual meeting is conflict resolution, the UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation) writes.

A report was launched at the meeting in Geneva that states the potential for indigenous people to help curb the destruction of forests is…

Reis et gudshus for Allah!

Published on July 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in innvandring migrasjon, islam, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Jan Brøgger, Professor i sosialantropologi, NTNU, i Adressavisen

Det er i dag 1700 registrerte muslimer i Kristiansand.
Det er derfor like naturlig for denne menigheten å ønske seg en moské som det ville være for en tilsvarende menighet å ønske seg en kirke. Både talefriheten og trosfriheten i Europa er en dyrekjøpt verdi i vår sivilisasjon, og må forsvares med alle tjenlige, det vil si demokratiske midler.

Islam er kommet til Europa for å bli, og det må derfor etableres et økumenisk samarbeid hvor vi gjør klokt i å minnes islams sivilisatoriske storhetstid da arabisk var det lærde språk og studentene reiste til det mauriske Spania for å få komme à jour med forskningsfronten. – Les mer

Jan Brøgger, Professor i sosialantropologi, NTNU, i Adressavisen

Det er i dag 1700 registrerte muslimer i Kristiansand.
Det er derfor like naturlig for denne menigheten å ønske seg en moské som det ville være for en tilsvarende menighet å ønske seg en…

San Update: Defying Ban, Kalahari Bushmen Return to Reserve

Published on July 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in Africa, anthropology in the news, indigenous people / minorities, San-bushmen

National Geographic

Botswana completed a multiyear process of relocating Bushmen outside the reserve. Xuxuri Johannes, a leader of the ragtag Bushmen’s rights group First People of the Kalahari claimed the move was designed to “create space” for diamond mining.

When I visited earlier this year, dozens of Bushmen had returned to the Kalahari to take up their old lives as hunter-gatherers in defiance of government edicts. Then, during a media tour orchestrated in March to show off the quality of life in the resettlement areas, reporters say they witnessed widespread hunger and more Bushmen streaming into the reserve. By late spring, the number of returnees was headed into the hundreds. >>continue

National Geographic

Botswana completed a multiyear process of relocating Bushmen outside the reserve. Xuxuri Johannes, a leader of the ragtag Bushmen's rights group First People of the Kalahari claimed the move was designed to "create space" for diamond mining.

When I visited…