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A personal look at anthropology

Published on July 8, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, Arctic / Northern Regions, books, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities, inuit

Kenai Peninsula Online (Alaska)

Generations of anthropologists have appeared in Alaska Native villages and attempted, with varying degrees of tact, naivete or insight, to explain the villagers’ lives. Margaret B. Blackman who teaches anthropology at the State University of New York College at Brockport parts in “Upside Down: Seasons among the Nunamiut,” from typical scholarly writing to create a book of essays that read more like personal memoir than academic treatise.

” … I tired of academic writing,” she says in her introduction. ” … I became increasingly irritated with the uncanny ability of so many anthropologists to render, in stilted prose, the most interesting cultures hopelessly pedantic and unappealing. I wanted to write differently about Anaktuvuk Pass.” The result is a beautifully written exploration of an anthropologist’s life as well as a portrait of the remote Nunamiut village in the Brooks Range. >>continue

Kenai Peninsula Online (Alaska)

Generations of anthropologists have appeared in Alaska Native villages and attempted, with varying degrees of tact, naivete or insight, to explain the villagers' lives. Margaret B. Blackman who teaches anthropology at the State University of New York…

When cultures shape technology – Interview with Genevieve Bell

Published on July 8, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, design anthropology, persons and theories

Tom’s Hardware Guide

Tech firms flood consumers which new products every month. In an interview with Tom’s Hardware Guide, Intel’s anthropologist Genevieve Bell explains why cultures will determine the development of new products. Dell initiated at Intel a new way to think about the connection between people and technology, their cultural practices and “daily habits,” she says. Rather than innovating and then trying to make people use products, the idea is to start with people and their needs first and learn what individual cultures care about. >>continue (updated link)

Tom's Hardware Guide

Tech firms flood consumers which new products every month. In an interview with Tom's Hardware Guide, Intel's anthropologist Genevieve Bell explains why cultures will determine the development of new products. Dell initiated at Intel a new way to…

FAZ amüsiert sich über nostalgischen Ethnologen

Published on July 8, 2004 by lorenz Posted in Arbeit(sleben), Bücher, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie

FAZ

Das heutige Arbeitsleben genießt ja nicht unbedingt den besten Ruf.Da kann uns die Diagnose, die an diesem Dienstag im „Tagesspiegel“ der Berliner Ethnologe Wolfgang Kaschuba erstellt, auch nicht mehr überraschen: Früher war alles viel besser. Auch am Arbeitsplatz. „Unsere Arbeitswelt scheint kulturell zu veröden; jedenfalls verglichen mit der Vergangenheit“, schreibt Kaschuba und gibt auch die Antwort, woran das liegt: Es gibt keine Rituale mehr, jedenfalls keine „wirklichen“. Dabei wachse, so Kaschuba, unser Ritual- und Symbolbedarf „mit der Zahl unklarer, irritierender Situationen, auf die wir im Alltag treffen“.

Früher hatte der Arbeitnehmer zwar keinen Computer und mitunter nicht einmal eine Kaffeetasse, aber er hatte wenigstens Rituale. Die vormoderne Gesellschaft nämlich war geformt von „Rites de Passage“, wie der kluge Ethnologe weiß, Ritualen des Überganges. >>weiter

(Wer sagt es denn: Auch Ethnologen können so “klug” daherreden wie Soziologen)

FAZ

Aejlies Gaaltije – en messe i samisk musikkdrakt av Frode Fjellheim

Published on July 8, 2004 by lorenz Posted in musikk, religion kosmologi, samer, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Adressavisa

Nasjonale kirker og lokalmenigheter, framfor alt i Afrika og Latin-Amerika har vist at det ligger sosial og politisk sprengkraft i å stedegengjøre det kristne budskapet; knytte det til egne tradisjoner og erfaringer. Ja gjerne gripe tilbake til såkalt hedenske, førkristne forestillinger og uttrykk for religiøs tilbedelse og opplevelse. Fjellheims arktiske, kristne messe står i en slik identitetsskapende og bevisstgjørende tradisjon, åndelig, kulturelt og politisk.

Å ta tradisjonelle messeledd inn i en samisk inspirert musikkdrakt, inkludert joik, er en frigjørende og utfordrende handling – Les mer

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Joik på skole-benken: Boka «Med joik som utgangspunkt» presenterer en helt ny metodikk for musikklære, basert på den samiske musikkarven (Adressavisa)

Adressavisa

Anthropologist tries to fathom how advertisers can approach today’s youth

Published on July 8, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, technology, youth

Business Week

Timothy Malefyt is now an in-house anthropologist for BBDO New York, the advertising firm. His mission is to study a group of college students at Columbia University and figure out how in the world they process all of the information that comes their way, whether it’s from TV, movies, billboards, video games, cell phones, the Internet — just about everything but the fortunes wrapped inside Chinese cookies.

If a college student receives a targeted ad on her instant messaging (IM) screen, or a text message on her cell phone, is she likely to resent it? Consider it a joke? Would certain types of advertisements be welcomed? The answers depend, from an anthropologist’s perspective, on the communications rituals associated with each of these tools. >>continue / copy

Business Week