• Musings about the Theft of Culture from Anthropology

    Updated: 2010-05-29 01:29:12
    Home Contact Me Home Meet The Bloggers The Ordinary People Project Other Blogs and Resources Bookstore About ethnography.com Musings about the Theft of Culture from Anthropology Some years ago , I asked the question , Who Stole Culture from Anthropology in a brief essay in   Anthropology News in 2006 I raised the question because many anthropologists had complained to me since about 1987, about how they had trained too many” anthropologists with the result that they were unemployed . The discipline seemed to be in a perpetual depression , wallowing in its own insecurities , seemingly like no other . This bothered me though , in part I guess because I was a victim of this insecurity . Indeed , it was in 1987 that I first applied for graduate study in Anthropology because I thought the

  • Crowd-questioning Corporate Ethnographers

    Updated: 2010-05-28 06:24:47
    We have the honor of interviewing business anthros Grant McCracken and Barry Dornfeld. By we I mean you. Barry wrote a groundbreaking text in the anthropology of media production: Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture. Twelve years after its publication, Dornfeld’s book remains the deepest description of television production and the tense conflicts that happen when do-gooder [...]

  • Dial-an-Anthropologist

    Updated: 2010-05-28 01:53:27
    Via the Global Poverty blog (where you’ll see our own Dustin Wax has left the first comment), comes news of Worldwise development, a website which “aims to facilitate collaboration between development practitioners and anthropologists.” As they explain: We believe that anthropologists have a lot to contribute to development work, but that their knowledge and skills are still [...]

  • “Homophobia in Africa is not a single story”

    Updated: 2010-05-27 03:05:37
    Not a topic I know much about, but Keguro Macharia’s criticism of Madeleine Bunting’s Guardian post about Malawi’s conviction of a gay couple to 14 years’ hard labour, jibes with the gut-anthropological-reaction I had when I read her piece. (He also links to what look like some interesting books on the subject.) Without a locally based understanding, [...]

  • No more conferences in Arizona: Anthropologists condemn Immigration Law

    Updated: 2010-05-24 22:21:57
    : antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 25 05 10 00:21:57, by Lorenz Categories : politics Us and Them Northern America migration anthropology general No more conferences in Arizona : Anthropologists condemn Immigration Law Even seemingly rather conservative organisations are able to act and protest : In an official resolution , passed on Saturday , The American Anthropological Association has condemned the new immigration law in Arizona The association will refuse to hold scholarly conferences in Arizona until the law is either repealed or struck down as constitutionally invalid” , as we read in the AAA blog The AAA has a

  • Job Announcement: Ethnographic Researcher position at PARC

    Updated: 2010-05-22 02:58:46
    Ethnography Researcher/Practitioner/Project Manager Palo Alto Research Center seeks practicing ethnographers who can lead a growing set of ethnography projects for our commercial customers in Japan. The positions will be based in Japan and will work closely with our U.S.-based ethnography group to import methodologies and practices. Responsibilities include: Design and conduct ethnographic studies for commercial customers Ensure client [...]

  • Durham Anthropology Journal: How "post-socialist" is Eastern Europe?

    Updated: 2010-05-18 23:16:43
    : antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 19 05 10 01:16:43, by Lorenz Categories : culture traditions Europe journal articles papers Durham Anthropology Journal : How post-socialist is Eastern Europe Beyond postsocialism Creativity , moral resistance and change in the corners of Eurasia” is the title of the new issue of Durham Anthropology Journal The authors want to give us alternative views on so called postsocialist societies . Postsocialist studies , David Henig explains in his editorial have been dominated by Western perspectives the East as the Other and also by discourses of capitalist triumphalism” from socialism or

  • The Women of Brassempouy: A Century of Research and Interpretation

    Updated: 2010-05-15 20:58:48
    The Women of Brassempouy: A Century of Research and Interpretation The discovery of female figurines at Brassempouy in the 1890’s would launch more than a century of debate and interpretation concerning Paleolithic representations of women. The figurines emerged from the ground into a colonial intellectual and socio-political context nearly obsessed with matters of race. This [...]

  • Savage Interview: Going Corporate with IBM Anthropologist Melissa Cefkin

    Updated: 2010-05-14 18:11:21
    In my first batch of Savage interviews I am focusing on anthropologists like Simon Sinek working in or with corporations (Barry Dornfeld and Grant McCracken, you out there and willing to talk?). I recently had the pleasure of talking with Melissa Cefkin, IBM anthropologist and editor of the recently published “Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: [...]

  • More Inertia! in AAA publishing

    Updated: 2010-05-12 06:00:13
    AAA has sent out another survey (all members should have received it), this one ostensibly about AAA’s relationship with Wiley-Blackwell and your satisfaction with that lovely partnership. Sadly, the survey asks no questions (well, half of one, maybe) regarding the Borg that is Wiley-Blackwell, and a number of irrelevant questions about Anthrosource and your [...]

  • A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

    Updated: 2010-05-11 16:14:01
    A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. We present a draft sequence of the Neandertal genome composed of more than 4 billion nucleotides from three individuals. Comparisons of the Neandertal genome to the [...]

  • Open Access: Anthropological Notebooks - journal of the Slovenian Anthropological Society

    Updated: 2010-05-10 23:42:45
    : antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 11 05 10 01:42:45, by Lorenz Categories : Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing journal articles papers Open Access : Anthropological Notebooks journal of the Slovenian Anthropological Society For some reason this journal has hardly been mentioned on anthropology blogs . But Anthropology Notebooks is actually one of the few serious traditional anthropology journals with free access to all articles for everybody from 2005 And it is an expanding journal : While promising recent open access initiatives like After Culture have shut down , Anthropology Notebooks has started

  • Welcome Matthew Thompson

    Updated: 2010-05-10 16:29:16
    Three cheers for Matthew, who will be joining us next week as SM’s new assistant editor, writing the “Savage Minds Around the Web” column and just being an all-around great human being.   Maybe all of that is a tall order, but I think Matthew can handle it.  He describes himself thus: I completed my PhD in [...]

  • A Brief Note on Archaeology and Salmon

    Updated: 2010-05-06 18:50:11
    It is that time of the year again: another wave of Tables of Contents in my inbox. I subscribe to content alerting for a variety of archaeology journals and I’m always fascinated by the variety within the archaeological community today in terms of their ‘humanism’. Thus the same article published in different journals would be: Journal [...]

  • Whiteness as Ethnicity in Arizona’s New Racial Order

    Updated: 2010-05-03 22:23:20
    Along with other recent wackiness, Arizona’s state legislature passed a law, HB 2281, which aims to prevent or limit the teaching of ethnic studies. HB 2281: Prohibits a school district or charter school from including in its program of instruction any courses or classes that: Promote the overthrow of the United States government. Promote resentment toward a race or [...]

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