• Somewhere between history and the paranormal…

    Updated: 2011-06-28 01:15:00
    This is why I love anthropology.

  • Visions of Students Today - More Digital Ethnography

    Updated: 2011-06-27 00:05:30
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 27 06 11 02:05:30, by Lorenz Categories : Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing cyberanthropology Visual Anthropology University Academia internet Visions of Students Today More Digital Ethnography Michael Wesch and his Digital Ethnography Research Team of 2011 has released Visions of Students Today an exciting video collage” about student life created by students themselves . The collage consists of a large number of vidoes that can be watched seperately by clicking directly on the thumbnails or on YouTube Each of the students has been working for months to put together their own vision . Striking : Several students criticize the current

  • Criticizes "scholarly and political indifference toward the workers’ lives"

    Updated: 2011-06-26 22:33:10
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 27 06 11 00:33:10, by Lorenz Categories : politics Us and Them Europe books Criticizes scholarly and political indifference toward the workers’ lives Mass media and intellectuals have typically portrayed them as aggressive , uneducated , and morally spoiled . In his recent book , anthropologist David A . Kideckel challenges these views and lets the Romanian working class speak for themselves . Most east and southeast European scholars tend to avoid labor and workers in postsocialist science , a topic that Kideckel embraces writes Simona C . Wersching in her review in the Monthly Review Kideckel points out the scholarly and political indifference toward

  • Welcome Ryan (and Future Guest Bloggers)

    Updated: 2011-06-20 00:27:45
    Just a quick note to announce that Ryan Anderson, who recently guest blogged on Savage Minds, will be joining us full-time. Welcome Ryan! We will also be making some other changes here with regard to how we handle guest bloggers, hopefully making it easier to have more guest bloggers. Ryan will be the last one [...]

  • More advice on giving conference papers

    Updated: 2011-06-16 00:37:40
    Just in case you didn’t read the footnotes to Roger Keesing’s contribution to the Ian Hogbin festschrift, I offer the following quotation: Most of what I think I know about giving an address on such an illustrious occasion, I have learned from reading ceremonial lectures by distinguished British colleagues. As a professional student of strange [...]

  • Why social scientists failed to see the Egyptian revolution coming

    Updated: 2011-06-10 00:44:19
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 10 06 11 02:44:19, by Lorenz Categories : politics anthropology general Middle East Why social scientists failed to predict the Egyptian Revolution A few days ago , I attended the first day of the conference From Tahrir : Revolution or Democratic Transition at the American University in Cairo AUC Researchers and activists were discussing the history and effects of the . revolution We’ve heard it many times : The Egyptian revolution was unexpected . Especially in Western countries , it is often called Facebook Revolution That is not only wrong but insulting as it renders invisible the previous demonstrations , strikes and other political activities ,

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