• How scholars in the Middle East developed anthropology more than 1000 years ago

    Updated: 2013-04-26 13:12:00
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 26 04 13 15:12:00, by Lorenz Categories : Us and Them anthropology general journal articles papers history How scholars in the Middle East developed anthropology more than 1000 years ago Anthropology emerged in a relatively high scientific level in the wider Middle East before it existed as a discipline in the West . Therefore , the label of colonialism often coupled to its emergence must be . removed This is the main point of an article by Hassen Chaabani in the recent issue of the International Journal of Modern Anthropology Although the beginning of the development of anthropology as a discipline is originated in colonial encounter between Western

  • Now I am a truly engaged anthropologist!

    Updated: 2013-04-24 14:09:00
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 24 04 13 16:09:00, by Lorenz Categories : internal notes Now I am a truly engaged anthropologist I wanted to write this post long time ago . As you might have noticed , there haven’t been any new posts on this blog since the 24th of October last . year So what has happened Well , at about the same time I wrote my last blog post the most wonderful woman entered my life . Two months later we already got engaged . And in a few months , I hope , we will get . married So yes , now I am a truly engaged anthropologist Getting married in Egypt is for me a wonderful , but not actually a cheap endeavour My economic situation forces me therefore to focus on my

  • The Case of Myriad Genetics

    Updated: 2013-04-15 20:09:38
    Home Contact Me Home Meet The Bloggers The Ordinary People Project Other Blogs and Resources Bookstore About ethnography.com The Case of Myriad Genetics As Tony pointed out , the back and forth on this blog over population genetics has produced some smoke , some heat and some insights into what a gene might be and how much it can say about the everyday lives of human beings . 160 Today the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the case of Association for Molecular Pathology vs . Myriad Genetics . At stake are some the same questions we have been debating at ethnography.com modulated through the US legal system . NPR has a nice overview here Share : this Share Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Email Print Digg Posted by Michael Scroggins on April 15th , 2013 Permalink Leave a Reply Click

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