This is Part III of a series of posts on anthropology and democracy. Part I is here, Part II, here. In the USA, the spectre of democracy looms. It is days away. November 6, when people all across the country will step into a small booth and exercise their right to participate in the democratic [...]One of the things a good book does is to show you patterns which you start seeing everywhere. David Graeber’s Debt is one of those books. Right now I’m enjoying listing to the Moby Dick Big Read in which: David Cameron, Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry and Simon Callow jump aboard ambitious project to broadcast Herman [...]
The announcement for next year’s McGill Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry has just gone out. It will be held on June 3-5 in Montreal and the topic for 2013 is “Mindfullness in Cultural Context.” Here is the abstract:
Recent years have seen the enthusiastic embrace of mindfulness meditation and other techniques drawn from Buddhism as therapeutic interventions in psychiatry. …With the elections in the US less than three weeks away, the idea of “democracy” has been on my mind a lot. And, considering recent events like this (which isn’t exactly getting a lot of press coverage), I am thinking a lot about the ideals of democracy versus the actual practice of democracy–here in the [...]The Nacirema, till now most famous for their unusual body rituals, are also quite well known for their political rituals; especially the unusual way they choose their headman.* Whereas many traditional societies choose their headman based on his demonstrated ability at skills related to the survival of the community, the Nacirema have chosen instead to [...]
[This is the 6th installment in an ongoing series.] Above is a picture of my student ID from the “Hualien Tribal College.” Actually the official English name on their web page is “Hualien Indigenous Community College” which sounds better to my anthropological ears. Indigenous Community Colleges in Taiwan are not degree granting institutions. Courses tend [...]
: antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 11 10 12 03:39:00, by Lorenz Categories : indigenous people minorities Us and Them anthropology general journal articles papers Minorities treated as second class academics : Still a racial bias in anthropology In a blog post at AnthroNow Manissa McCleave Maharawal draws our attention to an important article in the American Anthropologist that was already published in november 2011 : Anthropology as White Public Space Here , Karen Brodkin , Sandra Morgen , and Janis Hutchinson show that there is still a racial bias in American anthropology . Their online survey among anthropologists of color in the US reveals that anthropology has not done well whenantropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 10 10 12 23:30:00, by Lorenz Categories : culture traditions Europe journal articles papers history What the burial of a 4 year old boy says about daily life more than 24 000 years ago Antropologi.info is mainly about social anthropology . So , maybe now it’s time to get inspired by a paper from a neighbouring discipline archaeology . Lukas Loeb has sent me this paper that he’d like to share with others : The Human Burial of the Abrigo Lagar Velho Child . An analysis of human burial and the understanding of social relations and ancient society Loeb is currently a student in the Social Science and Economy Department at the University of Agder Norway .