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15:43:00 - 04.08.2005 - There will be no more updates on this page / via this newsfeed. The blog has moved to http://www.antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/
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Update your bookmarks! Blog moves! 1 year anthro-news sorted into categories
23:36:00 - 02.08.2005 - I've finally upgraded my blog, and moved my entries to my new blog, powered by b2evolution. Now, more than one year's anthropology news are sorted into categories like books, corporate anthropology, language and much more.
Recent comments show up on the front page, search is improved.
A new calendar with <a href="http://www.antropologi.info/kalender/rss.php">RSS-support</a> is also installed. Everyone is allowed to add events (moderated by me).
The anthropology in the news blog moves from now on to
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During moving the entries from my old blog, some errors might have occured.
The following days, I'm going to "finetune" the categories.
If you have comments or suggestions let me now, but comment the post in the new blog
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Intel is using anthropologists in new development centers to develop computers
12:35:00 - 01.08.2005 - RedHerring
In a bid to eventually sell more chips, Intel plans to announce Monday that it has set up four new offices around the world that are staffed with anthropologists and engineers to help design computers with features for emerging markets. Traveling from dusty rural villages in India to busy Internet cafés in Brazil, these Intel employees will collect data from weather to the content needs of people in regions where computers are not yet popular.
The company began sending ethnographers to study how people interact with technologies. One anthropologist spent a year living in rural China. With the creation of its new business unit and four development centers, Intel has set up permanent and locally hired staff to do ethnographic studies and engineering. The efforts appear to be paying off. >> continue
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Online Research Project: Children & fire
03:09:00 - 30.07.2005 - Anthopologist Dan Fessler tells us about a new research project "Children and Fire" and asks us to participate and be informants >> read more in antropologi.info Forum
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New blogscript, new features: Move to b2evolution in August
12:16:00 - 22.07.2005 - I'll start to use a new blog script from august - b2evolution. All posts will be sorted in categories, so it's easier and more fun to find old entries and information on different topics. All links to older entries in this blog will still work. But there will be a new URL for entries and the RSS-feed from august on.
b2evolution has similar features as the more popular Wordpress, but additionally a multiple blog feature (neccessary in my case with blogs also in German and Norwegian).
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Summerbreak
15:26:00 - 04.07.2005 -
With best regards, Lorenz
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Social Neuroscience - Psychologists neuroscientists and anthropologists together
01:36:00 - 01.07.2005 - The Guardian
A rapidly growing field of research called "social neuroscience" draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists all studying the neural basis for the social interaction between humans.
Traditionally, cognitive neuroscientists focused on scanning the brains of people doing specific tasks such as eating or listening to music, while social psychologists and social scientists concentrated on groups of people and the interactions between them. To understand how the brain makes sense of the world, it was inevitable that these two groups would have to get together. >> continue
SEE ALSO:
Social cognitive neuroscience: At the frontier of science (American Psychological Association)
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Ethnography a Buzz Word in the Industry - Where is the Quality Control?
01:23:00 - 01.07.2005 - A post on "This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics" about "self-trained anthropologists" who claim to be experts in ethnographic research led to an interesting debate:
"There are lots of people claiming to do ethnography who are, um, “self trained.” There are of no barriers to entry and no one licensing ethnographers. And the term “ethnography” is now so sought after in certain circles that there is plenty of demand." >> continue
SEE ALSO:
Articles on Corporate Anthropology
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Geldof's Live8 and Western myths about Africa
20:42:00 - 29.06.2005 - Interesting post on Black Looks by African feminist Sokari on Live Aid that remembers on the debates on the African Village in the zoo of Augsburg. In both cases, it's our images of Africa that are questionable.
She writes:
"Do They Know Its Christmas" has just been re-recorded - remember the lyrics?
"underneath a burning sun.............where nothing ever grows" "no rain nor river flows"
This is the vision of Africa being sold to millions of young people all over the West - an African stereotype described by Gerald Caplan as "helpless, dependent, passive victims, and we westerners as decent, selfless, compassionate, resourceful missionaries".
These simplistic and reductionist views of Africa are not just unhelpful they actually add to the problems Africa faces as it reduces them to "natural causes - bad luck".
She quotes Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie who suggests that it is not only Africa that is in receipt of Aid, the West also needs to be weaned off the Aid it receives from Africa and lists 5 areas where that aid comes from. >> continue
UPDATE:
Globalvoices Roundup: Africans on Live 8
Globalvoices: More Africans - and Afrophiles - on Live8
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Conference Culture
20:28:00 - 29.06.2005 - Academics live in another world. In this world, time does not exist. Researchers arrive late in seminars. People kept opening the door and entering the room even 10-15 minutes after Richard Jenkins had started with his keynote speech at Childhoods 2005 in Oslo. Jenkins: "It's like holding a lecture in a bus station."
"Oh, I don't know about time", the next speaker says, surprised over the fact that 13 of her 15 minutes already have passed while she is still struggeling with her introduction. She was not the only one.
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Thailand: Local wisdom protects hometown from the onslaught of globalisation
16:32:00 - 27.06.2005 - Bangkok Post
"We fishermen have knowledge about the Mekong based on our time-tested experiences," said Oon Thammawong, 57, of Ban Had Bai in Chiang Rai's Chiang Khong district. "But policy-makers dismiss us as simple folk so that they can dismiss our voices and impose their policies, which only benefit businessmen but destroy our way of life."
Over the past five years, in the wake of the building of dams and the blasting of rapids in China, the condition of the Mekong as it flows through Chiang Khong has drastically deteriorated. Like other communities, the Bangkok-oriented education and political systems have robbed the locals of their historical roots and pride in their culture.
Local pride swelled, however, when a group of residents took on the role of researchers to profile Chiang Khong's ethnographic history and document changes in their hometown. "Reconnecting with one's past and understanding what has shaped one's present is always an empowering process," explained veteran anthropologist Srisakara Vallibhotama, director of the project, which is supported by the Thailand Research Fund. >> continue (updated with copy 22.7.05)
SEE ALSO:
Local taboos could save the seas
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Locating Bourdieu - Interview with anthropologist Deborah Reed-Danahay
15:16:00 - 24.06.2005 - Interesting interview by Scott McLemee with anthropologist Deborah Reed-Danahay on her recent book Locating Bourdieu in the magazine "Inside Higher Education". The book is according to Scott McLemee "a very good place for the new reader of Bourdieu to start".
Reed-Danahay summarizes one of Bourdieu's main points and compares France to the USA:
"Bourdieu believed that we are all constrained by our internalized dispositions (our habitus), deriving from the milieu in which we are socialized, which influence our world view, values, expectations for the future, and tastes. These attributes are part of the symbolic or cultural capital of a social group.
In a stratified society, a higher value is associated with the symbolic capital of members of the dominant sectors versus the less dominant and “controlled” sectors of society. So that people who go to museums and like abstract art, for instance, are expressing a form of symbolic capital that is more highly valued than that of someone who either rarely goes to museums or who doesn’t like abstract art.
The person feels that this is “just” a matter of taste, but this can have important consequences for children at school who have not been exposed to various forms of symbolic capital by their families."
"His work on academia provided us with a method of inquiry to look at the symbolic capital associated with academic advancement and, although the specific register of this will be different in different national contexts, the process may be similar. Just as Bourdieu did in France, for example, one could study how it is that elite universities here “select” students and professors."
>> to the interview in "Inside Higher Education"
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