June 2010 Blog Posts (11)

Dealing with THE GAP

Rex over at Savage Minds recently wrote a short post about the "relevance gap" in anthropology. Pretty important topic, if you ask me. Here is the money quote:

"The time it takes for academics to study, write, and publish something about a current event is about the same amount of time it takes to enroll a cohort of students too young…

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Added by ryan anderson on June 28, 2010 at 7:48pm — 4 Comments

Class and Status

In a thread entitled "Updating the Anthropological Act for the 21st Century," I made the claim that there is a disjuncture between institutional frameworks and critical frameworks.

Currently, I'm working on a write-up for a survey that I've developed for a service offered at my small institution. Item 1 on the…

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Added by Joel M. Wright on June 23, 2010 at 10:04pm — 2 Comments

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Theories and Tools

The following is something I wrote for a thread on Savage Minds. The topic is the relation of theory to ethnography. In it I recommend that we take seriously the metaphor that likens anthropological theories to tools and see training in anthropology as preparing people with a toolkit filled with a rich diversity of tools, some of which may prove useful…

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Added by John McCreery on June 22, 2010 at 4:00pm — 6 Comments

CFP ICAS AAS, Honolulu 2011 – Asian border-crossing mobilities: On the road to (self)development

Special Joint Conference of the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) and Association for Asian Studies (AAS) – 70 years of Asian Studies

Honolulu, Hawaii, 31 March–3 April 2011

PANEL – Asian border-crossing mobilities: On the road to (self)development

Conveners:

Pál Nyíri (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands): P.Nyiri@fsw.vu.nl

Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven, Belgium): Noel.Salazar@soc.kuleuven.be

Discussant:

Biao Xiang… Continue

Added by Noel B. Salazar on June 20, 2010 at 8:03pm — No Comments

The Brazilian Educational Project

A short video (5min) has been published describing the mission and objectives of the Brazilian Educational Project. For those interested, it can be found at: http://www.box.net/shared/jilip66h2t

Added by Neil Turner on June 18, 2010 at 1:29am — No Comments

Dr.H.M.Maralusiddaiah

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Anthropological Survey of India

Ministry of Culture

Government of India

Manav Bhavan

Bogadi

Mysore 570… Continue

Added by Dr.H.M.Maralusiddaiah on June 17, 2010 at 11:46am — No Comments

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The mysterious disappearance of blog posts

It is now ten days since someone made a blog post here and our most prolific blogger departed with all her posted material. It is hard to imagine that the two things were not somehow related to a decision by the Admins (including me) to take current blog posts off the home page and replace the box there with one featuring posts selected by us.

We took this step because… Continue

Added by Keith Hart on June 17, 2010 at 9:00am — 6 Comments

Living in exile in their own land; contemporary Native American artists

http://fhs1973.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/living-in-exile-in-their-own-land-contemporary-native-american-artists/…

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Added by Floris Schreve on June 11, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

International Journal of Business Anthropology

Dear colleague,

We would like to inform you about the International Journal of Business Anthropology, a newly created peer-reviewed referral journal in the field of business anthropology to be published by the North American Business Press biannually. We planned to have our first issue printed earlier next year and would like to invite you to submit papers for publication.

Greetings, Alfons

Prof.Dr Alfons van Marrewijk

Professor of Business Anthropology |…

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Added by alfons van marrewijk on June 7, 2010 at 11:10pm — 3 Comments

Theorising conceptions of 'the ancestors'

One of the most significant reasons contemporary Pagans I have interviewed are concerned about prehistoric human remains relates to the spiritual significance of 'the ancestors'.

From my own engagements with contemporary Paganism I have conceptualised three categories of ancestors:

Ancestors of blood - our direct genetic ancestors

Ancestors of tradition - those people who have shared our beliefs and influenced our ideas

Ancestors of place - those people…

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Added by William Rathouse on June 4, 2010 at 4:34pm — 1 Comment