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AAA New Orleans

Hallo,

someone knows where can I find informations about specific call for papers for submission to the AAA 201 in New Orleans?

Thank you

Added by Micol Brazzabeni on March 19, 2010 at 10:28pm — No Comments

Anthropology of Laughter and Humor

This is a blogpost to introduce my group on the anthropology of laughter and humour (humor for our American friends). It's my intention to formulate a tentative outline for research into what is, as far as I know, an underdeveloped field of inquiry.

I'm not going to bore you with a review of all the research that already has been done, I couldn't even if I wanted to, because I… Continue

Added by Jan Begine on March 19, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Iberian Congress of African Studies 2010 - Call for Papers "The suffering of migrants and refugees of/in Africa and their caregivers"

I would like to call for papers for a panel organized during the 7th Iberian Congress of African Studies which will take place from 9 to 11, September 2010 in Lisbon.

We welcome proposals in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

Proposals have to be made before 15 April via the online form at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciea7, not by email.

Here is the link for more information:… Continue

Added by Virginie Tallio on March 11, 2010 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

The Meaning of Water

Hello everyone!

If you are interested in anthropology of water and the environment, come an join the RAI for a free event on the River Thames on March 20th. The event focuses on the connections between water, conservation and community. Through presentations, films and exhibitions, participants will explore the economic, political and cultural meanings of water and its impact on the lives of communities around the world.

For more information and to book your free place visit:… Continue

Added by Nafisa Fera on March 10, 2010 at 9:09am — No Comments

AAA 2010 New Orleans - Call for Abstracts - Graduate Pecha Kucha Session

I am putting together a session proposal for the 2010 AAA meeting in New Orleans, and would like to call for submissions of abstracts.

The session will focus on graduate student works-in-progress, and will be Pecha Kucha - 20 slides, 20 seconds each.Often the only people who are aware of graduate student work are our advisors and committees, and this will be a chance to show the discipline what we are up to and where we are researching, and get feedback from the audience. This format… Continue

Added by Denice Szafran on February 2, 2010 at 11:08pm — No Comments

Popobawa is coming to Edinburgh!

Popobawa is a much-feared spirit who periodically terrorizes the inhabitants of Zanzibar (and coastal Tanzania), attacking and most notoriously sodomizing men and women as they lie in their beds at night. Victims are told to spread the word of their traumatic experiences or risk being visited and assaulted again. I'll therefore be making a rare public appearance to talk about Popobawa at the Centre of African Studies in the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday, 3rd February (Inshallah). For… Continue

Added by Martin Walsh on January 23, 2010 at 1:23pm — No Comments

Fee Waiver PhD Scholarships - University of St Andrews.

We are offering fee waiver scholarships in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.

These 3-year scholarships will be awarded in late April 2010 to PhD applicants

with outstanding research potential, to enable them to begin their research in

Social Anthropology at St Andrews from September 2010. We especially invite

applicants whose area of interest relates to… Continue

Added by Huon Wardle on January 19, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

KITLV journals - Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services

A very useful resource for anthropologists, these journals with free-access archive of past issues, .pdf format. The famous

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde containing articles by Levi-Strauss, Needham, Geertz, Mintz, Prices and many others. Remember the debate between Levi-Strauss and David Maybury-Lewis on dual organization? Well, it is here

http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/

For people working in the… Continue

Added by Viorel Anastasoaie on January 17, 2010 at 9:29pm — No Comments

Online Anthropology Newspaper

Fran Barone has recently unveiled our first step towards providing fast feeds for the latest posts here in the OAC Group Index. But the revolution in assembling and sorting relevant online information is gathering pace and anthropology is part of it. Kerim Friedman has just set up an online anthropology newspaper at Twitter Tim.es, as he explains in… Continue

Added by Keith Hart on January 15, 2010 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

About me

I am full-time MA student at McGill University in Montreal, currently in the write-up phase of a dissertation on slum demolition and resettlement policy in Delhi, India. I previously attended the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (BA, Anthropology, 2008), and am a member of the AAA, SCA, and SHA, in addition to McGill's Centre for the Study of Society, Technology, and Development (STANDD).

Added by Fredric Hohlen on January 11, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

IDENTITY STUDIES - Call for papers for the Spring 2010 issue on secularization

Identity Studies is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary academic journal founded in the framework of the SCOPES (Swiss National Science Foundation) Project "Social Sciences in Changing Contexts: the Case of Georgia".

The first issue, published in 2009, contained materials dedicated to the re-thinking of the theory of nationalism, specifically in the context of Georgia (See:… Continue

Added by Oliver Reisner on January 10, 2010 at 5:14pm — No Comments

answer to Keith

thanks for your reply.

Ok for Jennifer, I understand now , in fact I was very surprised to receive this kind of mail on this anthropologic place to exchange ideas ..!

For your considerations upon cultural diversity of epistemologic issues, anyway I'm french, I have interest for american sociology, and more larger, about conceptual crossed bounds between philosophic anthropology ( Schutz) and european philososophy ( Husserl). I discovered recently with Sandra Laugier's work upon… Continue

Added by Catherine FELIX on January 5, 2010 at 5:10pm — 2 Comments

Applied Anthropology or a Sociological Experiment?

Not long ago I joined the OAC and asked for some guidance about how I could apply anthropology to my current profession as a corrections officer. I was given some very sound advice (Thanks to Keith Hart and John McCreery). I had before attempted to aid in and develop a restorative justice program, that to cut to the point was not very well accepted. So with guidance from two professionals mentioned I decided to focus on why it was not well accepted. Particularly, is the stereotype of the… Continue

Added by Steven R. Vasquez on January 2, 2010 at 12:28pm — 2 Comments

knowledge at work

first, a very good new year to OAC's members and pleasure with intellectual work !

Thanks to Jennifer who post a comment on my page but I don't still know how I can answer !! it doest work !!

Anyway some news from my preoccupations ..

I'm working on concrete knowledge in educationnal and formative settings for a communication in a congress in Geneve.

In France, a very recent book named " sociology of prfessions" de François Champy focalizing upon… Continue

Added by Catherine FELIX on January 1, 2010 at 4:06pm — 1 Comment

Against Culturalism

Joana Breidenbach and Pál Nyíri have just published a book, Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits, (Washington University Presss, 2009).

In an excerpt from a note on the book, they write:

>In his book Foreign News, anthropologist Ulf Hannerz lamented the inability of anthropologists – the professional students of human cultures – to respond adequately to… Continue

Added by Keith Hart on December 30, 2009 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

How would you define culture?

Culture is something that is all around us but hidden from sight.

Added by Neil Turner on December 25, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Diep Salute from Global Studio

Global Studio (established 2005) is a place based action research program where international students, academics and professionals come together with local universities, local government , NGOs and CBOs to collaborate with disadvantaged communities.

GS grew out of the work of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers (2002-04) with founding partners… Continue

Added by Keith Hart on December 20, 2009 at 1:48pm — No Comments

INTRODUCTION TO THE "ANTHROPOLOGY OF HABITAT AND ARCHITECTURE"

Anna Marie Schefer commented on Nold Egenter's group 'ANTHROPOLOGY OF HABITAT AND ARCHITECTURE'

Hello! I would like to ask what the name of the article about the interface of anthropology and architecture is? I am just starting being interested in the topic of Architectural anthropology. Thanks for advices! Best wishes, Anna

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Good morning,

please excuse me for the delay with which I am responding your kind question. There was an… Continue

Added by Nold Egenter on December 20, 2009 at 9:34am — No Comments

TEN SELECTED PAPERS ON "ANTHROPOLOGY OF HABITAT AND ARCHITECTURE"

Below please find a list of 10 selected papers on various

aspects of our "Anthropology of Habitat and Architecture"

Would be nice to have some discussions!

You find them with the following URL:

---> http://habitat-anthro.ning.com/forum

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Nold Egenter

THE SACRED TREES AROUND GOSHONAI / JAPAN - A contribution of building ethnology to the subject of… Continue

Added by Nold Egenter on December 19, 2009 at 3:05am — No Comments

HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY:Scientific-technological Revolution and the Historical Consciousness

HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

The way how the mankind developed trough last 40000 years,expressed in terms of semiotics

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Scientific-technological Revolution and the Historical Consciousness

By Miroslav Mišković,Croatia

INTRODUCTION

Historical consciousness was from the beginning the basis of every social consciousness.At the present time,into a era of scientific-technological revolution,it does occurs in that region… Continue

Added by Miroslav Miskovic on December 18, 2009 at 8:13pm — No Comments