All Blog Posts Tagged 'culture' (10)

Artifacts of violence #1

So then, what DO our artifacts say about us? We can read all sorts of things into, well, things. This was something that I found washed up on a beach in California a few years back. I used to have all sorts of these plastic army men when I was a kid, and I turned out relatively well. I think. Still, these types of objects do speak to…

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Added by ryan anderson on January 24, 2011 at 1:10am — 25 Comments

The Anthropologist on a Tightrope

The ideas expressed and questions posed here are a follow up to an earlier piece entitled 'Is anthropology art?' and the discussion which ensued with John McCreery…

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Added by Toby Austin Locke on December 18, 2010 at 8:51pm — 4 Comments

Assessing Interactions Between Culture & Choice

At no other conference has choosing between concurrent sessions been so difficult. However, from the moment the schedule was posted some weeks ago I knew there was one I had to attend. Assessing Interactions Between Culture & Choice focused on today’s generation of mothers and what shapes their perceptions, experience and consequently choices about birth.

Generation Y women are today’s young mothers and will make up the bulk of midwives’ clients in the…

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Added by Katie Fulmer on August 11, 2010 at 7:35am — No Comments

Material Culture Studies: a reactionary view

I've published the Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies on my blog, under a Creative Commons License. The paper, written with Mary C. Beaudry, is online here

Full details of the book, including the Table of Contents, are… Continue

Added by Dan Hicks on May 29, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Reflective analysis on cultural practice in Africa

Recently I posted a link to a very interesting essay by Alan Fiske "Learning a culture the way informants do: observing, imitating, and participating" (2000). The paper generated a fair amount of back and forth on whether or not members of any culture reflect on their own cultural practices in equal degree, so much so that Alan Fiske was asked by Neil Turner to to justify some of Fiske's observations and arguments… Continue

Added by Jacob Lee on May 16, 2010 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments

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What is it about Cats (the musical, that is)?

Today was Midori no Hi 'Green Day' in Japan, the…

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Added by John McCreery on April 29, 2010 at 2:31pm — 4 Comments

Communicating with ourselves: The Caribbean artist and his society -- Rex Nettleford, December 1985 address at the Guyana Prize for Literature Awards Ceremony

EXCERPT from the Address:

Leon Botstein, the young President of Bard College in New York recently wrote the following: …no one in America writes except from necessity. Our ease of movement and access to the telephone have made most of our exchanges not written but rather oral, distance notwithstanding. Good news is brought in person or by voice; bad news in writing. We tell someone we love them, and we write the proverbial ‘Dear John’ letter. Bills, warnings, eviction notices and… Continue

Added by Michael O'Neal on March 28, 2010 at 9:07pm — 2 Comments

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.

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Added by sushil yadav on December 15, 2009 at 7:15am — No Comments

The Journal of Humanities, a new online journal from Tanzania

The first issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Humanities, a new open access journal, edited by Ahmad Kipacha in the University of Dodoma, Tanzania, is now online (click on the journal title). A second issue of this trilingual journal is currently in preparation and it is hoped will be ready before the end of the year.

Contents of Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009:

A Note on a… Continue

Added by Martin Walsh on November 29, 2009 at 1:31pm — No Comments

A TAPESTRY OF VAGRANCY: on madness, creativity and freedom

I remember in senior year of college in Miami I had a friend who visited his then girlfriend in Trinidad. Upon his return he reported “full of stray dogs.” Mind you during this time I had not returned to Trinidad for years, and had quite forgotten about stray dogs and stray humans. So of course I went on the defensive – “there are SO many things to see and do in Trinidad,” I reprimanded, “how could you complain about stray dogs?!” We left it at that.

Fast forward six years after this… Continue

Added by Astrid Franchiska Kowlessar on August 19, 2009 at 7:45am — 13 Comments