Kategori: Cultural anthropology

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Cultural anthropology UBrss

Anthropology – Week 4: Anton Blok

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Anton Blok, a dutch anthropologist, born in Amsterdam in 1935.

He is mostly known for his  studies on the Mafia in Sicily in the 1960s.

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Anton Blok was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan (1972-1973) and University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He is a professor emeritus of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.

Some other publications by Anton Blok:

  • Honour and violence. Cambridge: Polity, 2001. ISBN 0-7456-0449-8
  • Anthropologische Perspektiven: Einführung, Kritik und Plädoyer. With Klaus Schomburg. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1995. ISBN 3-608-91725-X
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Cultural anthropology Social anthropology Sosialantropologi UBrss

Alan Macfarlane: Interviews with Anthropologists

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Interviews with Anthropologists is a collection of 91 interviews made by Alan Macfarlane between 1976 and 2010. Details of the full collection of anthropologist interviews can be browsed on DSpace@Cambridge by clicking here.

Interviews with Anthropologists is part of a wider collection of Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers, which can be found here.

Collection Details:

Collection: Interviews with Anthropologists
Collector: Alan Macfarlane
Date(s): 1976 – 2010
Language(s): English

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Cultural anthropology Social anthropology Sosialantropologi UBedu UBrss

Anthropology – Week 3: A new anthropologist: Lars Krutak Tattoo Anthropologist

Lars Krutak received his Ph.D. at Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution & Social Change in 2009. Since 2003, he has been studying the socioeconomic impacts of tourism and tourism promotion on indigenous Rarámuri (Tarahumara) arts and crafts vendors living in the Copper Canyon region of Mexico for his dissertation.

Krutak began tattoo research in 1996 as a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Trained as an archaeologist and cultural anthropologist, he spent three years exploring the complex symbolism and practice of tattooing throughout the Arctic.

 

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Cultural anthropology Social anthropology Sosialantropologi Visual anthropology

Anthropology- One «new» anthropologist every week

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Starting from today I will pick one anthropologist every week that interests me. This weeks pick is Karen Nakamura, just employed at The Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.

This is what she says about her self:

«I am a cultural and visual anthropologist whose research focuses on disability, sexuality, and minority social movements in contemporary Japan. My first book, Deaf in Japan, was on sign language, identity, and deaf social movements. I recently finished my second book, which is on schizophrenia and mental illness in Japan and is titled, A Disability of the Soul. For the past year, I’ve been working on my third project which explores the intersections of disability, gender, and sexuality.»