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Writing about anthropology in 2008 means to take an account of Writing Culture (Clifford / Marcus 1986) – the book denoting postmodernism and new approaches to research culture. As theanthrogeek on AnthroBlogs criticizes on anthropological journalism, “This term does not hold much cogency in either field, aside from discussions about their methodological similarities. With the intense focus many anthropologists expend on matters of ‘authorship’ and ‘authority’, I assume there is much more discussion about these matters that I am simply not aware of” (theanthrogeek March 23, 2008). A first Public Anthropology project I got to know was Robert Borofsky s website http://www.publicanthropology.org. In the following, I consider web journalism and writing referring to the internet, too.
Last update: 27-06-2009 12:12
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| Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917) |
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"French anthropology can thus be seen as a confluence of various currents of thinking and research, each with a distinct spirit and style. The discipline merged the colonial explorations, the anthropology of the Musee d histoire naturelle, the thought of the Ecole de Sociologie francaise and the erudite belles lettres tradition. The Institut d ethnologie awarded both arts and sciences degrees, and its founders became the discipline s sole guardians, exercising their authority by controlling the way it was taught, choosing what research to fund, and deciding what to admit for publication in the series Travaux et memoires de l Institut d ethnologie [Papers and Memoranda of the Institute of Ethnology]" (Gaillard 2004: 87).
Last update: 29-07-2009 18:31
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This book was introduced to the public by a reprint of Elfriede Jelinek s Das weibliche Nicht – Opfer (The female non – casuality) in Oesterreich magazine. I was so impressed by this literary way to express female webs of oppression, slavery and torture, that I ordered a copy immediately from Milena publishers in Vienna. It arrived within three days, in a handy format on 185 pages. Frauen 1938 (Women 1938) has fifteen narrative pieces on the female condition during WWII and nowadays perspective on it.
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