Sybil Amber

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• Nobel Prize in Peace?

  Anthro.Scapes - Legal Anthropology and Peace Studies

  Created: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:29 Author: Sybil Amber

  Ever searched the Nobel Prize database for this award regarding anthropology? Well, reading this article you can save your time: Nobody of social and cultural anthropologists ever won a Nobel Prize. Alfred Nobel was very much interested in peace and socia...

• Spies, anyone?

  World - Action and Criticism

  Created: Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:00 Author: Sybil Amber

  Franz Boas wrote a short text about Scientists as Spies published in The Nation by December 20, 1919. This polemic text is accessible via Anthropology Today, February 2008, Volume 24, the virtual issue on War on Terror. In his letter to the editor Franz B...

• The beginnings in France

  Anthro.Scapes - History of Social and Cultural Anthropology

  Created: Friday, 02 May 2008 18:10 Author: Sybil Amber

  Social and anthropological thought dates back to the thirteenth century, according to Gerald Gaillard (2004: 85). He names, "The accounts and testimonies of G. de Ruysbroeck (1294 – 1381), J. de Lery (1534 – 1613), A. Thevet (1502 – 1590), J. Thev...

• A first account on Culture

  Anthro.Scapes - Theory and Methods

  Created: Sunday, 14 September 2008 17:31 Author: Sybil Amber

  Social and cultural anthropology in the humanities were seen in regard of four criteria, the first of which is the holistic aspect covering the entirety of culture. The totality of a given society and cultural systems were considered. A second aspect was ...

• Postmodern Anthropology - Positioning

  Anthro.Scapes - History of Social and Cultural Anthropology

  Created: Monday, 15 September 2008 17:52 Author: Sybil Amber

  "Strip away that meta-level, and what you get is postmodernism" (Erikson / Nielsen 2001: 140). ...

• About a history of people

  Anthro.Scapes - Theory and Methods

  Created: Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:29 Author: Sybil Amber

  Thomas H. Eriksen, a well known anthropologist, wrote basic anthropologic literature like Small Places, Large Issues (2001a), or A History of Anthropology (2001). This year s Eric Wolf Lecture meets him with „Rebuilding the ship at sea“, a lecture o...