Robert Dentan, who has devoted his life to teaching and anthropological research, is publishing his third book in November. The Spectrum the University of Buffalo campus newspaper, has previewed Overwhelming Terror: Love, Fear, Peace, and Violence among the Semai of Malaysia, which will be published by Rowman & Littlefield on… Continue reading…
Some observers might assume that nothing exciting ever happens in a hog barn, but the regular, daily work of raising pigs is an important part of Hutterite life. At least it is with some Manitoba Hutterites at the Starlite Colony near Starbuck, Manitoba, just west of Winnipeg, which a couple… Continue reading…
Ewald Hauck Dinter, a 70-year old German priest, has been living for 22 years among the Mangyan people of Mindoro Island, learning their customs and even their spoken Buid language. During that time he has gained the trust of the people and become an advocate for opening up educational opportunities… Continue reading…
A Paliyan community in the Thekkady Forest of India’s Kerala State has gotten involved in a scheme to supply organic pepper to a new commercial venture. According to a news story last week, Natural Harvest (India) Pvt, Ltd, has organized the project. It employs 500 families from three different tribal… Continue reading…
Most peaceful peoples focus on raising their children to adopt their nonviolence, much as more violent societies emphasize the importance of teaching aggressiveness and the inevitability of warfare. Some of the small-scale, peaceful groups have problems, however, melding their traditional socialization strategies, which teach their youth to uphold proper moral… Continue reading…
Last fall, Lye Tuck-Po launched a new blog in which she sometimes reports recollections of her anthropological field work among the Batek. On Sunday this week she posted an interesting story about a week 12 years ago when she camped with a Batek band on a high ridge along the… Continue reading…
A conference about dams held in India’s Assam State last week featured a presentation by a Lepcha activist that described the successful campaign against hydropower projects in the Teesta Valley. The two day meeting in Guwahati, a major city in northeastern India, was sponsored by PANOS South Asia, part of… Continue reading…
Fipa girls between the years 1894 and 1920 gained good educations, as well as a Catholic upbringing, at the Karema Mission Station in what was then called Tanganyika. While the Karema Mission Station was located along the shore of Lake Tanganyika just to the north of traditional Fipa territory, many… Continue reading…
The intensity of local political elections in Rural Thailand can place immense stresses on Thai women, who have to maintain harmony within and between communities. In contrast to other authors, who see local Thai politics as primarily a male preserve, Katherine Bowie recognizes, in a recent journal article, the important… Continue reading…
Natar Ungalaaq, star of “Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner,” has the leading role in a new film premiered last week at the World Film Festival in Montreal. The new film by the Quebecois director Benoit Pilon, “Ce qu‘il faut pour vivre,” is about an Inuit man named Tivii (Ungalaaq) who, in… Continue reading…
