Sometimes very simple, homespun blog entries give very fine portraits of people and places. Recent posts by a New Zealand man about his adopted home in Rural Thailand provide a good example. The blogger, who goes by MeMock, was traveling in Australia and New Zealand with his Thai wife and… Continue reading…
The village of Likir is nestled in the foothills of the Ladakh Range about 30 miles northwest of Leh, north of the Indus River and the main Leh to Kargil highway. The Lonely Planet guide to India (7th edition) describes the 150 monks in the magnificent Likir monastery as “friendly”—they… Continue reading…
A current article by Richard Sosis, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses the traditional culture and values of the Ifaluk Islanders. His article is to appear in an edited volume, though apparently that work is not far enough along in the publication… 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…
Hard News, an Indian monthly magazine, posted an interesting, in-depth story on its website last Friday about the culture and society of the Lepchas of Sikkim. It is printed in the August issue of the magazine. The author, Deepak Roy Delhi, a film-maker, provides an effective background for understanding the… Continue reading…
Hard News, an Indian monthly magazine, posted an interesting, in-depth story on its website last Friday about the culture and society of the Lepchas of Sikkim. It is printed in the August issue of the magazine. The author, Deepak Roy Delhi, a film-maker, provides an effective background for understanding the… Continue reading…
The Calcutta Telegraph reported last Friday that a Birhor village in Jharkhand State has been closely involved with a natural inventory project known as the People’s Bio-diversity Register (PBR). The PBR documents the natural and human ecology of villages in India. It includes the lifestyles of the people, their socio-economic… Continue reading…
An independent travel/ethnographic film about the culture and music of the displaced Nubians will be screened at a festival in Bahrain early next month. According to the February 6 – 12 issue of Gulf Weekly, the film, “Memories of Utopia,” will be shown at the Coral Beech Club on the… Continue reading…
An independent travel/ethnographic film about the culture and music of the displaced Nubians will be screened at a festival in Bahrain early next month. According to the February 6 – 12 issue of Gulf Weekly, the film, “Memories of Utopia,” will be shown at the Coral Beech Club on the… Continue reading…
When the government of Canada created the Nunavut Territory in 1999, the Inuit people, the majority of the inhabitants, hoped their new government would be based on their values. Inuit leaders at the time not only wanted their territory to have an Inuit character, they also expected it would not… Continue reading…
