May 21, 2008
Introducing Native Anthropologist
My name is Olumide Abimbola. I am a Nigerian PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany. I have an MA in Development Studies from the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.
My research is on informal transborder trade in used clothing between the Republic of Bénin and Nigeria. Theoretically, I am interested in the Sociology of Association or Actor-Network Theory. I am also interested in New Institutional Economics and the ways institutions affect trade and economic behavior. There are of course others that I cannot think of at the moment. I will write about them as they arise.
I have just created a new blog - Native Anthropologist - here on Anthroblogs.
The blog is going to be about general anthropological issues that I find interesting. At the moment I am on fieldwork in the used clothing market in Cotonou, around the border area between Benin and Nigeria, and at the retail markets in Lagos, Nigeria. Actually, I am typing this message at the market, in front of 'my' shop. So, I might end up talking about my fieldwork and research on the blog.
Yea, that is all for the moment. See you at www.anthroblogs.org/nativeanthropologist!
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March 22, 2008
Anthropology Journalism?
One of my latests interests is "Anthropology 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. [Please educate me with a comment.]
Why is it that we do not have any control over our news? For example, a big announcement was made today about the origins of hominid bipedalism dating to 6 rather than 3.5 million years ago. The research, conducted by Brian Richmond and William Jungers came out in the March 21 issue of Science. I wrote a light piece about it on my blog but why wasn't I able learn about this cool bit of anthropology on an anthropology feed? I did hear about it from a US News and World Report feed but I wish we had our own feed that rivaled theirs.
I have a project I have started with a group of anthro majors in my program at Fresno State called "Making Anthropology Public". Like AnthroBlogs, our blog is intended to make Anthropology real for the rest of the world.
As inductive analysts, Anthropologists have skills most others lack. My hope now is to get more people thinking about these issues for the betterment of our field.
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Greetings Everyone
I'm a new member to this community. I'm James Mullooly and I teach anthropology at Fresno State. I have a few blogs of my own at theanthrogeek.wordpress.com.
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