Archive for Juni, 2006



Marshall Sahlins

Published on Montag, Juni 12th, 2006

Marshall Sahlins is considered one of the most influential anthropologists of present time (and my favourite!). He was born in 1930, he grew up in Chicago, studied at the University of Michigan and at Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. at the age of 24. Very much influenced by theories of Karl Polanyi and […]


Entre Coleccionistas Panini

Published on Freitag, Juni 9th, 2006

About three weeks ago I became infected as well … a virus very dangerous circulating around the globe as it seems … the virus causes the so-called „panini-syndrome“, highly connected with an event that is going to start within very few hours … El Mundial, die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft, the FIFA Soccer World Cup. Today „High Noon“ […]


Sherry Ortner

Published on Dienstag, Juni 6th, 2006

The Asociación de Antropólogos Ibero- americanos en Red – AIBR presents in its online magazine titled „Género, cuerpo y sexualidad. Cultura y ¿Naturaleza?“ (Gender, Body, and Sexuality. Culture and Nature?) various articles worth reading on the topic. (Older editions on different topics available also, unfortunately most is in Spanish.) Within this edition there is an […]