feldnotizen (notes'n records from the field - and beyond)

Norient, Soudscapes Project

pachulke2 — 2008-01-25T09:27:00Z

norient focuses on independent musicians and music scenes all over the world. As an international platform it aims to understand and show the many and often contradictory faces of cultural globalization through articles about music, urbanism, localisation and globalisation processes, written by authors from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the US. norient also produces and co-produces larger and smaller projects and events.

Non-fiction

pachulke2 — 2007-11-02T10:54:00Z

Being a convinced atheist I am still sympathizing with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And I am watching every progress towards their full acknowledgement with joy. Check their blog to see the latest progresses they make. I just read there that their book of gospels was filed in Toronto library under non-fiction. Cool!

"Collect, manage, and cite your research sources"

pachulke2 — 2007-10-10T12:33:00Z

Willem pointed me to a tiny browser embedded tool named Zotero.
To the online Tutorial. Word processor plug-in.

'Zotero, a break-through project out of George Mason University, promises to make digital metadata much more a part of the daily lives of scholars. Zotero is a free, open source, citation tool that plugs into the Firefox browser. It scans every webpage you view, ranging from weblog posts to articles in JSTOR, and looks for metadata. It uses this metadata to automatically capture bibliographic reference information. That saves researchers a great deal of tedium and reduces annoying typographic errors in building up their reference databases.' Archaeologist Eric Kansa

'But speaking of peace, I have discovered the solution to world peace. It is called Zotero. This little Firefox plugin will streamline the management of research like never before. I have been looking for a tool like this for ages now, and it beats renaming PDF documents to somehow reflect the year, title and authors in one foul swoop. The ability to tag documents also takes away the limitations imposed by dropping said document into a single directory, where it should actually appear at three different spots in your research category hierarchy. I bet that the people who pushed so hard for multi-disciplinary research hardly took into account the impact of ordering references by mere mortals (i.e. post-graduate students).' Mass Mentality "

Network of concerned anthropologists

pachulke2 — 2007-10-01T08:17:00Z

Print out, subscribe, send off.

"The Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA) is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology"

WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Market For Africa

pachulke2 — 2007-06-27T18:53:00Z

"At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa that took place on Saturday, November 11, the WTO announced the creation of a new, much-improved form of slavery for the parts of Africa that have been hardest hit by the 500-year history of free trade there" [more].

Maybe you haven't heard about it, yet. See a video snippet of a similar speech here.

Another great idea is the recycling of McDonald's burgers and re-selling them to the third world [more].

See the full movie there.

Migration Audioarchiv

pachulke2 — 2007-05-15T10:00:00Z

Tolles Projekt, "erzählte Migrationsgeschichte".

Introducing: The book

pachulke2 — 2007-04-25T10:37:00Z

Interview with Anne Kirah, design anthropologist for Microsoft

pachulke2 — 2007-04-07T16:00:00Z

"Anne Kirah is senior design anthropologist at Microsofts MSN Customer Design Centre. In this interview, she talks on the importance of taking off your blinders and focusing on the real lives of real people. She discusses her work at Microsoft and her latest challenges" [read on].

Newspaper Articles on Anthropologists in Business Settings

pachulke2 — 2007-03-24T20:00:00Z

For those interested in the question of how and where anthropologists are hired in industry here come some articles (even though not recently published), check PCMagazine, Fastcompany, BusinessJournal, CNN.

Jan Chipchase Interview in Business Week

pachulke2 — 2007-03-19T22:35:00Z

"British interface designer and user anthropologist Jan Chipchase spent several months last year thinking about how the human race shares things. He's an exploratory human behavioral field researcher at the Nokia (NOK) Research Center based in Tokyo. Chipchase tries to help multidisciplinary researchers understand how the world will be in the future" [read on]

complain choirs everywhere!

pachulke2 — 2007-02-16T15:34:00Z

Interesting project from Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen from Finland. They establish sung complaints as new rhetorical means. Check their video documentations and their entire website.

"Yes, Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen do continue the project. So far they visited Birmingham, Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. But their limited capacity to fulfil the big need for complaints choirs worldwide have led them to open this web site and encourage people to form their own complaints choir. All they would like to ask is to be informed about upcoming choirs and that people send video documentation, photos, descriptions and comments to this web site. Thanks. Enjoy complaining!"

teaching the machine

pachulke2 — 2007-02-05T12:27:00Z

"This is truly an amazing example of the power of the web 2.0
technologies my video attempts to express. The best part is that it
has linked me with several academics doing similar research in Cultural
Studies, Media Studies, English, and several other disciplines who I
would likely have never met had I not posted the video."
by Michael Wesch, Ass't Prof Anthropology, Kansas State University

DDR-Bürger Reisen in Zeiten des Eisernen Vorhangs - Postkarten-Ausstellung in FF/M

pachulke2 — 2007-02-02T15:34:00Z

"Liebe Eltern!
Sind wieder in Losenez gelandet, jetzt mehr als doppelt so teuer (1,35 pro Pers., 1,20 Auto + 1,20 Zelt) u. übervoll. Das Kreuz vorn auf d. Karte ist "Korall", Euer damaliger Zeltplatz, Preis etwa 1,60 Lewa. Sonst alles beim alten, Wasser, Luft u. Sonne herrlich, FKK existiert auch noch. Waren fast eine Woche in Rumänien, wir wollten nicht weiterfahren, weil es so schön war. Haben sehr nette Bekanntschaften gemacht, Siebenbürgen aus Hermannstadt..."

"Unter dem Titel "'Hoffentlich hält sich die Bräune', Urlaubsgrüße von DDR-Touristen aus Bulgarien" präsentiert Keim seinen Schatz aus Pappe ab Sonntag in Frankfurt/Main. Tatsächlich ist diese Ausstellung viel mehr als nur ein skurriles Sammelsurium für DDR-Nostalgiker: ein kleines, aber treffendes Zeugnis der deutschen Geschichte - banal und berührend, witzig und wundersam zugleich" [SPON]

Folklore Europaea - Multimediadatenbank

pachulke2 — 2007-02-01T13:51:00Z

"Im Rahmen der europäischen Integration will "folklore europaea" über Nationalgrenzen hinweg Verbindungen, Wechselwirkungen und Unterschiede zwischen Kulturräumen kenntlich machen, Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen im kulturellen Erbe aufzeigen, Einblicke in die Konstruktion von Identitäten und Mentalitäten gewähren und aus der Dynamik von Festen, Bräuchen und Traditionen Rückschlüsse auf kulturelle Transformationsprozesse ermöglichen." zur Seite (im Aufbau)

Bundesweit erste Haltestelle für Tramper in Potsdam?

pachulke2 — 2007-01-27T14:05:00Z

"Die bundesweit erste Haltestelle für Rucksacktouristen könnte bald in Potsdam entstehen. Tramper sollen an einem verkehrsgünstig gelegenen Ort sicher einsteigen können. Andere europäische Länder hätten bereits gute Erfahrungen mit den Haltebuchten gemacht." [SPON], für Trampertips s. Hospitality Club, international