culture
I worked on a project in Bulgaria that produced a number of short films about Roma. This taught me some lessons about the use of ethnographic films in education and advocacy. The project received funding from the EEA and Norwayn Grants.
My grape harvest this year makes me ponder how to get the message of climate change across. My vote goes to Montaigne and his incisive analyses of everyday life.
Misrepresentation of cultures, romanticizing old cultural traits, and presenting them as reality, and how this lead to stereotyping both at the level of cultural wholes and at the level of individuals.
On the changing views concerning the understanding, position and role of the individual in cultures.
The social anthropologist Fredrik Barth, born 1928, passed away in 2016. These are a few personal memories I have about and with him.
The role of death, burials, and cemeteries in culture. Elements of a cross-cultural analysis, with examples from India, Norway, and USA.
The woman performing is Olena Uutai, from the Sakha Republic in Russia. She calls herself an "ethnic musician". It can be also understood as a case of cultural appropriation.
International tourism has a an increasing downside to it, namely its impact on local cultures and environments. The case of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California is presented. I travelled there before the toursts arrived
This gadget is a collapsable, reusable, and portable drinking straw. It aims to reduce plastic waste. Is this a good example of sustainable resource and waste management?
There is a pattern to how elites, across time and space, relate to minorities. A fundamental principle of such institutionalized discrimination is to give preferential treatment to ones own.
