Articles

• How scholars in the Middle East developed anthropology more than 1000 years ago

  26 April, by Lorenz — Us and Them, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, history
  Anthropology emerged in a relatively high scientific level in the wider Middle East before it existed as a discipline in the West. Therefore, the label of colonialism often coupled to its emergence must be removed. This is the main point of an article by Hassen Chaabani in the recent issue of (...)
  

• Now I am a truly engaged anthropologist!

  24 April, by Lorenz — internal notes
  I wanted to write this post long time ago. As you might have noticed, there haven’t been any new posts on this blog since the 24th of October last year. So what has happened? Well, at about the same time I wrote my last blog post, the most wonderful woman entered my life. Two months later we (...)