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08 December 2007
Social anthropologists often travel abroad to live in the communities they are studying. This can involve lengthy stays away from home, in areas often remote or culturally very different.
Sandi Toksvig meets Professor Joy Hendry and Professor Jeremy MacClancy, two anthropologists who have studied peoples in Mexico, Japan, Spain and Vanuatu.听 They explain how they plan and manage their trips, how they cope with being immersed in a foreign culture for significant periods of time and discuss their role within the communities they visit; are they observers or participants and do they form bonds with the people they meet?
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Christopher Deliso is an American travel writer, and a resident of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.听 Its ruler, Alexander the Great, once conquered a large part of the known world, but for centuries since then Macedonia has been invaded and threatened by its neighbours; is it now finally emerging with its distinct national identity intact and, considering its hidden and unspoilt delights, will tourism be its saviour?
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
Photo: Greek Antique theatre by听 in Macedonia (photographer: Wojtek Przybylski 漏)
This week鈥檚 guests:
is a Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University.听 She is the author several papers and books, mostly on the social anthropology of Japan.听 Professor Hendry is also Director of the听 at Oxford Brookes University. She has travelled and researched in Canada, the South Pacific and New Zealand.
Professor Hendry's research concerns the social anthropology of Japan, and over the years she has completed work on marriage, child-rearing, politeness behaviour and mathematics teaching in primary school.听 She lived in Kyushu the southernmost island and a tea growing area, very traditional and remote. There were no other westerners there when she first went and only a few now.听
On later trips she took her children.听 They went to Japanese school learned Japanese and made local friends.听 Once her son came home with a Japanese friend and said that if she was studying politeness in Japan she should also study rudeness, and had taped a lot of Japanese schoolyard insults for her.
An Introduction to Social Anthropology: Sharing Our Worlds
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 2Rev Ed edition (1 Feb 2008) ISBN-10: 0230005276
ISBN-13: 978-0230005273
Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous Peoples and Self Representation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10: 1403970718
ISBN-13: 978-1403970718
is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University.听 He is the editor Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines and the author of a book on the Basque culture entitled Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena. Jeremy did a four years residency on and off in Pamplona and Vanuatu, the former Anglo-French archipelago of the New Hebrides, in the western Pacific.听
He has also visited Nigeria, Ireland and London researching anthropological subjects.
Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226500128
ISBN-13: 978-0226500126
Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena
Publisher: James Currey Ltd
ISBN-10: 0852559895
ISBN-13: 978-0852559895
is originally from Massachusetts he went to Oxford University to study Byzantine History, a subject he became interested in after travelling in Greece and Turkey as young man.听 He become more concerned with the Balkans after the 2001 war and journeyed extensively in the region.听 He is now resident in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje.听
Jeremy writes on the Balkans for magazines and journals and writes for Lonely Planet.听 He is also the director of Balkanalysis.com an independent news and analysis groups on the Balkans today.
Hidden Macedonia: The Mystic Lakes of Ohrid and Prospa
Publisher: Haus Publishing Limited
ISBN-10: 1905791046
ISBN-13: 978-1905791040The 大象传媒 cannot be held responsible for
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