exploring anthropology's view, several short videos

from Dr. Robert Borofsky at Center for Public Anthropology, March 24, 2020

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VIDEO PRESENTATIONS These videos are included in the Teaching and Learning Resources of Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology which is supported by the American Anthropological Association. They are freely available for instructors to use in their classes. Video Title                               Length Defining Anthropology - Lecture 1 12:52 Defining Anthropology - Lecture 2 7:02 Historical Trends - Lecture 1 10:33 Historical Trends - Lecture 2 11:23 Historical Trends - Lecture 3 10:54 Historical Trends - Lecture 4 10:26 Political Economy - Lecture 1 9:42 Political Economy - Lecture 2 12:35 Political Economy - Lecture 3 8:48 Political Economy - Lecture 4 8:35 Political Economy - Lecture 5 9:44 Political Economy - Lecture 6 10:24 Ethics - Lecture 1 13:26 Ethics - Lecture 2 16:57 Informants - Lecture 1 18:20 Informants - Lecture 2 15:19 Religion - Lecture 1 15:20 Religion - Lecture 2 14:45 Religion - Lecture 3 12:14 Social Organization - Lecture 1 9:51 Social Organization - Lecture 2 9:33 Social Organization - Lecture 3 11:32   All rights to these videos are reserved by Dr. Robert Borofsky. The videos are not creative commons licensed and may not be copied, edited, or included in other works without his written permission.

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45 years of fieldwork --documenting Japanese rural life in Kyushu since the 1970s

This newly released documentary will interest students of ethnography, not just those keen on life in Japan.

It is the first edition looking back at Joy Hendry's 45 years of anthropology field work in rural Japan (near Fukuoka), recorded during her fall 2019 return there in this documentary (later this year an enhanced version will be released, she sasys); about 45 minutes in length, Here is part of her email message on March 15, 2020 to the East Asia Anthropology listserv, forwarded with her permission. The idea of fieldwork scholars making a recap of their projects and career this way in visual form sets a good example to follow.

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...how we did anthropology in those days, and how things in rural Japan have changed, a film my son made last year when I went to return some family trees and a village chart to the people I worked with in 1975 will give you an idea. The film still has a few glitches, but might be interesting, especially as many of us are virtually housebound at present. https://youtu.be/x7qptoXqnhE "Understanding Japanese Culture - 45 years researching a village in rural Japan"

the 100 languages as of 2020

Something like 100 languages have written form to go with them. The other 6800 that remain on Earth are spoken-only.

This visual represenation of the biggest number of language speakers includes some explanation and discussion.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/100-most-spoken-languages/

Seeing the reverse - least number of speakers - in visual form wold be good, too!

One of the easily overlooked features of the (English language) Wikipedia is the sidebar at lower left in which a given topic is shown with hotlinks to all the other language-versions of Wikipedia, when that topic is also available there. Some subjects have lots of corresponding articles; others have few. In some cases the biggest number of Wikipedia articles (found in English, Dutch, German) provide outline and some content for the other languages. But in other cases the article is composed from scratch, using supporting documents of that other language, with little or no reference to the English or another source article.