[Anthropgrad] AsiaRights Issue Eight out now

[Jennifer Badstuebner]

*Dear /Asia/Rights Readers,*

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**AsiaRights Issue Eight <http://rspas.anu.edu.au/asiarightsjournal/> ( 
*http://rspas.anu.edu.au/asiarightsjournal/ )

*We are pleased to announce the launch of Issue Eight of AsiaRights.
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*A Special Issue, drawing on papers presented during a workshop : New 
Media for Civil Society, held in Nepal this year.
*

New Media for Civil Society was a workshop convened by Asia Civic Rights 
Network and the AsiaRights Journal in Bhakatphur, Nepal in May / April 
of 2007. The workshop drew together academic researchers; NGO activists 
and media experts to examine how new media may be used to enhance 
effective communication by Asian groups committed to the promotion of 
human rights. The conference's objectives were twofold: to develop an 
exchange of information and resources which will provide practical 
guidance on effective media use for human rights NGOs in the region; and 
to generate deeper theoretical insights into the possibilities and 
limitations of the development of "online civil society".

I invite you to have a read of a collection of fascinating and thought 
provoking work, and please send this on to interested individuals and 
networks.

Yours sincerely,

 Jennifer Badstuebner

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*Executive Editor
AsiaRights Journal <http://rspas.anu.edu.au/asiarightsjournal/>
PAH Unit, RSPAS
Australian National University
Canberra**, Australia*
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> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:50:06 +1000
> From: Alan Rumsey <alan.rumsey at anu.edu.au>
> Subject: [Anthropgrad] Wednesday seminar reminder
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> Anthropology Seminar for August 8:
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> 'Skinship: On the Pragmatics of the Familial Kiss in Middle India'
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> By Chris Gregory, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU
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> 9.30-11.30 am,  Coombs Seminar Room A
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> Abstract:
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> Improper public displays of affection excite strong emotion in India as
> the recent case of Richard Gere's kiss on Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS
> awareness rally in New Delhi demonstrates. Touchability is just as
> important as untouchability in India but it is everywhere informed by
> regional differences in codes of familial respect and love. In this
> paper I present ethnographic data on the familial hand-to-chin kiss
> (thori cumto) used in face-to-face relations between people in Bastar
> District, Middle India and explore the implications of this case for a
> comparative understanding of the role of woman as sister, wife and
> grandmother more generally.
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> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:48:30 +1000
> From: "Natasha Fijn" <Natasha.Fijn at anu.edu.au>
> Subject: [Anthropgrad] Screening of Hangai Herds
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> VISUAL CULTURE FILM SCREENING
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> THURSDAY  9 AUGUST, AT 12.30 PM
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> OLD CANBERRA HOUSE THEATRETTE
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> all welcome, bring your lunch
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> Hangai Herds
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> Natasha Fijn,  90 minutes, 2007
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> Hangai Herds is a three-part observational documentary made by Natasha
> Fijn as an integral part of her PhD research on the influence of
> domesticated animals on Mongolian herding culture.  The film follows
> several generations of a family of nomadic herders over changing seasons
> in the remote mountains and valleys where their yaks, cattle, sheep and
> goats and horses graze.  The training and racing of horses is important
> as a symbol of pride and prestige.  The daily activities of milking and
> herding demonstrate how the people and their domesticated animals live
> in a tightly inter-woven existence, their lives inextricably linked from
> birth until death.
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