• This may not work for everyone A New York Times article in the Sunday Valentine Day’s edition collates advice (heterosexistly) for men about how to “step up their game” including the possibility of hiring a “pick-up coach” for tips on how to flirt. One coach says that laughter is vital–”it says we’re on the [...]
If you still think that “all Haitians” are trapped in “voodoo worship” please read Laura Wagner’s description of her experiences in Haiti following the earthquake. Laura is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she has been in Haiti conducting research on human rights. Her report doesn’t [...]
What do cultural anthropologists know about love? To mark Valentine’s Day, a widely celebrated occasion in the United States, I did some research. Using the Anthropology Plus database available through my university library, and with love as my only search term, I came up with the following list of articles published by cultural anthropologists from [...]
The number of research proposals submitted by cultural anthropologists to the U.S. National Science Foundation has risen dramatically in the past few years according to Deborah Winslow in American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology News (Winslow is the cultural anthropology program officer at the NSF). Encouraged by the rising number of applications, Winslow comments, “I believe that [...]
The following is a message from David Vine, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University: You can immediately assist the Chagossians by signing the petition by Friday, February 12, to support the rights of the Chagossians and protect the environment in the Chagos Archipelago. Click here for the petition: http://www.marineeducationtrust.org/petition/protect-chagos The British Government is currently [...]
Guest post by Laura Wilson Some development and humanitarian aid experts now argue that focusing on masculinity and emasculation during a complex emergency, rather than on women and girls, may be more effective at preventing or reducing gender-based violence. On January 15th, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) held a panel discussion titled “The [...]
From the Anthropology in Action network: Call for participants in a panel on public anthropology for a world in Crisis. Sarah Pink (Loughborough University), Simone Abram (Leeds Metropolitan University) and Halvard Vike (University of Oslo) have proposed a panel on Public Anthropology for a World in Crisis for the EASA 2010 Conference in Maynooth, August [...]
They are both about Haiti. They are both worth reading. In my view, one is the best of op-eds and one is the worst. Please read them and say what you think and why. Op-ed #1: In the February 7 New York Times, Ben Fountain takes us to rural Haiti in 1999. After driving for [...]
• Son of an anthropologist, President Obama also a yuppie According to an article in the New Republic, one factor contributing to President Barack Obama’s inability to connect with the working class is that he comes from a family of professionals, including his mother who was a cultural anthropologist. So is the Bush family one [...]
In the late 1970s, Haiti’s rural population was 80 percent of the total population, while today it is 55 percent. This rapid shift has led to Haiti being “terribly out-of-balance” as Robert Maguire testified (PDF transcript) before the Subcommittee on International Development, Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and International Environmental Protection of the U.S. Senate Committee [...]
