Nelson Mandela worked hard to bring the World Cup to South Africa. But he didn’t attend the opening game, as was highly anticipated. Instead, he stayed at home mourning the death of his granddaughter, Zenani, who was killed by a car allegedly driven by a drunken driver on the eve of the opening game. Jets [...]
• The not-so-Human Terrain System The Huffington Post quotes Hugh Gusterson in a piece on the Human Terrain System: Gusterson says that the HTS is marketed as a way to build a more secure world, in fact it does the opposite in terms of supporting a “brutal war of occupation.” • Not just any dame [...]
• Spilling our Gulf The millions and millions of crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico will lead to “extreme human suffering as well as extreme property damage,” according to Gregory Button, professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Tennessee. He has done research on other oil-related disasters including the Exxon Valdez oil [...]
Jeffrey Cohen, associate professor of cultural anthropology at Ohio State University, is an expert on Mexican-U.S. migration. In an interview published in his university’s faculty and staff newspaper, he critiques Arizona’s new immigration law, SB1070. U.S.-Mexican border, by Flick user Nathan Gibbs, creative commons licensed. Cohen argues that such a law is unjust, inefficient and [...]
Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore, married for 40 years and an iconic couple of marital endurance against high odds, are quietly separating. I am sure that thousands of other people join me in wishing them both the best as they move on into new directions. While the media buzz about the separation, I [...]
• Wouldn’t it be nice… If their wife is “well paid,” 37 percent of men students surveyed by a campus newspaper at Yonsei University, Republic of Korea, said they are willing to be a househusband. Some 20 percent said they had no idea, and 43 percent said no. Kim Hyun-mi, professor of cultural anthropology at [...]
