And remember the beauty Even now, I’m sure, so much of Haiti is breathtakingly beautiful. There is something of an upside to the country not having had enough money or cachet to get utterly overdeveloped and paved over. The mountains up above Miragoane, for instance,…
Whose crisis is it anyway? At my daughter’s ballet class the other day, I got talking with one of the moms about Haiti. She was telling me about some people at her church, people who go often out of the country and do volunteering and stuff, and what she said, basically,…
Mother, o Mother, where are you? ===In response to the terrible devastation in Haiti, Anthropology Now is offering special coverage of events in Haiti. For the next few weeks, Press Watch will be a dedicated Haiti Watch. Elizabeth Chin, a professor of anthropology at Occidental…
Volume 1 Number 3 Anthropology Now Issue 3 After Darwin Features •Darwin's Ventriloquists by Jonathan Marks •Spitting Image by Gisli Palsson •Race Drugs by Jonathan Kahn •Soccer, Sex, and Scandal in Brazil by Don Kulick •Rights…
3 Haitian Women’s Rights Leaders Dead Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan, founders of three of Haiti’s most important women and girl’s advocacy groups, are confirmed dead in the aftermath of the recent Haiti earthquake. Myriam Merlet was until recently chief…
Haitians, ever fastidious even in crisis Have you noticed how incredibly clean everybody looks in the footage on Haiti? The only people who appear unkempt, on the whole, are the foreign reporters. Well that’s an exaggeration of course, but not much of one. Really — look closely at…
ports, containers, shipping *Elizabeth Chin is an anthropologist who has studied Haitian Folklore dance for over 20 years, both in the US and in Haiti. Currently a professor at Occidental College, she has been spending time in Haiti since 1993, sometimes doing fieldwork and…
Partners in Health – Stand with Haiti Click here for the original Boston Globe article about Partners in Health accompanying this video. Check out Partners in Health’s website – http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti – for updated news and information on how you can support…
Texts from beneath the rubble ===In response to the terrible devastation in Haiti, Anthropology Now is offering special coverage of events in Haiti. For the next few weeks, Press Watch will be a dedicated Haiti Watch. Elizabeth Chin, a professor of anthropology at Occidental…
Paul Farmer on Haiti Watch CBS News Videos Online A medical anthropologist and physician at Harvard University, Paul Farmer is also the Deputy U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti and a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH), a health organization that has worked in Haiti…
