ON STANDS
all articles published in February, 2010
Spitting Image
Tags: DNA, genetic testing, spit party
Added on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 to Articles and Featured sections.
*This is a special feature from the third, Darwin themed print issue of Anthropology Now.* spitting image, spit’n’ image. Informal. exact likeness; … bef. 950; (v.) ME spitten, OE spittan; c. G (dial.) spitzen to spit; akin to OE spætan to…
the hardness of life and the laziness of some thinkers
Added on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 to Featured sections.
Still ranting about our naivete in the face of Haitian poverty. One of my good friends was telling me about a story she’d heard where a woman was being treated on the USS Comfort for two legs and an arm all of which needed to be amputated. Now…
Part 3: Eating Watermelon, Parsing Chaos
Tags: Palestine, U.S. news, Yasser Arafat
Added on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 to Fieldnotes sections.
Research takes perseverance and grit, but there is no denying that it comes with certain pleasures, too. In Palestinian society, research feeds both mind and body. Once, I was interviewing two young men who were in a hurry to go on an afternoon…
orphans???
Added on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 to Haiti Watch and Press Watch sections.
Where do I even begin to explain what I’m thinking and feeling about how children are appearing in the coverage, being responded to on the ground, and what’s actually happening to kids in Haiti? When I’m feeling sour (like right now) I think,…
Up close and personal, or maybe not
Added on Monday, February 1st, 2010 to Haiti Watch sections.
At the moment I’ m being a little dumbfounded at what strikes me as a generalized lack of interest in actual Haitians, and a huge interest in imaginary Haitians. The objectification thing. There are a ton of events going on here in Los Angeles,…
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