Part Three of Three: New York City New York has long been a city of immigrants, and as a result of waves of immigration, language experts describe it as the most linguistically dense city on earth. Mark Turin travels to the Big Apple to track the many languages of New York. He…
Language Politics in South Africa Anthropologist and linguist Dr Mark Turin travels to South Africa to get to grips with the country's complex language politics and policies. Until the mid 1990s, there were just two official languages, English and Afrikaans, while other…
Linguistic Diversity and Language Endangerment in the Himalayas Returning my Thangmi Grammar book, witnessed by the BBC, Cokati, Nepal. Landlocked and mountainous Nepal is home to over 100 languages, many of which are now endangered. Languages spoken for generations may soon be extinct. Anthropologist…
Is Anthropology a Science? From The Brian Lehrer Show, December 14, 2010, anthropologists Hugh Gusterson (executive boardmember of the American Anthropological Association and professor of Anthropology at George Mason University) and Peter N. Peregrine (president of the…
Crises of Capitalism by an animated David Harvey From The New York Observer, Wall Street article by Max Abelson, “Today’s Must-See Animated Capitalist Takedown from RSA and David Harvey By Max Abelson June 29, 2010 | 6:24 p.m If you watch just one funny and handsome Marxist critique…
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…
Sneaking Across the Israeli Palestinian Border Avram Bornstein, anthropologist at John Jay college in New York City, discusses his fieldwork with Palestinian day-laborers, the experiencing of circumventing Israeli checkpoints at dawn, the concept of structural violence, and impossibility of…