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‘Press Watch’
Written in a blog style, Press Watch links to and comments on anthropology in the news and anthropologists making news. This includes:
o Understanding current issues and events of the day through an anthropological perspective
o Running commentary on how anthropology shows up in media and pop culture
o Anthropologists cited or interviewed on topics of public concern
o How the discipline is–correctly or incorrectly–identified in describing a news event, culture, or location
o Short summaries with links and commentary on what the anthropological voice adds to these debates and discussions
o Links to other anthro-blogs around the web.
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,…
And remember the beauty
Added on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 to Press Watch sections.
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?
Added on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 to Haiti Watch and Press Watch sections.
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?
Added on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 to Press Watch sections.
===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…
3 Haitian Women’s Rights Leaders Dead
Added on Monday, January 25th, 2010 to Haiti Watch and Press Watch sections.
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
Added on Monday, January 25th, 2010 to Haiti Watch and Press Watch sections.
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
Added on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 to Haiti Watch and Press Watch sections.
*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
Tags: haiti, Partners in Health
Added on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 to Haiti Watch and Press Watch sections.
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
Tags: email, haiti
Added on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 to Haiti Watch and Press Watch sections.
===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…
Maps of Haiti
Added on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 to Haiti Watch and Press Watch sections.
Maps of Haiti – including links to newly updated maps: Haiti Earthquake Open Street…
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