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Anthropologists Write on Afghanistan
Tags: Afghanistan, Anthropology, Cold War, fieldwork, Islam, Media, occupation, production of knowledge, taliban, war
Added on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
The New York Times Sunday Book Review discusses the books of Noah Coburn and Thomas Barfield, two Boston University anthropologists who conducted fieldwork at Afghanistan: Ten years after the Taliban’s leaders fled their country in apparent…
Death in a Family
Tags: death, diet, fieldwork, Guatemala, health, nutrition
Added on Sunday, May 8th, 2011 to Fieldnotes sections.
I am living with a large extended family, an experience that has been both comforting (people are always everywhere) and lonely (what a social misfit I am living so far from my own strong kinship ties!). Seven siblings (now ages 50–35) inherited…
The End of Summer, Part 2
Tags: alcohol, alcoholism, contraception, fieldwork, Kallawaya healer, medicine men, reproductive illness, sexuality, Sobreparto
Added on Friday, October 1st, 2010 to Fieldnotes sections.
So, what have I learned about medical anthropology in Bolivia? A lot, although I’ve only begun scratching the surface of all these topics. For a med-anth dork like myself, this is a great situation- it seems like every day, some new…
Courting La Paz, Part 1
Tags: Bolivia, chronic bodily pain, fieldwork, indigenous medicine, La Paz, language training, medical anthropology
Added on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 to Fieldnotes sections.
When one arrives at a new fieldsite, the only things one can know with any certainty are the changes in one’s own experience. Lacunas of knowledge burst into one’s consciouness like the appearance of crystal-clear lakes dotting the ground…
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