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Language Extinction
Tags: amazon, Anthropology, extinction, indigenous medicine, indigenous people, language, Media, zombies
Added on Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Cultural anthropologist Wade Davis has investigated zombies in Haiti, lived with tribes in the Amazon and Andes, and explored vanishing indigenous cultures from Borneo to east Africa. He has been the inspiration for three episodes of the television…
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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