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‘Palestine’
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…
Part II: So Many Interviewees, How Shall I Choose?
Tags: Journalism, Media, Palestine, refugees, U.S. news
Added on Friday, October 30th, 2009 to Fieldnotes sections.
This summer I’m doing interviews with Palestinian journalists and refugees in which I ask them to interpret and critique U.S. news articles. Why, you might ask, did I choose journalists and refugees as my commentators? Why didn’t I try to…
Findings, Part 4: sample from Issue #2 of Anthropology Now
Tags: diversity, Education, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, race, silence, tourism
Added on Monday, October 26th, 2009 to Findings sections.
Findings is a new, regular column contribution appearing in the magazine, Anthropology Now. Each column highlight emerging anthropological research through a series of short reviews co-authored and co-edited by a diverse student collective from The…
Re-Starting A Conversation
Tags: Jean Rouch, Media, Palestine, second Intifada, shared anthropology, U.S. news
Added on Monday, September 7th, 2009 to Fieldnotes sections.
This summer, after two years away, I’m back in my old field site, far from the Massachusetts university where I’ve just completed my first year of teaching. On the ride from Tel Aviv airport to Jerusalem, I take an informal census of the…
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