::antropologi.info:: Anthropologists on Egypt Uprisings
Check out this compilation of what anthropologists have been saying about the Egypt uprisings on the anthropology blog ::antropologi.info:: “A wonderful development” – Anthropologists on the Egypt Uprising (updated) 02/02/11 by Lorenz A protester in Cairo’s Tahrir Square has a simple message for Mubarak. On February 1, demonstrators held a “Million-Man March” in the city, […]
::antropologi.info:: Social and Cultural Anthropology in the News
Check out this post about alternatives to our current dominant economic system on the anthropology blog ::antropologi.info:: ” Use Anthropology to Build a Human Economy Anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, economists and activists have come together and written a citizen guide for a human economy. In The Human Economy more than 30 authors from 15 countries show […]
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 Society for Anthropological Sciences and professor of Anthropology at Lawrence University) discuss the removal of the word ‘science’ from The American Anthropological […]
What Does Race Have to Do With It?
John Hartigan Jr., author of an article on race in the upcoming September issue of Anthropology Now, also writes a blog on race and for publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Statesman. Check out the links below to read his articles and for more about Prof. Hartigan’s research. Prof. Hartigan’s blog: […]
And remember the beauty
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, with their breezes that arrive from both sides of land, are cool, misty, piney, […]
Whose crisis is it anyway?
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, was that in Haiti, they’re not being helpful to […]
Mother, o Mother, where are you?
===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 College who has worked for many years in Haiti joins us as a Featured Special Report […]
3 Haitian Women’s Rights Leaders Dead
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 of staff of Haiti’s Ministry for Gender and the Rights of Women and continued to serve as a […]
Haitians, ever fastidious even in crisis
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 just about any picture or video from the earthquake aftermath and all the […]
ports, containers, shipping
*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 sometimes not. She will return to Haiti in May to assist with the relief […]