Findings: Part 2 from Issue 3 of Anthropology Now
CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Akissi Britton, Risa Cromer, Chris Grove, Carwil James, Martha Lincoln, Michael Polson, Sophie Statzel, John Warner This column, a new regular contribution to Anthropology Now, will highlight emerging anthropological research that has the potential to reshape contemporary social and political debates. A series of short reviews will be coauthored and […]
Findings: Part 1 from Issue 3 of Anthropology Now
CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Akissi Britton, Risa Cromer, Chris Grove, Carwil James, Martha Lincoln, Michael Polson, Sophie Statzel, John Warner This column, a new regular contribution to Anthropology Now, will highlight emerging anthropological research that has the potential to reshape contemporary social and political debates. A series of short reviews will be coauthored and […]
Spitting Image
*This is a special feature from the third, Darwin themed print issue of Anthropology Now.* spitting image, spit’n’ image. Informal. exact likeness; … bef. 950; (v.) ME spitten, OE spittan; c. G (dial.) spitzen to spit; akin to OE spætan to spit, spætl spittle …. (Dictionary. com 2009). Last year, the California-based project 23andMe—a project […]
the hardness of life and the laziness of some thinkers
Still ranting about our naivete in the face of Haitian poverty. One of my good friends was telling me about a story she’d heard where a woman was being treated on the USS Comfort for two legs and an arm all of which needed to be amputated. Now that medical ethics have caught up at […]
Part III: Eating Watermelon, Parsing Chaos
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 excursion. Still, they presented me with soda and then coffee on a […]
orphans???
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, well, Haitians don’t have pets so unlike Katrina where we covered all […]
Up close and personal, or maybe not
At the moment I’ m being a little dumbfounded at what strikes me as a generalized lack of interest in actual Haitians, and a huge interest in imaginary Haitians. The objectification thing. There are a ton of events going on here in Los Angeles, each put on and designed for its particular micro-selection of the […]
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 […]