Volume 1 Number 3
Anthropology Now Issue 3 After Darwin Features •Darwin’s Ventriloquists by Jonathan Marks •Spitting Image by Gisli Palsson •Race Drugs by Jonathan Kahn •Soccer, Sex, and Scandal in Brazil by Don Kulick •Rights and Security: Contradictory or Complementary? by Daniel M. Goldstein •Making Old Histories New in the Peruvian Amazon by Shane Greene Departments Letters to […]
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 […]
Partners in Health – Stand with Haiti
Click here for the original Boston Globe article about Partners in Health accompanying this video. Check out Partners in Health’s website – http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti – for updated news and information on how you can support those affected by the recent earthquake. Partners in Health is co-founded by anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer. From their website, in their own […]
Texts from beneath the rubble
===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 […]
Paul Farmer on Haiti
Watch CBS News Videos Online A medical anthropologist and physician at Harvard University, Paul Farmer is also the Deputy U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti and a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH), a health organization that has worked in Haiti since 1987. For more information on PIH, click here. For more on Paul Farmer and […]
Maps of Haiti
Maps of Haiti, including links
Haitians in LA, Maxine Waters
Haitians in LA meet with Maxine Waters
Edupunk/Anthropunk: What?
Anthropological fieldwork has always been edupunk. Over a century ago, not content to sit in our armchairs and read about the world anymore, anthropology went out and found out.