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Fey as Palin
Having previously posted something about White Privilege, something centering on Sarah Palin’s family’s particular privilege, a friend told me I just had to see Tina Fey’s dead-on Sarah Palin...
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Elephant-Rabbit Stew?
. During my last Anthro 104 lecture, someone asked, “how much pre-determined focus does an ethnographer enter the field with?” And, on the spot, I gave my “wide open” ethnographic approach telling...
View Article“Old School Anthro”& Debates about Hunter-Gatherers
For the next three weeks or so in our Intro Cultural class we’re doing what I like to refer to as “old school” anthro. I say “old school” because it reflects some theoretical paradigms that...
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N!ai
For anyone interested in learning about N!ai, the film made about her life, and the San !Kung people that we watched in class, the Documentary Educational Resources has a study guide available at...
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The Legacy of Altamira (re: “Kayapo: Out of the Forest”)
In my on-going effort to give more background on some of the films and readings we’re doing for class, I thought I’d post up a link to an article that relates to “Kayapo: Out of the Forest”, a film...
View ArticleAmerican Ethos/American Ethnocentrism
I happened to be reading something from the BBC on-line today, entitled “Why rednecks may rule the world”, while at the same moment that I was listening to the radio and hearing a short...
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More About the Kayapó
(In discussing tribes and chiefdom societies, we’ve looked at the Kayapo as an example. Here’s more information about the Kayapó from Sociedade Internacional de Lingüística, SIL Brasil) The Kayapó are...
View ArticleGender and Cosmo
Ann Stewart writes with a link that reflects on some of the discussion in her sections in the past week: For those of you who got a dose of looking at Cosmo as a how-to book for successfully performing...
View Articlelater “BabaKiueria” reflections
A few weeks ago, we watched a short film, Babakiueria, made by indigenous Aboriginal Australians that both parodied ethnographic participant observation methods and reversed the racial...
View ArticleLiberation Theology and the Partners in Health approach
In lecture today (Dec 3), I very briefly talked about how ideas from Liberation Theology influenced Paul Farmer & co. As I was raised Roman Catholic in New Hampshire and in the greater Boston...
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