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I'm becoming increasingly frightened by the violence in Thailand. It's not just that I'm losing my attachment to the image of "Siam Mueang Yim" (Thailand, land of smiles). Those of us who love and have worked in Thailand, and many ...
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I can't begin to say how wonderful it was to attend the AAS for the first time in many years. My duties to the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology kept me away from the AAS -- NAPA held ...
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I'll never forget when my dream of Israel died. I grew up in a family in which we were proud of Israel. We watched "Exodus" with joy. I could not understand Vanessa Redgrave claiming that Zionism was racism. And then ...
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I started to respond to today's post on a href="http://deathpower.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/ptsd-suicide-and-combat-deaths/"DeathPower/a, but it was too long to post on someone else's blog.br /br /DeathPower presents the heartrending statistics on the rates of suicide among Iraqi war vets. Great points and an ...
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A randomly generated pairing of a Family Circus cartoon and a quote from Neitsche. Strangely and absurdly amusing, especially if you grew up wondering why this inane cartoon has such a long run!div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8870654412432358620-6063074013193476622?l=waywardanthro.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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What were my conclusions?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8870654412432358620-8491198046074607615?l=waywardanthro.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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Creating clouds on wordle is a hoot. I did a couple on a recent paper I wrote on opium control and participatory development (think of the oxymoron!), but can't find them. C'est la vie.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8870654412432358620-6200980370365347702?l=waywardanthro.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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On May 20th, 2008, Kerim wrote about AAVE on the anthro group blog "Savage Minds."br /br /African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is something I teach frequently in anthropology classes, both Intro to Cultural Anthro and Anthropology of Communication. It’s a useful ...
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This is from a presentation I gave at the 2008 SfAA meetings for a session entitled "Methods Madness."br /br /Partnering Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Environmental Researchbr /Urban Environmentalism in the Calumet Region of Chicagobr /br /Urban Environmentalismbr /br /Local ...
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a href="http://manao.manoa.hawaii.edu/38/1/gillogly_dissertation.pdf"http://manao.manoa.hawaii.edu/38/1/gillogly_dissertation.pdf/abr /br /This is about strategies and tactics in a Lisu village in the face of radical changes in their agricultural economy, particularly the end of opium cultivation and the establishment of watershed/forest reserves on the territory they once ...
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The NYT of March 14, 2008, has this article about Ann Soetoro, now famous as the mother of presidential candidate Barack Obama.br /br /I meet Ann when we were both graduate students at the University of Hawaii. In the summer ...
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Look at these popular websites:br /br /a href="http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/"http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com//abr /br /a href="http://stuffwhitepeopledontlike.blogspot.com/"http://stuffwhitepeopledontlike.blogspot.com//abr /br /I first learned of these on an mp3 blog, The Music Slut. It's a place to hear the newest in alt-indie music.br /br /These "white people" web sites ...
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I'm not really blogging, so sorry to disappoint anyone. I mean, I'd like to, but I'm not one of those keep-up-the-news-every-week kind of people.br /br /Really, I want a spot to occasionally publish things I'm writing so that I can ...