What is a community? Most people have some idea of what they mean when they use the word, but actually it’s a lot like “culture”, it is an abstract concept without an absolute definition, and therefore gives rise to hot debates about what it means to say that people are part of a community. [...]
I find that most illustrations and other representations depicting the evolution of humankind depict the evolution of males by default. A Google image search of “evolution of man” turns up a plethora of illustrations depicting the evolution of exactly that, A MAN. Women, for some strange reason, are nowhere to be seen, though [...]
Instead of attempting to foster some sense of objectivity, an activist anthropologist goes into a project both embracing and confronting her own biases and political agenda. The practice of activist anthropology, according to Christopher Hale of the University of Texas at Austin,
“asks us to identify our deepest ethical-political convictions, and to let them drive [...]
While convalescing and experiencing the sordid experience of having new holes in my mouth, I decided to see if I could find any cross-cultural studies about the appearance and treatment of wisdom teeth in various parts of the world. I first got this idea while sitting in the chair perfectly awake with a drill [...]
Here’s an interesting article about gay vacation spots … I have seen in several places the statement that “gays and artists” are at the forefront of gentrification. This idea is interesting to me because I did a study in a LGBTQ* community in California to see how the arts were intertwined with [...]
According to Israeli ambassador Dan Gillerman:
“Hezbollah, Hamas, together with Syria and Iran comprise the world’s new and ominous axis of terror, an infamous club the entry to which is the blood of innocents and the terrorizing of the entire world.”
I find the use of the term “axis of terror” very interesting. More on the [...]
