“…we cannot study languages effectively apart from their cultural context… …linguistics is not so much a part of psychology, as most contemporary linguists believe, as part of anthropology, as Sapir believed (in fact, this could mean that psychology itself is part of anthropology…) Linguistics apart from anthropology and field research is like chemistry apart from [...]
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Linguistics
Culturally Informed
22 Jan 2010 at 13:36
by Adam
in Anthropology
tags: aid, anthropology, culture, haiti, NGOs, Politics, Society
“…collaborative, culturally-informed aid must replace the age-old top-down kind of aid.” From this anthro blog post on understanding the people you’re trying to help and helping them in ways that are best for them instead of imposing your own assumptions. Here is what poor Haitians define as elements of a good society: 1. relative economic [...]
Being The Other
I’m increasingly interested in feminism and cultural definitions of masculinity, and how prevailing ideas of masculinity (in American society in particular) serve to impoverish the experience of so many men. I didn’t have any good male role models growing up, and I have been realizing this and thinking about it for the past year or [...]
Some Mildly Related Things
I gave before I read this at Shakesville, as I’ve always liked Doctors Without Borders, but it made me feel even better about my choice: DWB was operating three medical centers in Haiti, providing some of the only accessible care in Port-au-Prince for poor pregnant women, new mothers, and infant children. All three of the [...]
Gifts
The idea for MAUSS was born in 1980. The project is said to have emerged from a conversation over lunch between a French sociologist, Alain Caillé, and a Swiss anthropologist, Gérald Berthoud. They had just sat through several days of an interdisciplinary conference on the subject of gifts, and after reviewing the papers, they came [...]
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