Wow...been a long time since I posted. I am hoping to get this blog hopping again in the next few weeks. Until then...

"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
-Margaret Mead

Sometimes...

I miss Indiana.... especially in the spring.

In Case You Missed It.

S. Ann Dunham's work published!!!

Almost 20 years after she completed her doctoral dissertation and 15 years after she prematurely passed away due to cancer, S Ann Dunham's dream to publish her life's work has finally been realized.

Due partly to the efforts of an esteemed group of economic and cultural anthropologists, who worked with her for more than 30 years, and in no small measure to the new-found fame of her children, Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng, her research in the remote villages of Java has found a growing audience that even she could not have imagined.

http://www.alternet.org/world/145253/ann_dunham27s_27surviving_against_the_odds27_published3A_the_dreams_of_obama27s_mother_come_to_light

Another reason to love Rachel Maddow

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Cool Video on Health Care

Hear Us

In 2008, political violence erupted throughout Zimbabwe as a result of the contested national elections. Zimbabwean women of all ages, targeted for their political affiliations, were abducted from their workplaces and homes, raped, tortured, and beaten in secret torture centers. It is estimated that from May to July, state-sanctioned groups raped over 2,000 women and girls. The local police have ignored these women's pleas for protection and justice, and national leaders have been equally unresponsive to local and international demands for an end to the violence.

Hear Us features four of these women, who have come forward to demand justice from the Zimbabwean government and the Southern African Development Community. Women like Memory and Abigail, who struggle daily with the physical and psychological scars of their abuse, tell their stories to uncover the enduring effects of this violence on the women of Zimbabwe and their families.

http://hub.witness.org/en/HearUs-ViolenceAgainstWomeninZimbabwe2