I feel a little lame posting so many links and so little original content, these days, but here’s yet another Katrina story of anthropological interest: WWL TV, New Orleans, runs an AP story expressing concern that Katrina may further damage the waning Louisiana Creoloe (Kreyol Lwiziyen) community. The story ends on a positive note, and [...]

I read Karen Nakamura’s Photoethnography.com regularly, but I haven’t mentioned any of her posts here, before, as our interests don’t often line up. However, her most recent posting is phenomenal and worth the click: Rant: Photography in New Orleans/Houston. Nakamura compares photography and the government response to American poverty in the 1930s to the cover-up [...]