Kerim Friedman is one of the most prolific and most consistently interesting bloggers in the anthropologosphere. In addition to his personal blog Keywords, Kerim is the founder and prime mover behind Savage Minds: the Internet’s best cultural anthropology blog. (He’s written a little over 40% of Savage Minds’ posts, to date, and despite the fact that Savage Minds [a group blog] is five weeks younger than the B-Log, Kerim’s written ten more posts there than I have here!) I’d like to highlight a recent post from both of those blogs.

On Savage Minds, Kerim has an excellent post on photography and ethnic representation, as manifested through the Edward Curtis photographs of Native Americans. You should read it. (And be sure to check out Nancy Leclerc’s response from earlier this morning!)

Earlier this week, in Keywords, Kerim made a request for help for a film that he and filmmaker Shashwati Talukdar plan to shoot this Winter in Chharanagar in Gujarat. Hooch and Hamlet in Chharanagar will document the political efforts of Budhan Theatre to fight for the rights of the Chhara de-notified tribe. Check out the documentary’s site, and, if you can, make a donation. Documentary film is one of the most promising ways of allowing a humanising voice of one people to reach a distant other, and it can be a fabulous tool for social awareness.

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