Thousands of miles away, it’s hard to figure out what’s really going on.

The Botswana High Court ruled on Friday 28 October that the government must allow Bushman Amogolang Segootsane and his family to return to their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

Worry brings an end to a person in Wood Building.

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 [...]

Why are resources that could be put toward saving lives instead being directed toward the protection of abandoned private property? Why do National Guardsmen have a mandate to shoot survivalist looters with the aim to kill? Why were 1,500 New Orleans police officers taken off of search-and-rescue duty to actively seek out looters?

Are we trying to connect, or are we trying to acquire?

A public library in Holland has been swamped with queries after unveiling plans to “lend out” living people, including homosexuals, drug addicts, asylum seekers, gipsies and the physically handicapped.

This morning, I forwarded this New York Times op-ed piece by David Brooks to the Anthro-L listserv. I was going to tear it apart, here, but Dustin Wax over at Savage Minds beat me to the chase, and did a far better job than I would have. One of the things I’ve wanted to do [...]

Crap science is eating your brain; I have needs, too.