httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwNhvhuLNuA
…Category: Blogs by Mark
I like celebrities that turn out to be, well… normal.
Jodi Foster is one. She seems normal because she aggressively stays out of the public eye. This is interesting given that Howards Huges self-imposed isolation was seen as anything but normal. On the other hand, that seems to have been borne out. Lately I have been reading the blog WWdN: In Exile. This is the blog of Will Wheaton, most well known to people as the character Wesley Crusher on the television program “Star Trek, The Next Generation” and also, like many, I came to wish the same fate on the character Crusher as many Star Wars fans wished in the character JarJar Binx. …
Robert Thomas: First Nations Carver and Dancer. Ordinary People Project
I met Robert (and his mother Florence from the previous episode) at the Lil’wat Pow-Wow in Mount Currie, BC. We talk about Carving and Dancing here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghO_y4Hkgws
…Ordinary People Project – Florence, First nations Singer, Drummer and Dancer
Interview with Florence Thomas, a First Nations singer, drummer and dancer, during the Lil’wat pow-wow in June of 2009.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XmB_VhT9Ps
…Random Hitchhikers, Episode 4 of The Ordinary People Project
People that I picked up in Whistler and Pemberton, BC in June:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2PL9E55EGc
…Episode Three of the Ordinary People Project: Cara from Pemberton
This is Episode Three of the Ordinary people project. You can see the previous episodes here and join the OPP group on Facebook.
Introducing Cara
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qy_a_EaUw0
…Ordinary People Project – Episode Two: Dave in Pemberton
Dave is a fellow I met in a local bar in Pemberton, BC and agreed to be my first interview, its just took some time to get it together!
…The Ordinary People Project – Episode One: Gord in Pemberton
This is the first episode of the Ordinary People Project, Gord from Pemberton, BC. Thanks Good!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9pxLw4xJo
…The Ordinary People Project
I am taking a few months off to drive to Alaska and have conversations with the random people that I meet along the way. I’m calling it The Ordinary People Project because the primary part of the fun is turning the idea of celebrity on its head. After doing a short conversation with someone, I take a celebrity headshot style photo of that person and they autograph it to send them to the celebrity of their choice.…
Part 2: As folks head into the AAA, a few thoughts about anthropology in the military
I used to listen to right wing radio like Rush Limbaugh from time to time or the yahoo’s on FOX news and be amazed that people actually listened to that crap as if they were credible new sources. I feel the same sometimes about my continuing engagement in the rants (others and my own… I am certainly not off the hook) about anthropologists in the military and HTS as the focal point for that conversation.…
As folks head into the AAA, a few thoughts about anthropology in the military –Part 1
Yes, I know. I rant about the AAA and yet I still download the PDF of the conference program. I wonder why we all do things like that? It’s not like I’m looking to change the stance of the AAA or the stance of people that get hysterical over anthropologists working in the military or intel communities. To me, those are all done deals, my mind is not going to change (at least not by the arguments presented so far) and I am not going to change someone else’s.…
A view from 2 months in Iraq with a Human Terrain Team
