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
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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
…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
…People that I picked up in Whistler and Pemberton, BC in June:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2PL9E55EGc
…The American Anthropological Association is expanding its resources, services, and professional networks to anthropologists practicing outside academia. A key step toward achieving this goal is to conduct a survey aimed at understanding the careers of MA anthropologists.
Each year there are at least 1,000 anthropology Masters degrees granted in North America . Based on anecdotal information, we know that many MAs pursue careers at the types of companies associated with AnthroDesign(editors note, this is a yahoo newsgroup).…
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
…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!
…This is the first episode of the Ordinary People Project, Gord from Pemberton, BC. Thanks Good!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9pxLw4xJo
…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.…
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.…
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.…
I have been in Iraq as an anthropologist with a Human Terrain Team for a bit over two months now. The best description is that it’s like, well everything in life. I get excited about the work, I get discouraged. I feel like I am doing things that can have long term value and I wonder what the hell I’m doing in this screwed up place. I have learned that the backs of my ears may never be clean again, the ex-pat life agrees with me, I miss beer and sushi, and now I know what it feels like to take pictures of young men that die two days later.…
I saw this great idea at Grant McCrackens blog. It called a wordle, and are some of the words that are in this post on ethnography.com.
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