News Article about Dam Construction in Brazil

Despite successful attempts to block dam construction in the past, they continue with the project in Kayapo territory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16228680


Yet other areas have had more recent success.

http://www.internationalrivers.org/2012-3-29/judge-suspends-construction-license-controversial-teles-pires-dam-brazilian-amazon

Article: Family Planning in Rural Bangladesh

Article: The Kayapo Resistance

Article: Malawi Versus the World Bank

News Article: Citizenship for In Vitro Babies

Very interesting article about in vitro babies being denied citizenship because they do not have "biological links" to U.S. citizens. This speaks to issues of immigration and globalization.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-19/in-vitro-citizenship/53656616/1#.T2nnJeVznug.email

News Article: New Immigration Laws in the U.S.

South Carolina is one of several states that has recently passed very restrictive immigration laws.  They are being challenged in court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/when-states-put-out-the-unwelcome-mat.html?scp=4&sq=immigration%20laws%20in%20south%20carolina&st=cse

Article: Cell Phones, Sharing, and Social Status in an African Society

Article: How Sushi Went Global

Article: The Road to Refugee Resettlement

News Article: Eliminating Race from School Curriculum

Interesting article about what children supposedly should not learn about in school.  The article about white privilege certainly would not be allowed in Arizona.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/education/racial-lens-used-to-cull-curriculum-in-arizona.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=racial&st=cse&scp=4

Article: White Privilege

Article: Blood on the Steppes

Article: Mixed Blood

News Article: Measuring Class Inequalities

Interesting article that discusses how some of aspects of the class system are affecting India (traditionally a caste system) and also talks about measuring inequalities.  Note how the US has greater inequalities than most other industrialized nations.http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/the-great-gatsby-comes-to-india/?scp=5&sq=social%20inequalities&st=cse

News Article: Raising Genderless Children?

News stories about couples raising genderless children have popped up recently.  This is one example.  What are the pros and cons?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9028479/Couple-raise-child-as-gender-neutral-to-avoid-stereotyping.html

News Article about Gender Discrimination in Health Insurance Costs

This points to gender inequalities in the US in terms of economics and health.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/opinion/greenberger-health-premiums-gender-gap/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6

News Article about Rape Victim in Morocco

This is the article I mentioned in class when discussing the consequences of extremely male biased gender ideologies.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/15/a-rape-victim-s-suicide-proves-morocco-s-culture-of-silence-must-go.html

Article: Tired of Playing Monopoly

Article: The Beardache Tradition

Article: But What if it's a Girl?

Article: Arranging a Marriage in India

Article: Uterine Families and the Women's Community

Article: Polyandry: When Brothers Share a Wife

Article: The Hunters

Article: Kid Kustomers

Article: The Search for Sustainable Markets

News Article that Discusses Why Apple Products are Made Overseas

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?scp=10&sq=apple%20labor&st=cse

Poverty and Children in America

This is the short video clip I mentioned in class.  Even in America not everyone experiences the ideal ideology of childhood.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9695000/9695217.stm

Midwives Around the World

http://www.unfpa.org/sowmy/resources/docs/main_report/en_SOWMR_Full.pdf

Long document that discusses how midwives are utilized all over the world.

Article: Brazil: Moving Targets

Article: Gender and Ritual

Article: Our Babies, Ourselves

American Midwife in Haiti

http://www.theworld.org/2011/11/hard-lessons-for-american-midwife-volunteer-in-haiti/

This article discusses many dimensions of structural violence along the axis of gender.

Cholera hits Haiti after the earthquake

http://www.theworld.org/2012/01/tracking-down-haitis-first-cholera-case/

This article discusses the epidemiological approach to finding the origins of the cholera epidemic in Haiti.  Think about what Paul Farmer would say about the reasons this epidemic spread so rapidly and affected many people.

Article: On Suffering and Structural Violence

Article: Pocahontas Goes to the Clinic

Article: Why Susto?

MIsconceptions about Vodou

http://www.theworld.org/2010/01/haitis-vodou-religion/

Talks a little bit about vodou and how it has been re-imagined especially by Hollywood.

Rastafarians in Ethiopia

http://www.theworld.org/2011/11/rastafarian-ethiopia/

An article that comments on Rastafarian/Ethiopian relations in Ethiopia which seem similar to our article Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas.  This discusses their beliefs in a little more detail.

Article: Run for the Wall, An American Pilgrimage

Article: Baseball Magic

Article: Understanding Islam

English expressions in China

Check out how some pop culture phrases have made their way into Chinese vocabulary.http://www.theworld.org/2011/11/oh-my-lady-gaga-and-other-linguistic-exchanges/

Article: Kinds of Talk....tattoo

Article: Whose Speech is Better?

Article: Do You Speak American?

Interesting cross-cultural comparison of school lunches

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/what-school-lunches-look-like-in-20-countries-arou A cultural anthropologist would be very interested in looking at the different foods served to school children. Which one looks good to you?

Article: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS

Article: Before: The Sixties

Article: Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas by Gmelch