Origins and Scope of Thick Ethnography
Within a historical context, ethnography attempts to be holistic in nature based in part on emic views. It is written, … Continue reading Origins and Scope of Thick Ethnography
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Global Warming: trends and consequences
Recently, health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a travel alert for Central, South America and the … Continue reading Global Warming: trends and consequences
Intricacies of Universal Health Care
What are some of the primary concerns of Universal Health and access to quality health care? Among researchers doing studies … Continue reading Intricacies of Universal Health Care
Expatriates: Dilemmas and Misconceptions
Those who have chosen to become permanent expatriates at some time or another experience a very disturbing and confusing dilemma. … Continue reading Expatriates: Dilemmas and Misconceptions
Affirmative Action in Brazil: is it necessary?
Recently, I came across an article in Lasa Forum Spring 2013 edition in which Edward Telles and Marcelo Paixão assessed … Continue reading Affirmative Action in Brazil: is it necessary?
Indispensability of Medical Anthropology
Medical anthropology, although considered a subcategory in anthropology, has been making contributions to medicine and public health since the development … Continue reading Indispensability of Medical Anthropology
Tristes Tropiques: Revisited
When I first encountered Lévi-Strauss in graduate school, I thought the title of his monumental work sounded strange. At that … Continue reading Tristes Tropiques: Revisited
Universality of Truth
Now this is an article that is going to upset a lot of people but at the same time it will cause a lot of people to reflect on something that we so easily take for granted.
Self-imposed Discrimination in Brazil
When I arrived in Brazil seven years ago as an American anthropologist seeking to discover if Brazil would be a … Continue reading Self-imposed Discrimination in Brazil
Long-term Ethnographic Immersion
In the years I have been doing ethnographic research, I have found that some ethnographers have a tendency to avoid researching issues that involve deep immersion.
Transforming Refugees
The point of this article is not to argue that bio-medicine has become a mechanism for establishing political or … Continue reading Transforming Refugees
Traditional Family Values in Urbanized Societies
This article presents a brief discussion about the importance of traditional cultural and family values in urbanized, industrialized societies. In … Continue reading Traditional Family Values in Urbanized Societies
Unemployment & Poverty in Brazil
Although there is considerable literature on conditions of unemployment and poverty in many modernized countries, there is a penuriously small … Continue reading Unemployment & Poverty in Brazil
The Art of Capoeira
There are many holidays celebrated in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. And on almost every occasion, you can see … Continue reading The Art of Capoeira
Documentary Series
Some of you may be interested in knowing that Perspectives in Anthropology will be featuring a series of online anthropology … Continue reading Documentary Series
Revolta dos Búzios – 1798
This review is organized as a history of the diverse elements of scholarship by which the field of African Diaspora … Continue reading Revolta dos Búzios – 1798
Ethnography: The Stranger Effect and Gift Giving
Anyone who has conducted ethnographic research understands the importance of the participant-observer methodology.
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The Right to Vote: Should it be a freedom or an obligation?
This year heralds two important political elections in both the United States and Brazil. Both countries pride themselves on conducting elections according to the democratic political process. But in hindsight, just what is the significance of the right to vote in a political election? Continue reading “The Right to Vote: Should it be a freedom or an obligation?”
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