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Education as Oppression: One Bedouin’s Perspective on Progress
To say that anthropologists have long been interested in pastoral nomads would be an understatement. As Rada and Neville Dyson-Hudson described the situation in their 1980 article in the Annual Review of Anthropology: “Pastoral nomads have had a persistent fascination for anthropologists,” a fascination that has to do with the “intriguing and difficult to unravel” […]
“Head-Decay-Shun”: Literacy, tool of the dependent and displaced?
July 9, 2008 by Maximilian Forte
Given the particularities of the way Jamaican creole English is pronounced, the word education often sounds like head-decay-shun. I once heard a Guyanese professor claim that this pronunciation, in this case, was more than just coincidental: it was a critical rejection of the formal school system by some Rastafarians in Jamaica, given what they saw […]
“I gots me a big new grant!”–Cha-Ching!
November 17, 2007 by Maximilian Forte
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I am thinking that the next time I get a research grant, I should get a baseball cap with a big gold dollar sign on it, and take the award letter, miniaturize it, gold plate it, and hang it from a big ass gold chain around my fat neck. Why not? I would only be […]
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October 31, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
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