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Thursday, March 19, 2009

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It was recently recommended to me that I read a paper by a certain anthropologist, and having done so, I am now wondering about the mental s...
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Saturday, April 28, 2007

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My stint of work in the village has come to an end, and so I had to make arrangements to finally leave the place and head back to civilisati...
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Monday, April 23, 2007

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One social phenomenon that I am interested in, and which I have been researching in my village, is something called moral economy. This is a...
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The little shack I live in is just behind a colmadon, the mixture of shop and drinking hole that is a major piece of rural Dominican life. T...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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I have recently been re-reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, only this time in the original Spanish. I find it a particularly appropriate ...
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One of the constant threads of banter that I have with the villages is regarding the future of my DNA in the area. I am constantly being enc...
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

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In the last few weeks, there has been a movement towards village unity. Normally the village is fractured and divided, not necessarily becau...

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In every academic publication there is a little section at the front where people put their acknowledgements, making sure they thank their f...
Saturday, April 07, 2007

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On fieldwork, it seems that some incidents will happen that make perfect sense at the time, yet are completely impossible to explain in a lo...

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As you travel around the very tall and steep mountains where I live, you eventually come across the bizarre sight of a circular, perfectly f...

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The other day a English friend and I went out for meal, which was very tasty, but possibly the most politically incorrect lunch I have ever ...
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Monday, April 02, 2007

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I apologise for being a bit quiet recently, but I was on a little jolly to Cuba. Each year a bunch of geography students from my university ...