Monthly Archives: September 2012

On the Struggle to Understand and then Communicate Gender Issues in Forests

I sit at my desk, piles of books on gender and forests surrounding me, more articles and books stored more tidily in my EndNotes files, even more scattered here and there, less tidily, on my computer.  I have spent the … Continue reading

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The Coming of Fall (and the US Presidential Election) 2012

Last week, I began noticing a few trees with leaves of red or gold, though the countryside still looked green.  But each day since, I have been paying special attention to the panorama as I drive here and there with … Continue reading

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Doing Ethnography in One’s Own Culture

A short article with the peculiar title of “Visibilization of the Anthropologies of the South” (Krotz 2012) reminded me of a minor controversy from my days in grad school at the University of Washington in the late 1960s.  We had  … Continue reading

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