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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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Tagged conceptual framework, culture, economics, forest, gender, values
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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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Tagged election, fall, medicare, Obama, opportunity, pregnancy, rape, Romney, social security, USA
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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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Tagged Abt Associates, anthropology, assumption, contract research, National Institute of Education, Quilcene, social structure, Washington, women
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Our Tar Paper Shack
When I was a little girl, we lived in Bloomington, Indiana, where my parents were both enrolled in Graduate School at Indiana University. We lived in a trailer, in a trailer park peopled primarily by poor and relatively uneducated workers … Continue reading
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Tagged 1954, American values, manhood, personal worth, Peter Pan, poverty, Tinker Bell
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On Familial Obligation in America
Parker Shipton wrote a book entitled The Nature of Entrustment, which deals with the action implications of trust (“entrustment”) and of intergenerational and intra-familial obligation, among other things. Although his book, which I’m only halfway through, focuses on western Kenya, … Continue reading
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Tagged allocation, ancestor, division, father, grandfather, grandmother, inheritance, mother, obligation, rights, Shipton
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Women’s Reproductive Desires (and Rights)
I remain perplexed—by global (but particularly American) resistance to addressing population and family planning issues. It is my impression that every woman I’ve ever met—certainly every woman I’ve ever discussed population and family planning issues with (which is quite a … Continue reading
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Tagged children, consumption, fertility, health, indigenous, population, self-actualization
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Shifting Cultivation, Gender and REDD+
‘Shifting Cultivation, Gender and REDD+’* is the name of a meeting I attended yesterday at the office of a USAID contractor in Washington, DC. It was a refreshing combination of GIS and remote sensing experts on the one hand, and … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, CARPE, forest, gender, human rights, REDD+, shifting cultivation, STEWARD, swidden
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The Quarterback of Chaos
I have just left the home of my aging mother, after a one month stay, and—after hearing of my day last Thursday—my husband lovingly referred to her as the “Quarterback of Chaos”. The ‘quarterback’ moniker dates back to a comment … Continue reading
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What ‘Eldercare’ Really Means
Moments of utter boredom as I wait for my pseudo-stepfather’s foot to make it—ever so slowly—from the side of his chair, past the table leg, to a position under the table; or walk at a snail’s pace, up the driveway … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, caretaker, eldercare, emotion
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On Professional Life, with Special Reference to Mothers
Anne-Marie Slaughter recently wrote a long article in the The Atlantic, entitled ‘Why Women Still Can’t have it All’. It describes the difficult dilemmas and decisions that professional women (and men) have, trying to combine their responsibilities to their jobs … Continue reading
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Tagged children, gender, mother, Obama, parent, profession, Slaughter, work, work-life balance
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