anthropology

Breaking bubbles

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Living in DC describes a bubble of existence, where one can spend years living here and forget what the rest of American really is and almost neglect to consider what the rest of the world’s fate is. So filled with power, money, paradigms of either or thought, enveloped in a artificially defined square which comes … Read more

More on bacterial resistance

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I just read a passaged that describes how a human body can become the niche that will develop anti-bacterial resistants bacteria.  The book is Mountains beyond Mountains written by Tracy Kidder concerning the life and passion of Dr. Paul Farmer who set about to improve the Haitian condition using anthropology and modern medicine. I highly … Read more