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We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming with excerpts from my research.

Man: The way you look at polygamy is the way we think when we look at your culture on television and see two women or two men getting married. It’s scandalous! We don’t understand!
Woman: We intellectual women fight for the liberation of women, but in our homes our husbands still try to maintain their authority. [...]

Posted 21 May 2009 † Caitlin § Burkina Faso § Ghana ‡ Comments (3) °

In less than six months, I will be back in West Africa, and it’s all I really think about these days. I feel another world away from Sapone right now. It’s practically a blizzard outside, my socks are soaking wet, and I’m listening to the piano soundtrack to Amelie. I just checked my email, and [...]

Posted 22 November 2007 † Caitlin § ‡ Comments (5) °

Cultural Relativism.

On Tuesday, I almost started to cry in class when we started talking about cultural relativity. A year ago, on June 21st, 2006, I made the following post to my old livejournal from the slow-as-hell internet cafe in Sapone:
The stars here are amazing. You can see so many. Last night, when it was still 30-some [...]

Posted 25 October 2007 † Caitlin § Gender ‡ Comments (4) °