Development

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

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

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. [...]

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

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 [...]

Cultural Relativism.

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

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 [...]