A blog highlighting new research on culture and society
Ethnographic research conducted by anthropologist Kyrstin Mallon Andrews explores how climate change and economic inequity are impacting diver fishermen’s health in the Dominican Republic. As marine life moves further out into the deeper ocean waters, diver fishermen are experiencing higher rates of decompression illness as they rely on risky compressors to meet the high demand for their catch in the tourism sector.
Summer Sewell from The Guardian writes about the recent meeting between Black farmers and the U.S. House of Representatives agriculture committee to discuss long-standing racism and discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture and the industry at large.
Research conducted by Dr. Stuart Kirsch, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, looks at how three Pacific Island nations–the Marshall Islands, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands–have each contributed to the international climate change gatherings, agenda, and practices.
Latina farmworkers in southwestern Idaho experience isolation, fear of deportation, and stress compounded by gender disparities, according to new research in public health conducted by Drs. Lisa Melerotto, Rebecca L. Som Castellano, and Cynthia Curi at Boise State University.
A look at the ethnographic research conducted by Colorado State University Anthropology Professor, Dr. Katherine E. Browne, on the lengthy and costly recovery low-income communities faced along the Gulf Coast of the United States after Hurricane Katrina.