An Anthropologist among the Todas

Popular Development Economics—An Anthropologist among the Mandarins

I n 1997, I found myself newly arrived at Oxford University. I was taking a detour from my path to do research in West Africa thanks to a fellowship that funded a year of ancillary training before my fieldwork. Though studying anthropology, I was at St. Antony’s College, where Paul Collier’s Center for the Study of African Economies is located, and was in the same entering cohort as Collier’s n...

An Anthropologist Considers the Single Noongar Judgment

1 end of October. But other media outlets which pride themselves on their commitment to the serious discussion of indigenous issues, such as The Australian and the ABC, have presented a succession of laudatory commentaries on the judgment without examining whether Noongar people really had a sound basis for their native title claim. As an anthropologist who gave evidence in the Single Noongar c...

The Responsibility of the Anthropologist.

A Microbial Anthropologist in the Jungle

Fieldwork Finally, we approach the port after days sitting on the narrowbench of the canoe, watchingwalls of vegetation bending over the rivers that zigzag the jungle, guarded by taller trees behind, with their skirt of shade. The scene is similarly beautifully dynamic under the changing light of the day, in the jungles of Venezuela or Peru. We recognize the canoe port, and the trail leading up...

an examination of developmental dyslexia among iranian efl second graders

چکیده رساله/پایان نامه: این تحقیق جهت بررسی تاثیر نارسا خوانی در یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجه در میان دانش اموزان ایرانی مقطع دوم راهنمایی طراحی شده است. ده نفر از دانش اموزان ایرانی مقطع دوم راهنمایی و ده نفر از دانش اموزان غیر نارسا خوان همان مقطع برای انجام این تحقیق انتخاب شدند. تمام شرکت کنندگان توسط ازمون زبان انگلیسی ای که برای این هدف ساخته شده و متشکل از بخشهای خواندن ام...