1. What does it mean to speak of the economy as both local and global?  How are ideas about the local and global sufficient and insufficient to think of the contemporary world economy?  How do ideas about culture affect the economy?  Consider these questions in relation to - at minimum - Lisa Rofel’s Other Modernities, James Ferguson’s Expectations ( Read more... )

Hi, everyone. I'm a freshman from Sri Lanka planning to transfer to either a U.S or Canadian University and double major in Anthropology and Communications with a minor in either Economics or Political Science. I was born to be an anthropologist, and I can't imagine doing anything else with my life. I have a few problems to which I'd love to have ( Read more... )

NEW DELHI - A northern Indian state said Thursday it planned to use unemployed youths to sterilize monkeys to try to combat aggressive primates who have been raiding farms. The idea drew immediate condemnation from conservationists, who said the plan was unscientific and would likely worsen the problem ( Read more... )

The small clinic at Kaival Hospital matches infertile couples with local women, cares for the women during pregnancy and delivery, and counsels them afterward. Anand's surrogate mothers, pioneers in the growing field of outsourced pregnancies, have given birth to roughly 40 babies ( Read more... )

Under the "Teachers Think the World Needs More Education and Politicians Think the World Needs More Laws" file ...

Give a Laptop and Get One

Excerpt: While the notebook computer for schoolchildren in underdeveloped nations is just about ready for prime time, the goal of distributing tens of millions of the cute green-and-white machines still ( Read more... )

By Sanjoy Majumder BBC News, Delhi ( Read more... )

I can only imagine what would happen if Ponzi pyramid schemes were punishable by death in America.

Supreme People's Court President Xiao Yang told the audience at a criminal law conference in November: "It is necessary to use the death penalty in China to punish criminals who commit extremely serious crimes in order to safeguard state security, ( Read more... )

"There is no poverty in Guinea...you have to understand the level we're at in Guinea. The first problem is the people's cultural level. The people are used to living in a very different way, which you people think is poverty. In Guinea what we have are shortages."

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of Equatorial Guinea

Dead by 34: How Aids and starvation condemn Zimbabwe's women to early grave
This is the fate of women in Zimbabwe, where they now have the world's lowest life expectancy after 26 years of Mugabe

The reasons for this plunge are several. Zimbabwe has found itself at the nexus of an Aids pandemic, a food crisis and an economic meltdown that is ( Read more... )

Who saw this one coming a mile away?

In recent years, at least 10 of California's 39 gaming tribes, including many in Northern California, have kicked out members or denied them a share of casino profits that often exceed $50 million a year ( Read more... )