Anthro - TASC

Early 2000s

Shamus Khan, sociologist, St Paul’s alumni

St Pauls, an elite private boarding high school in New Hampshire

Khan returns as a teacher and to analyze the social dynamics and creation of the adolescent elite, how the next generation of elite is brought up

Participant observation, interviews

2006

Reena Patel, feminist geographer

Women working in India’s call centers (in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Ahmedabad)

Women who work the night shift in India’s call centers (to account for the western world’s needs), and how their role/public perception shift in response to globalization

Interviews

1980s

Phillipe Bourgeois, anthropologist

Nuyorican crack dealers in Harlem, NYC

Examining the life of Nuyorican drug dealers and how the internalization of the American Dream resulted in their destructive lifestyles.

How the restructuring of urban societies keeps those socially marginalized out of the system.

Impact of ethnicity and globalization in urban migrants and their identities

Participant observation, interviews

1990s

Lillian Goldin, anthropologist

Mayan people of Guatemala City

Korean textile factories and their harsh working conditions, poor pay, and cultural degradation of the mayan/guatemalan people

How the shift between two forms of labor affect the Mayan people’s perception towards work, societal structure, and beliefs.

Early 2000s

Seth Holmes, Physician & medical anthropologist

Triqui laborers working on migrant farms in the Skagit Valley or immigrating to the US for work

How migrant workers are treated and why they work for a place that keeps them there

How structural violence in the migrant labor community is normalized (symbolic violence)

• Exploring the stereotypes and prejudices that make up the transnational labor system

• Exploring the causes and effects of suffering/illness on the body

• The role of healthcare, social hierarchies, living/working conditions, and stereotypes affect marginalized people (structural violence)

Participant observation, interviews

1990s

James Watson

Hong Kong

How globalization affects cuisine cultures and the cultural landscape in Hong Kong (refutes the idea that globalization leads to only standardization & homogeneity, but rather hybridization/glocalization)

Interviews