Nine Characteristics that Condition the Current Haiti Crisis
Picture is from Jeanty Junior Augustin/Reuters In this post I try to make the situation in Haiti understandable by identifying nine critical historical and contemporary processes that condition the current crisis. 1. Class Schism 6. Urbanization 2. Rural/Urban Divide 7. Centralization 3. Internal Rotating Market System 8. Emigration 4. PoliticalRead More
Haiti Anthropology Brief: Cultural Materialist Cake of Culture
Here I provide a brief summary of the cultural materialist model with the graphic Cake of Culture. I do so because, a) The model is useful to those seeking to understand the social system in developing countries, and more specifically for those endeavoring to evaluate development interventions and understand why they work or don’t workRead More
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