Anthropological Breakdowns, Cultural Descriptions & Explanations: ABCDE Posts
Being a budding anthropologist means a lot of things: an awareness of intersecting identities, an incredible network of culturally responsible colleagues, and maybe (if you're lucky) a shift in your lens to be a more understanding and compassionate global citizen.
[It's fantastic. Definitely take an anthropology class if you get the chance. Or maybe two classes, or three, or change your major and entire life path to anthropology.]
Studying anthropology also means watching social injustice and jumping in whenever you can, even at the risk of your own physical and mental health. It means not understanding (and coming to terms with not understanding) the life experiences of many people who have different identities than you. It's crying with marginalized groups as you begin to intellectually unravel the oppression they experience every day.
It's also cringing at politically incorrect and down-right wrong Facebook articles and the comments of individuals who purely lack a comprehensive understanding of the cultural phenomenon they feel obligated to share their narrow perspectives and opinions on.
I wanted to use my blog as a way of breaking down and explaining cultural occurrences in a way that is both entertaining and relatively accessible (both intellectually and actually, via Internet, easy to find), to allow more open discussion about views and perspectives that are often... too hard to figure out.
One issue with articles and papers produced by academia (graduate and professional research as well as college opinion newspapers included) is that the writing is not easy to understand, and is difficult to actually find. The groups that are in need of seeing the research - to find validity in their human experiences or to better educate themselves on a upcoming social problem - often can't reach the articles and papers they need to.
I want this blog to help bridge that gap, and utilizing ABCDE posts is how I hope to do that.
Please, please, please feel free to comment on any of my posts, but especially my ABCDE posts - for clarification, to call me out on a point you feel isn't strong enough, or to add to the post (in an academic sense or to add another voice).
Also, always feel free to message me to be a guest writer - I LIVE for collaboration.
Look out for my ABCDE posts moving forward!
Best til next,
Kel
[It's fantastic. Definitely take an anthropology class if you get the chance. Or maybe two classes, or three, or change your major and entire life path to anthropology.]
Studying anthropology also means watching social injustice and jumping in whenever you can, even at the risk of your own physical and mental health. It means not understanding (and coming to terms with not understanding) the life experiences of many people who have different identities than you. It's crying with marginalized groups as you begin to intellectually unravel the oppression they experience every day.
It's also cringing at politically incorrect and down-right wrong Facebook articles and the comments of individuals who purely lack a comprehensive understanding of the cultural phenomenon they feel obligated to share their narrow perspectives and opinions on.
I wanted to use my blog as a way of breaking down and explaining cultural occurrences in a way that is both entertaining and relatively accessible (both intellectually and actually, via Internet, easy to find), to allow more open discussion about views and perspectives that are often... too hard to figure out.
One issue with articles and papers produced by academia (graduate and professional research as well as college opinion newspapers included) is that the writing is not easy to understand, and is difficult to actually find. The groups that are in need of seeing the research - to find validity in their human experiences or to better educate themselves on a upcoming social problem - often can't reach the articles and papers they need to.
I want this blog to help bridge that gap, and utilizing ABCDE posts is how I hope to do that.
Please, please, please feel free to comment on any of my posts, but especially my ABCDE posts - for clarification, to call me out on a point you feel isn't strong enough, or to add to the post (in an academic sense or to add another voice).
Also, always feel free to message me to be a guest writer - I LIVE for collaboration.
Look out for my ABCDE posts moving forward!
Best til next,
Kel
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