To view a clip* (3.9 MB) from ¿dónde estás?, a performance by the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble, click on the image above. (At this time, the clip may only be availiable to viewers with high-speed Internet access. A compressed/streaming version will appear here soon.) *Permission of Judy Dworin in collaboration with Marjorie Agosín; composers, Juan Brito … Read more
I. Translating “Passion” For me the question of home is bound up with a migrant memory and the way that poetry, even as it draws the shining threads of the imaginary through the crannies of everyday life, permits a dwelling at the edge of the world. I use that phrase “edge of the world” since … Read more
Poet’s note: These different pieces that I am enclosing for S&F Online both have to do with the question of what it might mean to live in a world without the fear of violation, whether the violation has to do with words that come of one’s mouth and flesh, or whether it has to do with the … Read more
In Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1989) Charles Taylor introduces the concept of identity as follows: …the question is often spontaneously phrased by people in the form: Who am I? But this can’t necessarily be answered by giving name and genealogy. What does answer this question for us is an … Read more
Judy Dworin Dance Ensemble Ruth Behar’s Website Interview with Mahnaz Afkhami from World Movement for Democracy Site Women’s Learning Partnership
Selected Works by Mahnaz Afkhami Afkhami, Mahnaz. Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women’s Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies. Bethesda, MD: Sisterhood is Global Institute, 1996. Afkhami, Mahnaz. Safe and Secure: Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls In Muslim Societies. Bethesda, MD: Sisterhood is Global Institute, 1998. Afkhami, Mahnaz. Women in Exile. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of … Read more
One of the twentieth century’s most salient characteristics is that of memory, nostalgia and a special longing for a homeland, real or imagined, desired or neglected. This passion for seeking a home can be translated as a human need to belong in the collective imagination of nations, languages and shared memories. And yet, it is … Read more
Well, I didn’t come of age in Samoa and I didn’t grow up in New Guinea. One of the things people tend not to be aware of is that Margaret Mead made all but one of her major field trips before World War II, before I was born. So we’re talking about someone who died … Read more
I’d like to take this occasion to offer a few observations on themes that tie the papers we have heard today and Mead’s work together, and both, in turn, to the practice of anthropology. Rather than comment directly on the papers, I want to try to tie them together and hopefully not be too redundant. … Read more
As many other speakers at today’s centenary have made perfectly clear, Margaret Mead, in all her controversy, common sense and commitment to an optimistic belief in the uses of scientific knowledge for social engineering, was a pre-eminent public intellectual of her day. Along with her friend and mentor, Ruth Benedict, she popularized the ideas of … Read more
