On the official day that DADT has been repealed, watch as this young soldier publicly comes out to his father. This video is brave, inspiring and powerful.
In Bangladesh malnutrition is particularly deadly. In fact, one third of Bengali child mortality is a result of severe malnutrition. In the Starved for Attention film, “Terrifying Normalcy,” Ron Haviv captures the resignation with which Bhola’s malnourished mothers and children accept a chronically meager food supply.
This is one of 195 million stories of malnutrition. Sign the petition to help us rewrite the story.
With our year-end fundraising efforts in full swing, we’re all working hard. Each day, we award a trophy to one staff member that achieves something superb. In true Robin Hood style, our first trophy demonstrates the teamwork between David Saltzman, Executive Director, and Lars Jahns, Senior Vice President, Advancement. It is now up to them to decide who gets the trophy next!
The island of Bhola at the mouth of the Meghna River in southern Bangladesh suffers from one of the country’s highest rates of severe acute malnutrition (SAM). In the Starved for Attention film, “Terrifying Normalcy,” Ron Haviv captures the resignation with which Bhola’s malnourished mothers and children accept a chronically meager food supply.
This is one of 195 million stories of malnutrition. Sign the petition to help us rewrite the story.
A Comedic & Educational Film Poking Fun At EthnographyI am now assigning Walter Wippersberg’s 1994 Film, Dunkles, Rätselhaftes Österreich - Dark, Mysterious Austria, to all my students! If you teach qualitative methods, consider including this in your syllabus.
Produced for Austria’s SBS-TV, this films poks fun at old-school ethnography from anthropologists and the National Geographic-esque like exposes on the exotic Africans and South American natives.
“A team of the All African Television network wanders into the darkest regions of the Eastern Alps. They observe the habits and rituals of the natives and make not one, but two ethnological major break-through discoveries.” IMDB
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“At 5:40, we learn that the team has disproved the theory that Europeans are monogamous; starting at about 7:50, they describe the elaborate costumes and militaristic symbolism of clans of the Tyrol region of Austria; and at 15:00, there’s a great discussion of the curious obsession with “patently useless activities,” such as biking for no other purpose than biking itself.
Aside from the humorous commentary, it’s a great way of illustrating the sociological imagination, which requires us to step out of our own culture and try to look at it through the eyes of an outsider — and, as C. Wright Mills put it, to recapture the ability to be astonished by what we normally take for granted.”
I don’t think i could ever visit the Alps of Austria without constantly thinking of this video.
UPDATE: Also check out Kitchen Stories, a Swedish film about an ethnographic study on kitchens. It’s a comedy. You can buy the DVD on amazon and watch 2 clips here. Thanks Leila Takayama for the tip!
Brilliant.
Here at Robin Hood we’ve kicked off year-end fundraising. But, that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun while we do it. We’re holding a contest to see who on staff has the most creative placement of the Robin Hood archer. It’s a little reminder that we’re all in this together to fight poverty in New York City.
Meet Dina.
Robin Hood: How long have you worked at Robin Hood?
Dina: 3 years
RH: What is your role at Robin Hood?
Dina: Associate Manager, Donor Engagement
RH: What do you think is the most important thing Robin Hood does for New York?
Dina: We act as a safety net for our neighbors in need. Without Robin Hood the fight against poverty just wouldn’t be a fair one.
RH: Robin Hood funds over 200 poverty-fighting programs in New York City. Tell us about a memorable site visit or experience you’ve had at one of them?
Dina: One of the projects I’m involved with here at Robin Hood is our Corporate Volunteer Program, where we take volunteers to one of our grantee sites for a day and have them help in a variety of ways. This summer, I took a group to Yorkville Common Pantry, which serves over 2 million meals per year. Along with the volunteers, I helped run their daily dinner service, where clients in need will come in, sit down, and have a full meal served to them, much like a restaurant. The best part was not only to see the clients’ faces when we told them they could take a seat and that we would be serving them, but to hear their stories and really be able to connect with the people we work so hard to support.
RH: What year-end projects or events are you excited about?
Dina: I love our holiday cards, and our Year-End Campaign is a great example of how the Robin Hood family comes together to get things done.
RH: Have you received any comments on your new ink?
Dina: Both my roommates want tattoos to wear at our Black Eyed Peas concert!
Great new hepatitis C awareness campaign from Harlem United! More images to be revealed over the coming weeks!
