Visual Ethnography

.... Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother . -Lin Yu-tang, Chinese writer, poet and Harvard scholar... ....her influence in our life is total... ....good shelter.. ..sincere service.. ...our mother is silent hero.. ...respect, kindness, humility, resourcefulness, forgiveness, charity and perseverance... Children and mothers never truly part - bound in the beating of each other's heart. - fromCharlotte Gray, a 1999 novel by Sebastian Faulks Source Picture: National Geographic.com

Day VI (15 Agustus 2008) - Cisentor Basecamp Slum Doom :)

True friend on the journey when leaving or returning to teach to the island of salt (Madura). Delivery group Madura Java crackers (Paguyuban Delivery Roti dan Krupuk Jawa Madura/PDRKJM). Gather some coffee in coffee shop Mrs.Laili (near the t-junction suramadu-bangkalan) at noon (consolidated delivery area) and evening (gathering to return home along via suramadu bridge). After a year of observation, they are not simply an introduction to crackers but the introductory information (social issues until the latest mobile type). They connecting Java-madura (suramadu) bridge apart. Crossing The Bridge of Suramadu Aim of The Opportunities of The Market This is my amatuer video with 2mp Camera's Nokia E51, towards Surabaya crossed Suramadu bridge at night. 

A number of important anthropological question were first posed in modern form during the European Enlightement: what defines the human species in the abstract, what distinguishes human from animals, and what the natural condition of humankind. Carolus Linnaeus with his contemporaries human as three kind of human (homo) Such as Homo sylvestris ('forest man'), Homo troglodytes ('cave man') and Homo nocturnus ('night man').  1. Homo Sylvestris 

  Having thus laid before you the general lines on which I propose to deal with problems relating to race and nationality, I propose now that we should make a lightning trip round the world and cull, as we go, samples which will illustrate the kind of friction which arises wherever races or nationalities come into close contact. As I have already said, every country can yield us material for our study, but none on such a vast experimental scale as the United States of North America; we shall therefore commence our hurried survey in that country. Within the frontiers of the States is massed a population of 110 millions. When we look closely we see that over ten millions of these inhabitants are marked off from the rest by a frontier, a colour line, as sharply defined and jealously guarded as the frontiers of a kingdom. Across that racial frontier all legitimate social traffic is barred, the custodians of the frontier being those who stand on the white side of the line. Any at...

  I now enter the third stage of my argument. In the first I cited and discussed the various forms in which racial and national feelings are manifested by various peoples abroad; in my second I dealt with the nature of the various national movements at home. We now set out in search of the root from which the flower of our complex modern civilization has sprung. In the world of to-day we see many peoples exhibiting every phase in the evolution of that organization which permits mankind to live in massed populations. Fortunately for us there yet survive, in outlandish parts of the earth, remnants of native races retaining the primitive organization which guided mankind through that great hinterland of time lying between the emergence from apedom and the dawn of the modern world. For the student of sociology the immense primitive first stage of man's history is by far the more important. In his _Voyage of the Beagle_, Darwin draws a picture of the Fuegians which gives us a real insi...

Camping out can be such a fun activity especially when it is done with the entire family or close friends. This is the activity where you can be fit and healthy, stress free and re-bonded with your loved ones. Camping can give you enough time to take off from all the stresses that you are getting at work and your daily routine. This is the time to enjoy Mother Nature and breathe in fresh air. Camping is where you can be carefree and still enjoy everything that is included in it. This is why a lot of people are having their own camping groups so that this activity can be done on a regular basis. But before you go out and take a hike, make sure that you have everything you need packed up in your bag. Missing a single detail in camping will definitely ruin your camping experience. The most important thing to bring along is your sleeping bag. Hiking sleeping bags can be one's temporary bedroom while out in the woods. This should be where one can comfortably sleep and stay protected a...