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Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away at last a little over a week ago, eleven months after his 100th birthday. In France, his death has been marked by all the mourning one would expect for a national legend, with the president and foreign minister offering up grief-filled tributes to a “visionary” and “humanist.” Here in the U.S., media reactions have been more muted: a faithful reflection of our general domestic indifference toward the intricacies of Gallic theory. (That the anthropologist shares his name with the most American...
Despite numerous expeditions to study peoples as foreign as the Nambikwara tribe of São Paulo or the policy apparatchik of Washington D.C., though, Lévi-Strauss himself remained consummately European. “Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it,” wrote Chateaubriand a century earlier, an author whose "Voyage en Italie" Lévi-Strauss had read and quoted...
...describe themselves as Yunus' adoptive grandmother and mother, respectively. However, the child's situation is not unique, and Normawati (who like many Indonesians goes by a single name) is not unused to it. Indeed, the campaigner for migrant-worker rights and her daughter are raising several children of half-foreign parentage who were abandoned by raped migrant mothers. There are dozens of children of similar backgrounds in Jakarta and its environs. (See pictures of migrant workers in the Gulf...
...lingering threat of bombers kept foreign buyers away this time, but Fashion Week still lifted Karachi's spirits. "People have cheered up all over the city, saying how cool and great this is" says Beyg. "I see it as therapy, therapy for a wounded city." And in six months, Fashion Week will be back in Karachi to try do it all over again...
...clear is that pressure for a solution is growing. After threatening to kill the hostages in threes until their comrades were returned, the pirates on the Alakrana removed a trio of hostages from the ship and brought them to shore on Nov. 6. Although the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the three have since been safely returned onboard, Andrew Mwangura, director of the East African Seafarers Assistance Program, which is involved in the negotiations, denies the claim. "The three are not on the ship," he says. (Read "How China Is Battling Its Pirate Problem...