For any traveler, and especially for an anthropology student, a trip to India is the ultimate challenge: to cope with, appreciate, and hopefully enjoy a country notorious for its overwhelming population, extreme poverty, exhausting bureaucracy, and the promise of foodborne illness. We go hoping that the multitude of fascinating cultural and historical experiences will overshadow the difficulties, and that whatever happens—good or bad—will ultimately lend itself to a positive overall experience.
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Tracing the Secular Western Discourse on Sexuality, Modernity, and Secularism to an Unexpected Place
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Stories & Thoughts from Laos
This journey will take us across international borders, into villages and rivers, and to the front lines of Songkran’s aquatic battlefield; it will reminisce upon eruptions of song and dance, the smells of hotels, and the passionate cry of the rooster; it will juxtapose puppies, communism, and ghosts.
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The BKK Way
No side trips, no epiphanies, no love at first sight ... The funny, interesting, strange, and mundane nuances of Bangkokian culture.
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