DRAFT video, 10 November 2011
Marty Otañez, Producer and Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Colorado, Denver. Created in collaboration with with the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. Funds Provided by the Center for Faculty Development, University of Colorado, Denver.
A project of ACTbr (Allanca de Controle do Tabagismo) 18 minutes, 2008. DVD cover (pdf)
Turning Their Lives to Ashes – the story of worker exploitation in the bidi industry in India. Produced by the Voluntary Health Association of India, 2009.
Voces Desde El Surco (Tobacco, Voices From The Fields) is a video created by Wara Alderete about tobacco farming in Jujuy, Argentina, 2005.
Video created by Wara Alderete about perspectives of youth about smoking in Jujuy, Argentina, 2005.
The storyteller details an early memory of tobacco use and how she draws personal strength from her Native American background. The video was produced in a three-day workshop held at Denver-based Sisters of Color United for Education in March 2011.
The video was produced for the research project “Tobacco control and digital storytelling: Collaborative videography with Latino adults to promote health equity among Colorado Latinos” (#09-0099). The purpose of the project is to equip Latino adults with media literacy and video production skills for creating their own digital stories based on health narratives aimed at increasing the leadership capacity of Latino adults.
Funds for the project provided by the UC Denver Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, and the Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute at the University of Colorado.
Krystle Alirez, Monica Fullmer and Hannah Nichols- 2010-11 UROP/CCTSI Award Recipients and Co-Principal Investigators.
Digital story about a father’s smoking habit and his son’s reflection on how tobacco use threatens health and family. The video was produced in a three-day workshop held at Denver-based Sisters of Color United for Education in March 2011.
The video was produced for the research project “Tobacco control and digital storytelling: Collaborative videography with Latino adults to promote health equity among Colorado Latinos” (#09-0099). The purpose of the project is to equip Latino adults with media literacy and video production skills for creating their own digital stories based on health narratives aimed at increasing the leadership capacity of Latino adults.
Funds for the project provided by the UC Denver Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, and the Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute at the University of Colorado.
Krystle Alirez, Monica Fullmer and Hannah Nichols- 2010-11 UROP/CCTSI Award Recipients and Co-Principal Investigators.
Below is a list of students and their blogs created for an assignment in the course “Culture of Development and Globalization,” Anthropology Department, University of Colorado, Denver, fall 2011. At the end of this post are the instructions for the blog assignment. (photo above: spices at market in Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 2011, Marty Otañez)
Instructions: Blog Assignment (15 points)
Students will create a blog and upload three blog entries (each entry is worth five points), with each entry being 500 words minimum about one theory, method and/or anthropological problem raised in course readings. This requirement will increase students’ awareness on anthropology’s role in development and globalization processes. The assignment is designed to allow you to more deeply engage from scholarly and advocacy standpoints with approaches to development and globalization. Each blog entry is in the form of a critical reflection and reaction statement. A blog entry provides opportunities for you to strategically select portions of the logic, organization, and emphasis of the original texts you find interesting and write about them in a coherent, persuasive and mindful manner. The assignment is limited to 500 words or more to encourage you to be precise in your writing on the most compelling parts of texts that are meaningful to you on a personal and professional level. You are encouraged to integrate in each blog entry one or more captioned image, video excerpt and/or other resource to substantiate your points and enhance the design of the entry. No points will be given to an entry that simply summarizes texts or the topic. Each student is required to create an individual blog with a brief introductory statement and send to me the web link for the blog before our class meeting on Tuesday, August 30 (www.wordpress.com is free and recommended; here’s an example of a blog from a former UCD student: Nutrition and Development in China). Additional details regarding each blog topic will be discussed in class. Blog topics are:
1- Globalization processes (due September 13)
2- A country-level vignette of development (due October 4)
3- Future directions of anthropology as a participant in development (due November 1)
Watch the third episode in a series of episodes on the practices of tobacco companies. The series of short videos highlights tobacco industry documents research using the online Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and British American Tobacco Documents Archive.
Holly and Ashlee Temple, artists in the San Francisco Bay Area and Denver, contributed artwork to Best Friends Forever. See some more of their artwork at www.hollyandashleetemple.com
