{"id":738,"date":"2007-02-24T02:45:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T06:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/02\/24\/anthropology-today\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T17:13:10","slug":"anthropology-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/02\/24\/anthropology-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-homeless11feb11,0,3904589.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">Artists want to send a message &#8211; Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/strong>  <a class=\"LinkItem\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/forward_proxy?_ff=lampertina&amp;_fk=fe0c268f3b65b52369b9709377160ab0&amp;url_id=4cf31c8d6c0a43c7f605c69857cfe9f4&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fla-me-homeless11feb11%2C0%2C3904589.story%3Fcoll%3Dla-home-headlines\">Annotated<\/a>The situation this article describes strikes me a totally decadent.  And stupid.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To many passersby, homemade signs asking for money are works of desperation: &#8220;Homeless,&#8221; &#8220;Hungry,&#8221; &#8220;Disabled,&#8221; &#8220;Please Help.&#8221;But to a Santa Ana couple who run a local gallery, the messages are works of art, and Chela and Joseph Ba\u00f1uelos are snapping them up at $5 and $10 apiece.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>To gather signs for the &#8220;Sidewalk Angel Project,&#8221; the couple drive around Santa Ana, jump out of their black Cadillac when they see a homeless person holding a sign and approach cautiously. Many of the homeless are reluctant to talk or part with their signs, which they say have brought them luck.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right, the homeless are reluctant to part with their &#8220;totems,&#8221; but these brave artist-anthropologists (or should we say colonial conquerers?) march right in and buy them for the price of beads.  Anyone else see the irony here?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;White male, mid-20s. Shook my hand \u2014 his hand was very cold.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Field notes from the new anthropologists?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Santa Ana project generated a mixed reaction from Jim Palmer, president of the Orange County Rescue Mission, which operates several shelters.&#8221;Their heart may be in the right place,&#8221; Palmer said. &#8220;Some of these people are truly homeless but for many, it&#8217;s turned into a business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The truly homeless that we see are mothers and children who want to be invisible,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, they don&#8217;t want to &#8220;pose&#8221; for the tourists, they don&#8217;t even want their artifacts (signs) to do so.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists want to send a message &#8211; Los Angeles Times AnnotatedThe situation this article describes strikes me a totally decadent. And stupid. To many passersby, homemade signs asking for money are works of desperation: &#8220;Homeless,&#8221; &#8220;Hungry,&#8221; &#8220;Disabled,&#8221; &#8220;Please Help.&#8221;But to a Santa Ana couple who run a local gallery, the messages are works of art, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social_critique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}