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	<title>Yips and Howls &#187; Cultural Diversity</title>
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		<title>My Gaelic Name</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/03/my-gaelic-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I revised my St. Patrick's Day post from last year and posted it at Fictionaut.   A commenter there bestowed on me the Gaelic version of Elizabeth....]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of International Women&#8217;s Day in Nepal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four months after I gave birth to my son in Nepal, I celebrated my very first International Women's Day in 1988 in Gunjanagar, a village in western Chitwan District. It was also Gunjangar's first time to organize an event for that day.  I describe the scene in Sacred Threads, my ethnographic memoir-in-progress....]]></description>
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		<title>Song Inspires Nostalgia for Anthropology</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/song-inspires-nostalgia-for-anthropology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A contemporary song reminds me of all that inspired me to become an anthropologist eons ago....]]></description>
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		<title>More Haiti Links</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/more-haiti-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my Martin Luther King Day post, here are some more links that expose mainstream media bias and deepen historical and political understanding of Haiti:...]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons From Dr. King on Haiti</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/lessons-from-dr-king-on-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard enough to comprehend the scale of disaster in Haiti. What's harder is this: to stand by and watch hate, ignorance and greed breed on human suffering like maggots....]]></description>
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		<title>Bodnath 2007</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/bodnath-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photograph of Bodnath Stupa in Nepal]]></description>
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		<title>Ama: My Greatest Teacher</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/ama-my-greatest-teacher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing food this summer in northeast Oregon, I relied on all that I've learned over the years from books, conversations, observations, and personal experience.  But I probably heard Ama's voice more than any other....]]></description>
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		<title>Local Communities Promote Vultures</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/09/local-communities-promote-vultures/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/09/local-communities-promote-vultures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For International Vulture Awareness Day, I highlight some exciting community initiatives on two endangered vulture species I posted on last spring: The California Condor and White-Rumped Vulture....]]></description>
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		<title>Website for Ajamvari Farm</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/08/website-for-ajamvari-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally finished the website for Ajamvari Farm, a family run permaculture project in Nepal that hosts volunteers.  I helped develop the farm fifteen-some years ago while living in Nepal and discovered a passion for growing food that still runs strong today. The website provides information on opportunities for homestays and volunteering at the farm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White-Rumped Vulture: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/05/white-rumped-vulture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, I wrote a post on California condors, birds that had been haunting my imagination for some time. While browsing information for that post, I learned about the plight of carrion-eaters once common in the plains of Nepal, Pakistan, and India.

I lived in the plains of Nepal for three years in the late 80s and early 90s and also traveled through India during that time. I remember seeing parakeets, egrets, mynahs, and many colorful songbirds. But even though I must have passed by them hundreds of times, I don't remember seeing Gyps bengalensis, the White-Rumped Vulture (also referred to as the Oriential White-Backed Vulture).  Nor do I remember associated species, such as G.indicus (Long-billed vulture) or G.tenuirostris (Tender-billed Vulture). And they were all probably abundant....]]></description>
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