Monthly Archives: December 2012

A sprint toward the finish line for my dissertation fieldwork and a legally-mandated holiday in South Africa substantially cut down on my ability to post links and commentary here. So in the spirit of Boxing Day discounts, here are a … Continue reading →

After two years of planning, and four months in the field collecting data, I finally wrapped up data collection for my dissertation this past Friday. Also, thanks to outsourcing my data entry to the awesome people at IKI, I’ve already … Continue reading →

A few weeks after I described my endeavors to figure out why people were always saying “which” (“ati”) around me, I managed to find the stem of the verb “kuti” in my hardcopy of Paas’s English-Chichewa/Chinyanja dictionary. This is evidently … Continue reading →

Malawi is currently in the throes of yet another lovely fuel shortage. This is great timing for me, as I am currently in a mad rush to finish data collection for my project on how people’s beliefs about HIV transmission … Continue reading →