Jonathan Padwe a doctoral candidate in the joint degree program in Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Yale University. His research explores the connections between history, memory, agriculture and the environment. His dissertation, Garden Variety Histories: Stories About Farming at the End of the World, is based on three years of ethnographic field research with the Jarai highland minority group of northeast Cambodia. The dissertation will be completed in Spring of 2010. He previously conducted extensive field research with the Ach, a formerly nomadic hunter-gatherer group in eastern Paraguay.
Why MeatRadio?
In Paraguay, radio so'o -- literally 'meat radio' -- refers to information, gossip, or news. The term, a hybrid of Spanish and Guaran, points to a fact of rural life: when your neighbor kills a cow for a barbecue, word travels.
