Agency Details:

Heart of Anthropology

Heart of Anthropology is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded to conduct anthropology research and design educational programs for local and international communities and educational institutions. It is named Heart of Anthropology because it focuses both on research and on meeting community needs.
Through our work individuals in a wide variety of cultural settings--from children to elders, rural to urban, poor to rich, heart to heart--give voice to their lives and visions and needs through a wide variety of communication media. These conversations take the form of internet networking, slide presentations, regional conferences and exhibitions, and film.

Description:
Our current focus is Project Peru, a unique international, interactive community development program begun in Peru in 1977 as a comparative anthropological multi-media study of how 100 ten year olds from wealthy, middle class, poor and migrant neighborhoods experience and perceive their world. Since then, Project Peru has evolved into a longitudinal study of the same 100 participants, who came of age during 15 years of terrorism. They now intend to reunite across class boundaries at a national conference and bi-lingual traveling exhibition to envision and create alternative futures, which we believe will assist other communities dealing with terrorism and its effects. Our goals are to enable communities worldwide to understand their processes of socializing their children, to improve educational policy and practice, to reduce violence by fulfilling the needs that precede it, and to heal the trauma that follows it.

History:
Previous support for this project includes UCLA, the Inter-American Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the California Council for the Humanities/National Endowment for the Humanities, and multiple individual and corporate donors, volunteer, and interns.

Contact person: Anne Menne, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Main office number: (415) 459-0173

Address:

Changed San Rafael, CA 94901 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.heartofanthropology.org (in process)

Directions:

Nearest Bus Stop: San Rafael Transit Center, 10-15 minute walk

Last updated on June 16, 2009