In Class Blog: Context

David A. Feingold, Ph.D is a research anthropologist and filmmaker. Trained in anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at Dartmouth, Yale and Columbia, he has conducted extensive field research in Southeast Asia over three decades, particularly among the Akha and Shan people. He is one of the founders and directors of the Institute for the Study of Human Issues (ISHI), the first research cooperative in the U.S. He is an internationally recognized expert. In his article "Human Trafficking" Feingold talks about all the problems that arise when trying to control the widespread problem of trafficking people all around the world. He stated that, "Trafficking of women and children for prostitution is a vile and heinous violation of human rights, but labor trafficking is probably more widespread." In this short line Feingold uses the logos and pathos methods of persuasion and since he has been to many of the places he writes about he also used ethos persuasion. Dr. Feingold has seen first hand all the atrocities and devastation that accompanies this problem.