More fab extracts in the "Introductory Readings in Anthropology" book I bought just before coming to Australia. Within the "Being Human: Unity and Diversity" section today we have "Organising Social Relations: Kinship and Gender, Engaging with Nature and The Humanity of Things. While I liked "The Semantics of Biology" by Kirsten Hastrup, I was thinking... Continue Reading →
I made it to Oz by the skin of my teeth. If I'd succumbed to the stupidity and lack of concern of Singapore Airlines I might not have got in at all until next year. Scotty from Marketing has been forced by the grown-ups to reduce international arrivals until x% of the population is vaccinated.... Continue Reading →
So, I'm reading this while in quarantine, 6 to 8 excerpts at a time of this. Today's section was 'Ways of Thinking and Communicating'. Robin Dunbar (him of the Dunbar number) kicks off with some basics, and then a piece by Terence Deacon that had me wanting to re-watch "Arrival." Claude Levi-Strauss calling it like... Continue Reading →
She's not actually biting, but yeah, nibbling. The reality of "these four walls" for another 6 days (assuming I don't get infected). First world problems and all that... Couldn’t sleep (woke at 4pm. Lay in bed listening to the bloody BBC World Service, then got up Read my quota from Introductory Readings in Anthropology and... Continue Reading →
Another day, another 7 or 8 excerpts from the Introducing Anthropology book. We're on to section 1.2,The Body Simon Underdown isn't messing about "Race is one of the most misunderstood terms in modern science, misused by seasoned scientists and laymen alike. Put simply, there are no human races, just the one species: Homo sapiens The... Continue Reading →
tl:dr - Two academics have written a good "here's how Tony Gramsci can fill in some of the major gaps in the MLP and maybe make it useful" article. On the downside, it's probably only particularly accessible to folks who know their Gramscia and their sustainability transitions stuff. The article is called "Regime resistance and... Continue Reading →
Half way there, and had a half way decent sleep for about half the night. Woke up at five, non-groggy. Read six extracts from an anthropology book, as you do (blogged here). Did some more indexing of the wonderful "Magpie" newsletter of the Manchester Wildlife group while listening to ABC radio Adelaide, which had the... Continue Reading →
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