Damn this is the way to satiate my pathological curiosity. Find a recent introductory text book aimed at undergrads and just read from cover to cover over the course of a week or so. Already have my eye on a book on systems ecology... But, getting ahead of myself. So, today the first few articles... Continue Reading →
Before I left England, a thousand years ago, I was beginning to realise that there is a societal covid brain fog thing going on, whether you had had the damn virus or not. Everyone just getting hazy, crazy etc. Well, from that baseline, I suppose I should be compassionate towards myself, and 11 days without... Continue Reading →
Am very much enjoying this "Introductory Readings to Anthropology" book, and it makes me think I could read similar on ecology and a bunch of other things. If I write enough each day, that can be my reward!? Today was all identity and rituals (of cleansing, boundary management, liminality - van Gennep etc). As they... Continue Reading →
Little to report. Sleep patterns still, um, interesting. Was awake for Federer's four-set victory, and then again for the England four goal victory starting at four thirty. Watched "Insiders" at 830. Nobody could be bothered to point out that Scotty from Marketing is just lifting Dan Andrews' ideas and re-badging them. A LibSpill is possible.... Continue Reading →
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 →
