Rest in Peace Bing, my paternal Grandmother, who passed away peacefully on Saturday just gone. I will always remember her at her happiest on the farm in the early morning. The gentle quiet and the birds. All my love. Continue reading
Rest in Peace Bing, my paternal Grandmother, who passed away peacefully on Saturday just gone. I will always remember her at her happiest on the farm in the early morning. The gentle quiet and the birds. All my love. Continue reading →
An anthropology blog celebrating the social nature of knowledge-production within the academy. (I write about anthropology and stuff.)
'[T]here is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.It is the common humanity that creates the possibility of anthropology; it is the diversity of humanity that makes it necessary.’
~ Howard Morphy
'Simply to demonstrate that the character of reciprocity is contingent upon social distance - even if it could be demonstrated in an incontestable way - is not to traffic in ultimate explanation, nor yet to specify when exchanges will in fact take place...'
~ Marshall Sahlins
'Far more than we ordinarily suppose, economic relations rest on moral foundations.’
~ Raymond Firth
'Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.'
~ Virginia Woolf