Sunday, September 13, 2009

203. Deconstructing the Postmodern Condition 3 -- L'Affaire Turnbull

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From the introduction to Alex Liazos' book, The 1950s Mbuti:A Critique of Colin Turnbull’s The Forest People : When I began this project...
Friday, September 11, 2009

202. Deconstructing the Postmodern Condition 2 -- L'Affaire Turnbull

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Colin Turnbull's The Forest People , based on his experiences among the Mbuti Pygmies of the central African Ituri Forest, was written d...
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Monday, September 7, 2009

201. Deconstructing the Postmodern Condition

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I am reading an account of Ju/'hoansi Bushmen life by Joachim Friedrich Pfaffe, who lived among them for four years as part of a (faile...
Saturday, September 5, 2009

200. Utopia, Then and Now -- part 5

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I'd like to return, at this point, to the passage from Thomas More's Utopia that I quoted a couple posts ago, where the narrator qu...
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

199. Utopia, Then and Now -- part 4

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Recent interdisciplinary work among Darwinian anthropologists, evolutionary psychologists, archaeologists, linguists and geneticists hints t...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

198. Utopia, Then and Now -- part 3

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So, was our ancestral society a Utopia? Not exactly. For one thing, Thomas More's Utopia was an agricultural society, while early homo s...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

197. Utopia, Then and Now -- part 2

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"Though to speak plainly my real sentiments, I must freely own that as long as there is any property, and while money is the standard o...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

196. Parenthetical Post: On the "Digital" Transmission of Culture

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Most anthropologists see the perpetuation of a tradition from one generation to the next as something like the reproduction of a tape record...
Friday, August 28, 2009

195. Utopia, Then and Now

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Utopia? Really? I'm not sure. The whole point of my "tedious argument, of insidious intent" ( pace , T. S. Eliot) was to estab...

194. An Overwhelming Question -- Part 13

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Just about all Pygmy groups (until recently at least) are situated "geopolitically" in very similar ways, as forest dwellers who h...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

193. An Overwhelming Question -- Part 12

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Barry Hewlett's essay, Cultural Diversity Among African Pygmies , was published in 1996, in the book Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth ...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

192. An Overwhelming Question -- Part 11

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“That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.” T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" So, finally. On the ...