My dissertation proposal research continues apace – sometimes stutteringly slowly, other times with a swiftness and surety which reassures me that I’m on the right…
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Why not pulp
Some years ago a friend asked me why I didn’t like pulp — why, in fact, I pretty much loathed it. It gets stuck in…
Continue ReadingIs there science in Star Wars?
In exchange for a huge honkin’ load of electronics recycling, my household received four free tickets to the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation‘s current…
Continue ReadingBelly dancing & comfort zones
Today has been an extremely fruitful day so far! Not only did I tremendously enjoy my first American Tribal System belly dancing class with a…
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Some time ago I wrote a posting (which I’ve since lost track of) where I mentioned that in restaurants where you’re supposed to get your…
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I have a nasty cold. It is no fun. I intensely dislike feeling like my head has been stuffed full of cotton wool and my…
Continue ReadingWoman in the Shaman’s Body
The apparently overwhelmingly powerful need to control women which some men appear to have is painfully expressed yet again in a form which is recorded…
Continue ReadingExploring power with rather than power over
In the same year as Ely & Meyerson’s amazing article regarding the malleability of masculinity, Euro-American columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and Asian-American lecturer and business…
Continue ReadingPoetry is Not A Luxury & Mighty Be Our Powers
Closely examining our matrifocal past and present offers a solid basis from which to theorize a possible healthier future — one not damagingly based in…
Continue ReadingFascinatingly more on matrifocal societies
Both Sanday (reviewed by me here and here) and Du are anthropologically trained ethnographers researching indigenous societies. As previously noted, their work offers explicit epistemological…
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