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A Paean to the Librarian

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…

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Is 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…

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More thoughts while ill

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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Woman 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…

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Exploring 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…

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Fascinatingly 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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