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New story
(Recorded on 05 April 2012. Translated from Tok Pisin.)“Mama raised her mobile phone in the air... 'Aiya, why did I do this? Why did I make a phone friend, aiya!' She was really upset, this mama. The kid was just a schoolboy. I'm talking about the mama. Papa back in Ialibu, he got into big trouble. All the trees around the house, he cut them down. ( Read more... ) -
Goroka Carrot Cake
Goroka Carrot Cake ( Read more... ) -
Analogic kinship
Consider, then, a situation in which all kin relations and all kinds of relatives are basically alike, and it is a human responsibility to differentiate them. The responsibility of doing so will be our task in understanding kin relationships, as it is man's role in perhaps the majority of human societies. A mother is another kind of a father, ( Read more... ) -
i note with interest my LJ tags
+/- - 57 uses
aaa - 4 uses
aaaaaaa - 1 use
abstracts - 0 uses
academia - 14 uses
academic - 25 uses
academonia - 2 uses
africaphobia - 2 uses
aids - 16 uses
america - 1 use
angst - 0 uses
anthroplology - 2 uses
athonica - 3 uses
audit culture - 1 use
australia - 1 use
austrophobia - 38 usesback - 29 uses ( Read more... ) -
Why the critics of Avatar are missing the point
I've seen Avatar a couple of times now and I am convinced that despite the simplicity and familiarity of the narrative content, something quite radical is happening under the surface. I also think that progressive critiques of it (as just another iteration of the 'noble savage'/'white man becomes whole again through sexualized communion with the ( Read more... ) -
It's the patriarchy, stupid
"The possibility that a whole new generation of American males is being raised by women without men is very challenging for the churches. I think they want to reassert some sort of male authority over the order of things. I think the pro-Proposition 8 movement was really galvanized by an insecurity that churches are feeling now with the rise of ( Read more... ) -
Race and Prop 8
Open Letter to White Activists by the always cogent slit
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