Roy Wagner on supergender and animality

[apropos]

"What is male in Australia, female in New Guinea, and frequently hangs by its toes? It is a human story of animal supergender in two parts, one that depends for its whole sense and significance on animality, specifically one that migrates between Australia and Papua New Guinea, the bat."

Wagner, Roy. Anthropology of the Subject : Holographic

Comments

[tomorrow_devil]

No, really, what's it about?
It sounds like something I might like?

[apropos]

Roy Wagner is never really about anything. I approach him like the I Ching, when I dare to approach him at all.

You might like it. There are bats. Animalities. Supergender. I can't say I understand it, but again, understanding is not really his modus operandi.

[tomorrow_devil]

Supergender, huh. I'm going to look, just to see what that could possibly be.