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People who live in glass offices

20 June 2010

So last night I was watching TV—a British show called Hustle which is a very well-made, complex-charactered, witty cousin of the TNT show Leverage—Hustle came first, and I can see no acknowledgement in the official record of the connection between the two, but come on now—and at one point (not for the first time) the [...]

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ASA 10: The Interview

15 April 2010

All right, I know that many of you have no idea what the title means. And it doesn’t matter terribly. I’ll decode: ASA stands for Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth. I’m currently attending a conference in Belfast and am struck by the centrality of one recurrent theme: the theme of [...]

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A tiny ethnography of the earthquake

14 February 2010

I want you to know that, before the earthquake, things in Haiti were normal. Outside Haiti, people only hear the worst — tales that are cherry-picked, tales that are exaggerated, tales that are lies. I want you to understand that there was poverty and oppression and injustice in Port-au-Prince, but there was also banality. via [...]

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Day of Absence 2010: Third Response – Investment

12 January 2010

If the Day of Absence is really about tourist’s pleasure, if this is what we really care about, let us at least be honest about it. I sincerely believe that we should deal with our own cultural hunger before we worry about how to provide better shows for our visitors. Confusing the two will eventually [...]

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Day of Absence 2010: Second Response – Quality

2 January 2010

… are all Bahamian artists worthy of respect? The simple answer is no. Why should anyone respect bad poetry, bad writing, bad painting or poorly organized festivals? … Allow me to suggest that there are perhaps two reasons why Bahamians, on the whole, have not received much in the way of international (or local) acclaim [...]

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Day of Absence 2010: First Response – Clarity

1 January 2010

The critique(s) offered by Ward Minnis about the Day of Absence concept on his blog, Mental Slavery, and on Bahama Pundit, are both comprehensive and impressive. And he’s right, in several places. Particularly when he writes Her Day of Absence clouds over and conflates many different and unrelated ideas while advancing an awkward historical agenda [...]

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Swedish parents keep 2-year-old’s gender secret – The Local

25 June 2009

Just in case you might be thinking that male/female was a god-given thing— A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl. Pop’s parents, both 24, made a decision when their baby was born to keep Pop’s sex [...]

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Ancient Cemetery Found; Brings “Green Sahara” to Life

17 August 2008

Ancient Cemetery Found; Brings “Green Sahara” to Life I know I’m going to be CARIFESTA-blogging, but I couldn’t resist. How cool is this? Hat tip PZ Myers, Phyrangula.

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