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Here's the thing. If we don't do something to improve the world it's not going to happen. You can't depend on the Yahoos in government - many are just on a power quest, or digging for money. So if something good is going to happen you have to do it. It may be tiny, but …
Yep, I think about a mission, and automatically the theme song from that old TV show starts echoing through my mind. "If you accept this mission..." You know the standard beginning of each episode. The synopsis from episode to episode is very formulaic because it was that sort of show. I enjoyed it, though, and …
Daily writing promptInterview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses.View all responses Been there, done that. What the heck else did I do all those years when I worked as an anthropologist? Interview by the dozens, participant/ observation, and write up results. Also, …
I was doing fieldwork on a Saint's Festival when I first learned about home-grown garlic. We were having dinner on a rooftop deck. It was a lovely late summer evening, and the deck was surrounded by a wide variety of planters filled with flowers. Off to one side, however, was a section given over to …
 Don't get cultural anthropologists, sociologists, or other social scientists into discussing what a community is while enjoying a few beers. You'll be listening to various views, historical perspectives, and theoretical discussions all night. There will be eager expositions of how the sad, old, and worn term has taken on new meaning in the digital age. Opposing this …
If you've read my blog for a while, you might suspect that It was hard to get over my days playing guitar in coffeehouses and roaming the road. Not so. I put down the pack after a traumatic series of events. Life in those days could be like standing on the edge of a volcano …
It must be those courses in sociolinguistics influencing me. But I don't think any words need exclusion from our language. Take naughty words, for instance. There is a history of "bad words" in English deriving from non-obscene words standing in for words considered dirty. A friend of mine at UPS decided that the word frick …
The self-made person is a trope that is always at least half a lie. There's something more than a bit off-kilter about the braggart who claims they alone are responsible for all their achievements. It's one thing to accept credit for hard work and achievement. But another to seize all the glory. Heck, we even …
Daily writing promptInterview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses.View all responses As a videographer and while working as a journalist years ago, I did a slew of interviews. As an anthropologist, not too many. Maybe you'd expect a ditto on interviewing as an anthropologist. …
Romance is where you find it. For an anthropologist, it's the places where you do fieldwork.
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