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• 11 Facts About The Ambidextrous

  

  image credit Most people are right-handed. Some 10% of the world population is left-handed. Only 1% is ambidextrous. Like me. Ambidexterity is the state of bein... Read more

  The 16 May 2012 by   Gerard
  

• Fear & Spirit Loathing in Melanesia

  

  Few books in the history of anthropology have had a larger or more lasting impact than Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Read more

  The 25 May 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion

• Fear & Spirit Loathing in Melanesia (2)

  

  Now that we have some background on Melanesian ethnography and animism, let’s look at Theodore Schwartz’s “Cult and Context: The Paranoid Ethos in Melanesia”... Read more

  The 27 May 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion

• Mass Culture as Mythology

  

  In this riff on Roland Barthes, Sam Anderson nails the anti-essence of his critical stance: Barthes’s basic idea (although with Barthes it’s always dangerous... Read more

  The 27 May 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion