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• Graffiti: Drop Back and Punt

  

  That’s not the phrase I want – “drop back and punt” – but it’s the best I can do at the moment. The phrase I want is French (a language I do not know). Read more

  The 12 September 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Elephant Regression: On the Couch with Dumbo

  

  That post-in-progress on Unity of Being in Fantasia and Dumbo? the one that prompted me to mount an informal defense of psychoanalytic thought? – you guessed it... Read more

  The 04 September 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Dynamic San-Bushmen “Religion”

  

  Scholars have long been fascinated by the idea that something like the primordial or original “religion” existed until recently among various groups of... Read more

  The 02 September 2013 by   Cris
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• Siberian “Shaman” Ethnohistory

  

  In 1917, Berthold Laufter published an American Anthropologist article that traced the origins of the term “shaman” and concluded:There could never be a... Read more

  The 08 September 2013 by   Cris
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• Scientology Church Trap

  

  Germans are of course expert on the issue of mind control and institutional enthusiasms, which makes all the recent Anglo-American griping about Germany’s borin... Read more

  The 06 September 2013 by   Cris
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• Animism as Mode of Production

  

  Over the summer I belatedly got round to reading Robin Ridington’s Little Bit Know Something: Stories in a Language of Anthropology (1990). Read more

  The 25 September 2013 by   Cris
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• Chilling in Aboriginal Australia

  

  Humans have lived in Australia for nearly 50,000 years. This is a truly incredible time-depth that is difficult to comprehend. Read more

  The 27 September 2013 by   Cris
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• Dark Arcadias

  

  Henry Fuseli 'Titania's Awakening' (1785)Three of these five BBC broadcasts on 'Dark Arcadias' may still be played. Chapter 5 of John F. Lynen's 1960 book on... Read more

  The 09 September 2013 by   Praymont
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• Conjunctions on the Autumn Equinox

  

  Early yesterday afternoon I found myself sitting in the sanctuary at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The Parish was founded in 1835; this is it... Read more

  The 22 September 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Darwinian Dawkins

  

  Richard Dawkins seems like he’s probably a nice guy in person. You can tell quite a bit about somebody from their writing, and even when Dawkins is being... Read more

  The 26 September 2013 by   Steveawiggins
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