September 2010
19 posts
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“participant observation, so central to the discipline of anthropology, so...”
– Michael Taussig (2009:128), What Color is the Sacred?
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“for many people the struggle to be alive is the same as the struggle against the...”
– Achille Mbembe
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“Malinowski wrote a note to himself at the back of his diary: “Main thing...”
– Michael Taussig (2009:113), What Color is the Sacred?
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“To propose that something like pagan magic was alive and well in the secular...”
– Michael Taussig (2009:34), What Color is the Sacred?
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“Marlowe’s ‘Tragical History of Doctor Faustus’ concerns a...”
– Michael Taussig (2009:227), What Color is the Sacred?
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“the profession of the drysalter in eighteenth-century Britain [was] A...”
– Michael Taussig (2009:146), What Color is the Sacred?
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Glory Days - Anthropologists as Journalists →
from Neuroanthropology
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NYRblog on the Warburg Library →
“If the university’s plans succeed, the institute will now have to abandon Warburg’s fundamental principles, lose control of its own books and periodicals (many of them acquired by gift or by the expenditure of the institute’s endowments), and shed, over time, the distinguished staff of scholars and scholar-librarians who train its students and continue to shape its holdings. The Warburg’s...
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“The individual is not to be conceived as a sort of elementary nucleus, a...”
– Michel Foucault, ‘Body/Power’ and ‘Truth and Power’ in C. Gordon (ed.) Michel Foucault: Power/Knowledge, U.K.: Harvester, 1980. (via thekydb)
August 2010
34 posts
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“Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn’t...”
– Clifford Geertz (via gwanthsociety)
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Margaret Mead reads my tea leaves ... the blog →
I’m now blogging with actual writing and words all of me own at Posterous.
Will be keeping this wee space as my picture/quote miscellany.
“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of...”
– Gustav Landauer (via revolutionnow) (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
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“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m...”
– The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950 - 1962 (via sucre) (via ransombookquotes)
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Into the Woods: Rob Young on Electric Eden →
“That sense of exile from Eden is the key, most of all, to the progress of inherently British music in the twentieth century. Britain, I believe, has its own ‘blues’, whose source is twofold. First there was the mass displacement of agricultural labourers from the countryside to newly created industrial towns and cities during the Industrial Revolution. This flowed swiftly on the Inclosures...
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Guardian review of Rob Young's 'Electric Eden' →
In 1968, a beautiful young minstrel called Vashti Bunyan forsook the city and set off on an 18-month journey along the leafy lanes of Albion, in a rickety cart pulled by her horse Bess, heading for a remote Scottish island where the Pied Piper himself had promised to set up a happy haven of artists, musicians and poets. No, this isn’t a fable, it’s the true story of one of...
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“In ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ (1936), George Orwell expressed...”
– Sheila Rowbotham (2008:442), Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love.
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“The two thing he admired most on earth were manual work and the fresh air, and...”
– E.M. Forster on Edward Carpenter, quoted in Rowbotham (2008:442).
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“the return to nature no longer meant struggling … to milk a recalcitrant...”
– Sheila Rowbotham (2008: 255), Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love.
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“in London in 1893 … Carpenter cheerily remarked to Alf Mattison, ‘it...”
– Sheila Rowbotham (2008: 177), Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love.
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“Isabella Ford, impressed by the West Yorkshire I.L.P.’s [Independent...”
– Sheila Rowbotham (2008: 171), Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love.
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“Henry and Kate Salt’s move, accompanied by books and piano, to a...”
– Sheila Rowbotham (2008:97), Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love.
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At the Ashmolean - Neal Ascherson →
“Archaeologists have known about ‘Old Europe’ for a long time. At first, they studied the pottery and the statuettes, and classified them into ‘cultures’. But it took them longer to move on from the objects and to grasp the extraordinary nature of the society that produced them, to understand this immensely remote ‘false dawn’ of authentic European civilisation. The Cold War isolation of the...
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“Femininity has never been easily accessible to working-class women. As Skeggs...”
– Tyler & Bennett (2010: 380). ”Celebrity Chav’: Fame, Femininity and Social Class’, in European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 13 no. 3, pp. 375-393
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“Celebrity is a form of improvisatory, excessive public theatre. It is class...”
– Tyler & Bennett (2010: 380). ”Celebrity Chav’: Fame, Femininity and Social Class’, in European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 13 no. 3, pp. 375-393
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2010/07/let_t... →
“when western governments were threatened by growing protests and dissatisfaction with this inequality, they simply bought the people off by giving them a mass of cheap money.”
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HCA Traditional Crafts Blog on the German... →
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An interview with Tony Judt →
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Terry Eagleton ... on John Henry Newman ... in the... →
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Review of Amanda Vickery's 'Behind Closed Doors:... →
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“They excel the rest in policy and industrie, for the use of their trade and...”
– James Ryder describing Halifax in 1588
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“There is nothing so admirable in this town as the industry of the inhabitants,...”
– William Camden, describing Halifax in 1560
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“The evidence of the past is present in fragmented form because of the violent...”
– Peter Fritzsche, Stranded in the Present (2004:213).
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“The sharpened consciousness of history over the course of the nineteenth century...”
– Peter Fritzsche, Stranded in the Present (2004:161).