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Updates: A Feb. 25, 2017 Atlantic article is entitled: “The Meaning of Kim Jong Nam’s Murder: His death has punctured the myth of the Kims’ holy bloodline.” A Feb. 28, 2017 CBC article is entitled: “Friendship on the rocks? China, North Korea clash over nuclear and chemical weapons: North Korea’s reaction was so strong that some Chinese […]
I’ve recently borrowed from the Toronto Public Library The Story of San Michele, first published in 1929, by Axel Munthe. I borrowed the book because I remember reading it when I was a student at Malcolm Campbell High School. I read a fair amount of non-fiction and fiction when I was in high school. Some […]
An Oct. 16, 2014 article at the Times Higher Education website is entitled: “Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall, by Hester Vaizey.” I learned of this text from an Oxford University Press Twitter account that I follow; I found the article of interest, particularly this comment: “These first-hand accounts confirm […]
A Dec. 28, 2014 CBC article is entitled: “What weight loss, drinking water and pot had in common in 2014.” Below are some highlights from the above-mentioned article, along with updates regarding a range of topics from several sources. The evidence is not necessarily congruent with commonly held understandings. Scientific evidence stands in contrast to […]
In a previous post I mentioned The Americans (1958 in France; 1959 in U.S.; 2008) by Robert Frank. A Google search for Robert Frank will tell you more about his career as a photographer. The Americans is the topic of Chapter 20 (in the form of an essay) in 1959: The Year that Changed Everything (2009) […]
The quotation is: ” Its focus is the nation-state circa 1950, romantically unencumbered by international obligations, co-operation and constraint.” That’s one way to characterize the 1950s. The source is a Dec. 3, 2014 article at openDemocracy.net entitled: “UKIP is the formation of a new political elite – nothing more.” Conceptualizations of the 1950s My purpose in […]
I like to to read about anthropology, which I view as a high-end form of journalism. In a previous number of posts, most recently this one, I’ve discussed an overview – a blurb, so to speak – about the career of Sherry B. Ortner that appears in Fifty Key Anthropologists (2011). Framing of evidence My basic […]
When I’m working on other projects, as a diversion I like to read about the great anthropologists of our time. I recently came across Fifty Key Anthropologists (2011). The blurb (I have added italics to the title) at the Toronto Public Library website for the book notes: “Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some […]