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Sherry B. Ortner has emphasized “bridge making between theoretical and methodological divisions within anthropology.”
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillWhen 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 […]
Not I (2013); George Sprott (2009); The Power of Habit (2012)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThese are three great books; they work together well: Not I Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood (2013) “A portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance.” George Sprott George Sprott: 1894-1975: A Picture Novella (2009) “The life of a small-time Canadian […]
1989 was a critical year in the history of Eastern and Central Europe, and of the world
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillTwenty-five years ago in the summer of 1989, I travelled to the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – at that time still under occupation by the Soviet Union. I also travelled to Sweden, which had maintained a state of neutrality, or at least the appearance of it, through the First and Second World […]
MCHS bio for: D. Scott Munro, class of ’63
/1 Comment/in MCHS 2015 Biographies, MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillMy life: May 1946 – ? My life began in Ottawa, joined a few years later by my brother, Gary. But I grew up in Montréal, home to les Canadiens, maître du coupe Stanley, and to the local gang of French kids that would occasionally torment me on the way home from school. Not that […]
Many things came together to enable students to attend Malcolm Campbell High School in the 1960s
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillIn email correspondence with a couple of people who plan to attend the Malcolm Campbell High School Sixties Reunion in Toronto on October 17, 2015, we’ve occasionally talked about how people ended up living in Montreal during their childhood and adolescence. Occasionally, people have stayed in Montreal all of their lives. I didn’t have the […]
American Hustle (2013) is loosely based upon the late 1970s FBI Abscam sting
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillSeveral overviews based upon the movie American Hustle (2013) – from The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, and The Telegraph, among other sources – are available online. The IMDb overview of the film sums up the story: “A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild […]