Tag: anthropology

• Timeo tenebris

  There are some things of which we rarely speak; we did, at one time perhaps, but times have changed. Societal norms and cultural permissions have shifted; there are caveats, locked doors, and windows with blinds pulled down for our protection… or somebody’s protection -the people aren’t always named for fear that… for fear that what?…

  gozzter

  April 13, 2022

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  anthropology, archeology, booty, captives, Catherine M Cameron, diffusion of knowledge, Kahlil Gibran, slaves, University of Colorado Boulder

• When I was at home, I was in a better place

  I am a railway child -or, more specifically, I am the child of a railway father. And as a result the family was transferred to a new location every few years; I have lived in almost every province of Canada at one time or other, so home for me was always a shifting target -a…

  gozzter

  September 11, 2019

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  anthropology, Cheryl Mattingly, ethnography, home, homelessness, Johannes Lenhard, Mary Douglas, Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics Economy and Social Change, Michel Foucault, railway child, spaces, The Paradox of Hope

• Oh, What Men Dare Do!

  There seemed to be an inordinate amount of talk about polygamy last year –perhaps because of the long-awaited trial of two offenders from the town of Bountiful in British Columbia. In Canada, polygamy is a criminal offence under section 293 of the Criminal Code, but prosecutions have been rare. Polygamy must be differentiated from Bigamy,…

  gozzter

  January 3, 2018

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  anthropology, bigamy, Gender, gender neutrality, gender parity, Jacob Zuma, Much Ado About Nothing, New Scientist Magazine, polyandry, polygamy, polygyny, religious freedom, Shakespeare, Societal norms, The Independent, University of Wisconsin, Wikipedia