One can also see how little effort it takes within the holy texts to generalize these recurrent motifs, and define as sacred the hypostatised cultural…
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Dashing and eclectic scholar-about-town. Have laptop, will travel!
“Third World” Women & Politics (2 of 11)
Fundamentalism Why is there a growing fundamentalist movement in a wide variety of disparate cultures today? Why are women almost invariably the mediums on which…
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Originally written in… late 1999, I think? -for an anthropology class of the same name. This is an experiment to see how well (or not)…
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Spent most of yesterday in a state of carefully controlled panic. I’ve been desperately working on finishing my late papers for last quarter — thank…
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Winter Solstice occurs when the earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun. It is often also referred to as Midwinter, since that is…
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock I find myself wondering, as I read, what was Murdock’s solution to her loss of faith…
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock Murdock muses that she writes in an effort to disentangle her voice from the grip of…
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock I believe there are as many different truths as there are people to hold them, and…
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock Fact can exist without human intelligence but truth cannot. — Toni Morrison For a piece of…
Continue ReadingSolstice pizza, woohooo! :)
One of my housemates dragged me away from the computer to go get a pizza with him from Papa Murphy’s — a “take it home…
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