It’s funny… in making up potential things to try for my 50 New Things list, I find myself adding on all the ideas and events…
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Why study Women’s Spirituality?
I was recently asked the following question: “Why is it important for feminists to study and comprehend women-centered cultures?” While I thought it a good…
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This was a quick one-page paper written for one of my classes, which has a wonderful name: “Tree of Brilliant Fruit: Finding Spiritual Wisdom Through…
Continue ReadingThe amazing mummies of the Tarim Basin
I was going to write in a rather scholarly mode about my visit to the Tarim mummies, but I think all my “scholarly” has been…
Continue ReadingPrimate “Infanticide”: Truth or social fantasy?
(Since I seem to be musing about honesty recently… a short college paper written in 1999 for a primate anthropology class. Enjoy!) A current ‘hot’…
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Well, after giving it the old college try, I think posting former papers from college in this format is way too much bother! If I…
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Possible Solutions It is a simple but appealing answer to say all that needs to be done to solve the problems delineated and explored above…
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In yet another essay which discusses violence against women, Kumar notes that it is the deliberately poor definition of what constitutes rape and wife-beating that…
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It would make sense the society of the newly established nation-state would incorporate both its previous, ‘historical memory’ based power within itself, whether theoretical, religious,…
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Thus the current fundamentalist and nationalist mythologies insidiously create and define themselves in an essentialist fashion because they are needed in order to define boundaries…
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