For-Against Translation
Against/For Translation. For all the ink splattered here to make the words appear, I am flummoxed and frustrated that there is never any excuse for translation. I am…
Against/For Translation. For all the ink splattered here to make the words appear, I am flummoxed and frustrated that there is never any excuse for translation. I am…
. . . Older mats below Mandalorian and Grogu got Marsten Mats like they reused some old John Wayne sets
In this year his most famous student sported only yet some bumfluff, but the future great beard was already reading much and “dilligent”. And his self-consciously handsome teacher……
And Nissan huts – home for my family when they reached Australia (before my time, was exploring some in the Cantonment of Barrackpore recently though) Bardot with Marston Mats…
Hasn’t the sheer abundance of chit-chat made criticism, and even journalism you pay for, obsolete? Articles that would bug most people aren’t even read because something else more…
This is almost live (well, the pdf of the main is live – check it out) …an amazing collection of 45 papers for the fourth International Conference on…
painting by Rene Magritte. xx Excellent questions from my anth class today: “…a question related to Social Anthropology: how do we truly understand another person when we may…
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/bio/marx/eleanor-literature.htm From the ever useful Marx/Engels Internet Archive Marx Biography Biographical Notes on Marx’s Literary Interestsby Elean…
Reminded of this from late last year and wonder if the algorithm throws up skynet referenced in late August because anniversaries still matter? Still? OK, happy 29th. Just…
Edited by Claire – but if you need the pdfs and cannot get them through the usual ways, email me to send em. Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
The admittedly slow, difficult, work of reading for the detail, while still critical – albeit of a ‘very heterodox Marxism’ – is still the criteria by which it…
Thirty years of this book. Reminded today that it’s circa 700 rupees from Bloomsbury India if you like that sort of thing (real life copies I mean): The…
From ‘Melbourne Journal of Politics’ 1986 originally, reprinted in The Postcolonial Critic, ed Sarah Harasym 1990 The Post-Colonial Critic Interview MJP with by Gayatri Chakravorty…
This text is well worth your time… (I have, for this blogsnip, retitled it from a phrase in one of the early paragraphs, apologies, but some of this…
The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’. Anthropological teachi…
Note to self. A debate could be had as to whether the imputation of a local slave trading regime is imposed or copied from outside. No less than…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The last hereditary Welsh prince, Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis castle as a craggy fort in the 13th century; the estate was his reward for abandoning…
If you saw the film Injustice, about deaths in UK police custody, and then Ken’s UltraViolence, or saw any Migrant Media stuff, or if you just want something…
Anthropologists, somewhat unconsciously, remained for a long time in the position of conservative culture camp commandants—overseers of a pickled-in-aspic view of ‘the native’ that was no…
Your article, Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal, has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, and is now available…
Unbeknownst to each other, my much missed brother and I each got Enfield’s about the same time (his a continental) and might have shared notes if he’d rode…
a pop up from some old search topic reports JF saying the following: “In his conference presentation John Hutnyk (see this volume) indicated that even to discuss music…