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Ethnography:
"Excuse me, there's some food in my bugs!"
Category: lost congo memoir
Speaking of people eating insects ... as we were ... I do have this fun story from the Ituri Forest....
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"We Live In Little Houses Made of Beans"
Category: lost congo memoir
I have written before of insects in the Ituri Forest. (Oh, and here too.) When it comes up that I've spent time there, certain questions often come up, and one of them is: "Did you eat bugs."...
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The reason the Efe won't normally kill an insect ...
Category: Efe Ethnoarchaeology
that has wandered into their camp if they don't know anything about it a priori is ... according to what they told me when that happened once ... is ......
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No place to sit down
Category: Ituri Forest Photo Project
I knew a couple who had spent a lot of time in the Congo in the 1950s. He was doing primatology, and she was the wife of a primatologist. And when she spoke of the Congo or Uganda, where they spent most of the time,...
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Among Cannibals
Category: Race and Racism
... we should admit right away that cannibalism can be a rather touchy subject. As the subject of food so often is.
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The Apocalypse really is happening and the Rapture went off without a hitch
Category: Religion
It's all just a matter of calibration. Let me 'splain....
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How to carry your monkey home once you've killed it
Category: Africa
Once you've killed the monkey, you need to carry it back to camp. Slit the tail, near the end, and poke the head through the slit, so the tail makes a handy strap. Here's a detail:...
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Falsehoods: Human Universals
Category: Falsehoods II
There are human universals. There, I said it. Now give me about a half hour to explain why this is both correct and a Falsehood. But first, some background and definition....
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Social Networking is a wonderful new technology that will unleash human potential
Category: Ethnography
But that isn't always how it goes. On today's radio show, Steve Borsch was talking about the way in which social networking (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) is playing out -- as an extension of social interaction more than as a new form of shopping mall or...
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