Well, Christmas is once again upon us, and I’ve been asked repeatedly for a wish-list of sorts. And though I still have a fairly defunct Amazon wishlist, I must admit to having been too self-indulgent as of late and bought most of the books that I wanted to read. On the other hand, I’ve been [...]
My thesis advisor is really a quite clever guy. I had a meeting with him this afternoon to discuss the first draft of my fieldwork report that I gave him a couple of days ago, and he really pulled it apart: “Where’s the anthropological distance? Where’s the methodological reflections?” he demanded, and I must have [...]
I was sent a link to this interesting presentation on “the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States” by Dimitry Orlov, a Russian ex-pat in the US. The presentation is simply a comparison of political and economical factors shared between the Soviet Union before its collapse and the present-day United States, arguing that not [...]