Body Ritual among the Nacrima

[Jeanette X]

http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/bodyrit.pdf

An interesting article about the rituals of the Nacrima tribe, written 1956. Let me know what you think.

[DeadKennedys]

I'll tell you what I think, I read this g*d d*mn thing in every anthropology class

clever, anyway

[Big Papa Goat]

Cultural Anthropology is the red-headed stepchild of the social sciences

[kahljorn]

There's a psychological anthropology course at the san diego university that I'm interested in taking.

[Sethomas]

I took an anthropology class hoping to learn something, but obviously that wasn't the aim of the class. He just wanted us to memorize site names and locations for the finals, then he admitted he expected us to forget them. He'd talk about the Acheulian and Homo georgicus without ever saying what those referred to--it'd be up to our own curiosity to discover such knowledge. That class was lame.

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Sethomas

I took an anthropology class hoping to learn something, but obviously that wasn't the aim of the class. He just wanted us to memorize site names and locations for the finals, then he admitted he expected us to forget them. He'd talk about the Acheulian and Homo georgicus without ever saying what those referred to--it'd be up to our own curiosity to discover such knowledge. That class was lame.

I hope that he wasn't tenured.

[Sethomas]

Not yet. It would have been fine as a specialized upper-level ANTH course, but that's not how it was marketed.

I've always seen your signature of Plato as quoted "Those who refuse to participate in politics end up ruled by their inferiors", or some equivalent thereof.

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Sethomas

Not yet. It would have been fine as a specialized upper-level ANTH course, but that's not how it was marketed.

I've always seen your signature of Plato as quoted "Those who refuse to participate in politics end up ruled by their inferiors", or some equivalent thereof.

Its probably translated in various different ways from the original Greek. :/

[kahljorn]

i always thought it was those who refuse to play the game end up being PLAYED.