Comments on: Studs Terkel’s legacy for anthropology http://savageminds.org/2008/11/18/studs-terkels-legacy-for-anthropology/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:28:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ryan a http://savageminds.org/2008/11/18/studs-terkels-legacy-for-anthropology/comment-page-1/#comment-531541 ryan a Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:03:33 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1392#comment-531541 Studs was an amazing person. Nice post. My favorite book was "Working." That one has been very influential, and one that I like to look through every once in a while. There was this great photo of him that I once saw where he was walking around with his big 1970s voice recorder and microphone...I saw that several years ago and I thought to myself, ya, I want to be more like him. Terkel's work was part of what lead me to study anthropology. Great man. He will be missed. Studs was an amazing person. Nice post. My favorite book was “Working.” That one has been very influential, and one that I like to look through every once in a while. There was this great photo of him that I once saw where he was walking around with his big 1970s voice recorder and microphone…I saw that several years ago and I thought to myself, ya, I want to be more like him. Terkel’s work was part of what lead me to study anthropology.

Great man. He will be missed.

]]> By: John McCreery http://savageminds.org/2008/11/18/studs-terkels-legacy-for-anthropology/comment-page-1/#comment-530542 John McCreery Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:33:40 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1392#comment-530542 Thanks, Rex. A beautiful tribute to a wonderful man. I wonder, though, what else an anthropologist needs to be besides an empathetic interviewer with a sense of the fleetingness of human life. Are we, after all, only what Orson Scott Card beautifully describes as "Speakers for the Dead"? Thanks, Rex. A beautiful tribute to a wonderful man.

I wonder, though, what else an anthropologist needs to be besides an empathetic interviewer with a sense of the fleetingness of human life. Are we, after all, only what Orson Scott Card beautifully describes as “Speakers for the Dead”?

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