From Pear to Paradigm and back again

In 1993 Keith Hart created a small boutique press to publish wonderful little tidbits by anthropologists. After various permutations the press morphed in to “Prickly Paradigm”:http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/history.html where Marshall Sahlins keeps up a steady stream of pamphlets as Executive Publisher. For years the older Prickly Pear pamphlets floated around — a xeroxed copy of Sahlins’s _Waiting for Foucault_ was a necessary fashion accessory when I was in graduate school — in various forms, and I considered myself to be pretty hardcore to have taken the time to snag a copy of Marilyn Strathern’s _The Relation_ off of Abe books. But now “the original Prickly Pear pamphlets are available and free to download”:http://www.thememorybank.co.uk/press/ on Keith Hart’s site, thanks to the work of Justin Shaffner. I’d encourage you to check out the list — more little tidbits in PDF form is always a good thing.

Alex Golub is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He studies mining and petroleum development in Papua New Guinea, as well as American culture in to the online game World of Warcraft. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org