/2007/01/01/a-good-syllabus-or-two/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 /2007/01/01/a-good-syllabus-or-two/comment-page-1/#comment-45912 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:53:08 +0000 /2007/01/01/a-good-syllabus-or-two/#comment-45912 Also, I wanted to point out that one of my personal favorites, Amitav Ghosh, did not drop out–he has a doctorate in anthropology from Oxford. And although he doesn’t hold a tenured professorship anywhere, in reading his books I think it’s pretty clear he practices a more rigorous anthropology than some who do! 🙂

]]> /2007/01/01/a-good-syllabus-or-two/comment-page-1/#comment-45870 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:22:28 +0000 /2007/01/01/a-good-syllabus-or-two/#comment-45870 That explains SO MUCH. I was always struck by the parellels between Henderson the Rain King and Body of Power, Spririt of Resistance.
Thanks for clearing that up.

]]> /2007/01/01/a-good-syllabus-or-two/comment-page-1/#comment-45804 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:30:29 +0000 /2007/01/01/a-good-syllabus-or-two/#comment-45804 Good guess, Chris, but everyone who got their Ph.D. at a school with a _real_ anthropology department knows that ‘Saul Bellow’ is the pseudonym that Jean Comaroff uses when she writes fiction.

]]> /2007/01/01/a-good-syllabus-or-two/comment-page-1/#comment-45698 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:39:16 +0000 /2007/01/01/a-good-syllabus-or-two/#comment-45698 add some Michael Crichton and some Amitav Ghosh and he’d have my nightmare class of drop-out anthropologists turned novelists… but seriously, minus the Crichton, there is something to the LeGuin, Vonnegut, Ghosh thing. Wasn’t Bellow a dropout of your program too 🙂

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