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by Jason Nguyen
Turner, Victor. 1967. Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites of Passage. In Betwixt & between: patterns of masculine and feminine initiation.
Law and Order
by Jason Nguyen
Hall, Stuart, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John N. Clarke, and Brian Roberts. 1978. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order. Palgrave Macmillan, May 25.
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Sad Edward Said
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Edward Said is a prominent scholar who has studied, among other things, Orientalism.
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Pimp my Charles Briggs
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All Kurt had to say was this: "That's so meta."
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Frances Densmore is ridin' dirty'
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This is a pretty famous photo in ethnomusicology. Frances Densmore collected a ton of music on wax cylinders to preserve the Native American music that she thought was disappearing.
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I like turtles
by Kurt Baer
Jason: Because of this man, a generation of anthropologists tried to figure out which people were the most evolved. Some people are still trying.
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I heard you like cock fights?
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Of course this is a reference to Clifford Geertz's essay about Balinese cockfights. But there's an arguably nerdier reference to all the chickens in the Zelda games.
Geertz, C. 1972. Deep play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight. Daedalus 101, no. 1: 1–37.
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Disclaimer: We <3 Lomax
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Marcel Mauss got a gift
Collab b/w Kurt Baer and Jason Nguyen!
A reference to one of Mauss' most famous works, The Gift, about the role of gift exchange in social life.
Mauss, M. 1954. The Gift: Forms and functions of exchange in archaic societies. Cohen & West.
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Franz Boas + Anthropology = serious business
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I need to find the context for this photo at some point, but that's really him. The caption references what Stanley Barrett calls "the era of 'armchair anthropology'," which--in the usual narrative of anthropology's disciplinary history--was followed by a more ethnographic, face-to-face approach ushered in by Franz Boas and other anthropologists of his generation (1996, pg. 4).Barrett, S. R. 1996. Anthropology: a student's guide to theory and method. Univ of Toronto Pr.
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