Excited about summer reading via interlibrary loan pt. 1
I love that google books lets you search inside of books. I was going totally insane trying to find this paragraph that i had written down a partial quote from and I am way too tired to use an index intelligently.
Yeah, whatev, I use google books to look up text in the real-life book that is sitting right next to me. efficiency!
Weekend reading part 2
I mean, as soon as I tear myself away from drinking coffee & watching The X-files
Weekend Reading part 1
“Mexicans Americans: Leadership, Ideology & Identity 1930-1960” by Mario Garcia
Weekend reading for my history seminar.
Really enjoying doing all this reading for this class. Anthropology engages in history but not with this kind of depth. I took a lot of history in high school and seemingly got a much more in-depth education in U.S. history than most of the people I know, but there is still so much complexity and conflict present in every part of it to learn about. Idk, I just love learning/knowing U.S. history.
Ryan & I have talked about whether or not it matters to know U.S. history because so much of it is rife with colonialism/conquest/exploitation/oppression/etc. I think that this makes it even more necessary to know as much about it as you can. How can you combat something if you don’t know what you’re getting into and where its rooted?
The Judy Blume Quiz
I got a somewhat embarrassing 64% (7/11) on this quiz. I’m more familiar with the Deenie/Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret/Forever/Just As Long As We’re Together parts of Judy Blume’s work and this quiz was pretty heavy on Blubber and Superfudge and stuff. (via Jezebel)
82% (9 out of 11). I spent way too much time in the library in elementary school devouring blubber/deenie/forever/are you there god its me margaret/tiger eyes/starring sally j. freedman as herself/etc etc etc
![From the amazing and fun collection of lesbian pulp covers, 1935 - 65 at Yale’s Beinecke Library: “The Grapevine” by Jess Stearn. New York : McFadden-Bartell, [c. 1964] [via]
I really appreciate that the Plain Dealer reviewed this and found it to be unsuitable for the tender-minded.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kroi8vggk01qzn0deo1_400.jpg)
From the amazing and fun collection of lesbian pulp covers, 1935 - 65 at Yale’s Beinecke Library: “The Grapevine” by Jess Stearn. New York : McFadden-Bartell, [c. 1964] [via]
I really appreciate that the Plain Dealer reviewed this and found it to be unsuitable for the tender-minded.
“Ethics for Anthropological Research and Practice” by Linda M. Whiteford, Robert T. Trotter II
I should have started all this ethics reading earlier this week. I feel like my brain is melting, because it would really rather be rotting away watching Law & Order.
The Coming Insurrection or the Arrival of Suicidal Nonsense?
By reading the text yourself, I assume I won’t be alone in not finding much of positive substance while in fact finding much that is counter-productive. What follows is a review of the English translation from the perspective of someone who desires the revolutionary transformation of society by self-organized sectors and involving long-term organizing and movement building, culminating in re-defining society’s institutions bearing on race, class, gender and decision-making to attain a classless and self-managed participatory society. Why do the review? It is not just that there are many things wrong with the book making it an easy target. It has unfortunately gotten attention in mainstream media and among activists — both having a negative impact on our Left movements.
But still, what I’m interested in isn’t ethnography of reading but ethnography as reading. Sitting on a bench reading a book as a way of being-there in an academic world. Reading as a form of participation, not just of observation. After all, the locals are constantly trying to get me to partake in their common means of textual exchange, by constantly suggesting books for me to read. These book suggestions are of course themselves invaluable ethnographic data. But reading itself is a way of learning one’s way around a space, a way of retracing a set of thoughts or “problématiques,” a way of developing competences of comprehension and belonging for later use, a way of assimilating some of the aesthetic parameters of a social world, its characteristic framing devices, its cast of characters, its rhythm. There’s a reason why half of my conversations here revolve around who has read what: having read a text provides a source of social solidarity and a ground for further exchange.
Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization
What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard parties and authoritarian practices, does the idea of the detached intellectual, observing events from on high, make sense anymore?
AK Press is having a 20% off sale & I am contemplating buying some books instead of waiting around for a member library of the CLEVENET consortium to buy them. I don’t know how I feel about this bit where I actually pay for books instead of paying overdue fines, though.
“Righteous Dopefiend” by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg
I just started this in the last few days (while I have been at a conference, where I have discovered-yet again-that limited diets are a poor life choice when you are dependent on other people to feed you yet would still like to eat occasionally) and it does not disappoint. Bourgois is retaining his place as my #1 anthropology crush (and the rest of the books in the California Series in Public Anthropology aren’t bad either).
I have been reading/devouring this book over the last couple of days (it very quickly superseded Birth of the Clinic as my book of choice to read at work). I am so crazy about Philippe Bourgois, and after a year that was fairly discouraging, he is reminding me why I loved anthropology in the first place. I really appreciate the extensive inclusion of transcription as opposed to just conclusions of the anthropologist. Its giving me a lot to think about in terms of ethics and cultural relativism in the field.
So, its pretty cool.
READ MAS!. Brooklyn.
anthropophagous
I'm an 24 year old woman who works in various aspects of biomedical research, and is currently a grad student in Medical Anthropology & Public Health. I'm from Lansing, MI & currently live in Cleveland, OH. This is just a collection of things I think are neat.
A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).
