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NB to my fellow anthropologists
Mar. 4th, 2008 11:38 pmThe middle, un-broken (if you have read it you know what I mean) story of "The Cloud Atlas" is a pretty awesome take on fieldwork and the balancing act between the emic and the etic. If it wasn't in ersatz vernacular (even if a very clever and sophisticated one--I was apprehensive about it after ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theophile told me about it, but I enjoyed it so much, the delight of the words pruned and twirled inside out)--I would totally assign it to my students.
other things that are awesome about the book--the Fahrenheit 451 shout-out in the dystopian ubercapitalist society story.
how I don't want this book to end.
the birthmark shaped like a comet.
theophile told me about it, but I enjoyed it so much, the delight of the words pruned and twirled inside out)--I would totally assign it to my students. other things that are awesome about the book--the Fahrenheit 451 shout-out in the dystopian ubercapitalist society story.
how I don't want this book to end.
the birthmark shaped like a comet.
