Tag Archives: review
Music, Unbought Stuffed Dogs, Phil Collins & Ernest Hemingway
This week came more proof of the importance of music to how my mind works….many of you may know that I have no ability to memorize anything…mean anything…I have never been able to memorize addition or subtraction facts, multiplication tables, … Continue reading
Claming the Stones Review
By request, I’m posting a recent review I wrote…It was printed in Historical Archaeology 39(4):156-157, 2005. Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethic Identity. Barkan, Elazar and Ronald Bush (editors). Getty Research … Continue reading
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Best of 2005 (according to me, anyway)…
Not that anybody cares about my opinions about music, books or film. . . . but blogging is, by its nature, a self-obsessed activity, so I thought I’d indulge by listing the best of two things which occupy most of … Continue reading
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A Woman’s Work…
The Open Collections Program of Harvard University Library recently announced the completion of its first on-line collection: “Women Working, 1800-1930,” & it is promising, indeed. Featuring approximately 500,000 pages and images documenting women’s roles in theU.S. economy between 1800 and … Continue reading
Odd Tribes: New Book by John Hartigan
Check out John Hartigan, Jr.’s new book–just released. Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People is available from Duke University Press: Odd Tribes engages debates in history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies over how race matters. Hartigan tracks … Continue reading
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The Almighty Easter Bunny
For those of you in NWA who have not discovered the student-run radio station KXUA (pronounced “kay-sh-way”), you should definitely give it a shot. I have become increasingly despondent about the quality of NPR’s radio the general state of the … Continue reading
BEST OF 2003
Here it is. . the last day of 2003. I have the sneaking suspicion that I didn't get half the things done this year that I wanted. Even more daunting is the knowledge that this next semester (the spring of … Continue reading
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