Marc | May 20, 2008
This quote, from Wm. Congreve, conceals a series of truths have been on my mind for the past few days. Last Thursday, I traveled to Sackville New Brunswick with the Ottawa Bach Choir to attend Podium 2008 at Mount Alison University, All in all, a varied and quite interesting trip. Podium is an interesting “conference” [...]
Marc | May 13, 2008
For the past several years, we have been inundated with arguments about “the value of cultural knowledge”. I want to make a couple of points about this “value”. Knowledge of culture, what it is, how it operates and how we as humans construct it, goes well beyond the use value that is often assumed to [...]
Marc | May 11, 2008
This past week has been an interesting one in many ways. I was in DC on Monday and Tuesday and back in Ottawa for the rest of the week. Two capitals, two countries, and two completely different assumptions about the ethics of Anthropological engagement with the military: on Monday night, I had drinks with Montgomery [...]
Marc | May 10, 2008
For the past week or so, the site has been getting moved around. At the moment, the web front is on a server in California, the database is on a server in Denver and the author (yours truly) is in Ottawa. Welcome to the networked world <wry grin>. The hope behind all of this moving [...]
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