In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Some thoughts on narratives

| September 16, 2009

I’ve been having an email discussion with my friend Drew about narratives for the past little while.  One of the things that bothers me about the general topic, and by this I mean the military use and analysis of narratives, is that it is all to often focused at the wrong “levels”; in milspeak, it [...]

Secular myths

| August 27, 2008

One of the more fascinating things about the way humans seem to work is that we will frequently do pretty much the same thing while changing the labels and conveniently forgetting that we did it before. We seem to have “default” processes for a number of things including myth. For Anthropologists, “myth” doesn’t mean a [...]