In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Building theories that make sense

| July 26, 2008

The word “theory” has an interesting effect on different people. I’ve noticed that many of my undergraduate students, upon hearing the word and learning that they are sitting in a course on “theory”, start to get the same look in their eyes as deer have caught in the headlights of a car. For many of [...]