Anya Smith
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Anya Smith
So anthropology grounds Asya. At the same time, the novel gestures to the discipline’s troubled past, with its colonial underpinnings and tendency to exploit, extract, and other its subjects.
Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Erin Glasstwitter.comWith anthropology, you can study just about anything related to humans, and in doing so, you can establish very deep connections to and with people.
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
anthropology
Its scholars study many different kinds of cultural groups—from hunter-gatherer clans to corporations to nations—investigating cognitive structures, social structures, biases, and behaviors.
Michael Morris • Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
That everything should decay is a law of nature. Fruits decay, plants decay, animals decay, man decays. This world of ours would clog up if there were no decay.
-American Food Journal, 1915
we will never have sex song
Our collective idea of “community” has changed dramatically over the past couple of decades. Tectonic societal and economic shifts, as well as blindingly fast advances in technology, have caused each of us to periodically erase and redraw our own definitions and expectations of the communities around us.
Shripriya Mahesh • A Sense of Belonging
fucking insane how we started with dirt and rocks and dead trees and somehow built all of this shit. empty planet of nothing and now look at us glass skyscrapers cutting through clouds digital networks spanning continents. we took useless ancient plants crushed under dirt for millions of years and turned them into flying metal birds that cross... See more
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“It used to be that people were born as part of a community, and had to find their place as individuals. Now people are born as individuals, and have to find their community.”