Sublime

If anthropology proved less than revelatory in that case, or rather if what it revealed was only that globalization and technology have made ways of being across cultures increasingly generic, the discipline has equipped Asya with a way to organize her thoughts about the world, which, we learn, has long been useful in making sense of a life without... See more

For a variety of reasons it is common in our culture to regard only indigenous peoples as possessing a valuable knowledge base that is being (or has been) lost or denigrated. The truth is quite different. All cultures or subgroups, including mainstream Western cultures, who possess any direct experiential information about and connection to the

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Because biophilia is a natural, genetic, and evolutionary process, it will continue to emerge with the same tenacity as weeds breaking through civilization’s sidewalks. Its emergence will be greeted by reductionists with the same dismay that city planners greet those weeds—somewhat like a dinner host greets an uninvited, and rather unruly, guest at

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The sauba ants that could reduce the men’s clothes and rucksacks to threads in a single night. The ticks that attached like leeches (another scourge) and the red hairy chiggers that consumed human tissue. The cyanide-squirting millipedes. The parasitic worms that caused blindness. The berne flies that drove their ovipositors through clothing and

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