Sooo, power... seriously though, it's been in my reading a lot lately, as have politics in general (and religion and language)...this definitely isn't because I'm taking Language & Politics and Debates in the Ethnography of Southeast Asia, which might as well have been two parts of the same course, so far, especially when the anthropologists who write the ethnographies also have a political stance... I don't think I have a point here, just rambling. I'm slighty amused though by what I ended up studying and what that says about my own psychology. Clearly, you are my formative experience as a human being. But c'mon, for an anthro course, I had to choose between SE Asia, Post-Mao China, or Christianities. It seemed the obvious choice to me...then again, I guess most people I know think Christianity is just fascinating, and the China course is popular enough to have two sections. But Jon doesn't teach Post-Mao China, and I love Jon, and he needs student support. He makes faces back at me when I make faces in class! And he will come to teach us even when near death...he is devoted, young, poor, incredibly sarcastic, smart, and engaged to a woman he rarely gets to see. I get too attached to professors. Especially self-deprecating visiting professors that are on a yearly-contract and have to live in Reed-owned housing. Whoah, okay, stopping with the tangent now. But we should talk more. Sorry I've been distant lately. I'm still catching up, actually, but I needed a break from reading...which is probably why my tangent is on this subject.
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Date: 2007-02-19 12:15 am (UTC)Sooo, power... seriously though, it's been in my reading a lot lately, as have politics in general (and religion and language)...this definitely isn't because I'm taking Language & Politics and Debates in the Ethnography of Southeast Asia, which might as well have been two parts of the same course, so far, especially when the anthropologists who write the ethnographies also have a political stance... I don't think I have a point here, just rambling. I'm slighty amused though by what I ended up studying and what that says about my own psychology. Clearly, you are my formative experience as a human being. But c'mon, for an anthro course, I had to choose between SE Asia, Post-Mao China, or Christianities. It seemed the obvious choice to me...then again, I guess most people I know think Christianity is just fascinating, and the China course is popular enough to have two sections. But Jon doesn't teach Post-Mao China, and I love Jon, and he needs student support. He makes faces back at me when I make faces in class! And he will come to teach us even when near death...he is devoted, young, poor, incredibly sarcastic, smart, and engaged to a woman he rarely gets to see. I get too attached to professors. Especially self-deprecating visiting professors that are on a yearly-contract and have to live in Reed-owned housing. Whoah, okay, stopping with the tangent now. But we should talk more. Sorry I've been distant lately. I'm still catching up, actually, but I needed a break from reading...which is probably why my tangent is on this subject.