#lse tony

[hotkingu]

I would still be down if he's down for it.

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

I'm sorry but being whispered poetry in such an intimate fashion is my highest standard now. IF YOU YOU CAN'T DO THAT GET OUT OF MY FACE 😭😭😭

[justanotherrcblog]

Tony looking sus/aware of whatever’s going on…

I’m not on his route, and I didn’t screenshot *everything*, so I’m probably missing a bunch of relevant moments, but what are your theories?

While we’re in the meta horror sub genre, this looks more specific to the situation than just trope awareness

M.C is definitely connected as well, dreaming of and being drawn to the castle. Does he know this too?

[hell-chronicles]

LSE LIs as iconic horror/thriller characters in movies

@rc-appreciationweeks

Chad as Ghostface (Scream)

Tony as Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)

Courtney as Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)

Sue as Nancy Downs (The Craft)

Johnny as Peter Graham (Hereditary)

Mr.Collins as Jigsaw (Saw)

[zhoras-bitch]

LSE writer has shared the surnames of the main cast on his TG channel. I haven't seen anyone post them here, so I translated his post for y'all.

"Chad Parker. I wanted it to be an old aristocratic surname, since Chad is the well-behaved athlete model student and all that.

Sue Hayes*. The surname had to be as tough and prickly as Sue herself.

Tony Brooks. To make a connection with both the vampire and the hunter, I looked for Americanized Polish surnames.

Courtney Summers. Obviously, from the word 'summer'. That's the associations her character evokes.

Johnny Vickers. I wanted the first name and last name to be as mismatched as possible and not go together. They would be full of contradictions, just like Johnny himself."

* There are a bunch of similarly sounding English surnames like Haise, Hayes, Hays, Haze etc. that share the same spelling in Russian, so it's unclear which one is Sue's real surname. I assumed Hayes because it's the most common of the bunch.

[waugh-bao]

🍄 🍬 🔪

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

I fully believe that Mick has a Charlie horde on the same level as Keith’s, he just chooses to hide it from us.

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

We all know I’m not a Glimmer Twins girl, but in general I also find a lot of the fandom analysis of Mick (as a real person, but also as a character in fic I suppose) sort of silly or eye-roll worthy. I’m especially not fond of the whole ‘he’s only bad to women because he’s a closeted gay man who couldn’t have the partner he wanted most!’ discourse. Both as apologia for a lot of misogyny (as well as questionable/absentee parenting) and because I just don’t think it’s especially true. It says so much to me about their relationship that the band’s publicist Tony King wrote in his book about telling the Glimmers they needed to share a mic and stay closer together on stage more often because the fans eat it up.

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

I’m constantly looking up weird shit because of what I do for a living (you start questioning your life choices when you’re Googling why Sabbtai Sevi putting little clothes on a fish was a signal he was the messiah), but for a fic it was probably double checking whether scholarship boys were a thing in the way we (?) think of them at Eton in the 18th century for that Patrick O’Brian style Age of Sail AU. It gave me some unwanted flashbacks to Robinson-Gallagher ‘official mind’ historiographical discourse, and also a lot of guys I didn’t particularly like at LSE.

[aslanvlad]

Who are your LIs from all the current books? 💕

Oh hey!! A question!!! Thank you for asking 🥺🥹

I’ve split into ongoing and complete, bolded the lomls, italicised my faves, and marked ones that I regret in red.

ONGOING BOOKS:

DLS - Leo/Aslan HELL - Sunny PSI - Kay VFV - Bonne TDR - Mustafa HS2 - Mimi (she deserves better than this book) TAG - Karl/Daniel (kinda dc about this book tho) SCN - Ramesses/Livius CY2 - Rachel LSE - Tony/Cat Vampire WTC - Shen (but genuinely want them all) GOE - Doo-yeong SL - Threxia

COMPLETE BOOKS:

TO - Luka • THEO - John • FTF - Kingu • KCD - Lima • HOT - Wyatt • GC - Afiy • SOL - Sherlock • ARC - Rob • OTI - Hodge • STW - Benedict • ROTT - Adrian • LOTW - Kazu • HS - Mimi • CY - Rachel • SBTR - Claire • WP - Jake • Q30D - Richard • SOS - Michael • MHS - Ray • MB - Victor • SITF - Sebastian

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[atimebombarcarchive]

🥝 !

for every 🥝 i get, i’ll recommend a blog i love

@ircnego / @marvelousxmuse / @starkonetm!!! Such a gem. I think I got all your blogs? ANYWAY! Just such a devoted writer, such a nice person, so good at their muses??? Like all of them??? WTF it’s not fair pal. But it’s amazing and I adore Yang and everything Yang does. 

[hotkingu]

does anyone know if the hot hunter from LSE is a love interest??

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

Final contribution for the RC Halloween event hosted by @rc-appreciationweeks !!!

Mina and Tony from Love, Sin & Evil which I've yet to finish playing...

[ao3feed-stucky]

by kosmokuns

Steve really wishes Clint would leave him alone, Sam would move in with Riley and he could go to art school, but with money comes power, something Bucky knows very well, and artists don't have money or power - his father wouldn't want that.

Bucky grew up in a new era of Russia, a british child in a country growing in power and poverty, thrust back into England with one real arm and a sexuality crisis. He doesn't find his life fun.

alternatively; steve causes bucky a crisis, clint is almost a communist and occasionally gets people in the right place at the right time.

Words: 2225, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Peggy Carter, Tony Stark, Brock Rumlow, Jack Rollins, Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Serena Barnes, Tobias Beecher, Winifred Barnes

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson

Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff, Coming Out, Bullying, the pride alliance of LSE, bucky plays lacrosse, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, bucky's had it rough, Making Out, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - No Powers, they are all rich upperclass kids, clint has hearing aids and bucky has a prosthetic, Bisexual Steve Rogers, Gay Bucky Barnes, yay!!, clint is wild, im not a communist i swear, all will be revealed

[ao3feed-buckybarnes]

sexually repressed communists

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/31KY6sf

by kosmokuns

Steve really wishes Clint would leave him alone, Sam would move in with Riley and he could go to art school, but with money comes power, something Bucky knows very well, and artists don't have money or power - his father wouldn't want that.

Bucky grew up in a new era of Russia, a british child in a country growing in power and poverty, thrust back into England with one real arm and a sexuality crisis. He doesn't find his life fun.

alternatively; steve causes bucky a crisis, clint is almost a communist and occasionally gets people in the right place at the right time.

Words: 2225, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Peggy Carter, Tony Stark, Brock Rumlow, Jack Rollins, Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Serena Barnes, Tobias Beecher, Winifred Barnes

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson

Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff, Coming Out, Bullying, the pride alliance of LSE, bucky plays lacrosse, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, bucky's had it rough, Making Out, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - No Powers, they are all rich upperclass kids, clint has hearing aids and bucky has a prosthetic, Bisexual Steve Rogers, Gay Bucky Barnes, yay!!, clint is wild, im not a communist i swear, all will be revealed

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/31KY6sf

[stones-muses]

When Mick first met Chrissie, He was then 19 and a student at the London School of Economics, while Chrissie, 17, was a secretary in Covent Garden — in those days still the scene of a raucous fruit and veg market.

‘Mick would come and meet me for lunch,’ Chrissie recalls. ‘One day, as we walked through the market, a stall-holder threw a cabbage at his head and shouted “You ugly f*****”.’

Given all this, it’s perhaps not surprising that Mick hugely enjoyed showing off his beautiful ‘bird’ to his fellow LSE students, and she would later become the envy of his legions of fans. But life as his trophy girlfriend was far from the paradise they might have imagine

It was a fate which the young Chrissie can scarcely have envisaged when she first locked eyes with Mick Jagger at the Ricky-Tick, a blues club opposite Windsor Castle, in early 1963.

She occasionally collected glasses at the Ricky-Tick — one of the many small clubs the newly-formed Rolling Stones played as they began making their name in early 1963.

The night they met, Mick asked her out on a date. They had been seeing each other for about two weeks when the Stones’ fortunes suddenly began to improve with the appointment of their first manager, Andrew Loog Oldham.

‘As far as I was concerned, it was total love and I’d be with him for the rest of my life. I hated all the fan hysteria stuff, and I wasn’t that interested in running around the clubs and everything rock chicks are supposed to do. All I wanted was to have babies and be normal.’

At first, it seemed that her newly-famous lover shared her values.‘When I was first with Mick, I wasn’t allowed to look at anyone else or even be friends with girls he considered tarts,’ she says.Yet increasingly he seemed to regard any attractive young female who crossed his own path as fair game.

For her own peace of mind, Chrissie did not inquire too deeply into what went on out on the road. ‘I think I only knew he was unfaithful to me about three times, though there must have been many more times when I didn’t find out. And when I did, he would be so regretful.‘I remember him playing I’ve Been Loving You Too Long — the first time I’d heard that beautiful song, which I still find hard to listen to — after I’d found out about something. And I can remember him lying on the floor and crying all over my feet because I’d threatened to leave him.’

Despite such upsets, she and Mick were eventually engaged. No date was set for the wedding, but, in preparation, Mick’s mother, Eva, taught Chrissie to make pastry — for Eva, one of the first essentials of good-wifeliness — while Chrissie’s father, Ted, began looking for houses suitable for them once they were married.In June 1966, Mick made his own efforts in that direction, renting a fifth-floor flat in Harley House, an Edwardian mansion block near Regent’s Park. It was supposed to be their first home as newlyweds, but soon after finding the flat, he informed Chrissie that he no longer wanted to get married, just to live with her there.She paid a heavy price for agreeing to this new arrangement. Until then she’d managed to conceal from her parents the fact that she was spending most nights with Mick — keeping on, as a cover, a small bedsit in West London with a friend.The news that she would be openly ‘living in sin’ was so shaming a prospect for her father that he warned she would no longer be welcome at their family home if she went through with it.

That was at a party in London. While the other girls were wearing the new daringly short skirts of the day, Marianne arrived in blue jeans and a baggy shirt.

She caused a stir nonetheless. ‘It was like seeing the Virgin Mary with an amazing pair of t**s,’ says record promoter Tony Calder, who was there with Mick and Stones’ manager Andrew Oldham.

Around that time, Mick made various clumsy attempts at seduction — on one occasion trying to persuade her to sit on his lap in a taxi. But she dismissed him as a ‘cheeky little yob’ and went on to marry John Dunbar, with whom she had a son, Nicholas.

She had clearly changed her mind about Mick by the time of that Bristol concert. Her marriage was already over by then, and, after she and Mick slept together at his hotel after the show that night, he began visiting her secretly at her flat in London.

On December 15, Chrissie and Mick were supposed to be going on holiday, but there was no sign of him, and when she phoned his office she discovered that the flights had been cancelled. Even then, she still had no idea that he was seeing Marianne.

‘I remember thinking “He doesn’t want me, and I can’t live without him”.’Alone at the Harley House flat with her dog, six cats and three songbirds chirruping in the Victorian cage which Mick had bought for her 21st, Chrissie took an overdose of sleeping pills.

Only after Chrissie was released from the hospital, and recuperating at her parents’ home, did she learn from the newspapers about Mick and Marianne. And when at last she nerved herself to return to Harley House to collect her possessions, she found the flat’s front-door lock had been changed and she had to telephone the Stones’ office and make an appointment to be allowed in.

[notesfromthefielddesk]

Episode 2 - E.E. Evans Pritchard

Episode link - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LqJQ1q2kv5utkoct7V8Cg?si=485ef5c24837440e

John

I’m looking out over the plains of what was once Nuerland. The heavy clay earth is broken apart by the relentless sun. Deep cracks and the threaded depressions of rivers which rarely fill, even in the rainy season, are the only features on the dead flat, almost alien landscape. Around me cattle rest on the slightly (We hear gentle mooing) elevated sandy spot I found for my desk. From here I can see clear to the horizon where I spot sporadic patches of trees but all other greenery has browned and died back months ago. What these cows are living off is beyond me.

In years past the sodden clay retained water allowing certain plants to survive through the dry months. When the rain came this whole plain would be covered in grass reaching over my head as I sit behind my desk. Near the rivers edge they’d reach up to my shoulders even when standing. The rivers would fill then overflow making the whole plain a marshy swamp. At times like those this sandy mound would be prime real-estate and i’d be sharing space with far more cows.

Nowadays, this is South Sudan. The rainy season has become more sporadic and unpredictable. Often the relief of rains arrival is followed - shortly - by overwhelming flooding. Right now people are still waiting on that rain.

(we hear the wind starting to pick up)

The wind is picking up. A cloud of dust is rising on the plain. The horizon, with it’s sporadic trees and the cracked earth disappear from view behind a wall of air thick with clay. I can see about two cows away. Out of the dust emerges a figure. They’re walking towards me.

This is notes from the field desk.

Theme

oh! you. Look after what you told me in Papua new guinea I don’t think we should be talking. What are you doing here anyway? -

what do you mean am I following you? I am here by chance. My flight back to London from Brisbane got diverted because of technical fault with the plane and we landed in Juba. So there is no way I could have followed you here. If anything you’re probably followed me!

(sigh) Fine, I suppose there is no harm in you sitting here. There’s a tree stump just there you can listen to me record if you want. That is if you’re not busy organising a coup or whatever.

Anyway, when we got grounded in Juba I had a look through my collection. Oh, I should explain, I travel with a trunk of the one hundred most influential ethnographies, that’s what we call the books anthropologists write.

Side note, I never thought the trunk would be a problem, in all these Ethnographies they talk about getting porters to carry all their stuff, but when I asked at the airport for a porter, they just laughed at me?

Anyway, we were grounded a while before they cancelled the flight. So I had a look and it turns out another anthropological founding father did research in South Sudan. E.E.Evans-Pritchard. Or as I call him EEEE Pritchard. Okay well look, I don’t even want you to find my jokes funny so you just sit there rolling your eyes all you want.

Evans-Pritchard was a student of Malinowski at LSE and in the late 1920’s he set out for what was then Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He wrote a couple of Ethnographies about the Azande which mostly focused on magic, kind of an obsession with early anthropologists. Then he headed south in 1930 to do research on the Nuer, which focused mostly on politics. A good hard subject we can get our teeth into! Anglo-Egyptian Sudan came Sudan in 1956, then split into the mostly Muslim North and mostly Christian South in 2011. Then in 2021 I arrived to do some peer-reviewing. I’m hoping Evan’s Pritchard is a bit less of a controversial figure so my students will get off my back.

(phone rings) ignore that, i’m ignoring, that’s nothing.

(Clearly still flustered) Okay, last time, we talked about the two sides of anthropology, the field and the desk. If Malinowski represents the innovation of field, you know participating in society, going native, spending years in the field. Then Evans-Pritchard is the OG anthropologist who developed the desk. Anthropology trades on being able to create a sense of being there through vivd description, where Malinowski could be a bit stiff and scientific Evans-Pritchard had a bit of flare with his flowing prose.

Is that cow looking at me? That one there with huge horns. I swear to god it’s looking at me.

Anyway, EP, I like calling him EP when I do he feels like a friend. (clear throat) He made drawings, he took tonnes of pictures, he described the plains, some of his diary crept into the ethnography. No racism as far as I could tell but He talks about being frustrated, he shows his work. A move towards modern anthropology. So reading his The Nuer, which is the ethnography he wrote about this region, is really like the experience of being here. Way less of a slog than boring old Malinowski.

(Email Chime)

Ohh an email, do you mind if I just check this? I just got assigned a student whose thesis i’m supervising. Very exciting. Shaping the next generation of anthropologists and all that.

okay, here we go.

“Dear Professor Johnson”

Not a professor but i’m quite pleased with that.

“I discussed briefly with Susan, uh-huh, during the introduction lecture that I’d be interested in researching the club scene, queer identity and youth in London. I’ve been reading tony Adams and Stacy Holman Jones on Auto-ethnography and that’s inspired me to try it myself. If you could point me in the direction of some readings to get myself started with.

All the best,”

I’ll leave their name out of it, bit of privacy. Hmm well i’m not sure about that. I mean really ethnography should be done in a rural place, not the city, should they even be doing research in the UK? This is anthropology not sociology. Plus auto-ethnography? I’ve never heard of it but we’re supposed to be studying the other not ourselves, this isn’t psychology. Hmm well I need to think about a reply, don’t want to stamp on the young fellows aspirations but he needs setting straight.

What is that cow doing. Is it - it’s coming over here isn’t it. Shoo, shoo! it’s licking me. Do something don’t just laugh. No do not nibble my suit! Argh. This suit cost a lot of money cow! Get off me. Shoo. Fine, i’m getting up. it’s your desk now!

Go on get out of here!

You know what happens now because you wouldn’t help me? We’re going to talk about theory. Yes groan away, there isn’t even a sea for you to paddle in this time so I guess you’ll just have to sit down there with the cows and listen.

This book actually is mostly about cows. All three hundred pages of it, I don’t think there is a single sentence that doesn’t mention cows or cattle or I don’t know bovine. I mean I like cows as much as the next englishman but it’s not exactly thrilling. But in fairness to Evans-Pritchard the Nuer didn’t exactly give him a choice. He said that

“whatever subject I would start on, and approaching it from whatever angle, we would soon be speaking of cows and oxen, heifers and steers, rams and sheep, hegoats and she-goats, calves and lambs and kids.”

Basically the Nuer loved cows. He said this fact was the underlying structure of Nuer society. So everything in Nuer society comes back to cows. Love, war, religion, politics, it was all about cows.

Our boy EP is a structural functionalist, - look the terms are important so just get used to it - meaning he thought there are underlying structures to all societies, that cause us to behave in a certain ways. Where Malinowski and functionalism thought post hoc ergo propter hoc - I can see you rolling your eyes, sometimes latin is useful! (deep sigh) Fine, i’ll explain it another way.

Malinowski would say the Nuer like cows because they give them milk - our boy EP would say okay but why love cows instead of say… soy beans which can also give you milk. It’s because the conditions the land in which the Nuer live aren’t good for growing soy beans, but they are good for raising cattle.

What would be a good comparison. Okay, Malinowski would say you like your iPhone because it gives you messages from friends. Those messages make you feel nice, so it fills a need. And EP might say, yes that’s true but it’s also possible that you like the phone because the underlying structure of Western society values objects especially expensive ones. Or else you’d have a nokia 3310. It still fills the same function but EP aims to explain why people choose one thing over another. If you’re a quote fan here is how Evans-Pritchard put it.

“Although the Nuer have a mixed pastoral-horticultural economy their country is more suitable for cattle husbandry than for horticulture, so that the environmental bias coincides with the bias of their interest and does not encourage a change in the balance in favour of horticulture.”

Oh there is a guy over there! (Shouting) Hey! Hey sir! Sir! Who do these cows belong to? Sir? (Biggish pause) (Snort in distance) He’s gone. Well I didn’t have time to chat anyway, i’ve got a tutorial. Just keep that cow away from me while I’m teaching. I doubt you care but here’s a Nuer song that Evans Pritchard translated.

Extract

The wind blows wira wira;

Where does it blow to?

It blows to the river. The shorthorn carries its full udder to the pastures;'

Let her be milked by Nyagaak;

My belly will be filled with milk. Thou pride of Nyawal,

Ever-quarrelling Rolnyang.

This country is overrun by strangers;

They throw our ornaments into the river;

They draw their water from the bank.

Blackhair my sister,

I am bewildered.

Blackhair my sister,

I am bewildered.

We are perplexed;

We gaze at the stars of God.

White ox good is my mother

And we the people of my sister. The people of Nyariau Bui.

As my black-rumped white ox. When I went to court the winsome lassie,

I am not a man whom girls refuse. We court girls by stealth in the night,

I and Kwejok Nyadeang.

We brought the ox across the river,

I and Kirj oak

And the son of my mother's sister Buth Gutjaak.

Friend, great ox of the spreading horns,

Which ever bellows amid the herd. Ox of the son.

Return from tutorial

You let the cows eat my notes!? I thought I said watch the cows! What happened? Was it that same cow again? What do you mean they all look the same, the one with the evil eyes!

Okay, so it seems like I missed some things again. The students pointed out that on page one of the preface, I might have skipped the preface, says “My study of the Nuer was undertaken at the request of, and was mainly financed by, the Government of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.” Which means the colonial government most likely paid for him to do the research because they wanted to control the Nuer. He describes them as violent willing to go to war over cattle at the drop of a hat. In text he says;

“At the present time cattle are the main cause of hostility

towards, and suspicion of, the Government, not so much on

account of present taxation as of earlier tax-gathering patrols

which were little more than cattle raids and of the avowedly

plundering expeditions of the Egyptian Government era that

preceded them.”

The students pointed out that given theat the government violently took their property, it was kind of understandable that the Nuer were angry. Again, if he was there trying to collect information so the colonial officers could control them, can we trust his findings?

During the second world war he used his ethnographic relationships to recruit Sudanese troops who he then led in Guerrilla warfare against the Italians. I said that sounds pretty cool right? Which made them angry, academic knowledge shouldn’t be used as a weapon to manipulate people into fighting in a war, which, regardless of the outcome would leave them colonised. They asked why we were spending so much time focussing on old men.

(Phone rings) Ignore that!

Pause takes a breath

I said fine, but we have to cover foundational figures who would they rather cover? What about Boas? He thought races were biological different and with some inferior to others. Ruth Benedict? They say she wrote a book for the US army in the Second World War about how to defeat the Japanese based on their culture without ever setting foot in Japan. Fine, Margret Mead? Exoticised the sex lives of Samoans and thought they were primitive.

I’m taking off this jacket it’s so hot and it’s got cow slobber all over the shoulder.

Well if all of them were racist then let’s just pack the whole thing in! They said I wasn’t understanding. I was thinking about racism as an individual failing caused by ignorance. But they weren’t ignorant, their racism was a product of society. In that way Evans-Pritchard was right. They lived during colonialism and the rise of the nation state. Which meant Nations had to justify their difference from others and their superiority over others.

People had to have a reason to believe in “Being British” rather than French or Sudanese. Or why would you think it was okay to rule them? Or to enforce boarders?  These ideas of superiority and difference permeated the early anthropologists the same way the utility of cow herding led to the Nuer loving cattle. So everyone from that era was bound to be Colonialist.

They also said It doesn’t help that doing fieldwork confirms the differences between people. My head felt like it was going to explode. Still trying to figure it all out and it doesn’t help that that cow is still looking at me. I asked where they were getting all this from? Lentin and Visweswaren they said, apparently it’s on the reading list… I haven’t read the reading list.

(Phone rings once but he immediately hangs it up)

So, they said maybe next we could talk about Talal Asad. Apparently he is an anti-colonial ethnographer or something. I said fine whatever. They seem to know more than me anyway. Maybe we shouldn’t do fieldwork, maybe we should all do auto-ethnography. My students said maybe, but we still need to pay attention because racism hasn’t gone away, it’s still in our society. Which means we still might make arguments for it in our work unless we’re careful.

I guess before I do field work I should look at what the underlying structures of Britain are effecting my thinking. Not just my assumptions like I thought with Malinowski but what it means for a British person to turn up at a former colony. What does that act mean even before I start interacting with people.

I know that sounds like the same conclusion as episode one but my students assure me it’s subtly different. My head hurts, let’s go.

Nah leave the desk I’ll just get another.

Theme

This was notes from the field desk written by me James McGrail.  

This episode references

Evans-Pritchard, E.E., The Nuer, 1940, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Lentin, A. (2004). Racial states, anti-racist responses. Picking holes in 'Culture' and 'Human Rights'. European Journal of Social Theory 7(4): 427-443.

Pocock, D. (1975). Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard 1902–1973: An appreciation. Africa, 45(3)

Visweswaran, Kamala (1998) Race and the Culture of Anthropology, American Anthropologist 100/1: 70-83.

Theme ends

Susan

Do you think I’m stupid? You think I believe your flight got diverted to South Sudan? South Sudan? Oh and it just so happens that it’s thematically appropriate for your little podcast? Get back to London. Now. We need to have a serious conversation.

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[cloudtales]

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