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Anthony D. Buckley

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Born

in Castleford, Yorkshire, England, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.anthonydbuckley.com

Genre

Social Sciences, History, Philosophy

Influences

Levi-Strauss, Sartre, Marx, Otto, Kuhn

Member Since

December 2008

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I'm an anthropologist, employed until recently at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra, Co Down in Northern Ireland. My interests include the Catholic-Protestant divide, ethnicity, religion, Freemasonry, the Orange Order, friendly societies and latterly sport. My doctoral thesis, a study of the traditional medicine and religion of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, became a prizewinning book. I am still writing, and have an honorary research fellowship in Anthropology at the Queen's University of Belfast. I am an atheist but my life proves I am obsessed with religion. ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 25 ratings · 7 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Yoruba Medicine 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yoruba Medicines by Dennis M. Warren, Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J. Akintunde Ayandokun (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1973	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brotherhoods in Ireland by Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author), Kenneth Anderson 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Negotiating Identity: Rhetoric, Metaphor, and Social Drama in Northern Ireland by Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author), Mary Catherine Kenney really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Border Crossing: Mumming in Cross-border and Cross-community Context by Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Seamus O Cathain (Editor), Séamus Mac Mathúna (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Gentle People: a study of a peaceful community in Ulster really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collecting Oral History: A Guide for Teachers and Amateur Historians by Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author), Linda-May Ballard, Clifford Harkness liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Symbols by Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author), Rhonda Paisley liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	‘The Chosen Few: Biblical Texts in the Symbolism of an Ulster Secret Society’, Irish Review, no. 2 (1987). did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

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“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
― George Orwell

tags: language, political-correctness

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“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
― H. L. Mencken

tags: death, epitaph

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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: integrity, morality

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