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I read the unabridged version of this book for a literary nonfiction course at the University of Idaho, taught by Gary Williams. I read it both on audio and in print.The story is overtly symbolic, which makes the reader naturally want to make meaning ...more "
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"I'm giving up on this one. The authors mean well and there's a nugget of unique ideas, but as someone with as much work experience as either of the authors, this work seems less revolutionary-- but I do find myself thinking about the concepts a lot as my kid experiences emotions." — Aug 23, 2025 10:46AM
"I'm giving up on this one. The authors mean well and there's a nugget of unique ideas, but as someone with as much work experience as either of the authors, this work seems less revolutionary-- but I do find myself thinking about the concepts a lot as my kid experiences emotions." — Aug 23, 2025 10:46AM
“If you found yourself upset at some other society’s customs, Boas argued, the truly scientific thing to do was to analyze your own reaction. It was probably a good clue to the things that your own culture held dear. The best data generator was your own sense of disgust.”
― Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
― Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
“A perfect thing is not everything.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“I myself was both observer and observable, and so a possible object of my own humming awareness.”
― An American Childhood
― An American Childhood
“You could get slaves to do anything at all, bear anything, if you gave them any hope that they could keep their children.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“Don't be ignorant your whole life.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
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