Status Updates From La caída del hombre natural...

Already feeling like a mandatory read for anyone addressing human development and educational psychology

For anyone interested in reading about ethnography and the Amerindian, this is a good place to start.

Mmm. The myth of Amerindian cannibalism.

'[Natural law is] the conviction that the values one holds are grounded in the structure of reality, that between the way one ought to live and the way things really are there is an unbreakable inner connection'- Glifford Geertz

To speak of the discovery of America as having had an impact at all is probably an error, for it has all too often led to the assumption that the initial failure of Europeans to recognize the newness of the New World, was the consequence of their stubborn insistence on misrepresenting any fragment of the real world of America which threatened their preconceived notions of what should have been there.