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Orthodox Marxism is dope

This book has been slow going, but it is rich and fascinating. It is nice to linger on the pages. Evans-Pritchard has up to this point described the Nuer's esteem and reliance on cattle, how their cattle rearing occurred in an arid environment shaped by the monsoon cycle; and he has theorized how their material circumstances shape their ideas of time and space.

Covered: slavery, emancipation and sharecropping, urban migration, washer women, Pullman porters, great migration, domestic workers.

Reading this for my dissertation yet I am glad to read it. Favorite pieces so far: A Remarkable Man, A Poem of Difficult Hope, Writer and Region, God and Country.

So I've decided that I want to obtain a BA in English without going to school again. I've created a list of 120 books that are more or less representative of the history of English literature. First book? The King James Version of the Bible (no Apocrypha ;_;). I just got through Genesis (pretty stories!), Exodus (pretty story then rules), and Leviticus (just rules). Wish me luck!

Booker T. Washington is a complex man. This is a complex book.

Hahaha reading this book review about Nate Shaw and Theodore Rosengarten makes me think about a class where the book was assigned ... allow me a Proustian reverie

Of the Black Belt... good stuff

This is definitely the most exciting part of the book. Gumsa and gumlao alternate, and the Kachin gumsa attempt to model themselves after Shan but this has its complications.

I'm so glad this was never spoiled for me.

I am enjoying Leach. Where do all these rules exist though? I think Leach thinks of them as scientific abstractions but I'm not sure yet.

Helen Burns was a real one