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The Anthropologist
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Listening to others. Taking them seriously. Fashioning the world.
In Borges
In Borges, a blind writer meets a blind reader...
Shashwat
Where is “the Way”? The Mencian Discourse as Ritual Site for Imaginative Reconstitution of Social Categories
How did we come to imagine the world in the ways that we do? How did we begin to use the categories we use? How did these concepts and categories acquire “meaning” so that using them we can make “sense”?
Shashwat
Beethoven’s “Für Elise” and the Ritual of Garbage Collection in Taipei (垃圾車來了!)
People in India are very easily ashamed, disgraced, annoyed, angered and outraged by dirty streets, overflowing garbage, mountains of landfills that grow mound by mound over a pond, a lake, a river, and turn what could have been sites of repose and proximity to the natural world into hellscapes that remind us of our banishment from paradise here on earth. Imagine my surprise, then, on finding no trash cans on the streets of Taipei. Intuition leads us to believe that the absen
Shashwat
Essays
In Borges
In Borges, a blind writer meets a blind reader...
Shashwat
Where is “the Way”? The Mencian Discourse as Ritual Site for Imaginative Reconstitution of Social Categories
How did we come to imagine the world in the ways that we do? How did we begin to use the categories we use? How did these concepts and categories acquire “meaning” so that using them we can make “sense”?
Shashwat
Beethoven’s “Für Elise” and the Ritual of Garbage Collection in Taipei (垃圾車來了!)
People in India are very easily ashamed, disgraced, annoyed, angered and outraged by dirty streets, overflowing garbage, mountains of landfills that grow mound by mound over a pond, a lake, a river, and turn what could have been sites of repose and proximity to the natural world into hellscapes that remind us of our banishment from paradise here on earth. Imagine my surprise, then, on finding no trash cans on the streets of Taipei. Intuition leads us to believe that the absen
Shashwat
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