Last King Killing February 12, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
Armchair anthropologists (such as this blogger) often thrill over the stories of mutilated and better still murdered kings and the rituals described by Frazer and his heirs in the tropics and reconstructed (ahem imagined) in European history. The king is the land, and as he becomes old and frail he must be sacrificed so life […]
The Godly Tape Recorder March 6, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
A very brief blog today as exams are on and marking will be intense. Beach recently had the luck to stumble on this beautiful piece in a routine outline of anthropological research. He was reminded of that great A.C.Clarke quotation: ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ To someone in New Guinea ignorant of […]
