Recent acquisitions:
📖 Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them by Robert A. Orsi
📖 The Hiding Places of God: A Personal Journey into the World of Religious Visions, Holy Objects, and Miracles by John Cornwell
#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead
bailedWell, at almost 50% I‘m tapping out. I can‘t get the 5 hours of my listening life back but I *can* (and did) return this to the library and move on. Here‘s the thing I learned: the author is a skilled linguist and a really, really terrible narrator in equal measure.
This might be a fantastic book in print but it is downright painful to listen to. Later, alligator. 👋
Great insights from ~30 years ago. Loving this book. Also, got a big surprise when I realized that one of the editors of writing science series is the dad of my husband‘s best man. I opened the book and was like hey! I know him! We had a good laugh over it.
1. Yes and yes 2. Books? Maybe cheeky bookmarks or bookish candles Anyone want to play? #two4tuesday
so-soA memoir of the author's year doing anthropological field work amongst the Domayo people of Cameroon. Although it had its moments, it wasn't as funny or interesting as his book about his time in Tanah Toraja.
"‘Why not go on fieldwork then?‘ The question was posed by a colleague at the end of a somewhat bibulous review of the state of the art of anthropology, university teaching and academic life in general."
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
pickThis is a book of photography of a nomadic people of #Niger, the Wodaabe. There‘s enough text to give a feel for their lives and traditions, and the photos are wonderful. It‘s amazing that we all inhabit this blue sphere yet our worlds can be so radically different.
#ReadingAfrica2022
My afternoon with Mead and the seeds of rethinking gender norms.
The sun is shining and 50F! 🌞A welcome change!
Your land has a story, and it‘s worth listening
