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December 02, 2005
Waiting the exotic
(during my flight from Buenos Aires from Johannesburg)
Airports, good places to do ethnographies, this messing of people, different languages and cultures in the same “little” place. Interesting.
Well, it’s in the middle of all this diversity that I can enjoy a funny “quaranic verses” radio on the airplane. Funny just like my position as ethnographer, that is always questioned by that postmodern world. I remember last Saturday class about poststructuralist theories. It’s terrifying to think that all work I’ll do can be depreciated for the only reason that me, as a anthropology student, am not scientific enough. But, please you don’t have to worry, I have “good eye” for this things – just being ironic once more.
Yeah, I’m anxious to get in there soon. I just finished reading the Maus texts about magic, very interesting. I’ve always liked the idea of the magic system being the community’s exacerbate to find mana. I just cant wait to transport all this to the realities.
Posted by josue at December 2, 2005 11:10 AM