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At 10:55 +0000 9/11/06, ... wrote:
Can you please remind me of the significance of the rabbit? Some new people
would want to know too.
Thanks,
...
At 11:20 09.11.06, ... wrote:
Anthropologists are like Alice chasing the rabbit down a hole and entering
a world where nothing makes sense. Their bodies feel out of whack, and their
expectations don't get them very far at tea parties or conversations with
Mad Hatters. I think the tea party scene is one of the best characterizations
of the problems fieldwork I have every read.
The Rabbit is also about as neutral as one can get with respect to geography,
race, or class. It can represent The Other or Anthropology at Home. Wonderland
is not located in any specific place, but is a state of mind (fieldwork mode).
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Nice one - thanks ... I only hope that this message is clear to people who look at the dep web site.
...
It combines the themes of human-animal relations, colonial exploration, and
the society/nature interface, all central to what we do, along with a wry
comment on the absurd business of academic life! It also breaks with the convention
of identifying anthropology with stereotypical images from 'non-western cultures'.
Above all, it is fun. I hope it will make people smile when they see it, so
they will think 'Here's a Department where people are still enjoying what
they do'.
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