Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

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Vayyikra: It’s Sacrificetastic!

This week marks the start of the “Book of Leviticus”:http://www.hareidi.org/bible/Leviticus1.htm#1 for all of who follow the Laws of the God of Jacob. Leviticus is one of my favorite books of the bible because of all the rich ethnography. I mean: it’s sacrificetastic! When I finished reading this week’s portion I gave a sort of self-satisfied [...]

Samson Pacific Bibliography Crawl

I finished June Sampson’s excellent _Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands_ quite some time ago but I haven’t returned it to the library yet becasue I haven’t written down the articles she cites that I want to read. Since this is the place I’m least likely to loose them, you all get [...]