Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

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The benefits of an extra wife

Note to self: next time I teach about plolygyny in class, be sure to use “Michelle Cottle’s”:http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060501&s=cottle050306 recent piece in TNR to spur discussion.

Broadsides Galore

The “National Library of Scotland”:http://www.nls.uk/ has a lovely site full of “scanned-in broadsides”:http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/index.html that you can browse through. They are redolent of period, and the best place on the web to find “all the lyrics to ‘where did you get that hat’”:http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15063/criteria/where%20did%20you%20get%20that%20hat.