Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

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The Library of Congress Love Letter

In order to keep my blog active (even though most of you are probably reading this through FaceBook) I am going to start what I call the “Library Of Congress Love Letter”. Every day I will extol the virtues of a different Library of Congress call number letter, beginning with A and ending with Z. [...]

And a lace fichu at the neck

I love how ethnographic and well-crafted this description from Amy Bloom’s Normal is: During the Harry Benjamin symposium, I talk to other doctors besides Laub, and to psychologists, psychiatrists, even psychoanalysts, people who collectively have worked with a thousand transsexuals and their families, in the United States and in northern Europe. Among them is Dr. [...]