Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

This weekend I moderated a panel at a conference. One of the speakers there was one of the guys who is responsible for helping to measure Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness (that’s what it’s called). There are a lot of Hawaii-Bhutan connections, and it occurred to me that Bhutan has a lot in common with another [...]

“The task of the anthropologist is to get as near as possible to what actually happens, but to place it and to think about it in a context of humanity in general” -Meyer Fortes, Introduction to The Segmentary Lineage Model Reconsidered