Month: March 2007

  • Ethnobiology Conference, Berkeley

    That was the most interesting conference I have ever attended. After several years of reading through articles, doing interviews, tentatively teaching: this the reward. Good people. Interesting data. Good arguments....

  • Re/discovering words

    I’ve been combing through dictionaries recently. Nepali, Newari, Scottish, Spanish and finally even English. It’s given me back a few tangy terms I thought I had long since lost. Enthymeme...

  • Spring in Aberdeen

    Nothing like it. I was running at 6:30 this morning with Hakunica, thumping along the frosty beach with the tide drawn right back to expose the old stakes where the...