Author: wbtd

Scholar and activist, working on anthropology, ecology and Buddhism. Long-term research in ethnobiology of Asian mountain communities and culturally signficant landscapes (e.g. sacred sites, protected areas) and anthropogenic bidoversity (biocultural diversity). Visiting fellow at University of Hamburg.

  • More music

    It is a part of British middle class life, to which I have been rather inefficiently glued, to wonder what would happen if one were summoned to Desert Island Discs....

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  • Old songs

    BBC 4 is doing a show tonight about the growth of the California music industry from 1965-1975 and it’s dragging me through some amazing moments. Crosby, Stills and Nash; Neil...

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  • Lyrics

    I was just listening to the Bush Tetras, and they said,  ‘You can’t be funky if you haven’t got a soul’.  (‘Can’t be funky’, from New York Noise, Rough Trade.)...

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  • Desperate weather (26 October walk)

    The morning walk on the beach today was punctuated by unexpected animals. I’ve not really been through a whole year here, and while I see the tide rise and fall...

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  • medullar walk (16 October walk)

    I got up very early this morning as I must go down to Edinburgh to look at the nearest available copy of Suśruta. That meant getting up at 4:00 to...

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