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purple prose
It’s midsummer’s day. No surprise, then, that it’s cold and overcast, with predictions of thunderstorms. If I think back across the year, then it feels like a very long year...
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Just missing the well you weren’t looking for
Although I study biocultural diversity around sacred sites in Asia, and supervise students working on the anthropology of sacred sites in Scotland, I haven’t myself done much work that would...
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Looking for bowerbirds
When I visited Wollongong University in December 2016, I’d no idea what I was getting into, and as it happened, the kind folk who received me had no idea what...
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Year’s progress
We went for a walk above Burn o’Vat Saturday. It was the first day of the Easter holiday for many folk hereabouts, and it was also the First Hot Day...
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Theonormativity
I watched The Bucket List on the aeroplane back from Wuhan at the end of January. The pairing of Morgan Freeman as Christ-figure and Jack Nicholson as redeemable demon is...