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This has been floating around my classes, sorry about the confusion. I think its relevant. mike On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>wrote: > yes, mike, if easily accessible, please repost. > I only know Leguin from her book "That's Funny, You don't look Buddhist" > Would love to read more. > -greg > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:25 PM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Could we call this ambivalence/contradictionS a necessary property of >> joint >> cultural/mediated activity perhaps. Resistance to too much subordination >> is >> the otherface of having no categories at all. I have sent Ursula Leguin's >> short story She Unnames Them to you-all didn't I? If not, shame on me and >> I >> will repost. It is all about classification/naming and resistence. >> Something about power and gender in their too, although my students had a >> hard time believing me when I said that. >> mike >> >> Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Greg, your additional commentary on the resistance to being classified, >> but >> > at the same time wanting to honour and acknowledge our ancestors, is >> > another one of those contradictions [ambivalences??] which I find >> > fascinating. >> > >> __________________________________________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> > > > > -- > Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D. > Visiting Assistant Professor > Department of Anthropology > 883 Spencer W. Kimball Tower > Brigham Young University > Provo, UT 84602 > http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson >
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