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Hi tribeguy,



And have you ever seen me claiming that I am an "expert" on the tribes in Iraq? "Granular knowledge", at least in Anthropology, is gained both by reading about something and,...

At the moment, focused on a presentation I have to give on Tuesday and another on a paper for mid-June. As i said, I'm up to my eyebrows in work right now ;).

Hi Sam,



Get's us back to Clausewitz doesn't it :D? Yeah, I agree that the devil is in the details when it comes to applying the concept. Personally, I don't know who the ones in Iraq are......

Hi Sam,



About noble tribes? Pretty simple concept which, depending on locale, refers to a "sacred" lineage. It shows up around the world in various forms and with different criteria for...

Hello Sam,



Well, there are a lot of reasons why that material was not part of the available information, although most of them boil down to a simple one: it didn't fit with the main stream...

Hi Tequila,



I agree, it is probably verboten. Does this mean I will have to delete it from my laptop before entering the US :eek:?

Marc

It reminds me of some of the material from the 1960s on Vietnamese tribes. I agree, it is the sort of material that should be available.

Marc

Hi Rifleman,

I s'pose that when it comes down to it, most of us have a "live and let live" attitude which, for us, gets expressed via a democratic mythos - whether that's republican or a...

A very interesting article, and you're right, the parts on sulh an Musalaha were very interesting. Thanks for posting it. It was especially apropos, since I had just finished re-reading the first...

Kudos for posting this link!

I just finished reading it carefully, and I'll tell you right now that I will be using it as a text / example in any course I teach on applied Anthropology. While it...

Too true :D !

For us, it tends to, usually, not break down into schools, but "lineages" (who was your supervisor, and theirs, etc.). This makes for some pretty strange tribal gatherings :D . I...

Geeze! You're not THAT masochistic, are you Steve?:eek:

Actually, I've found that talking with academics about their work becomes a lot more comprehensible with almost any alcohol <wry grin>. ...

Great! I've often found that academic material goes down better with a beer (or 6!).

Marc

Hi Stu,

Well, the Sahlins book Tribesmen is pretty short and there is another in the same series call Pastoralists that would also work. You could read either one of them in a couple of hours...

True, I just wish that he wasn't so - oooh what's the word I'm looking for? Hmm - "stupid" just about covers it <wry grin>. Seriously, thought, he could have made the same general pints and then...

Hi Tom,

I hope the fishing was good! :)



Oh, I have no difficulty with that part of what he said :). Afterall, "freedom" may just mean the freedom to carry out a longstanding feud without...

LOLOL Too true!

What really got me was two things:

he is using "tribe" as if there is only one type of tribe and "they are all the same" (which is a crock);
his entire rant is based on the...

Thanks for posting this, Ray. It sounds like they are updating the old Ft. Bragg military-culture briefings.

Marc

What a mishmash of outdated ideas! Some of his "observations", if they can be called that, are pretty good - at least about how pastoralist tribes' honour systems operate. The rest is a rehash of...