The Corkonian Anthropologist

Review of Zheng Yongnian’s title ‘The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperorship: culture, reproduction and transformation’. Please give a few seconds for document to load from Scribd.

A recent article in The Guardian relays another cable from wikileaks detailing an undercover visit by American embassy staff to a tiger farm near Guilin in Guizhou province in China. I visited there myself in mid 2009 and the article reminded me to write up a brief description of my experience there before I let it go any longer.

This is a book review (draft version) for the Journal of International Political Anthropology. Please check their website for free published version. Only quote and reference published version at IPA website.

The central concern is that of beauty and its role in culture, politics, and all realms of human social life. Beauty is to be considered as a central experience to human life. This, as the broad principle of the book, opens the field to allow for a variety of papers that focus on beauty across many different settings.

Go and have a look at this website – www.wtfnoway.com for a visualization of the United States debt problem, it is pretty staggering especially when you realise the amount they are talking about only refers to running the country on a day to day basis and does not take into account unfunded liabilities for Medicare, Medicare …