Tag: culture
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Vagabond in a Donut – Barbara Weibel
Barbara Weibel is one of my favorite travel bloggers. Barbara puts the focus on writing incredible posts with sometimes startling insights into the world of travel and culture.
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The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man
Here is a link to some excerpts from the Geertz essay Summary of the Main Points of “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man” –…
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Dar Zerhoune in Moulay Idriss
Happily for us, no one else had thought to book a Valentines getaway at Dar Zerhoune and so back in 2009, we had this entire beautiful Dar to ourselves. The…
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Imperial Meknes – Off the beaten track in Morocco
Imperial Meknes is a bit off the beaten track of Moroccan trips that usually hit Marrakech, Fez, Casablanca, and maybe Tangier. In my view – people are really missing out…
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Volubulis – Roman and Carthaginian Ruins in North Africa – Slideshow
📖 Found in the book: This post is part of the story told in Not My Morocco by CD Damitio — a memoir of love, madness, and two years in…
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Waimea Valley Botanical Garden and Waimea Falls Hike on Oahu’s North Shore
If you are coming to Oahu in the hopes of swimming in a waterfall, learning about the ancient Hawaiian culture, and seeing unique and beautiful endemic and indigenous plants and…
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The Shrimp Ponds and Food Trucks of Kuhuku on Oahu, Hawaii
In ancient times, Hawaiians harvested more than 2-million pounds of fish and shellfish each year – much of that came from fishponds. It’s estimated that there were more than 750…
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How Mass Media Shapes Personal Identity
This one made it into the book. I wrote the original version in 2008, during a period when I was living in Hawaii and taking anthropology coursework while also watching…
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You Stick to the Internet
This one made it into the book. I wrote it in 2012, though the kernel of it came from a dream that felt like it was from much earlier —…
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Bling from 80,000 years ago
Even the very first modern humans may have spruced themselves up with beaded bling. Twelve shell beads discovered in a cave in eastern Morocco have been dated at more than…
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If You Want to Fight the Power, You Have to Know What Power Is.
This one made it into the book. I wrote it around 2007-2008, when I was living in Southeast Asia and spending a lot of time noticing that the word “power”…
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The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man
Lucky for you guys…you get more of my homework…again, a very quickly penned summary of the main points of this esssay by Clfford Geertz. I think fukn.us readers will probably…
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Tofu makes you GAY!
Excellent crazy story: The logic is so obviously lacking it is scary. What does this say of so many Asian countries? There’s a slow poison out there that’s severely damaging…
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Experts: Fragments an ancient computer
Another example of what we thought we knew…being wrong… cd Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its…
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Huge Pyramid in Bosnia
Of course, this fits perfectly with the prophecy of Shananarmageddon! The second sign is a great hidden pyramid will appear! The first sign…the six legged lamb has already made its…
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Inuit critical of McCartney's campaign against seal hunt
Canada’s annual seal hunt is starting again. Animal activists are lamenting this year’s increased quota. I bet the fur is realllly soft. If it could be produced by culturing it…
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A cool reader writes in…
Got this letter a few days ago and am slowly exploring all the great links….thanks man…. cd Just wanted to take this time to introduce myself and to tip my…
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Elite Women Made Beer in Pre-Incan Culture
Hell, that sounds like Paradise to me. Elite women making great beer and getting so drunk they lose their hairpins on the brewery floor…why did our society go so wrong?…
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A Mosaic of Arab Culture at Home in America – New York Times
An interesting article from the New York Times. I’ve always contended that the periods of ‘melting pot’ growth and maturity in America are a direct result of the wars we…
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Chris of the Day: Chris Columbus
Today is Discoverers Day, formerly known as Columbus Day. It was on October 12th 1492 that Christopher Columbus set foot in the Caribbean and started the process that would destroy…
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Man Allegedly Pays Transvestite Prostitute With Stolen Check
(What kind of a prostitute accepts checks? A Mahu Prostitute I guess…the whole mahu culture in Hawaii is pretty strange…a mahu is a Hawaiian Transvestite..below is a link to an…
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Surplus Burning Man food to help hurricane victims in Nev.
Las Vegas SUN: Surplus Burning Man food to help hurricane victims in Nev. Surplus Burning Man food to help hurricane victims in Nev. ASSOCIATED PRESS RENO, Nev. (AP) – Unused…
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Back in a Different World
Well, after a completely surreal journey in planes, trains, RV’s, and art cars….I am back. Burning Man was indescribable…at least at the moment it seems so to me as I…
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Watch out for Terrorists and Their Plans
This one fed into the book chapter about the day the terrorists won. I wrote it in 2005, when the Department of Homeland Security had been publishing threat advisories for…
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
I saw an editorial by Thomas Sowell in the Honolulu Advertiser yesterday talking about his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals… Strange man, I’m sort of fascinated though and will…
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