Jesi. 21. NYC. A lover of Weezy, HP, beer, college, fun, travel, and love. In the last 12 months I've sailed around the entire world in a boat, seen India twice...and even went on a gambling spree with mobsters in Ghana. And now...I wait tables a a sushi restaurant. If there's anything I've learned in the past year: the show goes on.....

What role did these art styles, or the motivations of which they are the symbols,
play in the rise and development of pre-Columbian civilizations? Are
they, the styles themselves, the touchstones of that condition we refer to as
civilization?

Gordon Willey, The Early Great Styles and the Rise of the Pre-Columbian Civilizations

This quote may appear arbitrary (only because it is) but for a cracked-out, over-worked, anxiety-ridden thesis student, this is pure sex. Seriously Willey, have sex with me.

Spending hours upon hours rifling through countless pages of anthropological field notes and self-published bullcrap trying to fit disconnected pieces of information together to make my own argument on the interrelationship of ideology and structure of an obscure ancient Peruvian civilization when I come across THIS little miracle that talks specifically about my topic as if he could read my motherfucking mind.  Seriously, I think I just came.

On a different rant, I cannot understand how anthropologists studied, wrote, and fiercely debated one another on the origins of civilization and the context of social evolutionary history for over 50 years and then just gave it all up and moved on. Seriously, for a race of intelligent hominids who care about who’s doing this and who’s saying that and what’s going on in every detail of everyone’s lives, humans are impressively uninterested in where they come from and why they’re here.

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Sunday Feb 2 @ 06:29am
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