Posted in Books, Cartoons, Cinema, Cooking, Entertainment, Film, Food, Life, Movies, Personal, Thoughts, What to Do on August 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been wallowing in the misery of an irreparably crashed laptop.
I’ve been trying really hard to finish transcribing my fieldwork interviews.
I’ve been reading Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
I’ve been admiring the amazingness that are my brand-spanking-new wall to wall, floor to ceiling bookshelves.
I’ve been counting all the books and dvds I [...]
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Posted in Academic, Buddhism, Colombo, Culture, Incidents, People, Personal, Religion, Social Anthropology, Society, Sri Lanka, Thoughts on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fieldwork has been an anthology of the unexpected. A compendium of awkwardness. An omnibus of convoluted existences. It doesn’t compare to those poetic accounts of isolated beaches and grass skirted people wearing frangipani garlands in their hair, ready-to-talk with straightforward kinship diagrams etched on their palms. It’s a confrontation of real lives tangled up in [...]
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