anthologies of the sacred and the profane
An anthropology publication about culture, literature, movies, and the arts.
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a very brief anthropology of tattoos (opens the original)
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inside my compost heap: what I read, watched, and wrote about in august (opens the original)
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a personal piece about getting my child to sleep (opens the original)
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let's talk about the whole *dobby's grave* thing (opens the original)
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it's always apotropaic: on penises and vulvas (opens the original)
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