Author Archives: John
Same blog, new site
Well, that only took a month to do. Here were my steps: First, I tried the TypeMover plugin, which didn’t work, something with the ftp configuration on my old server (norvell.wjh.harvard.edu). Nice attempts to help from Sebastian, the plugin creator, … Continue reading
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last post before move
I’m going to try to move the blog to my new website at johnnorvell.net. Everything might go away, and that wouldn’t be too horrible, actually. I’m tired of my office workstation crashing while I’m out of town or at home, … Continue reading
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Dirty Pretty Things
Watched this movie by Stephen Frears last night (Dec 14) with Philo. Excellent movie. Audrey Tatou is very convincing as an illegal immigrant Turkish woman in London. The Chinese pathologist character is wonderful.
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S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAMe)
The Dec/Jan Real Simple mentions this amino acid (one that naturally occurs in the body) as a good supplment for joint pain. It does seem to be effective, not only for this but for depression as well, but the jury … Continue reading
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fall meeting of Brazilian Studies Committee
Clémence Jouët-Pastré was kind enough to invite me to serve on the Brazilian Studies Committee, which met tonight. Met some interesting types. James Ito-Adler was there, ex-oficio. James Cavallaro plans to publish last year forum on human rights as a … Continue reading
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back from LA
Returned late last night (Nov. 30) from over two weeks in Pomona. Finished the painting, went through several anxious periods about how to lay the bamboo floor over our shitty concrete, and finally got the floor cleaned, primed, and vinyl-ed. … Continue reading
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I {Heart} Huckabees
Monday, November 8, I went alone to see I {Heart} Huckabees. What an unlikely cast, which really works, however. I found the film thoroughly engrossing, very funny, a laugh or brain-twister a minute.
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Sarah Robinson
Conversation just now with Sarah about her research in the fishing industry. She works in Gloucester on legal anthropology and law issues related to fishing. Recommended a small article in the book To work and to weep: women in fishing … Continue reading
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Public Anthropology roundtable at Tufts
Nov. 11, 2004. Presentations by Mark Auslander (Brandeis), David Guss (Tufts), Deborah Pacini (Tufts), Nina Kammerer (Brandeis), Ann Bookman (Sloan School, MIT), and Sally Merry (Wellesley). More a show-and-tell session, mostly for the Tufts program, than theoretical or political issues. … Continue reading
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Sachiko Tanuma
Met with visiting scholar Sachiko Tanuma yesterday. She has finished her ethnograhpic fieldwork in Cuba and is struggling with how to negotiate official and utopian visions of Cuba, both in the field and in academia (!). I sent her articles … Continue reading
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