*gasp* Noelle has a Sleater-Kinney tattoo!!!
That's enough to bump someone outta my favorites, as sad as that is...
Speaking of tattoos, how would this look?
That's enough to bump someone outta my favorites, as sad as that is...
Speaking of tattoos, how would this look?
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Actually I like the new tower but not for New York. The new Tower looks so space age and futuristic, where as New York is Gotham. The new tower would look good in Tokyo. Build something Rustic looking in NY. But hey who knows.
Punk: Oh my ! Now you must be torn between the Sex Pistols, on the one hand, and M.D.C. and Dead Kennedys, on the other hand !
Aztec: Now that is a somewhat strange assignment, especially for a course (instead of a long-term research program, although what I consider most strange is the way it is stated.) Their religious/mystical (ethnomystical, if you prefer) beliefs and attitude would not necessarily imply a particular psychological profile or feature (Of course, if one were trying to infer, say, a specific feature of the American society, or even the society in a particular section of the USA, based on the death penalty or issues on abortion, the conclusions would not be deterministic at all, although one would study many layers and types and features that occur at different degrees in different people, groups, periods, and moments.) However, to come to conclusions or even inferences on that realm for another culture, one would need a superbly long anthropological study/background on it, unless one starts reasoning within our culture, what solely does not tell much about theirs. Just to point an example with which you may be quite familiar, using his "archaeological method", Foucault sketched tracing our notion of humane to a much closer time than many would guess - See the very end of Les Mots et Les Choses, translated as The Order of Things. The method itself, somewhat ironically similar to the eidetic variation of the phenomenology that he wanted to overcome in that book but - true - way beyond it, involves starting from the present to recover elements of the contemporaneity, i.e., the elements of the past still present. Anyhow, even using much more orthodox anthropological viewpoints, this assignment passes through typical issues on cultural shock and incompatibility. It reminds me of a text by a jesuit (16th or 17th Century - I forgot. My copy is literally in another side of the planet) sent to assess the effectiveness of the catechization, interviewing chiefs from various tribes (Hmmm... I forgot whether they were Aztec or Inca, but the idea still holds.) He asked them questions on God and other biblical matters, and their view on them was highly mixed with (sometimes dominated by) their "former" religion. This phenomenon is very typical when different views collide - I just mentioned this example because it is close to the case you are studying. Ok, ok, I will quit babbling and mumbling.