Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

Showing posts with label John Berger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Berger. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

John Berger - someone to look up to....

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I feel John Berger ’s death (at age 90) very personally since he has accompanied me for most of my life….I vividly remember his (black a...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Beautiful Books

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Neagu Djuvara  is a Romanian intellectual with a striking history (he's 97 years old) and has just produced a Brief Illustrated Hist...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Rediscovering civic bonds?

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I missed the Romanian Book Fair of November but there is currently a small Christmas book fair for a week in the Peasant Museum nearby - w...
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Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains
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