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”.

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Thursday, July 7, 2022

National Traits??

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If you really want to upset the “politically correct” mob, bring up the subject of political culture and show that you actually believe tha...

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Mapping values and world views

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We need to pay more attention to our mind - and to the different patterns of meaning we create in our efforts to make sense of the world. ...

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Friday, November 29, 2019

Networks, networks everywhere....

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In “The Square and the Tower”, Niall Ferguson admits that, as an historian, his focus had been written archives and that official documents...

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nomadron: Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania; 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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