Gender Equality


“…the feminist anthropologist Eleanor Leacock’s suggestion [was] that most members of what are called egalitarian societies seem less interested in…

Egalitarianism


The Oxford social anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard published his classic ethnography of the Sudanese Nuer community (who were held out…

4 Quotes


“It’s probably as correct to say ‘I am as God wills me’ as it is to say ‘I am as…

Ideas


“Unfortunately, people identify with ideas and when ideas are criticized they think we are criticizing them. All religions and other…

I, Me, Myself


“It seems clear enough that my thirst to exist as Samarender will ultimately be my undoing.”–D. Samarender Reddy

What Keeps Me Ticking?


What keeps this body-mind machineRunning?Fuelled by thought it seems. What keeps this body-mind machineThinking?Fuelled by desire it seems. What keeps…

Theory and Facts


In 1908 Francis Galton published his autobiography “Memories of My Life”, and he presented an anecdote he heard from Herbert…