Tuesday 22 November 2005

mmm...meat

Working on a book that we're soon to send off to the printers –
It's taken over 6months so things are getting almost unbearable, having to read the same stuff again and again and again –
Half is interesting (ethnographies of highlands' communities' sanguma and kumo (witchcraft-ish) practices and beliefs) -
But half I'd recommend burning (Christian biblical interpretation of said ethnographies) –
Luckily I'm here to "build capacity" so I simply have to delegate, sorry –
But anyway, going through the almost-last look today reading some subheadings still made me laugh–
Just add exclamation marks and blurry photos and you've got something from your average tabloid –:

  • sanguma can take the appearance of an animal
  • pig returns an arrow
  • pig turns into woman
  • girl inherits bat from her mother
  • lights that travel
  • body stays put, spirit travels
  • insatiable appetite for meat

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