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Through oversight I had not realized that the objection to my comment about
Time and the Other was public. I shall make my reply (originally private)
public also.

On Mar 31, 6:56pm, jgc5p@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu wrote:
> Subject: Boiling
> I am sorry that my response irritated you so. Indeed it was
> snide (though if you will look at the wording my comment about
> being younger and more innocent implies that I would be prone
> to be _more_ favorable now rather than less).
> My objection was not to the content (his basic points).
> Rather, it is to the fact that what should have been a
> fascinating consideration of a complex and important issue
> ended up putting me to sleep (or close enough).
> Also, to be honest, my objection is that I could not
> really find in his book a sense of what sound anthropology
> would be like _at the concrete level_. I increasingly dislike
> discussions that, like Fabian's, are both dense and abstract
> and so provide the reader no concrete instances that can be
> used to exemplify, and so actually give usable meaning to, the
> abstractions. But then, I have trouble with a lot of the more
> theoretical anthropology that I read.
> I've said my piece.
>
> Yours,
>
>
> James G. Carrier
>
> 29, University Circle / Charlottesville, Virginia, 22903
> (804) 971-2983 / jgc5p@virginia.edu
> -- End of excerpt from jgc5p@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu




James G. Carrier

29, University Circle / Charlottesville, Virginia, 22903
(804) 971-2983 / jgc5p@virginia.edu

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