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Paper: Something on religious vs regional identity in pre-modern Maharashtra
First draft,20 pages
18 April
Paper: Ongoing creolization between Vodou and ‘Western’ esotericism
20 – 30 pages
06 May
Paper: Something on religious vs regional identity in pre-modern Maharashtra
Final draft,20-25 pages
06 May
Short essay on pedagogy
1 – 2 pages
06 May
Book Review on Magic as Metaphor in Anime, Cavallaro
600 – [...]
Categories: miscellany
For various reasons, it turns out that I need three more Religious Studies classes (instead of the two I previously thought), before I graduate. Rather than try to cram into the Spring Semester all three graduate classes, plus TAing, plus writing my thesis, plus job hunting, it makes more sense to push my thesis–and therefore [...]
Categories: miscellany
They’ve added a class on Religion in Modern Asia which is, obviously, right up my alley. Regretfully (because it looks like a really cool class), I’ve had to drop Visual Evidence in Modern China for this. However, as a result of the reading assignment (just spent a couple days reading 100+ pages on visual culture), [...]
Categories: miscellany
Depending on whether there’s a last minute change of course, we could be more or less directly in the path of Hurricane Ike this weekend. Suddenly, I’m not so happy about being next to a creek, or having that huge oak tree overhanging our roof.
Categories: miscellany, this daily life
…but somehow I get the sense that maybe Sachi isn’t quite as irritated about having Baltazar around, these days.
Categories: miscellany
Tagged: horde of hyenas
On Christmas Night, we had an unexpected guest, and it looks like he’ll be returning to stay with us for good (or ill, but I expect mostly good).
Took nearly an hour of coaxing the boy to the house (yes, Odetta was used as bait), and then trying to get him to come farther into [...]
Categories: miscellany
Tagged: horde of hyenas