Posted by andyb on February 26, 2008 at 00:44:15 from 86.158.87.52 user beardbiter.
In Reply to: Re: This isn't about 'dinner' - its about the application of Marxist aesthetics - and do read the rest of "Mixed Moss". posted by Peter H on February 25, 2008 at 22:09:37:
As someone who is a bit 'whizzy hubcap' about this sort of thing I'd like to point out that there is rather more to Marxism than the realisation that someone had to pay for the milk and that Levi Strauss ( I assume we mean the anthropologist rather the jeans manufacturer ) didn't write a great deal about islands, mores the pity. Mostly pretty boring stuff about Australian kinship systems and the structure of Crow-Omaha myths, if I recall correctly. Still Tarbordistas who enjoy philosophically inclined travel books might find 'Tristes Tropiques' a good read. Perhaps Andrew C-B was thinking of Malinowski's work on the Trobriand Islands. Now there's a set of titles to get the blood racing, I can just imagine Titty curled up with 'Coral Gardens and Their Magic', John studying 'Argonauts of the Western Pacific' and who could resist 'The Sexual Life of Savages?'.