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Far Outliers

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Language:	English
Tags:	Asia, anthropology
Description:	Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times, mostly in the Asia-Pacific region.
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One Child's Language: Compilation

This post links to all earlier blogposts in the One Child's Language series of notes from two decades ago about our very own Far Outlier child, who's now a teacher.At 8 monthsAt 10 monthsAt 11 mont...more

2009-12-16

Bulgarian Macedo-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Terrorism

From Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, by Mark Mazower (Vintage, 2006), pp. 247-252:Once an autonomous Bulgarian state emerged in 1878, Macedonia became a battle-gr...more

2009-12-15

Salonica, 1800s: Religion vs. Nation

From Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, by Mark Mazower (Vintage, 2006), pp. 242-243:TO THE OTTOMAN AUTHORITIES what had always mattered were religious rather than n...more

2009-12-12

Secularizing Religious Education in Salonica

From Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, by Mark Mazower (Vintage, 2006), pp. 220-221:The struggle for communal authority was fought out over many areas—care fo...more

2009-12-10

Mutiny & Tragedy Aboard the Hōkūle‘a, 1976-78

From "Playing with Canoes," by Ben Finney, in Pacific Places, Pacific Histories, ed. by Brij Lal (U. Hawai‘i Press, 2004), pp. 294-296:Hōkūle‘a was launched in 1975, and after a year of testing, tr...more

2009-12-06

One Child's Language: at 47 months

Social notes: Her two favorite teachers (and actually best friends) at school are leaving for more gainful employment this month. She'll miss them, but she is much more willing now to get to know n...more

2009-12-02

One Child's Language: at 42 months

Intellectual notes: Of all the Sesame Street characters, Rachel used to resemble sweet, innocent, and imaginative Elmo the most. But now she's turning into the Count, whose greatest joy in life is ...more

2009-11-25

One Child's Language: at 40 months

Physical development: Rachel's handwriting is much smoother now. She doesn't have to have little dots to mark the angle-points in A, M, Y and other letters. She has even got S and C down pretty wel...more

2009-11-25

Lind on Patrician Do-gooder-ism vs. Populist Producerism

Old-style Democrat Michael Lind asks a timely question in a Salon essay entitled Can populism be liberal?There remains the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, represented more in Congress tha...more

2009-11-25

One Child's Language: at 39 months

Social notes: Ever since Rachel moved to the bigger kids' room at school, she has assigned herself a new role in life. She always reminds us of what a big girl she is and almost never goes into the...more

2009-11-25

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