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[...] How Pnin came to the Soedinyonnie Shtati (the United States). 'Examination on ship before landing. Very well! "Nothing to declare?" "Nothing." Very well! Then political questions. He asks: "Are you anarchist?" I answer'--time out on the part of the narrator for a spell of cosy mute mirth--'"F…

the degree in sociology and political economy that Pnin had obtained with some pomp at the University of Prague around 1925 had become by mid century a doctorate in desuetude

Although critics may refer to Lévi-Strauss when talking about raw and cooked data, they are rarely pursuing this kind of analysis. Instead, they are usually working in the Lakoffian mode, making and evaluating mappings between domains in terms of their adequacy. The anthropologist Tom Boellstorff (…

[...] Richard, an engineer at Whisper, once asked me: "We have to recommend Filipino music to people in the Philippines, but we have no Filipino staff -- what should we do?" Neither he nor I were in positions to actually influence such decisions at the corporate level, and my suggestion, that perha…