I thought about getting a head start on my reading for the fall semester, but then realized that most of my textbooks are mindnumbingly boring and I just don’t have the energy to delve into an exposition on the Wamira people of Papua New Guinea and their cultural constructs of food and hunger.
As for the non-mindnumbingly-boring books? I read those already.
I need some books to read. Fiction is nice, but non-fiction is nicer, and internet reading pales in comparison to a real life, paper and ink, holdable, highlightable book.
le sigh
You should read “Thy Kingdom Come” by Randall Balmer. The subtitle alone should have you: “How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America.” The author is a professor of relgious history, so he knows his stuff inside out. I thought Jim Wallis’ book was more of a rant, but this is based in excellent scholarship.
Which Anthropology text are you using? We are also talking about peoples of New Guinea, since our professor did some work there.
Oh…reading suggestions? Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury is one of my most favorite fiction books currently. Also, Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit (by Herman A. Middleton) is a great source of wisdom from Greek monastic fathers. :)
Thanks for the suggestions!
Greta, one of the books we’re reading for my Food and Culture (Anthro) class is Always Hungry, Never Greedy, about the Wamira in New Guinea.
I found your blog through a comment you left on someone else’s, and had a look at your profile, and thought “Sounds like my kind of people” — Orthodox, left-leaning pacifist.
So I thought I’d say hello.