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Disappearing Wetlands - a Found Poem.

Wetlands are good.Wetlands are great.Swamps and marshes both.That’s what we used to call them,‘Swamps and marshes’.Just now, wetlands. I’ve been hunting and fishingAs long as I remember,And no one likes wetlandsMore than I do. But Louisiana’s wetlands aren’t disappearingJust because of the Old River Control Structure.Read the newspapers.We’ve got expertsBehind every tree –Professors, government scientists, et cetera,Who all think they know what’s wrongWith Louisiana’s wetlands. You look at the…See More
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A forum for conversations between those inclined towards presenting ethnographically-derived insights through experimental ethnographic writing including the broader fields of 'creative non-fiction' and ‘creative fiction'.
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A forum for conversations on ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Africa, and for those interested in the biological, linguistic, socio-cultural and archaeological anthropology of Southern Africa.
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Achirri Ishmael's blog post was featured

Life on Water

Mais oui, dey tried to teach mehow to read back at school.Mais book learnin’ didn’t stick wit’ me. My mind was too stuck in the playreeToo full of shrimpin’and huntin’and trappin’Dere was no room left. I could spell “I”and “or”and “and”.But once they got up to dem four-and five-letter words, it was all over. I just wanted to be in de playree.Tim Melancon (pronounced Meh-lohn-son)  with Mike Tidwell (author), in Bayou Farewell:…See More
Dec 25, 2012
John McCreery commented on Achirri Ishmael's blog post Life on Water
"Lovely. And close to home. My brother has spent his non-working life playing at being a Chesapeake Bay watermen. Different place, different space, similar attitudes."
Dec 24, 2012
Achirri Ishmael posted a blog post

Life on Water

Mais oui, dey tried to teach mehow to read back at school.Mais book learnin’ didn’t stick wit’ me. My mind was too stuck in the playreeToo full of shrimpin’and huntin’and trappin’Dere was no room left. I could spell “I”and “or”and “and”.But once they got up to dem four-and five-letter words, it was all over. I just wanted to be in de playree.Tim Melancon (pronounced Meh-lohn-son)  with Mike Tidwell (author), in Bayou Farewell:…See More
Dec 24, 2012

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Achirri Ishmael's Blog

Disappearing Wetlands - a Found Poem.

Wetlands are good.

Wetlands are great.

Swamps and marshes both.

That’s what we used to call them,…

Continue

Posted on June 14, 2013 at 2:30am

Life on Water

Mais oui, dey tried to teach me

how to read back at school.

Mais book learnin’ didn’t stick wit’…

Continue

Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

High Noon

[Found Poetry]

           1

 I gave 5 or 10 million

—I forget —…

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Posted on November 9, 2012 at 2:00am — 2 Comments

Dreamtime: Clifford Geertz

He didn’t realize

After an isolated childhood,

When he started out

To see what might be going on

Elsewhere in the world,

 

That there would be

A final exam…

 

Clifford Geertz, 1999 Charles Haskins Lecture to the American Council of Learned Relations. 

 

Dreamtime II.

 

A moment of confusion

And uncertainty of direction,

 

And an unlooked-for…

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Posted on June 8, 2012 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments

A Graduate's Life

(A found poem ~  just for fun...)

 

Dawn and dusk haven't mattered differently to me since I came here.

Neither have I found the seasons tied to the arrival of kites nor to their departure.

Not even the glow of fireflies or the songs of cicadas have anchored me

in some small way to natural…

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Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:30am

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At 7:09am on December 21, 2011, Priscila Santos da Costa said…

Call for Papers

We are in the process of receiving original articles, essays, analytical reviews, translations and interviews in the fields of Anthropology and Philosophy for Volume 1, Issue 2, to be published in May 2011. We also receive papers the entire year. The articles may be sent to:

conexoesparciais@gmail.com

Check our first issue: http://conexoesparciais.com.br/?p=20

At 7:56am on January 24, 2010, Achirri Ishmael said…
Hello Iris,

That's been long I haven't stopped here - I've been so snowed over with my coursework.
The e-mail is achirri@yahoo.co.uk An attachment would do.

Hope your work is going great!

Achirri
At 3:26pm on January 23, 2010, Aris Anagnostopoulos said…
Hi Achirri, sorry for taking so long to reply, can you send me your email again, the inbox seems to have misplaced it somehow...

best

aris
At 3:23pm on November 15, 2009, Sheyma Buali said…
Hello Achirri, thanks for the push - but at this point I have never written any ethnography myself and thus it would be helpful for me to read the discussions. I am about to start about to get started on my first ethnographic writing and may have questions/discussion points soon... Till then - i hope to learn for all you guys :)
At 2:57pm on November 10, 2009, Huon Wardle said…
I liked 'mangling' too, of course.
At 2:13pm on November 10, 2009, Huon Wardle said…
I like your poem about Levi-Strauss: is it mangling or bricolage?
At 12:54am on June 17, 2009, Isabel Cardana said…
Hi Achirri,
Thanks for your interest in the group "human and non-human animals".
Hope you can contribute to the debate.
Thanks,
Isabel
 
 
 

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