[lbo-talk] Platypus Review publishes Racists

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 12:48:43 PDT 2010


I simply have faith - given all she's contributed in the past - that J's not using it in a stupid, pat or dismissive way... just as shorthand in a quick note to an informal list probably written under temporal duress... as many of mine are. A

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien at yahoo.com>wrote:


> Alan
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> I am aware of the concept and controversies in the social sciences. Really.
> I just did not expect such a pat line among the people on this list; it's
> usually
> too easy a reference (and leap) to dismissing others as being tribal in a
> pejorative way.
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> From: c b <cb31450 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [lbo-talk] Platypus Review publishes Racists
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> Alan Rudy
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> shorthand for a deeply problematic category, the problems with which J
> is well aware, which despite its problems, ambiguities and roots in
> colonial orientatlisms serves as a viable general referent A
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> ^^^^^
> CB: With Alan's caveats, the cultural evolutionist materialist school
> of anthropology has a scheme that goes "bands-tribes-chiefdom-archaic
> state-modern state". Bands are hunters and gatherers. Tribes have
> gardens. Both bands and tribes are kinship centered and don't have
> private property , states or male supremacist marriage. Historic
> examples are pre-European invasion indigenous American , New Guinea,
> Australian societies
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> Tribes, with horticulture , would correspond to the early neolithic.
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> Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien at yahoo.com>wrote:
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> > What is a "tribal society"?
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