ooh, i'm a longtime lurker, and grateful reader of all anthrapplicants' posts, but here's a topic i lurrrve. obeyesekere -- medusa's hair is always good for a laugh, containing as it does the immortal -- and explicit -- assumption "HAIR = PENIS". i can remember being absolutely devastated over beth conklin's consuming grief: compassionate cannibalism in an amazonian society, but i fell in love with maurice bloch for prey into hunter. weirdly, my research interests are primarily political/legal with a splash of feminism, and a soupcon of history, all very abstract and theoretical which i find properly exciting... but the ethnographies that really moved me are the ones about sex, death and food. fleshly stuff. hmm.
neil whitehead has a new book coming out called ethnopornography: sexuality and anthropological knowing. i. cannot. wait.
