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A Rough Guide to TV Social Anthropology
Read more: A Rough Guide to TV Social AnthropologyI suppose I am a well seasoned traveller, having worked in over 20 countries in Europe, North America, Russia and Central Asia. Now, here I am in West Africa. This is Ghana, which most UK institutions seem to think is an annex of Nigeria and, therefore, a credit card pariah of the world of personal… Know More
You Dirty Rat!
Read more: You Dirty Rat!Seems like we are having more and more difficulties as a species in developing an agreed ethics when it comes to animals. On the British TV Channel, ITV, is a programme devoted to putting minor celebrities in the ‘jungle’ and asking them to survive a series of challenges to their capacity to stay calm under… Know More
Open wide. Say Arrgh!
Read more: Open wide. Say Arrgh!Of course, most Ghanaians never see a dentist. Until recently their teeth weren’t subjected to processed foods with all that sugar and, anyway, apart from having a tooth wrenched out, there would be no thought given to any other treatment. It would be too costly. I paid my first visit to a dental surgery for… Know More
In Flagrente Delicto
Read more: In Flagrente DelictoFor those of you who are not aware, and there are readers in Mexico, Russia, and in Indonesia, say, for whom it may not be of any interest (they may not like football), the Captain of the current English football team is one John Terry and he has been discovered to have had an affair… Know More
Swan Upping
Read more: Swan UppingSo, Tiger Woods is not the only one in the news for belying his carefully manicured image among advertisers, the media and those who held him in such high esteem as a family role model! That bastion of dutiful and faithful creatures, the swan, is now a number one target for those who would uphold… Know More
Addicted to love…
Read more: Addicted to love…Addictions appear to be on the increase. Note that I am using the plural here. So what I am talking about is not an increase in the population of addiction but the range of possible addictions available to us all! In the 18th/19th Century, at a time of imperialism and empire building, medicine underwent a… Know More
Ghana and the ‘opiate of people…’
Read more: Ghana and the ‘opiate of people…’Intellectuals, who are also religious, have always fascinated me. Since whatever religion one might favour is, at its heart, based on belief rather than fact, I want to know how, contrary to human logic, these usually evidence-based individuals end up constructing a personal cosmology with a god at its centre. There is a story about… Know More
T Pyxidis is not a glam rock band or a disease, it is a death star……
Read more: T Pyxidis is not a glam rock band or a disease, it is a death star……Well, here we are into the new year and still having difficulty writing 2010 instead of 2009. But it won’t be a problem soon if my recent tv watching is anything to go by. There has been a plethora of programmes about Nostradamus and, in particular, a newly found original work consisting of a few… Know More
Forever Young: A Trade Secret
Read more: Forever Young: A Trade SecretCanute is often depicted as trying to repel the waves as he sat on his gilded throne on the sandy shore whereas, in fact, he was teaching his courtiers a lesson. Sick of their sycophancy he was showing them that he was a mortal and had no power to control nature. Thus it is with… Know More
Vulture on a Hot Tin Roof
Read more: Vulture on a Hot Tin RoofSo what did I do on Christmas day? Well, it wasn’t the UK story of snow and ice and a red peaked northerner pulling a sleigh. It wasn’t holly and mistletoe and carols at the door. Here in Ghana there are black-skinned red peaked equivalents who are sleigh-less as far as I can gather and… Know More