I’ve just figured out how to produce Atom feeds that give the entire blog posting, rather than just a snippet. If you’re using a news aggregator, you’ll (hopefully) notice that this and future posts will be entirely readable from within your aggregator. Sorry — I’m still learning this software. WordPress makes everything fairly easy, but [...]

Kinship charts!
Kinship charting is one of those skills I probably should have picked up as an undergrad, but they always seemed so quaint and antiquarian — the sort of thing that progressive anthropology stored away in a box with social evolution and words like ‘phratry’ and ‘fetish’. On the rare occasion that I needed to [...]