[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:46:06 -0400
Serious question. How, if at all, would the current situation in Iraq
compare to the Ik? (I know nothing of the Ik.) Iraq is pulled into many
directions, Sunni/Baathists, Shiia with their Irainian connection, the
foreign fighters streaming in from everywhere, the criminals. Civilians
are targeted and killed regularly. Is there anthropological precedent for
this? The USSR under Stalin had to be an anthropological oddity as well,
for which they are now paying the price. I wonder if there's any
comparison.
Andy
> [Original Message]
> From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/5/2005 11:18:08 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law
>
>
> On 2005/08/05, at 18:12, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Okay. I give. I plead extreme stress as cause of my recent
> > accident and my Mother's cancer. I cannot for the life of me
> > imagine or think what "lk" is. Exactly *how* ignorant that is, I
> > don't know yet. Some kind soul clue me in?
>
>
> "Ik" is the name of an African people studied by the anthropologist
> Colin Turnbull. His study _The Mountain People_ depicts one of the
> world's most dysfunctional societies, one which is very close indeed
> to Hobbes' war of all against all.
>
> John McCreery
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