[lit-ideas] Re: "You weren't upskirting your Daoist master"

In a message dated 2/26/2009 11:56:15 P.M.  Eastern Standard Time, 
john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx writes:
nowhere, I suspect, is  the upskirting phenomenon more prevalent than it is 
here in  Japan
----

Further implicatures. Two anthropologists. Female  anthropologist (SHE), male 
anthropologist (HE). They are conducting an emic-emic  ethnomethodological 
analysis of upskirting in religious temples. Their  operational definition is:

agent a upskirts agent b iff b is not  cognisable that a is upskirting b.

For other cases they use 'upskirting'  -- in scare quotes, i.e. for where b 
is cognisant of the fact that a is a  voyeur. (see Scruton, "Sexual desire" -- 
drawing from Grice).

SHE: You  weren't upskirting the Daoist master. (+> whereas that's what the 
protocol  had you as precisely doing)

HE: What d'you mean? I was!  (I _am_ a  serious anthropologist) 

SHE: You call _that_ upskirting?! He was showing  you _off_!

Anyway, don't get me wrong: I'm fascinated by the imperalist  birt of social 
field anthropology. One of my favourite books in my library is "A  history of 
anthropology" in the Benn's sixpence library -- with engravings of  all those 
bearded men. No, I don't mean the natives -- the  Brits!

Cheers,

JL  

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