Yours sincerely (tho' mildly confused) Hemant Desai
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Harry Oxley wrote:
> Wotcher,
> I am not too sure about "the vicissitudes of the 'close-knit'
> relationships in the pcp community" (although close-knit relationships are
> usually pretty fraught else where would soap operas be?) or "the role of
> Kelly's work in the postmodern world" or "the place of the psychology of
> personal constructs in history of science as well as on the social
> implications of constructivistic thought" but Bill Chambers certainly makes
> you look a pretty nasty bunch
?
> I myself took to pcp because (a) I saw in it a sort of "ethnography of
> the mind" which coupled prettily with the ethnographies of groups I deal
> with as an anthropologist, (b) it gave me a scholarly excuse to say things
> I had been thinking for a long time before I had heard the name Kelly, and
> (c) it seemed to have a "she'll be right" inclusiveness for all sorts of
> odd ideas - "in its house were many mansions" like. I have since kept
> finding you a pretty easy-going lot.
>
> Of course I am only a tourist in pcp. Perhaps beneath the locals'
> surface friendliness and happy ways lurk fiendish voodoo rituals and
> endemic pestilences and a presidential guard most brutal and repressive.
> On the other hand there are so many other tourists on pcp island that I
> often wonder what the real natives actually look like. Maybe some of those
> people in bright cottons doing those fun-looking dances are tourists too,
> 'going native' with no more idea of what the actual natives look like than
> I have. I do hope Bill Chambers merely got in with the wrong tour-group
> and hasn't really got your native customs right. If he has, let me know so
> I can run and hide.
> Harry Oxley
> Harry Oxley
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