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  4. From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
  5. Subject: Re: [GEN] Re: Anthropologists' Theory of Everything - was Recent anthropologic collections 
  6. Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
  7. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:43:51 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <BxtL96.E42@NeoSoft.com>
  9. References: <1992Nov11.031139.6410@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BxnzL4.MLD@NeoSoft.com> <BURKE.92Nov15143611@lostboys.ils.nwu.edu>
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  12. In article <BURKE.92Nov15143611@lostboys.ils.nwu.edu> burke@lostboys.ils.nwu.edu (Robin Burke) writes:
  13. >
  14. >Those interested in reading such accounts of human origins might be
  15. >well-advised to also read Donna Haraway's _Primate_Visions_, an
  16. >interesting set of cautionary tales about the construction and use of
  17. >secular creation stories.
  18.             .
  19.             .
  20.             .
  21. GOOD POINT.  Incidentally, if someone
  22. whines allegations about Haraway's ex-
  23. cessive ideologic baggage, point the
  24. complainer in the direction of the
  25. quite popular article on anthropogenic
  26. narratives that appeared around 1988
  27. in *American Scientist* (or was it
  28. *The Sciences*?  My memory's going).
  29. -- 
  30.  
  31. Cameron Laird
  32. claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net)    +1 713 267 7966
  33. claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net)      +1 713 996 8546
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