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Books nobody will read, and should never have been written, vol. 1
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>Termites of the Gods: San Cosmology in Southern African Rock Art
>In Termites of the Gods, Siyakha Mguni narrates his personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as ‘formlings’. Formlings are a painting category found across the southern African region, including South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, with its densest concentration in the Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe. Generations of archaeologists and anthropologists have wrestled with the meaning of this painting theme in San cosmology without reaching consensus or a plausible explanation. Drawing on San ethnography published over the past 150 years, Mguni argues that formlings are, in fact, representations of flying termites and their underground nests, and are associated with botanical subjects and a range of larger animals considered by the San to have great power and spiritual significance. This book fills a gap in rock art studies around the interpretation and meaning of formlings.
academia was clearly a mistake
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>>9480511
dunno, that sounds like a cool book.
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>>9480511
I'd probably read this on a long trip
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>>9480511
>mfw I put months of labor into my thesis, and the only person who will ever read it was my professor
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>>9481065
and he probably just skimmed it, I doubt he actually read the whole thing through
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>>9480511
Should have read this desu.
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>>9481085
that's probably why he didn't notice any of the plagiarisms
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>>9480511
Sounds pretty interesting
Is this a self-promoting thread?
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>>9481065
what's it about so we can judge and make fun of you?
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>>9481121
>Is this a self-promoting thread?
lol no. The book is available on libgen, if you wanna take a look at it. Please don't buy that shit.
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>>9481125
I worked months on a model to statistically analyse and dissect the content of large amounts of texts, which I applied to the resistance newspapers in my country during the second world war (cfr. topic-modelling and the program Mallet)
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>>9481139
To What End.kornheiser
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>>9481139
lol dude, who the fuck gives a shit if anybody reads that shit? Just go out there and make loads of money, you're waaaaay better off that us idiots who studied the liberal arts.
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>>9481185
>You can apply it to any large body of text(s), and dissect the underlying topics, subconscious associations, usage of specific terms, etc
that sounds pretty cool actually. Do you have it up on github or anywhere you could share?
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>>9481282
this sort of academic should be wiped from the earth
I knew a girl in undergrad who wrote her thesis on the intersection of 'cyborg feminism' and socialism
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>>9480511
Would read desu.
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>>9481282
sounds like a high-grade troll desu
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