Wednesday 28 August 2013

The MANGA PLAGUE

THE MANGA PLAGUE
or how to survive searching through thru the masses of fan art while looking for REALLY usefully images.

While I'm usually fairly good at Google Search sometimes even I have to give up cos no matter what parameters I use I get tired of scrolling down  past dozens of images that are obviously from some one's Deviant Art Fan Album for some Japanese Manga or Anime.

Hey I like some Manga and Anime but its a menace when you type in say "Hera the goddess" and get either the same Roman statue photographed five different ways or a 19th century symbolist painting and you're looking for say Vase Paintings!

Ouch looks like its time to create new search parameters.

Some of the fan art is great but its darn painful viewing stuff by what appears to 13 year olds some one give a digital pen to for Xmas and should GRRR not have.

Solutions

 Try adding extra phrases or go to library and find out what's in museum collections and add a NOT parameter

The next post should have pictures.

You may have noticed a recent post about Thanatos.

I've also been dealing with clearing a relative's estate.

Back soon!

Wednesday 14 August 2013

INVISIBLE WOMEN OF PREHISTORY

Invisible Women of Prehistory

3 Million Years of peace, 6000 years of war.


This book may both fascinate and annoy you.

I don't agree with the authors belief Indo Europeans invented war and spread it around the world nor in Mayan - Chinese contact or a regular transpacific trade route however they do have some interesting ideas about using symbols and art  to analyse ancient culture and unlike some writers in this area they do look at actual artifacts and cite sources and review writings on matrilineality.

Worth a look at.

Saturday 10 August 2013

Afro-eccentrica

Afro-eccentrica

Eurocentric Afrocentric

Two viewpoints about Ancient Greek Culture that clash.

The first tends to be conservative and support the ideas about the uniqueness and specialness of greek culture.

The other stresses the influence of Egypt and the near East on Greece and Africa.

Egypt however is not Africa.

So where do I stand apart from that statement?

Evidence comes first.

The Ancient Greeks had legends about Cadmos and others migrating to Greece from Egypt and Phoenicia.

Artifact evidence is sparser though.

The Linguistic evidence I am more inclined to support partially because of my research into creolisation for a couple of linguistic courses I did in university.

If you're looking into the case for  or against Afrocentricism bear these two things in mind.

EVIDENCE COMES FIRST NOT INTERPRETATION

CONTACT WITH OTHER CULTURES CAUSES CHANGE

' nuff said...