Oh, to be an Anthropologist...

Haven't you ever had that small (or large, whichever), inkling or desire to just learn about the old cultures and people? To almost touch, taste, and experience the many things there were to see and hear? I guess that means you would need a time machine to actually fulfill this desire. Kind of like Mr. Whittaker's time machine he built in Odyssey. =)

As I think about it, I think I know where this desire has been created. Over time, I've read many historically set fiction books, listened to Odyssey on the radio (7:30 pm, every evening!), read many of Tolkien's books, Greek myths, some things on Plato and Aristotle. I've seen a movie or two set in the Old World, watched Shakespearean plays put to film, and have seen most of the Jane Austin movies. Oh, and let's not forget the fun favorite Wishbone!

In all of these you can at some point be taken into the time periods and experience them (remember, full imagination is the key!). You get to be apart of their world! I love language as well, so that's also important to anthropology.

So at this point in time I've wanted to learn about the Norse and Danish. Well I suppose Ancient European culture. The 1500's. The time just before the Middle Ages. This is where all of the Arthurian stories come in to play. (I do have the book La Morte D'Arthur, which is a book originally written in 1400's by Sir Thomas Malory). But I want to find books on the Ancient European world.

This is usually what happens to me when I read something or watch something in or about a people or place: I am immersed in the story or documentary, and then when it's finished, want to learn more about it.

In general, I'd like to go through the world's time line, find many books on one culture talking of their daily lives, beliefs, surroundings, and important people of their time. And any interesting fictional books set in that culture. While doing this you can learn tons of geography as well, which is a plus to me.

So this is tonight's thoughts in my mind. =) And I fully intend to read up on the Norse and Danish, in case you were wondering.

Ta Da!

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