Introduction: The pattern that connects
"Two sources of information are enormously better than one." (Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature, p. 87) "An unknowable, like the sound of...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Apr 5, 2021
- 35 min
Chapter 1: Dawson Days
The summer of 1973, when I was seventeen, I hitch-hiked from Ottawa to Long Beach on Vancouver Island and back, by way of Dawson City,...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Apr 3, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 2: Mexican Magic
On the plane to Mexico City from Montreal I happened to sit beside Lilia, a young woman who had been part of Mexico’s Olympic gymnastics...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Apr 2, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 3: The Eddy
Days after the Great Dawson Flood of 1979, I arrived in Dawson City from Mexico. An ice jam on the Yukon River had forced water over the...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 4: A Land Without Gods
Grey beaches and blue and white fishing boats along the Gulf of Mexico carried me through a “gap year” after completing a Masters in...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 5: Under the Volcano
Doing a program of PhD studies in the social sciences is a strange and in many ways unnatural way to learn. It is based on traditions...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 30, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 6: Cowardly Land Becomes Brave Again
My first real job as an anthropologist began with Cajun blackened fish and Louisiana mud pie at an upscale restaurant in downtown...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 29, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 7: Heart and Soul
In the morning hours of March 1, 1993, I was standing in Gregorio Hernandez’s maize field in southern Veracruz with a familiar who-is-who...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 8: The Poverty of Food Policy
Anthropology is a myopic discipline in some respects, grounded in the details of geography and community practice, place and place...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 27, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 9: The Wealth of the Social Landscape
Image: Children of Tangail, Bangladesh. From the moment of my first visit to Bangladesh in the mid 1990s I was uplifted and strengthened...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 10: Cultivating Peace
I worked at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from 1995 to 2005. I considered myself, as many did, a “talent scout,”...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 11: Fighting Eviction
My return to anthropology after ten years at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) began at a difficult moment in Jacques...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Chapter 12: Breaking the Dependency on Tobacco Production
When I was 18, I picked tobacco in Tillsonburg, southern Ontario, setting aside money for university in Montreal that fall. I later took...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 13: Skills in Means
One day I got a call from Brian, a consultant and indigenous man based in Thunder Bay. He was looking for someone to work on a housing...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 22, 2021
- 2 min
Chapter 14: Ten Ox Herding Pictures
The Ox Herding Pictures is a 12th century series of folk images accompanied by poems that depict the Zen path of self-development and...
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