Historians find all sorts of interesting things in the archives, including reams of gossipy correspondence, doodled to-do lists, and the occasional gem. This seems to be what Erika Dyck, a historian at the University of Saskatchewan, decided she had encountered when she came across Fannie Kahan’s unpublished manuscript in the papers of Abram Hoffer. Written more than a half-century ago as an...
What does it mean to know one's own mind, to make up one's mind, or to be of two minds? The paper explores some of the assumptions Westerners make about mind and confronts them with elements from the ethnography of spirit possession among Malagasy speakers. It challenges the assumption that a unified state of mind, exemplified by pure reason as opposed to passion, is the necessary basis for...
Reviewed by: In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music John V. Walker (bio) Susan Fast. In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music Oxford University Press 2001. vii, 248. $22.00 The prologue of Marcus Boon's The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs, aside from violating the unwritten law that the PhD candidate's tortuous attempt to...