Pygmania

23andme just told me that I have no African Hunter-Gatherer ancestry. Heavy stuff. While I try to assimilate this heavily destabilizing information, why don't you enjoy an exploration of "the genetics of African Hunter-Gatherers"? Disappearing Way of Life Ancient Lineages Keepers of Diversity Pygmy Genetics  Linguistic Legacy Curious about African Hunter-Gatherer history, art, and traditions? Explore a few of the many nuances that make this population distinct.  Armed with this information you may now go forth and honey-hunt! Deep Forest Sounds of the Aka Pygmy People  "Intangible Heritage" 🤔   Intro to Khoisan Clicking Languages Confession: I initially misread "Khoe" as "Khloé"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Pygmy-Planet-ebook/dp/B004TPPHH8/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1364748497&sr=8-9&keywords=pygmy all your bday gifts and gifs are as useless as this book. i wish they made a non-kindle edition bc i wouldve bought it.

http://gawker.com/5987263/children-in-eastern-congo-meet-a-white-person-for-the-first-time-cant-get-enough-of-his-arm-hair I haven't watched this video yet, but I expect to be enthralled.

WELCOME TO PYGMYLAND  May I take your coat?

The below is taken from tomorrow's inquisition reading, which I'll have you know is an entire book, titled The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. * * * "'The peoples of these lands have different laws, because some worship the sun, some fire, some the trees, some serpents, and others the first thing they encounter in the morning.  Still others worship images and idols. . . ' Mandeville related these facts at the beginning of the second part of his travels in speaking of Chana, a small island off the Indian coast. . . . Menocchio's mental universe now consisted of Inda and Cathay and islands inhabited by cannibals, Pigmies and men with the heads of dogs.  It was on the subject of Pigmies that Mandeville wrote a page destined to enjoy an extraordinary success: 'they are people short in stature, who are about three spans long: and they are beautiful and graceful, both men and women, because of their smallness.  They marry whe...

embarrass me, distract yourself

As a fluent speaker of Ferman (Faux-German for those who aren't in the know), i have a tendency to make hilarious German malapropisms. The content of this post is knots, since that is where my head is now, but significantly, the title translates to "emergency animals." See what I mean? Apropos. This is the Kinoshita-Terasaka knot. On a stylish powder blue crew neck t-shirt. Maybe all my studies of math have been preparing me for this sartorial moment. Scott Schuman, you will not ignore me this time.