The Last Anthropology Post....

I finished. A couple of weeks ago I finished "The Anthropology of Turquoise" and it was great. I'm looking forward to reading, "Eating Stone" after I whittle down the rest of my list. Current read: Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses."

A few of Meloy's last concepts and quotes for your deep thoughts will follow

1. "Something prevented what I thought I wanted to do and pushed me into to what I did."

Doesn't this happen so often in life? For me it was the transition from quitting law school and ending up a veterinarian via some architechture classes and 3/4 of an Agricultural Economics Masters.

2. "In solitude you strip yourself bare, you rest your mind on what is essential and true."

This has much worth. For those of you that have been through a major life change, crisis or significant event....you know what I mean.

3. "One observer of plant taxonomy may describe globemallow's blooms as orange, another as red, others as coral, coral-red, orange-red, or red-orange. Compromise and call it chorizo." Love it. It sort of defines human nature. Everyone thinks differently of the same thing. It's a wonder any of us can ever get along. A little humor goes a long way....

And you must forgive the next rather long excerpt from Meloy's book but I love the colors and the types of people that she puts with each color. It's a whole new way to think about it. Here goes: "If you are young and irrational but act old and irrational, you like taupe. Pink is sought by mistreated people in search of tenderness. Pink types live in wealthy neighborhoods. If you hate pink, you are likely an annoying person. A person drawn to purple is a teensy bit vain and inclined to prefer opera and eschew the sordid and the vulgar. Those who dread purple have a name: porphyrophobics. Orange is the color preferred by politicians and backslappers, green the preference of suburbanites, overweight individuals, and people who belong to clubs, thus validating, I would guess, the only non-government use of Government Wall Green: the golf sweater."

"Schizophrenics like grey or black. Non schizophrenics who like black hide their ages and their true natures behind an impression of sophistication....People who prefer blue are people who know how to make money...Brown people are rootless and dispossessed. Yellow people are babyish or nuts. Red people project useful hostility. A dislike of red indicated a frustrated, defeated person who is bitter and angry over "unfulfilled longings." No one likes white; there are no white people."

If she didn't have such a way with words...this would be a semi-blah rambling of nonsense. But, alas, it is thoughtfully entertaining to me.

Read it.