A Life Beyond Boundaries, Benedict Anderson
2015. Area studies genealogy, as one starting point.
71, on first fieldwork in Jakarta and Java :
A large part of my work on Indonesia turned on the relationship between politics and culture. For my generation this was something odd. … also laid the foundations for the ‘culturalist’ streak that could appear later in Imagined Communities.
200, viatique for students and scholars, one strike for comparison :
Frogs in their fight for emancipation will only lose by crouching in their murky coconut half-shells.
Frogs of the world unite!