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Secrecy in anthropology
NO. 1
Anthropology is the scientific study of human beings, and social anthropology is the study of behavior in certain societies. Studying patterns of behavior means studying how humans think, react, and evolve in society, but that also means understanding human secrecy through ethnographic research. But what is secrecy? In the ethnographic record, initiatory secrets often stand for the quiddity of culture, and the revelation of concealed realities is an organizing trope in much ethnographic writing.
NO. 2
‘’Intellectual historiography shows that the concept of secrecy has carried overwhelmingly negative, antisocial, and primitive connotations in learned Western discourses since the Enlightenment and that early anthropological research often supported such an implicitly social evolutionist stance. Secrecy and risk are closely connected. Secrecy engenders risk insofar as concealment entails the possibility of unwelcome revelation; non-circulation also creates a risk of its own, such as the breakdown of social relations or cultural reproduction. However, risk can also, gender secrecy as a strategy to manage perilous social relations. In practice, the casual relationship between secrecy and risk can be difficult to disentangle because the subjective experience of risk and the urgency of secrecy are constitutive--in both ritual secrecy and strategic secrets of state.’’
NO. 3
Secrecy excludes outsiders, but the power it attracts lies in the possibility it may be disclosed and revealed to those same outsiders. ‘’This contradictory centrifugal and centripetal forces push and pull on secrets. Possessing secrets can make people intensely aware of the fragility of knowledge and the precariousness of their custodial position. Revelatory and initiatory practices within secretive practice activities are often carefully calibrated to induce a sense of risk. It is paradoxical also because it ‘must be performed in a public fashion in order to be understood to exist.’ The revelation of concealment is a way of socially mobilizing the secret as a form of sociocultural capital without dispersing restricted knowledge.’’ Basically, secrecy is a personal form of belonging, of being included in the intimate affairs of family, friends, or just knowing about something that you didn’t previously.
Pour l'amour de Dieu, ô mon cœur,
Garde secret ton amour
Et cache ton chagrin
à ceux qui te croisent.
Tu en sera comblé.
Qui révèle son secret
N'est qu'insensé.
Car mieux vaut être silencieux et mystérieux
Pour celui qui est amoureux.
Pour l'amour de Dieu, ô mon cœur,
Si d'aucuns venaient te voir
S'enquérant de ce qu'il t'advient
Ne réponds point.
Et si d'autres te demandaient:
"où est donc celle qui t'ensorcelle"?
Rétorque-leur qu'elle envoûte un autre cœur,
En faisant croire qu'elle est hors de ta mémoire.
-Khalil Gibran
J'ai toujours ton cœur avec moi
Je le garde dans mon cœur
Sans lui, jamais je ne suis.
Tu es mon monde, en vrai.
C'est le secret profond que nul ne connaît.
C'est la racine de la racine,
Le bourgeon du bourgeon
Et le ciel du ciel d'un arbre appelé Vie
Qui croit plus haut que l'âme ne saurait l'espérer
Ou l'esprit le cacher.
C'est la merveille qui maintient les étoiles éparses.
Je garde ton cœur, je l'ai dans mon cœur.
Edward Estlin Cummings
Délivrer les sources, célébrer les silences et leur ouvrir les ailes, crier la vie muette, timide, désarmée, ameuter les rêves, marcher dans le fil du jour, maintenir le cœur sur le cadran solaire, divulguer l'amitié, créer dans la torsion de l'être, ravir le secret vital.
-Colette Nys-Mazure
What is Joaquin Phoenix hiding behind his forehead tho
WE DEMAND ANSWERS
This man invented chaos
Sorry. This is the last image of the night. I'm bored
So I have been thinking....
Idk, something about Big Shot with secret lyrics n stuff, but clearer??? Kinda??
I can only hear “ It pulls the strings and makes them ring”
Update to this: I did cut it like hers! My friend went to cosmetology school for like a year and a half so I let her dye and cut my hair (and perm it once) so I showed her these pictures and she cut it and it came out really nicely! It’s a really lowkey haircut that you don’t have to do pretty much anything to style and the 90’s layers lay really nicely plus it frames my face well. If anyone who saw the og post was thinking abt cutting their hair like hers too you should go for it!! I’d add a pic but I don’t post my face on tumblr 😔 if anyone is curious I could upload a faceless one tho maybe
I want to cut my hair like Greta so badly, but I don’t know the name of the hairstyle so I can’t find any irl pic references 😭😭😭
YJ98 as stupid shit my friends and I have said
Fic
"May the odds be ever in your fucking favor YOU HAVE AUTISM" -Bart to Tim
"I feel like a husband finding out his wife is pregnant for the fourth time" -Kon
"And I thought those plumber porn videos were lies" "WHAT?" "Being in here is making me realize all those awkward angles aren't unrealistic" -Cassie and Cissie
"That sounds like a drag queen prostitute or a Wreck it Ralph villain that is a little too cunty to be straight" -Bart (probably about Slobo)
"Men are weird, THAT man deserves to be studied under close observation" -Red Tornado about Bart
"I thought macaroons were a fruit no joke" -Bart
"Alright streetwalker put the money makers away we're going to see GOD" -Anita to Cassie
"Ah yes before the time travel but after the world-ending apocalypse" -Kon
"Why do you have so much-autism" -Kon to Tim
"He will have to bestie up with Jesus Christ, and I'm JEWISH. Do you know hard you have to partner up with someone else's god?!" -Tim
"Oh boy 800 mg ibuprofen and chocolate cake, truly the food of kings" -Greta to Tim
I want to cut my hair like Greta so badly, but I don’t know the name of the hairstyle so I can’t find any irl pic references 😭😭😭
Look I’m just saying if you don’t write young justice as ride or die-down for murder for each other at a moments notice you’re writing them wrong
Yet before it all happens, we both jump into the ocean As we're going deeper under the blue water his heart still beats in vivid red But the depth of the ocean is a secret nobody can tell Nobody including myself.
Desserts - No-Bake Pie - Grandma T's Pineapple Cream Pie Grandma's secret recipe for pineapple cream pie is sure to become one of your family's treasured recipes.
NATG XIV - Day 24
Prompt: Draw a pony stumbling on a secret / Draw a pony making a deal under the table.
This one has G2 ponies. What exactly is Secret Tale (the white one) hiding? Only she (and Sundance) know.
