#anthrolology

[zucchiniegg]

ah... to be a parapithecid in the late oligocene, floating to america on a raft of plant debris...

[anthropologymajorfox]

Hey, I'm new at this, do you know any cool anthropology tumblrs? xx

Here are a couple of my personal faves:

(Note: some of them are personal blogs that also post a lot of anthropology/archaeology/linguistics related stuff):

anthrolology

zomganthro

theolduvaigorge

theladygoogle

terrasigillata

ruralarchaeologist

redintoothandclaw

canadianarchaeology

shovelbum

anthrocuriosities

anthrocentric

lesserjoke

saamanthro

wugs

Also, my personal blog is siuilaruin.I don't post as much anth/arch stuff as I'd like, but feel free to follow :]

[juiceonice]

Traditional Folktale of the Awlad 'Ali

Old Migdim told the story about the old woman and old man who traveled into the desert and set up camp in a lonely area where there were wolves. They had brought with them seven goats, a cow, a donkey, and a puppy. The first night, a wolf came to the tent. He called out:

"Hey old man, Hey old woman

O cow who's stopped milking

O seven black goats

O little braying donkey

O little yelping puppy

Give me someone for dinner tonight

Or else, Humm, I'll eat you!"

So the old man and woman gave him a goat.

He came the next night and called out the same thing, asking, "Who will you give me to eat for dinner tonight?" They gave him another goat. This went on night after night until the old couple had given the wolf all seven goats, their donkey, their cow, and their puppy.

Then they realized that they had no more animals to give him and that he would eat them. The old man said to his wife, "Hide me in a basket and hang it from the tent pole. And you, hide in the big urn." So she hung up the basket with an old man in it, and she hid inside the pottery urn. 

When the wolf came that night, no one answered his call. He came into the tent and sniffed around. Then he looked up. Now, the basket had a tear in it, and the old man's genitals were showing, they were dangling out of the hole in the basket. The wolf started jumping up trying to bite them. The old woman watching this started laughing so hard she farted. This split open the urn she was hiding in, and the wolf ate her. Then he nipped at the old man's genitals until he pulled down the basket and ate the old man too. And then he went to sleep in their little tent. 

As with all stories, this one ended with "And they went far away and I came back."

-Writing women's worlds: Bedouin stories

Abu-Lughod, Lila. University of California Press, c1993.