Okay, Matt, test your lamentable mental prowess on this postulate
unabashedly stolen from a provocative two dimensional electronic survey of
celestial mounds, quetzal sounds, and the shining flight of the Itzaes
volodores recently diffused across the ARCH-L:
"There is no practice that does not have either an intended or an eventual
function (effect), whether on the individual or social level. "
--Lenny__
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Tomaso <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 2:45 PM
Subject: arch-theorists' Lament
>I am nostalgic for the days when we'd sit around our virtual campfire as if
>we really knew each other, arguing interminably and sometimes actually
>learning from one another about lost arks and holy grails such as social
>identity, agency and social evolution, and postwhateverist
>conceptualizations of historical consciousness. Spare me from having to
>spend another lunch hour trying to accomplish work which I should have
>completed last week. Doesn't anybody have anything controversial or
>provocative to inquire about? Couldn't we just fight-out one of our
>reiterative cliches once again - for old time's sake?
>Or have we all become so burdened with meaningful and useful tasks that we
>have forgotten to play once in a great while?
>
>Matthew S. Tomaso, M. A., Coordinator,
>Center for Archaeological Studies
>Montclair State University
>104 Dickson Hall
>Upper Montclair, NJ. 07043 USA.
>
>Office: 973 - 655 - 7990
>
>http://www.chss.montclair.edu/archaeology/cas.htm
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