The news is in: He's gone 😞
KG HutchinsI wonder if this statue of Predator is still hanging out in front of this random bank in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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KG Hutchins
Профиль VivelyCultural anthropologist from NC Blue Ridge. Music and Animals in Mongolia. Монголоор ярьна. He/Him. On the web at songsforhorses.com Book out now! https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-for-the-horses
"Gegeeten [The Enlightened]", a book length poem detailing the life and accomplishments of the Wild Saint of the Gobi, Danzanravjaa, the Buddhist luminary, botanist, and lothario, whose familiar was a dog-sized scorpion and whose rosary was made of the skulls of 128 scholars, comes to mind
Jesse HawkenStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Mixed Martial Arts? You mean interdisciplinary humanities??
KG HutchinsMartial Arts... got Arts right in the name
Also just went to the zoo yesterday and I was looking at the elephant feeling sad for a while. Unrelated: they got a diabetic monkey there that can give herself insulin injections
Butt PraxisStill reeling from going to the zoo this weekend and seeing an orangutan, which is basically a person, just sitting there in a hammock. I was tearing up imagining being a sentient creature in a captivity, then looked at my husband, who sighed a troubled sigh and murmured, “I wish I were in a zoo”
This is so visibly true because UN Peacekeeping efforts that *do* operate in Haiti also come from poorer countries that never participated in Haiti's colonization or neo-colonialism, specifically places like Kenya and Mongolia haitiantimes.com/2026/05/15/h...
UN-appointed anti-gang force commander arrives in Haiti to lead expanded missionMajor General Erdenebat Batsuuri arrived in Haiti to lead the Gang Suppression Force, a U.N.-backed mission that replaces the ineffective Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission. Batsuuri’s a...haitiantimes.comBig Ol’ MushYeah it’s less being “too difficult” and moreso almost every country who’d intervene has a very fraught history of occupying Haiti they’d like to avoid being seen replicating
Oh are we talking Candyman?
KG HutchinsOk so in Candyman the main character is a folklore or cultural anthro grad student who is *co-writing* her dissertation on the urban legend with her friend who is in sociology. This is a rare case where the inaccurate movie version of academia is better than what we actually do
Doctor told me I was sick. I said I want a second opinion. He told me, ok,
KG HutchinsAlso you are a scab
Sorry, if you spend an hour telling the wall street journal that your academic discipline is "Too Political" and your big example is that a professor started her class by saying the field is anti-racist, you can't be mad when they present you as part of a growing movement to dissolve that discipline
Liquidated by Karen Ho! Ethnographic investigation into what epistemologies emerge from and have sway within Wall Street firms
Dan Greenenot sure exactly how to describe this but I'm looking for research on basically the political philosophies of finance. There's a decent amount of this on central banks (ie, what democratic capacity can/should be delegated) but I'm looking for something more like "the ethics of a hedge fund"
I think she should go way deeper into the accent because "AOC: Appalachia Ocasio-Cortez" has been sitting in my drafts forever
Kat TenbargePeople are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you