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Chicken roast Kerala style is a simple and earthy meal for two. Made with spices true to this region, this chicken roast is spicy, tangy and deliciously fragrant from the curry leaves. The best way to enjoy Indian cuisine in the grueling summers is to fire up that barbecue and get roasting!
"…the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic." ― The God of Small Things.
Not just stories. That's the mystery and magic of families. Of knowing all the stories, of having heard the same story a thousand times yet laughing just as hard when you hear it again or sounding incredulous for the umpteenth time. So, as you might know I went away to catch up with my family last week. It wasn't really a happy occasion but it helped that we were all together, helping each other through the difficult times. That's what families are for right? Anyways lets just say we are all praying for things to be better soon and I know they will. Nothing like being positive , right?
Turns out I really miss cooking! Away from my little kitchen for fie days and I started feeling restless, weird and somehow just plain bored. To me, there's an odd comfort in being in the kitchen, much like the comfort you find in being with your family. You may have your crazy moments when tempers flare, you might annoy the hell out of each other at times but there is no one that can love you, understand you or accept you like your family. Similarly, i cant find the comfort of cooking in my kitchen,anywhere else. And cooking I did!!
We celebrated my return with a house favorite – Tequila Fired Grilled Chicken with mango salsa! Lets just say, if you haven't checked this out yet, you need to ASAP. Perfect way to celebrate mangoes too!
And then I moved onto one of the dishes that celebrates romance for me and P. Once, five yrs back as a newly wedded girl , P and I had sojourned in the gorgeous back waters of God's Own Country, Kerala. Dinners then were savored in the scintillating light of diyas/ candles..the music of water lapping against the shores, and eyes only for each other is how I will always remember my honeymoon. That..and this amazing Chicken Roast!
Kerala cuisine is something that you have to try. Its fragrant and spicy, redolent of the flavors of curry leaves, tamarind and coconut! They have all kinds of meat dishes in their repertoire and rice of more varieties than we can keep count. But since we don't do beef, i am going to share with you one of my favorite dishes from this particular part of the world. This Chicken Roast. I had previously made Chicken Ghee Roast that was so so scrumptious that even today my family asks for repeats. If you are looking for something lighter, there's a perfect for the season "Shrimps in coconut curry with raw mangoes" and a super delicious Konkani Pomfret!!
Talking about this chicken here, well summer is here. And we don't want to really have anything too heavy. Enter – chicken roast! Simple, easy and it lets your grill do all the hard work while you relax with a glass of cooling watermelon breezer. Its got just the right amount of heat and is tangy from the tamarind. The curry leaves add a mouth watering fragrant to the dish which is low fat and healthy too!
Serving suggestions: Best served as a side dish or appetizer. However, one can enjoy this in dinner if served with roti, rice and some curry.
- Chicken - legs 2 or drumsticks 4
- Kashmiri Chilli Powder – 2 tsp
- Green Chilli – 4
- Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander powder – 1 tsp
- Pepper powder –1 sp
- Garam masala – 1 tsp
- Fresh ginger garlic paste – 3 tsp
- Curry leaves – 20
- Coconut Oil – 2 Tbsp
- Tamarind paste - 2 tsp
- Salt
- Lemon wedges - for serving
- Onion rings - for serving.
- Start by cleaning the chicken well and making deep gashes/cuts in the flesh.
- Mix together the tamarind paste, 1 tbsp oil , ginger garlic paste, 2 paste of green chillies, and all the spices and salt together.
- Rub this masala well on the chicken pieces and keep it in the fridge for an hour or upto 6 hours.
- In the meanwhile, temper some (1tbsp) coconut oil with curry leaves and the remaining 2 green chillies. Keep aside when the curry leaves are fragrant. Do NOT burn!!
- When ready, oil the grates of the grill.
- When hot, place the chicken pieces on the grill and cook for 15 mins on one side. Baste with the tempered coconut oil mid way and turn the chicken. Cook the other side for a good 10 mins or until done. To check, the meat should be white. If its still pink, grill for a little longer.
- Let the chicken rest for ten minutes. Serve with a further garnish of curry leaves and some lemon wedges and onion rings.
- Enjoy!
In case the oil catches fire, dont panic. Simply put a steel lid on the fire and it shall extinguish.
Adjust the spice and tang level according to your own taste. Although most Indians would find this suitable.
Disclaimer: No where do I claim that this is an authentic Kerala cuisine. This is my adaptation of the popular dish and I have made it healthier by grilling it in minimum spices keeping in mind the season and our personal preference.


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The girl group's production and songwriting team Xenomania divulged on Twitter earlier tonight (May 12) that Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts and Sarah Harding have been at studio sessions during the week, and that they would be recording with Nadine Coyle again soon.
They tweeted: "Prepping to go in the studio with @NadineCoyleNOW for new GA sessions... New GA sessions with @NicolaRoberts @KimberleyJWalsh @SarahNicHarding in the studio over the last week."
Nadine Coyle had revealed yesterday (May 11) on Twitter that she was entering the studio with Xenomania, although she did not say whether the material recorded would be for Girls Aloud or a new solo effort.
The news comes after it was rumoured that Girls Aloud will be releasing this year's official Children in Need song as their comeback single. However, it is unknown whether the recording sessions in question were for this track.
It is also currently uncertain whether Cheryl Cole had previously participated in the studio sessions, or whether she will do so in the future.
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) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Adam Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.
Smith studied moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow and Oxford University. After graduating he delivered a successful series of public lectures at Edinburgh, leading him to collaborate with David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy, and during this time wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments. In his later life he took a tutoring position which allowed him to travel throughout Europe where he met other intellectual leaders of his day. Smith returned home and spent the next ten years writing The Wealth of Nations (mainly from his lecture notes) which was published in 1776. He died in 1790.
Early lifeAdam Smith was born to Margaret Douglas at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. His father, also named Adam Smith, was a lawyer, civil servant, and widower who married Margaret Douglas in 1720 and died six months before Smith was born. Although the exact date of Smith's birth is unknown, his baptism was recorded on 16 June 1723 at Kirkcaldy. Though few events in Smith's early childhood are known, Scottish journalist and biographer of Smith John Rae recorded that Smith was abducted by gypsies at the age of four and eventually released when others went to rescue him. Smith was particularly close to his mother, who likely encouraged him to pursue his scholarly ambitions. He attended the Burgh School of Kirkcaldy – characterised by Rae as "one of the best secondary schools of Scotland at that period" – from 1729 to 1737. There he studied Latin, mathematics, history, and writing.
Formal education
Smith entered the University of Glasgow when he was fourteen and studied moral philosophy under Francis Hutcheson. Here he developed his passion for liberty, reason, and free speech. In 1740, Smith was awarded the Snell exhibition and left the University of Glasgow to attend Balliol College, Oxford.
Smith considered the teaching at Glasgow to be far superior to that at Oxford, and found his experience at the latter to be intellectually stifling. In Book V, Chapter II of The Wealth of Nations, Smith wrote: "In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching."Smith is also reported to have complained to friends that Oxford officials once detected him reading a copy of David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature, and they subsequently confiscated his book and punished him severely for reading it. According to William Robert Scott, "The Oxford of [Smith's] time gave little if any help towards what was to be his lifework." Nevertheless, Smith took the opportunity while at Oxford to teach himself several subjects by reading many books from the shelves of the large Oxford library. When Smith was not studying on his own, his time at Oxford was not a happy one, according to his letters. Near the end of his time at Oxford, Smith began suffering from shaking fits, probably the symptoms of a nervous breakdown. He left Oxford University in 1746, before his scholarship ended.
In Book V of The Wealth of Nations, Smith comments on the low quality of instruction and the meager intellectual activity at English universities, when compared to their Scottish counterparts. He attributes this both to the rich endowments of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, which made the income of professors independent of their ability to attract students, and to the fact that distinguished men of letters could make an even more comfortable living as ministers of the Church of England. Smith had originally intended to study theology and enter the clergy, but his subsequent learning, especially from the skeptical writings of David Hume, persuaded him to take a different route.
Teaching and early writingsSmith began delivering public lectures in 1748 at Edinburgh under the patronage of Lord Kames. His lecture topics included rhetoric and belles-lettres, and later the subject of "the progress of opulence". On this latter topic he first expounded his economic philosophy of "the obvious and simple system of natural liberty". While Smith was not adept at public speaking, his lectures met with success.
In 1750, he met the philosopher David Hume, who was his senior by more than a decade. The alignments of opinion that can be found within their writings covering history, politics, philosophy, economics, and religion indicate that they shared a closer intellectual alliance and friendship than with the others who were to play important roles during the emergence of what has come to be known as the Scottish Enlightenment.
In 1751, Smith earned a professorship at Glasgow University teaching logic courses. When the Chair of Moral Philosophy died the next year, Smith took over the position. He would continue academic production for the next thirteen years, which he characterized as "by far the most useful and therefore by far the happiest and most honourable period [of his life]". His lectures covered the fields of ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence, political economy, and "police and revenue".
Smith published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures. This work was concerned with how human morality depends on sympathy between agent and spectator, or the individual and other members of society. He bases his explanation not on a special "moral sense", as the third Lord Shaftesbury and Hutcheson had done, nor on utility as Hume did, but on sympathy. Smith's popularity greatly increased due to the The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and as a result, many wealthy students left their schools in other countries to enroll at Glasgow to learn under Smith.
After the publication of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith began to give more attention to jurisprudence and economics in his lectures and less to his theories of morals. The development of his ideas on political economy can be observed from the lecture notes taken down by a student in 1763, and from what William Robert Scott described as an early version of part of The Wealth of Nations. For example, Smith lectured that labor—rather than the nation's quantity of gold or silver—is the cause of increase in national wealth.
In 1762, the academic senate of the University of Glasgow conferred on Smith the title of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.). At the end of 1763, he obtained a lucrative offer from Charles Townshend (who had been introduced to Smith by David Hume) to tutor his stepson, Henry Scott, the young Duke of Buccleuch. Smith subsequently resigned from his professorship to take the tutoring position. Because he resigned in the middle of the term, Smith attempted to return the fees he had collected from his students, but they refused.
Tutoring and travelsSmith's tutoring job entailed touring Europe with Henry Scott while teaching him subjects including proper Polish. Smith was paid £300 per year plus expenses along with £300 per year pension, which was roughly twice his former income as a teacher. Smith first traveled as a tutor to Toulouse, France, where he stayed for a year and a half. According to accounts, Smith found Toulouse to be very boring, and he wrote to Hume that he "had begun to write a book in order to pass away the time". After touring the south of France, the group moved to Geneva. While in Geneva, Smith met with the philosopher Voltaire. After staying in Geneva, the party went to Paris.
While in Paris, Smith came to know intellectual leaders such as Benjamin Franklin, Turgot, Jean D'Alembert, André Morellet, Helvétius and, in particular, Francois Quesnay, the head of the Physiocratic school, whose academic products he respected greatly. The physiocrats believed that wealth came from production and not from the attainment of precious metals, which was adverse to mercantilist thought. They also believed that agriculture tended to produce wealth and that merchants and manufacturers did not. While Smith did not embrace all of the physiocrats' ideas, he did say that physiocracy was "with all its imperfections [perhaps] the nearest approximation to the truth that has yet been published upon the subject of political economy".
Later years and writingsIn 1766, Henry Scott's younger brother died in Paris, and Smith's tour as a tutor ended shortly thereafter. Smith returned home that year to Kirkcaldy, and he devoted much of the next ten years to his magnum opus. There he befriended Henry Moyes, a young blind man who showed precocious aptitude. As well as teaching Moyes himself, Smith secured the patronage of David Hume and Thomas Reid in the young man's education. In May 1773 Smith was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London, and was elected a member of the Literary Club in 1775. The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776 and was an instant success, selling out the first edition in only six months.
In 1778 Smith was appointed to a post as commissioner of customs in Scotland and went to live with his mother in Panmure House in Edinburgh's Canongate. Five years later, he became one of the founding members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and from 1787 to 1789 he occupied the honorary position of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. He died in the northern wing of Panmure House in Edinburgh on 17 July 1790 after a painful illness and was buried in the Canongate Kirkyard. On his death bed, Smith expressed disappointment that he had not achieved more.
Smith's literary executors were two friends from the Scottish academic world: the physicist and chemist Joseph Black, and the pioneering geologist James Hutton. Smith left behind many notes and some unpublished material, but gave instructions to destroy anything that was not fit for publication. He mentioned an early unpublished History of Astronomy as probably suitable, and it duly appeared in 1795, along with other material such as Essays on Philosophical Subjects.
Personality and beliefs
Not much is known about Smith's personal views beyond what can be deduced from his published articles. His personal papers were destroyed after his death, at his own request. He never married and seems to have maintained a close relationship with his mother, with whom he lived after his return from France and who died six years before his own death.
Contemporary accounts describe Smith as an eccentric but benevolent intellectual, comically absent minded, with peculiar habits of speech and gait and a smile of "inexpressible benignity". He was known to talk to himself, and had occasional spells of imaginary illness.
Smith is often described as a prototypical absent-minded professor. He is reported to have had books and papers stacked up in his study, with a habit he developed during childhood of speaking to himself and smiling in rapt conversation with invisible companions.
Various anecdotes have discussed his absentminded nature. In one story, Smith took Charles Townshend on a tour of a tanning factory and while discussing free trade, Smith walked into a huge tanning pit from which he had to be removed. Another episode records that he put bread and butter into a teapot, drank the concoction, and declared it to be the worst cup of tea he ever had. In another example, Smith went out walking and daydreaming in his nightgown and ended up outside town before nearby church bells brought him back to reality.
Smith is reported to have been an odd-looking fellow. One author stated that Smith "had a large nose, bulging eyes, a protruding lower lip, a nervous twitch, and a speech impediment". Smith is reported to have acknowledged his looks at one point saying, "I am a beau in nothing but my books." Smith "never" sat for portraits , so depictions of him created during his lifetime were drawn from memory, with rare exceptions. The most famous examples were a profile by James Tassie and two etchings by John Kay. The line engravings produced for the covers of 19th century reprints of The Wealth of Nations were based largely on Tassie's medallion.
Religious viewsThere has been considerable scholarly debate about the nature of Adam Smith's religious views. Smith's father had a strong interest in Christianity and belonged to the moderate wing of the Church of Scotland. Smith may have gone to England with the intention of a career in the Church of England: this is controversial and depends on the status of the Snell Exhibition. At Oxford, Smith rejected Christianity and it is generally believed that he returned to Scotland as a deist.
Economist Ronald Coase has challenged the view that Smith was a deist, stating that while Smith may have referred to the "Great Architect of the Universe", other scholars have "very much exaggerated the extent to which Adam Smith was committed to a belief in a personal God". He based this on analysis of a remark in The Wealth of Nations where Smith writes that the curiosity of mankind about the "great phenomena of nature" such as "the generation, the life, growth and dissolution of plants and animals" has led men to "enquire into their causes". Coase notes Smith's observation that "[s]uperstition first attempted to satisfy this curiosity, by referring all those wonderful appearances to the immediate agency of the gods". Smith's distant friend and colleague David Hume, with whom he agreed on most matters, was described by contemporaries as an atheist, although there is some debate about the exact nature of his views among modern philosophers.
In a letter to William Strahan, Smith's account of Hume's courage and tranquility in the face of death aroused violent public controversy, since it contradicted the assumption, widespread among orthodox believers, that an untroubled death was impossible without the consolation of religious belief.
Published worksAdam Smith published a large body of works throughout his life, some of which have shaped the field of economics. Smith's first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments was written in 1759. It provided the ethical, philosophical, psychological, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), A Treatise on Public Opulence (1764) (first published in 1937), Essays on Philosophical Subjects (1795), Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763) (first published in 1896), and Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)In 1759, Smith published his first work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. He continued to revise the work throughout his life, making extensive revisions to the final (6th) edition shortly before his death in 1790. Although The Wealth of Nations is widely regarded as Smith's most influential work, it has been reported that Smith himself "always considered his Theory of Moral Sentiments a much superior work to his Wealth of Nations". P. J. O'Rourke, author of the commentary On The Wealth of Nations (2007), has agreed, calling Theory of Moral Sentiments "the better book". It was in this work that Smith first referred to the "invisible hand" to describe the apparent benefits to society of people behaving in their own interests.
In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith critically examined the moral thinking of the time and suggested that conscience arises from social relationships. His aim in the work is to explain the source of mankind's ability to form moral judgements, in spite of man's natural inclinations toward self-interest. Smith proposes a theory of sympathy in which the act of observing others makes people aware of themselves and the morality of their own behavior. Haakonssen writes that in Smith's theory, "Society is ... the mirror in which one catches sight of oneself, morally speaking."
In part because Theory of Moral Sentiments emphasizes sympathy for others while Wealth of Nations famously emphasizes the role of self interest, some scholars have perceived a conflict between these works. As one economic historian observed: "Many writers, including the present author at an early stage of his study of Smith, have found these two works in some measure basically inconsistent." But in recent years most scholars of Adam Smith's work have argued that no contradiction exists. In Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith develops a theory of psychology in which individuals seek the approval of the "impartial spectator" as a result of a natural desire to have outside observers sympathize with them. Rather than viewing the Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments as presenting incompatible views of human nature, most Smith scholars regard the works as emphasizing different aspects of human nature that vary depending on the situation. The Wealth of Nations draws on situations where man's morality is likely to play a smaller role—such as the laborer involved in pin-making—whereas the Theory of Moral Sentiments focuses on situations where man's morality is likely to play a dominant role among more personal exchanges.
The site where Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations (1776)The Wealth of Nations expounds that the free market, while appearing chaotic and unrestrained, is actually guided to produce the right amount and variety of goods by a so-called "invisible hand". Smith opposed any form of economic concentration because it distorts the market's natural ability to establish a price that provides a fair return on land, labor, and capital. He advanced the idea that a market economy would produce a satisfactory outcome for both buyers and sellers, and would optimally allocate society's resources. The image of the invisible hand was previously employed by Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments, but it has its original use in his essay, "The History of Astronomy". Smith believed that when an individual pursues his self-interest, he indirectly promotes the good of society: "by pursuing his own interest, [the individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he intends to promote it." Self-interested competition in the free market, he argued, would tend to benefit society as a whole by keeping prices low, while still building in an incentive for a wide variety of goods and services. Nevertheless, he was wary of businessmen and argued against the formation of monopolies.
An often-quoted passage from The Wealth of Nations is:
The first page of the Wealth of Nations, 1776 London edition
Value theory was important in classical theory. Smith wrote that the "real price of every thing ... is the toil and trouble of acquiring it" as influenced by its scarcity. Smith maintained that, with rent and profit, other costs besides wages also enter the price of a commodity. Other classical economists presented variations on Smith, termed the 'labour theory of value'. Classical economics focused on the tendency of markets to move to long-run equilibrium.
Adam Smith's advocacy of self-interest based economic exchange did not, however, preclude for him issues of fairness and justice. In Asia, Europeans "by different arts of oppression..have reduced the population of several of the Moluccas," he wrote, while "the savage injustice of the Europeans" arriving in America, "rendered an event, which ought to have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries." The Native Americans, "far from having ever injured the people of Europe, had received the first adventurers with every mark of kindness and hospitality." However, "superiority of force" was "so great on the side of the Europeans, that they were enabled to commit with impunity every sort of injustice in those remote countries."
Smith also believed that a division of labour would effect a great increase in production. One example he used was the making of pins. One worker could probably make only twenty pins per day. However, if ten people divided up the eighteen steps required to make a pin, they could make a combined amount of 48,000 pins in one day. However, Smith's views on division of labour are not unambiguously positive, and are typically mis-characterized. Smith says of the division of labour:
"In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations, frequently only one or two.
...The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
...His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expense of his intellectual, social, and martial virtues.
...this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it."
On labor relations, Smith noted "severity" of laws against worker actions, and contrasted the masters' "clamour" against workers associations, with associations and collusions of the masters which "are never heard by the people" though such actions are "always" and "everywhere" taking place:
"We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen.
But whoever imagines, upon this account, thatmasters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate...Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy till the moment of execution; and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people." In contrast, when workers combine, "the masters..never cease to call aloud for the assistance of the civil magistrate, and the rigorous execution of those laws which have been enacted with so much severity against the combination of servants, labourers, andjourneymen."
Other worksShortly before his death, Smith had nearly all his manuscripts destroyed. In his last years, he seemed to have been planning two major treatises, one on the theory and history of law and one on the sciences and arts. The posthumously published Essays on Philosophical Subjects, a history of astronomy down to Smith's own era, plus some thoughts on ancient physics and metaphysics, probably contain parts of what would have been the latter treatise. Lectures on Jurisprudence were notes taken from Smith's early lectures, plus an early draft of The Wealth of Nations, published as part of the 1976 Glasgow Edition of the works and correspondence of Adam Smith.
Other works, including some published posthumously, include Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763) (first published in 1896); A Treatise on Public Opulence (1764) (first published in 1937); and Essays on Philosophical Subjects (1795).
A statue of Adam Smith on Edinburgh's Royal Mile built through private donations and organised by the Adam Smith Institute
The Wealth of Nations, one of the earliest attempts to study the rise of industry and commercial development in Europe, was a precursor to the modern academic discipline of economics. In this and other works, Smith expounded how rational self-interest and competition can lead to economic prosperity and well-being. It also provided one of the best-known intellectual rationales for free trade and capitalism, greatly influencing the writings of later economists. Smith was ranked #30 in Michael H. Hart's list of the most influential figures in history, and he is often cited as the father of modern economics.
George Stigler attributes to Smith the central proposition of mainstream economic theory, namely that an individual will invest a resource, for example, land or labour, so as to earn the highest possible return on it. Consequently, all uses of the resource should yield a risk-adjusted equal rate of return; otherwise resource reallocation would result.
On the other hand, Joseph Schumpeter dismissed Smith's contributions as unoriginal, saying "His very limitation made for success. Had he been more brilliant, he would not have been taken so seriously. Had he dug more deeply, had he unearthed more recondite truth, had he used more difficult and ingenious methods, he would not have been understood. But he had no such ambitions; in fact he disliked whatever went beyond plain common sense. He never moved above the heads of even the dullest readers. He led them on gently, encouraging them by trivialities and homely observations, making them feel comfortable all along." (Schumpeter History of Economic Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, p 185)
Classical economists presented variations on Smith, termed the 'labour theory of value', later Marxian economics descends from classical economics also using Smith's labour theories in part. The first volume of Karl Marx's major work, Capital, was published in German in 1867. In it, Marx focused on the labour theory of value and what he considered to be the exploitation of labour by capital. The labour theory of value held that the value of a thing was determined by the labor that went into its production. This contrasts with the modern understanding of mainstream economics, that the value of a thing is determined by what one is willing to give up to obtain the thing. Smith is often cited not only as the conceptual builder of free markets in capitalism but also as a main contributor to communist theory, via his influence on Marx.
The Adam Smith Theatre in Kirkcaldy
A body of theory later termed 'neoclassical economics' or 'marginalism' formed from about 1870 to 1910. The term 'economics' was popularized by such neoclassical economists as Alfred Marshall as a concise synonym for 'economic science' and a substitute for the earlier, broader term 'political economy' used by Smith. This corresponded to the influence on the subject of mathematical methods used in the natural sciences. Neoclassical economics systematized supply and demand as joint determinants of price and quantity in market equilibrium, affecting both the allocation of output and the distribution of income. It dispensed with the labour theory of value of which Smith was most famously identified with in classical economics, in favour of a marginal utility theory of value on the demand side and a more general theory of costs on the supply side.
The bicentennial anniversary of the publication of The Wealth of Nations was celebrated in 1976, resulting in increased interest for The Theory of Moral Sentiments and his other works throughout academia. After 1976 Adam Smith was more likely to be represented as the author of both The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and thereby as the founder of a moral philosophy and the science of economics. His homo economicus or "economic man" was also more often represented as a moral person. Additionally, his opposition to slavery, colonialism, and empire was emphasised, as were his statements about high wages for the poor, and his views that a common street porter was not intellectually inferior to a philosopher.
Portraits, monuments and banknotes
A large-scale memorial of Smith was unveiled on 4 July 2008 in Edinburgh. It is a -tall bronze sculpture and it stands above the Royal Mile outside St Giles' Cathedral in Parliament Square, near the Mercat cross. 20th century sculptor Jim Sanborn (best known for creating the Kryptos sculpture at the United States Central Intelligence Agency) has created multiple pieces which feature Adam Smith's work. At Central Connecticut State University is Circulating Capital, a tall cylinder which features an extract from The Wealth of Nations on the lower half, and on the upper half, some of the same text but represented in binary code. At the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, outside the Belk College of Business Administration, is Adam Smith's Spinning Top. Another Adam Smith sculpture is at Cleveland State University.
As a symbol of free market economicsSmith has been celebrated by advocates of free market policies as the founder of free market economics, a view reflected in the naming of bodies such as the Adam Smith Institute, Adam Smith Society and the Australian Adam Smith Club, and in terms such as the Adam Smith necktie.
Alan Greenspan argues that, while Smith did not coin the term laissez-faire, "it was left to Adam Smith to identify the more-general set of principles that brought conceptual clarity to the seeming chaos of market transactions". Greenspan continues that The Wealth of Nations was "one of the great achievements in human intellectual history". P. J. O'Rourke describes Adam Smith as the "founder of free market economics".
However, other writers have argued that Smith's support for laissez-faire has been overstated. Herbert Stein wrote that the people who "wear an Adam Smith necktie" do it to "make a statement of their devotion to the idea of free markets and limited government", and that this misrepresents Smith's ideas. Stein writes that Smith "was not pure or doctrinaire about this idea. He viewed government intervention in the market with great skepticism ... yet he was prepared to accept or propose qualifications to that policy in the specific cases where he judged that their net effect would be beneficial and would not undermine the basically free character of the system. He did not wear the Adam Smith necktie." In Stein's reading, The Wealth of Nations could justify the Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, mandatory employer health benefits, environmentalism, and "discriminatory taxation to deter improper or luxurious behavior".
Similarly, Vivienne Brown stated in The Economic Journal that in the 20th century United States, Reaganomics supporters, The Wall Street Journal, and other similar sources have spread among the general public a partial and misleading vision of Adam Smith, portraying him as an "extreme dogmatic defender of laissez-faire capitalism and supply-side economics". In fact, The Wealth of Nations includes the following statement on the payment of taxes:"The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."
Noam Chomsky has argued that several aspects of Smith's thought have been misrepresented and falsified by contemporary ideology, including Smith's reasons for supporting markets and Smith's views on corporations. Chomsky argues that Smith supported markets in the belief that they would lead to equality, and that Smith opposed wage labor and corporations. Economic historians such as Jacob Viner regard Smith as a strong advocate of free markets and limited government (what Smith called "natural liberty") but not as a dogmatic supporter of laissez-faire.
Economist Daniel Klein believes using the term "free market economics" or "free market economist" to identify the ideas of Adam Smith is too general and slightly misleading. Klein offers six characteristics central to the identity of Smith's economic thought and argues that a new name is needed to give a more accurate depiction of the "Smithian" identity.
Economist David Ricardo set straight some of the misunderstandings about Adam Smith's thoughts on free market. Most people still fall victim to the thinking that Adam Smith was a free market economist without exception, though he was not. Ricardo pointed out that Adam Smith was in support of helping infant industries. Adam Smith believed that the government should subsidise newly formed industry, but he did fear that when the infant industry grew into adulthood it would be unwilling to surrender the government help.
Adam Smith also supported tariffs on imported goods to counteract an internal tax on the same good. Adam Smith also fell to pressure in supporting some tariffs in support for national defense.
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Peak Oil & Poverty - More Background on the Egyptian Popular Uprising
Another turn in the back story of why the Egyptian people have taken to the streets to oust 30-year dictator Hosni Mubarak: Peak oil--well, nationally peak oil at least. A new article in Le Monde Diplomatique by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed sheds light on how, in addition to food insecurity and political repression, the decline of Egypt's domestic oil reserves have played a powerful supporting role in this drama:This quote sums it all up well (and not so incidentally applies in the bigger picture to many more nations on the planet as oil peaks across more of the world):
Egypt is particularly vulnerable. Its oil production peaked in 1996, and since then has declined by around 26 per cent. Since the 1960s, Egypt has moved from complete food self-sufficiency to excessive dependence on imports, subsidized by oil revenues. But as Egypt's oil revenues have steadily declined due to increasing domestic consumption of steadily declining oil, so have food subsidies, leading to surging food prices. Simultaneously, Egypt's debt levels are horrendous - about 80.5 percent of its GDP, far higher than most other countries in the region. Inequality is also high, intensifying over the last decade in the wake of neoliberal 'structural adjustment' reforms - widely implemented throughout the region since the 1980s with debilitating effects, including contraction of social welfare, reduction of wages, and lack of infrastructure investment. Consequently, today forty per cent of Egyptians live below the UN poverty line of less than £2 a day.
Due to such vulnerabilities, Egypt, as with many of the MENA countries, now lies on the fault-lines of the convergence of global ecological, energy and economic crises - and thus, on the frontlines of deepening global system failure. The Empire is uncrumbling. The guarded official statements put out by the Obama administration only illustrate the disingenuous impotence of the U.S. position.
It may not seem on the surface of it all that the revolution sweeping the Middle East in the past few weeks only has a tangental green connection, but if you look just beneath the surface--as more people are beginning to do--that connection is right there.
Read the whole original article, I highly recommend it: Tunisia, Egypt and the protracted collapse of the American empire
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#30 - Geeking Out On Weightlifting, Coaching Different Demographics & Making Training Fun With Lester Ho
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In this podcast, our crew kicks off with Lester sharing about his PhD on the snatch and how he got into weightlifting. Learn more about the differences between the snatch and the clean and jerk, and coaching the different types and personalities of weightlifters. Hear also on how to address tight shoulders, hips and ankles when training.
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- Lester talks about his PhD in the snatch. [08:00]
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- What pushes you to weightlifting? [14:15]
- Why the snatch, over clean and jerk? [15:35]
- Are you still competing these days? [16:30]
- The moment Lester decided to proceed on coaching weightlifters. [19:10]
- Doc and Lester's most exciting experiences in coaching athletes. [20:45]
- What specific things do you do to make your training fun? [25:30]
- Tommy and Doc's feeling when they first step into the gym. [26:45]
- The importance of an approachable environment in training. [27:25]
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It appears that disputes have arisen among followers of the sole practice of nembutsu, who argue that 'these are my disciples' or 'those are someone else's disciples.' This is utterly senseless.
For myself, I do not have even a single disciple. For if I brought people to say the nembutsu through my own efforts, then they might be my disciples. But it is indeed preposterous to call persons 'my disciple' when they say the nembutsu having received the working of Amida.
We come together when conditions bring us to meet and part when conditions separate us. In spite of this, some assert that those who say the nembutsu having turned from one teacher to follow another cannot attain birth. This is absurd. Are they saying that they will take the shinjin given by Amida as if it belonged to them? Such a claim should never be made.
If one comes to be in accord with the spontaneous working of the Vow (jinen), one will awaken to the benevolence of the Buddha and of one's teachers. (A Record in Lament of Divergences, 6; CWS, p. 664)
This teaching of Shinran Shonin expands upon the implicit sense of the previous chapter of A Record in Lament of Divergences. At the same time, we can put the quote from Shakyamuni Buddha that I set before you into a clearer context.
Shinran is one of very few teachers who was truly aligned to Shakyamuni Buddha's own outlook. Neither Shakyamuni nor Shinran would claim responsibility for the awakening and spiritual life of those who called themselves their disciples.
As Shakyamuni Buddha moved towards the time of his departure from this world, he completed his journey to Kusinara in the company of his cousin and disciple Ananda. Realising that Shakyamuni was about to die, Ananda asked him to give a final discourse. However, Shakymuni responded to this request with the words, 'Ananda, what do the mendicants expect of me? … The Tathagata, however, does not think 'I will take charge of the band of mendicants, or that they will depend on me.'
So saying he went on make that famous statement that his followers should 'depend on nothing else but the Dharma.'
For us, the living embodiment of the Dharma is Amida Buddha, especially the Primal Vow. We hear and receive the command – or call – of the Vow in the Name, Namu-amida-butsu.
I doubt that Shinran was deliberately imitating Shakyamuni. His inner life was naturally such that he could only deny that he had any authority over his disciples. His heart was in tune with the Dharma of Amida Buddha, and nothing else. This became a firm tradition in the Jodo Shinshu and was reiterated by Rennyo Shonin, who insisted that the purpose of a teacher is solely to call upon people to entrust themselves to Amida Buddha's Primal Vow. Beyond that we are 'all fellow followers and practicers.'
We all come the the nembutsu way along many winding paths that are special and unique to ourselves. At some point and in many ways the light of Amida Buddha shines in our hearts, showing us exactly as we are – beings in absolute need of the Primal Vow of Amida Buddha. Sometimes there is agency in this realisation, as it was for me, in the form of a person telling me about the wonderful reality of the Primal Vow of Amida Buddha. For others, such an encounter may be with a book, or a visit to a temple.
I recall the experience of a famous Australian Buddhist by the name of Marie Byles. She dedicated her life to the pursuit of the Dharma and studied under mainly meditation masters in Myanmar and Japan. After such a long and arduous search she described the wonder and unsurpassed joy, at last, of casting aside all of this to rely solely upon Namu-amida-butsu. Such a moment, for her, was exhilarating and indescribable. It seems to have been quite spontaneous.
I, Gutoku Shinran, disciple of Shakyamuni, discarded sundry practices and took refuge in the Primal Vow in 1201. (CWS, p. 290)
We come together when conditions bring us to meet and part when conditions separate us. (CWS, p. 664)


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I've always been very aware of my body. I was an overweight kid–I first figured that out when I was seven and I had to have my ballet recital costume custom-made because there wasn't a size big enough for me.
I remember the first time I ever actively participated in a body bashing sesh.
I believe I was in third or fourth grade. Some girls with whom I wanted to be friends were talking about their bodies in a negative way.
I thought it was strange that they were talking this way. Mostly because I had nothing to say.
But I wanted to their friend, and it seemed like joining this conversation and spilling my guts about what I hated about my body was the way.
So I did it.
Even at this age there were things that I didn't like about my body. I'm not sure exactly which came first: the bashing or the hate.
The weirdest thing is that I thought it was cool to bash my body.
And so did my little friends.
Well, maybe not cool, but I didn't really think anything of it. It was natural.
It didn't seem negative in any way.
I didn't realize that talking about my body in such a negative way would perpetuate negative feelings toward my body.
Even if you don't mean it, talking about your body negatively impacts the way you feel about your body.
"Neuroscience has shown that whatever you focus on shapes your brain. If you're constantly thinking negative thoughts about your body, that neural pathway becomes stronger—and those thoughts become habitual," Says Ann Kearney-Cooke, a psychologist who specializes in body image.
Meaning that even if you don't completely believe these thoughts– you're engaging in the conversation for the sake of conversation– the negative body talk can shape how you see yourself.
So. Even if you're not completely content with your body, I encourage you to cease the negative body talk.
Instead, focus on saying nice things, or not saying anything at all.
Try not to engage your friends in negative body talk…politely change the subject.
Even if you're not content with your body, refrain from engaging.
Refocus on things you like about your body– like how strong you are, or how your eyes sparkle, or how cool your hair looks in a ponytail.
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I love this time of year for lots of reasons, but one of the big ones is that it's the season for baking pumpkin goodies! Basic pumpkin spice bread is great, but when you add chocolate in the mix... it's perfect!
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Links to some of the people I work with
Here are a few of the people and organisations I work with. For details of shows, workshops etc please follow the links.
www.essexcraftanddesignshow.com High quality shows in glorious venues. The very best of artisan crafts. Many of the exhibitors are local to the area.
www.theartministry.org.uk -A small Hadleigh based charity giving art and craft classes to disabled and disadvantaged adults and children.
www.fennpress.co.uk – See some of my work displayed at the Hadleigh shop. We also participate in the Hadleigh Art Trail
www.greetingcardsessex.co.uk – For wholesale or larger orders
www.makingpaperfromplants.co.uk – Handmade papers by Charles Bran
www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/hyde-hall The Glorious gardens at RHS Hyde Hall where many of the Essex Craft and Design shows are held and, also, where I teach workshops several times each year.


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Tonight, President Obama will announce a timetable for withdrawing the "surge" troops sent to Afghanistan that is bolder than many expected. Though the news is slightly surprising, it's worth noting that Obama's aides have been arguing for a very long time that the President was serious about the Afghan withdrawal. This past spring, when I was reporting on Obama's foreign policy, here's what Ben Rhodes, a deputy national-security adviser, told me about drawing down troops:
We've done that in Iraq. And in Afghanistan, we're going to begin to implement that approach in July. But there shouldn't be any doubt about that. And anybody who does doubt that should just look at how the President kept his commitment in Iraq. When he says he's going to steadily draw down U.S. forces, he means what he says.
It's also worth noting that most of the key players who opposed the surge in 2009 have been promoted or now have greater influence in the White House: Joe Biden, Tom Donilon, Denis McDonough, John Brennan, and Rhodes. Meanwhile, most of the pro-surge officials are gone or on their way out or moving into new jobs (Bob Gates, Michael Mullen, Stanley McChrystal, and David Petraeus).
One of the themes of my piece about Obama's foreign policy was that the President seemed to be growing in office as he dealt with a series of complicated foreign-policy crises. Two case studies of that growth and confidence are the evolution in his policy on democracy in the Middle East and the evolution of his policy on Afghanistan. On the former, Obama moved from a crabbed realist pose to a more risky but principled embrace of democracy, even at the expense of stability. On Afghanistan, it is a story of Obama growing from a cautious new President, overly deferential to his military advisers, into a commander in chief asserting control over them.
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After reading your post, I had to laugh. I sort of do the same thing that you did (without the drama you experienced!). My novel is set on the Outer Banks. Every time I visit, I act out the parts, go over the setting and take pictures. Getting fiction to feel real is a must. Of course, I can only get so far into reality because my novel is a paranormal romantic mystery. Even so, I "see" the unreal happening in the real place. Guess like most fiction writers, I'm a bit nuts!
Oh,Elaine, I think you should try for that paranormal romantic experience!
Great post, Cassy and Patricia! Thanks to both of you, I get to experience Italy from across the Atlantic.
I had an opportunity to spend a week in Mumbai after writing my novel set there. I'd been there plenty of times before that but not since I'd started the book. Got to add in a lot of rich details, rework a few scenes....sneak into a nightclub after hours, smell the monsoon, have a few crazy adventures. But nary a paranoid look. It's just daily life there. ;)
But what I don't get is that moment of hesitation you had when hubby suggested you stay on a week for research? Huh?
Thanks, Supriya. You know, I think it's important to know the place your are writing about, wherever it is. It doesn't have to be exotic, like Italy or Mumbai; the important thing is to know the place.
I read a mystery some years ago that was well plotted and had good twists. Then the author lost me when s/he had a group of people running along the long corridors leading to gates at Dulles Airport. That airport doesn't have long corridors; it has "people movers" that are like moveable waiting rooms. It's unique, and the writer hadn't done good research.
That was before internet days, so the research would have been more difficult than today. But it was a crucial error.
Hello, everyone! My apologies for being absent until now. My day took a full turn in an opposite direction- totally unexpectedly. It's late in Italy now, but not on the East Coast where I am. I'm more than happy to hang out as long as folks want to check in.
Supriya, you are so right! I should never have hesitated at staying on. But, I still have those moments when I think, "well, there are the dogs to worry about, and there is the......" I'm trying to get over that.
Again, my apologies, but I ended up at the eye doctor's for an emergency visit that took most of the day. All is well, just the loss of email, talking with you all, and trying to see out of one eye.


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If you are a word nerd, you'll love it. If you aren't – well, we think you'll still enjoy learning about "binge-reading" or "binge-watching", sock puppets and Uberization.
For some people, words are simply utilitarian; they serve a purpose, no more, no less. Other people, usually people who like to read and/or write love words. Yes, words are tools, but in a larger sense they are ingredients. Just as most home cooks have a dozen or spices, including one or two types of pepper, most people have a significant, but limited vocabulary. Just as most people see little reason to fill their cabinet with ten different kinds of pepper while chefs do just that, wordsmiths love to have ten different ways to say "happy".
Word Spy is for wordsmiths, or wordsmith wanna-bes. Word Spy features new words, or new uses of old words. It gives the entomology of the word, lists quotes in which the word was used and defines it.
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Word Spy is the place for words which haven't made it into the dictionary yet. The difference between a dead language like Latin and a living spoken language is that living languages are always evolving and changing. New words or phrases are invented and those which have outlived their usefulness drop into disuse. On WordSpy you can learn about new usage and decide whether to adopt it, or whether you should be insulted by it.
Design 9/10
Word Spy is a simple site that is easy to navigate via the menu on the left-hand side. There are not complicated twists or turns required to reach where you want to go. It serves the purpose it was create to, and nothing more, so we give it a full 10.
Usability 10/10
What is a selfie? Now, we all know; several years ago the word was never used. In between then and now, we may have been able to use context clues to figure it out, but Word Spy would have told us for sure that a selfie was a self-portrait photo, generally with the purpose of sharing on social network sites, and that it also became a common term and activity around 2012. Also, "selfie" was the word of the year in 2013 for Oxford Dictionaries Online. For those who wish to reflect popular language in writing this kind of knowledge is important and we don't know where else you'd find it in such a convenient form.
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The site is free to use. The only thing we could find that they were selling is book, and we had to look for that. There are no ads on the site. It appears to be a labor of love, or else a resume for a speaking gig because they'd have to sell a lot of books to make any money off this site.
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If you are a word nerd, you'll love it. If you aren't – well, we think you'll still enjoy learning about "binge-reading" or "binge-watching", sock puppets and Uberization. If you have teenagers, it may be able to translate what they say into English!
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Berry Slave Value Database, 10 U.S. States, 1797-1865 (ICPSR 37099)
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This study uses historical records from 36 archives in the United States to analyze 8,437 enslaved people's sale and/or appraisal prices from 1797 to 1865.
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Enslaved individuals in the United States (specifically in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) during the late eighteenth and early to mid-nineteenth century.
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ANTHRO 367B: The Intellectual and Political Career of Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies from 1960 to 2014
The seminar traces the trajectory of Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies, beginning with the first New Left in 1960; then the Birmingham Centre period, Thatcherism and Gramscian analysis; race, gender, and identity politics; global and diasporic approaches; New Times, neo-liberalism, and the problem of historicizing the present conjuncture. Case studies from other parts of the world will put cultural studies tools to the test.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
ANTHRO 368: Dynamics of Coupled Human-Natural Systems
This is a graduate research seminar on the interdisciplinary approach to the study of the dynamics of what is known as ¿coupled human-natural systems.¿ We will take a critical perspective on such systems, asking to what extent the idea of coupling of discrete subsystems is intellectually profitable and what defines a ¿human¿ vs. a ¿natural¿ system? We will explore concepts such as coupling, nonlinearity, threshold behavior, feedback, complexity, resilience, and catastrophes. Case studies will be drawn from the literature on human ecology, population dynamics, disease ecology, and social dynamics. Emphasis will be on developing a working knowledge of mathematical and computational models of coupled systems embedded within a rigorous empirical framework of biosocial data collection.
Last offered: Winter 2014
ANTHRO 368A: Time and Temporality
This course explores the social and political organization of time. Anthropology has long been critical of the narratives of progress that are embedded in concepts of modern politics, such as development, citizenship, secularism, and sovereignty. How do social actors respond to the perceived failures of such narratives? How do they re-articulate historical pasts to political futures in the aftermath of modernization? In this course we will read studies that examine lived experiences of the passing of time. How is memory linked to anticipation? How is consciousness of the past structured by expectations of a future to come? We will pay particular attention to the material aspects of these temporal relations, including their social, economic, and infrastructural conditions. Drawing from current debates in anthropology, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, we will critically interrogate theories of ruination, crisis, hope, and utopia.
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Instructors: Tambar, K. (PI)
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ANTHRO 369: Advanced Topics in Human Behavioral
Course covers a variety of advanced topics which rotate annually, such as: ownership and egalitarianism, the integration of landscape and behavioral ecology, conservation and indigenous subsistence, or fertility and demography. Course may be repeated for credit when topics change.
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ANTHRO 370: Advanced Theory and Method in Historical Archaeology
Current debates about theory and method. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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ANTHRO 371: Living and Dying in the Contemporary World
This seminar explores how biological, political and social conditions transform and conjoin experiences of living and dying in the world today. Engaging contemporary ethnographies and social theory, we will examine how life and death, the natural and the social, the individual and the collective, are braided together in ways that challenge conclusions about what constitutes care, community, health, rights, and violence, among other issues. We will also reflect on whether and how the braiding together of these domains leaves room for the recognition of their singularity. Thus, an abiding question for this seminar is the relation of history to the present. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Last offered: Autumn 2018
ANTHRO 371B: New Methodologies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (DLCL 371, REES 371B)
The course will discuss how social virtues are converted into methods of research (hope, friendship, sincerity, trust, utopia), and how they affect processes of knowledge building within the humanities and social sciences in terms of revival of futurity. The concepts will be critically examined in their positive as well as negative potential for practicing prefigurative politics the creation of desirable modes of social relationships of conviviality and co-existence in the world.
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ANTHRO 372: Urban Ecologies
At the intersections of urbanism and environmental studies, political ecology, postcolonial theory and the new materialism, new fields are in formation. This seminar explores scholarship that connects cities with countrysides rough questions of resources and infrastructures. We will consider questions id inequality access and community as well as unexpected urban ecologies
Last offered: Autumn 2017
ANTHRO 372A: Materiality
The relationships between people and things. The world of objects plays a major role in materialism and the anthropology of material culture. Approaches that break down subject-object opposition. New social and psychological approaches that explore the mutual constitution of people and things, and object and subject. Approaches in which objects are seen to have agency, and people are seen as entangled in object worlds. Authors include Hegel, Marx, Benjamin, Miller, Gell, and Latour. Prerequisite, by instructor consent.
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ANTHRO 373: Things: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things
This course examines a variety of approaches that claim to explore the relationships between humans and things. Some of the approaches include Marx and material culture studies; Heidegger; cognitive and phenomenological; Actor Network Theory. But there is a need also to examine behavioral and ecological and Darwinian approaches. Many of these approaches do not adequately deal with the physicality of things as objects and there is a need to seek a way to incorporate such aspects of things into social theory. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor
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Instructors: Hodder, I. (PI)
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today joined a 26-state coalition in urging U.S. Senate leaders to promptly confirm the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The letter of support for Judge Kavanaugh from the coalition of state attorneys general was sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein.
"Throughout his career, Judge Kavanaugh has demonstrated an abiding commitment to the principles and freedoms on which our country was founded, and an unshakable respect for the proper role of the courts within our constitutional structure," the coalition wrote. "The Senate should confirm President Trump's choice without delay."
In their letter, Attorney General Paxton and his counterparts emphasized that Judge Kavanaugh is particularly well suited to enforce the Constitution's limits on federal overreach and protect the role of individual states.
"During the previous administration in particular, the executive branch placed onerous and unlawful regulatory burdens on consumers, employees, investors, and businesses," the letter states. "Judge Kavanaugh will help reverse that trend by reviewing challenged laws and regulations with an eye to ensuring that all branches of our government act within their constitutionally assigned roles – regardless of which party is in power."
The letter is signed by Attorney General Paxton along with the attorneys general of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.


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Answers Magazine (AM): Could you give us some stats about your trips (how many times have you rafted through the canyon etc.)?
Tom Vail (TV): I've been running trips through the canyon for over 30 years and have made the 277-mile journey over 200 times, but I stopped counting a long time ago. Over the years, I have taken several thousand people through the canyon, both when I was an evolutionist and now, as a creationist.
AM: After all these years, what keeps you going back trip after trip?
TV: Coming to know Christ as my Savior in 1994 changed the answer to that question dramatically. My joy today is being able to share the canyon with fellow believers, and seeing them come closer to the Lord, not by anything I do, but by the evidence they see in the canyon that supports and upholds the Word of God. Just seeing people "get it" as they travel through the canyon is amazing. The canyon gives you just a small idea of how big our God really is. I've had more than one person say at the end of a trip, "I've been worshiping a God who was way too small."
AM: How do you think your past and God's work on you has helped you as a tour guide?
TV: The fact that I began guiding in the canyon as an evolutionist helped me first learn the evolutionary model of the canyon very well. Fifteen years later, coming to Christ got me interested in the creation model. In fact, one of my first exposures to the creation model of the canyon was from Dr. Gary Parker at an [Answers in Genesis] seminar in North Carolina. I began teaching the two models side-by-side, at first not disclosing which I favored. Now, however, I am blessed by running only creationist trips and can speak openly, teaching both models, including the challenges and unanswered questions in each.
AM: Could you give a little detail about your speaking ministry? What sort of impact has that had on you as you tour the country and talk about God's creation?
TV: First of all, it is a humbling feeling knowing the Lord has put me in a position to speak to others about the truth of His Word. When I go out to speak, the number of people who show up amazes me! I've spoken for several creation groups where they had record crowds. But they sure did not come to hear Tom Vail speak, as most of them had never heard of me before. But so many people have some level of curiosity about the Grand Canyon, and that's what brings them out. Plus, they probably heard I have lots of really pretty pictures.
When speaking in churches, I find the concept of a young earth is a brand new idea for many. It is not that they doubt God's Word; it's just they have never thought through the issue and its foundational implications.
AM: During your rafting trips, is there one particular spot that you really enjoy stopping at? What makes that spot special?
TV: I guess that would have to be Blacktail Canyon. Blacktail is a slot canyon where the basement rock is exposed with the first of the Flood deposits sitting right on top of it. You can stretch your hand across the line between God's creation and His judgment. Then, you look up and see 4,000 feet of Flood deposits above you. To me, it is one of the few places where you can really get a small glimpse of just how significant the impact of the Flood was on the earth.
AM: Have any of your trips ever included those overtly skeptical of a young earth?
TV: Most of the folks who join a Canyon Ministries trip already believe in a young earth, but not all. For those who don't, it can be challenging because they come to realize just how foundational the subject of origins is to their worldview.
AM: What sort of impact does the trip make on them?
TV: For some, it is life changing; for some, thought provoking; and for others, troublesome. I don't believe you can go through the canyon with an open mind and not come out at the other end without at least questioning [the] old-earth position, both biblically and scientifically. The evidence doesn't support it, and neither does His Word.
AM: If someone went on a trip with you, what's the main thing you hope they take away from it?
TV: Of course, I want them to have a good time. The canyon is one of the Lord's most beautiful cathedrals, and the rapids are exhilarating, at least for most. If they're tentative at the beginning of the trip, they're often yelling, "Go for it!" by the end. But more than that, my prayer is that everyone who goes on a Canyon Ministries trip will be brought into a closer relationship with their Lord and Savior and for them to have a renewed excitement for sharing what the Lord has done in their lives.
A Grand Canyon trip opens many doors of evangelism. Everyone walks away from a trip with a lot of pictures, but more importantly, some little nugget of evidence they want to share. And when they get home, everyone wants to know what their Grand Canyon trip was like. Just the simple "Tell me about your trip" opens the door to say, "You would be amazed what I learned about how the Lord . . . ."
AM: What would you say is the most important thing Canyon Ministries is doing?
TV: Without a doubt, it is the Christian Leaders Trip we conduct in partnership with Answers in Genesis and The Master's Seminary. Through the generous giving of many, each year we [provide scholarships for] an entire trip (twenty-four men) for seminary and Bible college professors, pastors, and ministry leaders to show them the evidence found in the canyon and how it relates to the Scriptures and, ultimately, the gospel. Not all these men come as young earth creationists. Some are but don't know why, other than they believe it is what God's Word teaches; and others accept millions of years. Over the past four years, we have taken almost 100 men from seven nations and representing over forty-five different institutions, organizations, and churches. And I think it is safe to say they have all been changed. They may not all believe in a young earth. But those who do have been strengthened, and those who don't have been challenged.
It is important for all of us in creation ministries to continually remind ourselves the creation/evolution debate is not a matter of salvation. And it is on these trips that this fact strikes me more than any other time. All of these men are godly men who love and serve the Lord, but often have differing opinions on how Scripture should be interpreted. We may not have it all right; in fact, I'm sure we don't. But in the long run, just as there is only one way to heaven, there is really only one truth found in God's Word—no matter what any of us thinks.
AM: What are your plans for the future of Canyon Ministries?
TV: That is a hard one. But as I often say, "You are asking the wrong person!" The Lord has blessed me with health and the physical ability to do these trips, but obviously I'm not getting any younger. I will continue to do them as long as the Lord allows. But I am praying the Lord will bring the right person along to take the helm and steer Canyon Ministries into something much bigger than it is today.
Until then, I'll continue to "suffer for the Lord" in the bottom of the Grand Canyon, speak on the message of the Grand Canyon when asked, and work on expanding the True North Series of guidebooks, which present the creationist perspective on our national parks. We have completed the Grand Canyon Guide and the Zion & Bryce Guide. And, Lord willing Your Guide to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks will be out next spring.