September 2019
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 22 September 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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JustKnecht’s Loom of Form & Meaning
Charles Cameron shares JustKnecht’s Loom of Form and Meaning, a nine-category table for classifying how forms and meanings change, and links it to his own HipBone Games and to Hesse’s…
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Modernization leading toward confessionalization
Taking up a reader comment that Hindu nationalism stems partly from the weakening of caste, Razib Khan argues that modernisation often produces stronger confessional identities, citing Eric Kaufmann on Islamism…
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The Indian cultural Left is in India, but not of India
Razib Khan argues that Arundhati Roy should be understood as part of a global English-speaking cultural Left, not as typical of India or the Islamic world, where Left politics persists…
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The maritime origins of the Munda
Razib Khan finds the Munda Maritime Hypothesis highly likely: Munda languages arose on India’s east coast after Austroasiatic speakers crossed the Bay of Bengal from Southeast Asia 3,500 to 4,000…
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Browncast Episode 67, Conversation with freelance academic Justin Murphy
BrownCast episode 67: the hosts talk to Justin Murphy, a very online ‘post-academic’ and former UK political scientist now back in the USA, about working outside an institution, his return…
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Last Will of Guru Gobind and Emperor Aurangzeb
Reposts from a blog the Zafarnama, Guru Gobind Singh’s Persian letter to Aurangzeb, alongside Aurangzeb’s last will, with comments on the contrast between the two, and links to the original…
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The Origins of the Neolithic in the Indian subcontinent
The author argues that the Rakhigarhi and Genomic Formation papers show Iranian-related ancestry in the Indus civilisation separated before Iranian farming began, so farming reached South Asia without a large…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 15 September 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
