Ep 103 – Shakespeare in the Bush

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Glenn shares his favorite essay and teases an upcoming 2-part episode. “Shakespeare in the Bush” was written by Anthropologist Laura Bohannan in 1966 about the time she set out to study the Tiv of West Africa and was taught the true meaning of Hamlet. Text of the essay can be found here: Shakespeare in the Bush

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0:00.0	Brush up your Shakespeare.
0:03.0	Start quoting him now.
0:06.2	Brush up your Shakespeare and the women you will wow.
0:11.3	This is infantsants on Thrones.
0:17.0	Minneso. Minneso.
0:18.0	Minsaud.
0:20.0	Hey!
0:22.0	Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. I'm Glenn O'Sland and today I want to share with you one of my favorite essays ever.
0:30.0	Now this is something that made a huge impact on my life. It's an essay called
0:35.1	Shakespeare in the Bush by an American anthropologist named Laura Bohannon. She
0:40.6	wrote this in 1966 and it was one of the first things that I was assigned to read
0:46.2	when I started graduate school in the mid 90s.
0:49.1	It's something that really made me question my sense of superiority as someone who looked at the world from a Mormon
0:55.5	point of view. Hopefully the reasons for that will become obvious to you by the end of this
0:59.3	essay. Now the reason I'm sharing this with you now is because we have what I think is a really exciting two-part episode on the horizon.
1:08.0	We'll be releasing it this upcoming Sunday and Monday.
1:11.0	It's an interview with Chelsea Shields Strayer
1:14.0	who some of you may know
1:16.0	from her involvement in Wave and ordained women
1:19.0	but Chelsea is also a Ted fellow.
1:21.0	She gave two Ted speeches and she wrote a very cool Ted blog because she's both a cultural
1:28.0	anthropologist and a biological anthropologist and she's worked with people in Africa in a similar way that you're going to hear in this essay.
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