Publisher's Weekly (fwd)
Steven Maas (CUTR)
maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu
Thu Aug 14 11:45:34 CDT 1997
the Robot Vegetable wrote:
> Fame works on a local level. I think most people still
> live in the small 100 person tribe, and base their actions on this.
> I grew up watching famous people shot.
Sojourner replied:
> Yes this is evidently true, and yet, we have no college departments
> to study this do we? Strange isn't it?
Do you mean to study life in a small modern "tribe"? Try Applied
Anthropology. You'll learn the skills to conduct your own ground-breaking
study of "Fame in a Small Urban Tribe."
If you mean departments to study the shooting of famous people then you're
prob'ly right.
Steve Maas
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