Publisher's Weekly (fwd)

[Sojourner]

At 12:45 PM 8/14/97 -0400, Steven Maas (CUTR) wrote:
>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. 

Neither.  I mean the study of "fame" unto itself.  It's clearly of vital
interest
unto all societies and yet it has almost no academic recognition at all, other
than in anthropology on a limited basis.