Built on Bones by Brenna Hassett

Author:Brenna Hassett
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

1 He actually says ‘prevention of realisation’, but I’m trying to avoid the less sociologically inclined reader from actively contesting this definition of violence by chucking the book across the room.

2 Example: If you are of an age to have loved the film Sixteen Candles, you may have missed the horrifyingly date-rapey subtext of basically the whole plot. Times have changed. Mostly.

3 Having never misbehaved as a child, I would not know.

4 Do not look this up if you want to sleep at night.

5 Belts, first and foremost. Never give your grandparents reason to discuss how they were raised.

6 For instance, some of the recorded punishments we know of from the writings of the Dutch urban elite over last 500 years include things like the cruel, yet patently familiar, sent-to-bed-without-supper ordeal.

7 My language here is why Millennials have invented the expression ‘sorry/not sorry’.

8 Borshay Lee judged that men did more work than women by counting up time spent hunting (men), fixing stuff (men) or gathering (women). Literally nothing else is considered. Guess that water just up and gets itself, and those kids just magically grow.

9 Has.

10 Because they sure are in the present.

11 Read: spare bed.

12 Writing the methods chapter of my PhD. It seemed better to do this on a Greek Island than a dank London flat, for some reason.

13 Awkwardly, we did this in full view of Philipos, the person who had rented us the car. The one cafe in Diakofti sits at the end of the causeway and doubles as his second office. This pattern of behaviour may explain why so much archaeological field time is taken up with car trouble.

14 Getting that diagnosis correct was a serious ego-puffing moment.

15 As exemplified by my first question to an archaeologist presenting some of his work on this: ‘The hand was found where?’

16 For instance, the controversial preacher Helen Ubaiko says she can save you from witchcraft, ancestral or mermaid attack. Critics say she encourages abuse of children who are deemed to be possessed. I personally would like to see the mermaid up front before handing over any of my money.

17 Witnessing the aftermath of such an occurrence gave one acquaintance a lifelong fear of the rural part of the African country he was working in.

18 Literally, ‘penalty of the sack’.

19 And one terrifying pre-school teacher with a predilection for dioramas. How was a non-Christian kid supposed to know what to make with the two Popsicle sticks?

20 Or both.

21 Props to Ned Stark for the opportunity to demonstrate the verb form of ‘beheading’ in both active and passive case.

22 For instance, museums all over the world are full, absolutely full, of skulls without bodies. This has a lot less to do with decapitation, however, and a lot more to do with the limited interest anthropologists of an earlier era had in anything that wasn’t constructing skull morphologies and racial typologies. Not that we’ll know if any of those isolated skulls were decapitated: the necks are missing.

23 Ask the French.

24 And I bet you even they would blink.

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