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		<title>Why shrews are interesting</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/27/why-shrews-are-interesting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Efe Ethnoarchaeology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been said that our most distant primate ancestors, the mammal that gave rise to early primates but itself wasn&#8217;t quite a primate, was most like the Asian tree shrew, which is neither a shrew nor does it live in trees. This is, of course, untrue. When the average American sees a shrew native &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/27/why-shrews-are-interesting/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why shrews are interesting</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ethnographic Notes: Efe Forest Camps</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An Efe forest camp is usually dark and depending on the time of day, dripping from current or recent rain. The Efe live in dome shaped huts which may be more or less complete. A half dome might be a hut that was built quickly, or it might be a hut that was built more &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/21/camps/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Ethnographic Notes: Efe Forest Camps</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What is your comfort zone?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/13/what-is-your-comfort-zone/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[lost congo memoir]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, I took out the trash. I may or may not have taken the trash out last week, but I can tell you that the last time I did take it out, whenever it was, I had to drag the trash barrel across ice. Yesterday I went to the gym without a coat or jacket. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/13/what-is-your-comfort-zone/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What is your comfort zone?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shamans, Surgery, and the Driveway of Doom</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/21/shamans-surgery-and-the-drivew/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In which I explore the interface between the Jungian Subconscious and my own primordial anguish. The blocked end tube pipe is a touchstone to the shamanistic world of the people we call the Hopewell. Similar artifacts are found elsewhere in the world, but the Adena-Hopewell cultural complex (dating to approximately a thousand year plus long &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/21/shamans-surgery-and-the-drivew/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Shamans, Surgery, and the Driveway of Doom</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What a Difference a Century Can Make</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/08/what-a-difference-a-century-ca/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the 20th century, a traveler in Central Africa made mention of some strange people that he had come across. He was traveling among regular, run-of-the-mill natives&#8230;probably Bantu-speaking people living in scattered villages and farming for their food. But along the way, strange people came out of the forest. These strange people &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/08/what-a-difference-a-century-ca/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What a Difference a Century Can Make</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Great White Missionary</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/25/the-great-white-missionary/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was a rare day that I was at the Ngodingodi research station at all &#8230; usually I was off in the forest with the Efe Pygmies, up the road excavating an archaeological site. It was also rare that Grinker, my cultural anthropologist colleague, was at the research station. He was spending most of his &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/25/the-great-white-missionary/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Great White Missionary</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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