Anarcho-structuralists and the bones of the matter

ANoTD's chief anthropology correspondent / sleuth / KGB hitman Sam Geall digs up this piece on semi-celebrity full-anarchist anthropologist David Graeber. Famous at Yale for his eight hour beer-drinking sessions with students, the perfect yellow of his teeth, and the storming controversy around his dismissal, Graeber came to the sunnier climes of London recently to deliver LSE's annual Malinowski Lecture. His topic: a strangely structural reading of today's mythic detectives, spies and coppers.

In other news:

A group of Australian aborigines arrived in the UK this week to reclaim the bones of their ancestors, which were used in experiments and measurements in the 19th century (that era of beautiful Victorian science). Authorities have agreed to release the bones, but only after they can make a few more teency weency measurements themselves.

An Indus Valley civilisation era settlement has been found in the north Indian state of Haryana.