i wish there was an anonymous club for amazon.com addicts because i am one of them. i buy books with just one click. more and more books i have heard and never heard of. my small room is becoming full of them... on my table, on the floor, on my bed... books everywhere... at the bookstore near the harvard square there are so many of them... and dictionaries of all languages imaginable... different dialects of arabic, armenian, cambodian, african tongues... i love being there. and i love the smell of old books. and almost everyday i find a parcel outside our door... one more book has arrived:) yesterday simon and uli even had to carry me while we were passing the harvard bookstore as i am mad about books. i need a club for someone like me... "hello. my name is ieva. i come from europe. i buy books. everyday. i think i am obsessed. will you help me?"



for those curious about what i am reading, here is the list of the compulsory literature for this semester. books and articles, all mixed up. but appart from that there are other books which i have always wanted to have... renato rosaldo, more antonio gramsci, pierre bourdieu, sudan and chile. should i open a bookstore?

Herodotus, Egypt
Tacitus, On Germany
Bartholome de las Casas, In defence of the indians
Montainge, On Cannibals
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
John Locke, The Two Treatises of Government
Giambattista Vico, The New Science
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality
James Cowles Pritchard, Researches into the Physical History of Man
Auguste Comte, System of Positive Philosophy
Henry Maine, Ancient Law
E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture
Karl Marx, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology
Karl Marx, "Forms Which Precede Capitalist Production," Grundrisse
Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society
Karl Marx, Capital I
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Max Weber. “Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy.”
Georg Simmel. On the Nature of Historical Understanding
Georg Simmel. The Metropolis and Mental Life
Georg Simmel. The Stranger
Freud, “Fixation to Traumas-The Unconscious”
Freud, “Obsessive Acts and Religious Practices”
Freud, “Reflections upon War and Death”
Freud “One of the Difficulties of Psychoanalysis”
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
Fustel de Coulanges. The Ancient City
Emile Durkheim, "Individual and Collective Representation"
Emile Durkheim, “The Dualism of Human Nature and Its Social Condition
Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Emile Durkheim, “The Realm of Sociology as a Science”
Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, Primitive Classification
Marcel Mauss, The Gift,
Robert Hertz. “Death and the Left Hand”
James G. Frazer, “On Certain Burial Customs as Illustrative of the Primitive Theory of the Soul”
A.C. Haddon, “Migration of Cultures in British New Guinea”
W. H. R. Rivers, “On the Origin of the Classificatory System of Relationships”
W. H. R. Rivers, “The Unity of Anthropology”
A.R. Radcliffe Brown, "The Mother's Brother in South Africa"
A.R. Radcliffe Brown, "On Social Structure
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, “The Comparative Method in Social Anthropology”
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, “On the Concept of Function in Social Science”
Bronislaw Malinowski, "The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis”
Bronislaw Malinowski, “Baloma”
Bronislaw Malinowski, Coral Gardens and Their Magic
Bronislaw Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Bronislaw Malinowski. Sex and Repression in Savage Society
Ernst Jones, "Mother-Right and Sexual Ignorance of Savages," Essays in Applied Psychoanalysis
Parsons, A., Is the Oedipus complex universal? The Jones-Malinowski debate revisited
Evans Pritchard. The Nuer
Evans-Pritchard. Nuer Religion
T.O. Beidelman. “Nuer priest and prophets”
Douglas Johnson. Nuer prophets
Franz Boas, "The Aims of Ethnology"
Franz Boas, "Human Faculty as Determined by Race"
Franz Boas, "The Limitations of the Comparative Method"
Franz Boas, “Growth of Indian Mythologies”
Clark Wissler, “The Culture-Area Concept in Social Anthropology”
Edward Sapir, "Do We Need a Superorganic?"
Ruth Benedict, “Configurations of Culture in North America”
Edward Sapir, “Culture: Genuine and Spurious”
Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.
Background: Alfred L. Kroeber, “History and Science in Anthropology”
Claude Levi-Strauss, The Elementary Structures of Kinship
Claude Levi-Strauss, “The Structural Study of Myth”
Claude Levi-Strauss, “Social Structure”
Claude Levi-Strauss, “The Scope of Anthropology”
Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind
Paul Farmer, AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide
Otto Santa Ana, Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse
Karl Marx, “The Communist Manifesto”
Marshall Berman, “Marx and Modernism”
Weber, Max, selections from The Theory of Economic and Social Organization
Benedict Anderson “The Idea of Power in Javanese Culture”
Foucault, Michel “Panopticism”
Salzinger, Leslie, Genders in Production
Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks
Donald Kurtz, “Hegemony and Anthropology: Gramsci, Exegeses, Reinterpretations”
The Rebel Consumer”
Eric Wolf “Facing Power”
Jean and John Comaroff, “Hegemony and Ideology”
Elizabeth Ferry, “Envisioning Power in Mexico”
Janet McIntosh: Reluctant Muslims
Ann Stoler “Perceptions of Protest”
Susan Gal, “Between Speech and Silence”
Lila Abu-Lughod, “The Romance of Resistance”
Ann Allison “Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunchbox as Ideological State Apparatus”
Carlota McAllister, “Authenticity and Guatemala's Maya Queen”
George Collier and Elizabeth Quaratiello, Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion
Beth Conklin, Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Carole Hendrickson, Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemalan Town
Peggy Levitt, The Transnational Villagers
June Nash, We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines.
Mona Rosendahl, Inside the Revolution: Everyday Life in Socialist Cuba
Paul Vanderwood, Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint
Helen Safa, “Women and Globalization”
Derrick Hodge, “Colonization of the Cuban Body”
Leslie Salzinger “Making Fantasies Real: Producing Men and Women on the Maquila Shop Floor”
Diane Nelson, “Gendering the Ethnic-National Question”
Isar Godreau, “Changing Place, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico”
Elizabeth Ferry, “Dancing with the Indios”
“The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol”
Conklin and Graham, “The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco-Politics”
Terence Turner, “Defiant Images”
Alejandro de la Fuente, "Recreating Racism: Race and Discrimination in Cuba's Special Period"
Ellen-J. Pader “Spatiality and Social Change
Bennett, Tony. “The Exhibitionary Complex”
Greenblatt, Stephen. “Resonance and Wonder”
Bann, Stephen. Shrines, Curiosities in the Rhetoric of Display
Linenthal, Edward T. “Heroism and Villainy”
Deen, Rebecca, “Exhibition review of ‘Loss and Renewal: Transforming Tragic Sites’”
Greenspan, Elizabeth L. “Spontaneous Memorials, Museums, and Public History: Memorialization of September 11, 2001 at the Pentagon”
Low, Setha M. “The Memorialization of September 11: Dominant and local discourses on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center”
Feldman, Jeffrey D. “One Tragedy in Reference to Another: September 11 and the Obligations of Museum Commemoration”
Lupu, Noam. “Memory Vanished, Absent, and Confined: The Countermemorial Project in 1980s and 1990s Germany”
Deng, Alphonsion, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, and Judy Bernstein. They Poured Fire on us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
Beswick, Stephanie. Sudan’s Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity and Slavery in South Sudan
Linenthal, Edward T. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum
Stier, Oren Baruch. “Different Trains: Holocaust Artifacts and the Ideologies of Remembrance”
Korte, Mona. “Bracelet, Hand Towel, Pocket Watch: Objects of the Last Moment in Memory and Narrative.”
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. “The Agency of Display”
Prentice R. “Experiential Cultural Tourism: Museums & the Marketing of the New Romanticism of Evoked Authenticity”
Rugoff, Ralph. “Beyond Belief: The Museum as Metaphor”
Henare, Miria. “Wait 262: A Maori ‘Cultural Property’ claim”
Herle, Anita. “Transforming Things: Art and Politics on the Northwest Coast”
Handler, R. “On having a culture: nationalism and the preservation of Quebec’s patrimony” McMahon, Felicia Faye. “Repeat Performance: Dancing DiDinga with the Lost Boys of Southern Sudan”
DeLuca, Laura and Katherine Bruch. “Lost and Found?: Fragmented Fieldwork among Sudanese Refugees.”
Chanoff, David. “Education is my Mother and Father”
Bixler, Mark, The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
Azoulay, Ariella. “With Open Doors: Museums and Historical Narratives in Israel's Public Space”
Katriel, Tamar. “Remaking Place: Cultural Production in an Israeli Pioneer Settlement Museum”
Azaryahu, Maoz. “(Re) Locating Redemption. Jerusalem: The Wall, Two Mountains, a Hill and the Narrative Construction of the Third Temple”
Kahlili, Laleh. “Places of Memory and Mourning: Palestinian commemoration in the Refugee Camps in Lebanon”
Glock, Albert. “Archaeology as Cultural Survival: The Future of the Palestinian Past”
Freedburg, David. “Idolatry and Iconoclasm”
Cohen, Cynthia. “'Removing the Dust from Our Hearts’: The Search for Reconciliation in the Narratives of Palestinian and Jewish Women”
Cohen, Cynthia. "Working with Integrity: A guidebook for peacebuilders asking ethical questions"
Van Keuren, DK, “Cabinets and culture: Victorian anthropology and museum context”
Hinsley Curtis M. “The World as Marketplace: Commodification of the Exotic at the World’s Columbian Exposition
Cohen, Bernard. “The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities and Art in Nineteenth Century India”
Dubin, Steven. “A Matter of Perspective: Revisionist History and The West as America”
Stewart, Susan. “Objects of Desire”
Clifford, James, The Predicament of Culture
Krauss, Rosalind. “The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Museum”
Parmentier, Richard. “Institutional Regimentation“ in Signs in Society
Mathur, Saloni. "Museums and Globalization"
Phillps, Ruth and Elizabeth Johnson. “Negotiating New Relationships: Canadian Museums, First Nations, and Cultural Property”
Phillips, Ruth. “Disappearing Acts: Traditions of Exposure, Traditions of Enclosure, and Iroquois Masks”
Merril, W.L., E.J. Ladd, and T.J. Ferguson, “The Return of the Ahayu da: Lessons for Repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution.
Abrams, George H.J. “The Case for Wampum: Repatriation from the Museum of the American Indian to the Six Nations Confederacy, Brantford, Ontario, Canada”
Simpson, Moira. “Making Representations: Museums in the Post Colonial Era”

I guess you will soon need to rent an extra room for books.. but seriously, I mean, is it physically possible to read that much? :) You've always been notorious for mastering the impossible.. Well I'm awestruck, not much to add here.