KG Hutchins
@songsforhorses.com
Cultural anthropologist from NC Blue Ridge. Music and Animals in Mongolia. Монголоор ярьна. He/Him. On the web at songsforhorses.com Book out now! https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-for-the-horses
I had a feeling these two would make for an excellent double-feature about humanity’s relationship with animals and nomadism/pastoralism, particularly in a modern (and specifically post-Communist) world, and I was 100% right. Great, mind-expanding reads for this city gal @songsforhorses.com
Environmental Humanities and Social Science people, as you finish up tinkering with your syllabi for the Fall, consider:
KG Hutchins@songsforhorses.com · 10mo agoOut now - for those interested in Mongolian music, animals, and what worlds are possible after this one ends, A Song for the Horses is available in all the usual places as well as directly from the publisher here: uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-...
Environmental Humanities and Social Science people, as you finish up tinkering with your syllabi for the Fall, consider:
KG Hutchins@songsforhorses.com · 10mo agoOut now - for those interested in Mongolian music, animals, and what worlds are possible after this one ends, A Song for the Horses is available in all the usual places as well as directly from the publisher here: uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-...
Congrats on convincing yourself that an entirely conventional, borderline hegemonic, perspective on the region is somehow subversive simply because it is cruel. A sterling career at The Atlantic awaits you
KG Hutchins@songsforhorses.com · yesterdayEvery time I log into this app I see someone hateful about Appalachia. Why am I here, what is this for
Every time I log into this app I see someone hateful about Appalachia. Why am I here, what is this for
All I'm saying is if you like hearing social theory and whatnot from podcasters, substackers, and YouTubers, y'all's minds would be blown by simply reading the books they are constantly plagiarizing
Keep seeing people applaud this substack post that straight up plagiarizes a pretty popular book in my field. But like it's substack so kind of not really worth getting into.
[the psychic pulls the Land Rover LR3 card] Me: is that good?
Today the 13th International Congress of Mongolists is kicking off in Ulaanbaatar. (I'm not taking part, only reposting) The keynote was delivered by David Sneath of Cambridge MIASU, who also received the "Order of the Polar Star" along with those like Michal Biran, Vesna Wallace, and Timothy May.
What a photo! A female Amur tiger is released into the wild in Kazakhstan.
Mahmood Mamdani attributes his radicalizing moment to hearing student protestors singing this song at the University of Pittsburgh where he was studying as an undergraduate. Just another way that Appalachia is deeply threaded through the progressive politics in this country
KG Hutchins@songsforhorses.com · 9mo agoThis woman, Florence Reese, wrote the protest song "Which Side Are You On?" on the back of the calendar off the kitchen wall after seeing her husband, union organizer Sam Reece, dragged away by sheriff JH Blair's mercenaries during the Harlan War in 1931
It was only when my toddler picked up an ocarina that I realized I had already become Navi - following around all day, periodically saying "watch out!"
This is just a normal Gaston County guy
George Pearkes@peark.es · last wk.My guy is rolling an F150 with a gun store sticker and two anti-Trump stickers. 🫡
Lets give it up for corn's favorite snake... The corn snake!!
None other than Jigjid Burkhan, Killer of Death
聖☆Alex Degen@adactivity.bsky.social · 2w agoQuote this w your favorite wrathful deity
Oh man, I've been trying to find this book for years after reading it first year of grad school, really enjoying it, and then forgetting its name entirely
Luke Herrine@lookheron.bsky.social · 2w agoThis book is an unbelievable feat of social research and theory. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
It's cool that there are so many different poetry dueling traditions. Aytis, zajal, etc, I'll listen to a poetry duel in any language
Mongolian folk-electronic duo from Inner Mongolia+Xinjiang, Taiga: youtu.be/0imyEQ5JW8I?...
Taiga｜Mazhalyk-ta（Official Video）
YouTube video by Oriental Order
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Got my 23 and Me results back in a mud stained envelope but all it says is "Bog People 💯💯"
Erdene Zuu Monastery in Mongolia, built within walls of former capital of the Mongol Empire, Karakorum. Monastery founded in 1585 &is oldest surviving monastery in Mongolia. Stones from the former city used in its construction. Practises Tibetan Buddhism. #erdenezuu #karakorum #buddhism #mongolia
Would love to read an ethnography about the people who surf on Lake Erie. What's going on with them
"The Bear" reboot that takes place in the rat restaurant from Ratatouille called "The Rat"
can't speak to classics but appalachian studies was enthused
Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · 2w agoA real question: were classicists acting this insane about O Brother, Where Art Thou when it came out
