Introduction In October 2018, I went on a tour of Uzbekistan, equipped useful dictionary and phrasebook; I’ll write separately about the more normal sights of Uzbekistan; and Uzbek and Turkish. Today I’m writing about linguistic environments with more than one script and more than one language. I’m an Aegean prehistorian involved in the Sphakia Survey, a…
Rage becomes her: The Anger of Demeter
Soraya Chemaly’s important book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Angerwas published earlier this year. I gulped it down as soon as it was published in the UK, and rejoiced in it, because the power of women’s anger is increasingly the force for change that it should be, worldwide; and because a long time ago, when…