http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/first-contact/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/first-contact/#comment-5333 Dave Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:18:18 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/29/first-contact/#comment-5333 Oops. Oops.

]]> http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/first-contact/#comment-5332 Fred Garber Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:55:19 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/29/first-contact/#comment-5332 Just a side note here. My last name "Garber" means leather tanner. Just a side note here. My last name “Garber” means leather tanner.

]]> http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/first-contact/#comment-5331 Dave Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:28:41 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/29/first-contact/#comment-5331 Perhaps, yes. But I do think it makes sense to date the original animal/human split to the invention of clothing. And that invention made nakedness possible not merely in an existential, Garden of Eden sense, but also in the reductionist sense of a radical diminishment of our own pelts, which could only have been the result of conscious selection for less-hairy infants through selective infanticide. At the same time, the shamanistic imagination hearkened back to an Edenic time before the split, when animals and humans spoke the same language. Many hunter-gatherers saw animals as, essentially, people wearing - and defined by - distinctive pelts. So there was angst about killing all along. Perhaps, yes. But I do think it makes sense to date the original animal/human split to the invention of clothing. And that invention made nakedness possible not merely in an existential, Garden of Eden sense, but also in the reductionist sense of a radical diminishment of our own pelts, which could only have been the result of conscious selection for less-hairy infants through selective infanticide. At the same time, the shamanistic imagination hearkened back to an Edenic time before the split, when animals and humans spoke the same language. Many hunter-gatherers saw animals as, essentially, people wearing – and defined by – distinctive pelts. So there was angst about killing all along.

]]> http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/first-contact/#comment-5330 Fred Garber Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:13:54 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/29/first-contact/#comment-5330 We honor the others by wearing their skin and eating their flesh.... in my judgement..... We honor the others by wearing their skin and eating their flesh…. in my judgement…..

]]> http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/first-contact/#comment-5329 Dave Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:27:39 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/29/first-contact/#comment-5329 Geez, I don't know. I wish my visions were as optimistic as yours. Geez, I don’t know. I wish my visions were as optimistic as yours.

]]> http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/first-contact/#comment-5328 robin andrea Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:01:50 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/07/29/first-contact/#comment-5328 How does the story end? In my dream zebras take Washington, DC, wildebeests take New York. The skinwalkers are gone, long gone. How does the story end? In my dream zebras take Washington, DC, wildebeests take New York. The skinwalkers are gone, long gone.

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