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Our Tar Paper Shack
When I was a little girl, we lived in Bloomington, Indiana, where my parents were both enrolled in Graduate School at Indiana University. We lived in a trailer, in a trailer park peopled primarily by poor and relatively uneducated workers … Continue reading
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Tagged 1954, American values, manhood, personal worth, Peter Pan, poverty, Tinker Bell
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On Familial Obligation in America
Parker Shipton wrote a book entitled The Nature of Entrustment, which deals with the action implications of trust (“entrustment”) and of intergenerational and intra-familial obligation, among other things. Although his book, which I’m only halfway through, focuses on western Kenya, … Continue reading
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Tagged allocation, ancestor, division, father, grandfather, grandmother, inheritance, mother, obligation, rights, Shipton
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