{"id":1832,"date":"2004-08-20T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com\/2004\/08\/20\/les-mots-et-les-choses"},"modified":"2004-08-20T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T15:19:00","slug":"les-mots-et-les-choses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangette.net\/2004\/08\/les-mots-et-les-choses\/","title":{"rendered":"Les mots et les choses"},"content":{"rendered":"
Words hold such promise.<\/p>\n
Yesterday morning I received a spam e-mail from someone named Napoleon Mayo. I deleted it right away, of course, but what a name! Napoleon Mayo<\/strong>. It reminds me of Colonel Mustard. Condiments with military prowess.<\/p>\n Sometimes anthropology is so exciting. Yesterday, while doing some editorial work for the department website, I was faced with a document called \u201cWhat is Luminescence Dating<\/strong>?\u201d Now, this stuff is entirely beyond me\u2014dealing as it does with natural radioactivity and artifacts and other things that concern archaeologists and not people like myself\u2014but what a term! I\u2019d like to appropriate it and twist it a bit. What is luminescence dating, you ask? Why, it\u2019s a date so fantastic that by the end of the evening, both parties are actually emitting light\u2014luminescent, if you will. What a lovely idea.<\/p>\n