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bec_87rb

Now History Professors Look Like This

Oct 23, 2012 12:38

Now, if you are a PBS nerd old enough to recognize the guy in the last entry, Michael Wood, you might be thinking, who is this thick-necked soccer hooligan and why am I looking at him?

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suegypt October 24 2012, 22:49:47 UTC

large lumpy supraorbital ridges (gotten, no doubt, from drunken games of forehead bumping with his mates while celebrating a Manchester United win)

Even worse is if you are a fan of forensic anthropology. Squirrelly looking bunch, to a (mostly) woman.

bec_87rb October 27 2012, 23:49:38 UTC

What do big thick supraorbital ridges indicate?

suegypt October 28 2012, 12:53:35 UTC

Maleness, for one thing.

Human-ess, for another, or near so. I think the eyes sockets being so prominent make it possible for us (great apes, etc.) to have a face, a flat face, with the brain above, behind a forehead, not swept back behind our eyes like canines and birds, and most other things I can think of on one cup of coffee.

Is our fellow from Australia, by any chance? Aboriginals have especially prominent ones among modern folk. However, I will give you Thomas Gibson, and the lovely "portrait" Matthew Gray Gubler did of him as a handsome example of the western European overhanging brow. hee

bec_87rb November 13 2012, 15:59:12 UTC

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chu_hi October 26 2012, 13:22:53 UTC

Wood's six-part The Story of India is excellent.

bec_87rb October 27 2012, 23:49:05 UTC

Oh, I agree; I've watched it twice. His crew filmed it in such a lush, colorful way. Very A Passage to India? I can see in a place so hot, wet, and full of disease, how it would be possible to film it in way that is off-putting. Plus he clearly loves the place, so he makes us love it too. I have a disproportionately good opinion of people from the sub-continent because I had a Pakistani boss when I was younger.

Have you seen Michael Palin's Himalaya? His episode that had viewing bull-racing with a local raj (in the Punjab, maybe?) was delightful. And strangely familiar. Like we were watching the mayor of a Kentucky county presiding over a fox hunt, only no one gets killed on purpose.

chu_hi November 8 2012, 11:19:41 UTC

I haven't seen Himalaya; in fact, I didn't know about it. Now I do. Thanks!