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You should get some course on anthropolgy or something Bilbo. Maybe the gov't could even fund it since you are a useless B****** 'as is'?
haha I'd love to do that but I have a disease called 'chronic idleness' that prevent's me from doing anything remotely stressful or work related
I'm an anthropology/history major, it's a lot less work than you'd think. Of course, I'm only in my 2nd year.
Really, I bet it's an interesting subject though? Do you do much fieldwork?

What do you make of all the ancient legends and mythologies?
Yeah, it is a very interesting subject, at least it is to me. I'm only in my 2nd year, so I haven't had many chances to do fieldwork, but it is looking like I'll have a chance to do some this spring. In anthropology, my main focus is archaeology, but I've taken courses in all of the main sub-disciplines except for linguistic anth. (I didn't like the prof who was teaching it). This spring I should be getting into a program for an archaeological field technician, which would take place at an old quarry outside of town where migrant workers came to work and live. After that, another of my profs is probably (pending approval) going to run a field school on some First Nations (Natives) territory on the west coast of the island I live on. I am hoping to get into that as well, it would meaning going out into the bush for about a month or so. Both profs who are running these programs are quite fond of me and have told me that if it is up to them I will certainly get in to these programs (one, the technicians program, has only 13 spots open; the fieldschool would not admit many more than that either, so they're both quite competitive in regards to admitance. Which is fine by me, because I get good grade and my profs seem to like me - first time for everything I guess).
The legends and mythologies would mainly fall under the domain of cultural anthropology; I've taken several cultural anthropology courses, but unfortunately I have found them to be hit or miss depending on the prof. The last cultural class I took was dubbed, not surprisingly, cultural anthropology, but due to the teacher often the class would decend into a feminist diatribe (I'm in another of her classes this term in which she put up a picture of the female reproductive system and desribed it as looking like a "beautiful moth" . I thought it looked kind of like a mishaped goats head, but I wisely kept my mouth shut), which really turned me off of the class. It was for her class that I wrote a paper about Saddoboxing.com as a social group. I hope she doesn't read this.
Also, when we actually were learning about different cultures etc. instead of giving us a cross-section of different cultures (which myself and many others would have prefered) she instead focus on only one culture, the Chillihuanian people of the Peruvian Andes, where she and a friend of hers had done their fieldwork (her friends book, Growing Up In A Culture of Respect, was a required text book for the class). It was interesting, all though it was written from a child-rearing perspective. We learned all about their culture and believes, myths etc. which was really cool IMO, but like I said I would have prefered to learn about more than one culture in a class name cultural anthropology.
If you have any more questions feel free to ask.