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Professor Derek

All your sisters want to fly around my golden sky

About Me

I'm a professor of anthropology at Pasadena City College. I work with Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, though most of my time now is spent teaching. I am interested in human life, culture and society. My academic work is in medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and religious healing and my dissertation is a study of born-again Navajo Christians. I myself am not religious, but I find inspiration in art and nature, the beautiful and the dangerous...This profile was edited with MySpace Help - Profile Creator and Editor MySpace Profile Help!

My Interests

Monkeys, art, and nature

Music:

All kinds of stuff: a lot of classical, jazz (Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Keith Jarrett, Dexter Gordon, Marcus Roberts, Betty Carter, Chet Baker), smart usually pretty mellow singer-writers (Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Beth Orton, Robin Holcomb), electronic and trip-hop (Tricky, Moby, Zero 7, Gem, Olive, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Martina Topley-Bird), ecclectic weirdos (Kate Bush, Bjork, the Sundays, Mazzy Star), others

Television:

I hate myself for owning one

Books:

Currently reading (among others)Favorite authors:James BaldwinLeslie SilkoMark Doty

Heroes:

Jane Goodall