Hi John, thanks, thought I would just share a few scribblings to tentatively test the water on my writing style (so appreciate the feedback), and also when people/friends ask me what I have been getting up to I have a few bits for some easy browsing. And finally what I feel I can say at this point without doing my participants an injustice, as doing them, my data and myself justice still requires more patient work.

In terms of your question, I am basically writing up my thesis and have come to a number of pointed conclusions. Some of the points are implied slightly in the text. One being something I believe we have touched on before, which is that hunting and gathering are often squeezed into 3 different categories in global and academic discourse. These categorisations in some sense are ‘sacred myths upholding’* dominant ways of life and often perverting others. So my current job is to ‘reveal a new class’* through ethnography and undermine those myths and the dominant way of life they prop up. That is very broadly what I am pointing at. The points themselves will have to wait, though in the meantime even a small tit-bit like this may slightly unsettle those myths in some readers, or not.

* http://thememorybank.co.uk/2010/11/18/1345/