Well, busy again, but thankfully I am two weeks in advance of where I need to be with editing. Granted the chapter after that is new and I have to write the whole thing, but hopefully after that I should be good for a while.

The chapter I have to write is very technical in terms of Ethnographic studies and what sort of things Anthropologists do when they are out if the field. It will cover a number of facts about the Mother's Children, such as tribal size, various features, kinship patterns, language patterns, ritual behavior, diet, hunting practices, clothing, etc... the basic meat and potatoes of drawing up and picture of a new culture. Of course it is making me crazy as I have to hunt down stuff from the Ethnographies of the Matse people, the closest tribe to the Mother's Children since they are also in the Panoan language group.

The Matse are a really interesting tribe as one of their distinguishing features is the fact that they have whiskers that they push into their skin, making them look like cats. It's actually kind of cool. Their world view is also pretty neat. I had to learn about the Matse to help frame the Mother's Children correctly. That wasn't all that easy, let me tell you. Not only did I need to learn about the various tribal cultures of the Amazon basin, but I also had to learn all about the career of being a professional Anthropologist and Academic. That part was easier/ harder to do as the stuff I knew in the English and History Depts. was not exactly the same.

Any way, if you are interested, Google the Matse and learn something about a really interesting people and that will give you an insight into the Mother's Children.