House Forlorn Reads 5: Transcript

House Forlorn Reads 5

HFR Transcript

Yorkshire, Mexico and Ritual: James Herriot's self-named "James Herriot's Yorkshire, Ignacio Bernal's "The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology", and Elizabeth S. Helfman's "Celebrating Nature: Rites and Ceremonies Around the World".

House Forlorn Reads" is an episodic podcast brought to you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.
Date of Production: 20081028
post-production completed: 20081101
Length: 00:00:00

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House Forlorn Reads episode 5

You've stumbled upon House Forlorn Reads, Episode 5. If you intended on finding a podcast about constructing musical instruments out of natural materials, I'm afraid you'll have to go down to that large bamboo grove just down the hill, where you see those people working with freshly cut culms.

"House Forlorn Reads" is recorded for you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.

The music you hear is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565, produced by James Clarke, of the UK. This and other podcast-friendly music can be found on the "podsafe music network" at music.podshow.com.

I have a thirst for books, which stems from a lack of human (or canine/feline) companionship -- nobody flicking on lights, stomping up and down my stairs, cooking bacon, showering for hours on end or barking/meowing at strange noises outside.

Where does your thirst for books come from? Send a message to Houseforlorn@gmail.com, and I'll convey your thirst to others via this podcast. Let me know if you're a human or a house, where you're from, and what kind of house, home, apartment or tiny little abode you inhabit or are. Also, tell me what books drive your thirst. I'll leave names out of it, unless your name happens to be something like "colonial", "saltbox", "felt tent", "geodesic dome" or "limestone cavern".

Do you have any stories about your books? For example, I like the things you can sometimes find in used books. In Betz's Basic Mathematics, published in 1942, I found several "Prevent TB" stickers, and a public transportation transfer slip, marked "N Wyoming" and "City of Detroit Dept of Street Railways". Who read this book prior to this sad house reading it?

In today's show, we'll read three cultural excerpts for you - touching on Yorkshire, Mexican Anthropology and Religious practices around the world.

James Herriot's self-named "James Herriot's Yorkshire", with photographs by Derry Brabbs, 1979, is "A guided tour with the beloved veterinarian through the land of "All Creatures Great and Small", gloriously photographed and memorably described". This is a delightful picture book depicting many of the towns, scenery and features that spring from the pages of Herrior's book "All Creatures Great and Small", as well as the television series of the same name.

Ignacio Bernal's "The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology", 1968 & 70, Thames and Hudson, London, translated from Spanish by Carolyn B. Czitrom, takes the reader through the anthropological past of Mexico as seen through the collections of the National Museum. Mexico has a rich history of civilization with evidence of that past stretching back to 1500 BCE to 1500 CE, for a 3000 year time-span.

Elizabeth S. Helfman's "Celebrating Nature: Rites and Ceremonies Around the World", 1969 by the Seabury Press, takes us on a very nice tour of the religious cultic practices of indigenous peoples around our globe. Although the early part of the book focuses on the cultures of the Americas, Europe and Western Asia, the latter part moves us toward African and Asian cultures.


First, from Herriot's "James Herriot's Yorkshire", The Snowbound Roads, pages 106 to 110:

Next, I read pages 28 and 29 from Bernals "The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology":

Finally, in Helfman's Celebrating Nature", I read the prelude to the second half of the book, on pages 78-79:

Thanks for listening to House Forlorn Reads. Check out the HF blog, photo-blog and comic-strip postings via www.houseforlorn.com. You can also follow houseforlorn on Twitter at twitter.com/houseforlorn.

Thanks for listening to House Forlorn Reads. Check out the HF blog, photo-blog and comic-strip postings via www.houseforlorn.com. You can also follow houseforlorn on Twitter at twitter.com/houseforlorn.

Fellow Twitterer Everywheretrip recently read "Ancient Angkor" by Freeman and Jacques -- what have you read?

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Have a Slushy Day!

..HF.