Bee Keepers: When Berkeley Professors Become Informants, Ideas Since at Least the 1960s

When Berkeley professors become informants in the anthropology of counterculture and information technology, it's probably happened before in similar other contexts, too. But professors at Berkeley and Stanford who were around in the 60s and 70s would make fascinating informants for that time.

They'd probably try to empower their anthropologist student interlocutors :)


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At Harbin Hot Springs more than a month ago, I saw the following Bumper stickers:


Restore Hetch Hetchy

Give Bees a Chance

Free Tibet


These are ideas that were around in the 1960s, as well, I think.


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Bee people - people interested in bees are fascinating. Somehow the 'culture' of bees affects how they think and behave. And this unique bee-keeping culture has been around much longer than the 1960s.

The 1960s delved into all kinds of fascinating sub-cultures, like bee-keeping. See, for example, the at least 10 volumes of the Foxfire books on Appalachia on topics like:

Foxfire 1: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining

Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, Wagon Making and More Affairs of Plain Living

by Eliot Wigginton


Here's a limited Preview from Foxfire 4 in Google Books:

books.google.com/books?id=l1Y9FaKmGuwC&pg=PR9&dq=foxfire+books&ei=ID7NSqztHYnokASom9W9Bw#v=onepage&q=foxfire%20books&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeper

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/bee-keepers-when-berkeley-professors.html - October 5, 2009)