Prague Journal

Tuesday, May 3, 2005.

Harriet was a guest lecturer for an ethnography class at Charles University this afternoon, and she (and her host) graciously invited me to attend. She spoke about fieldwork in linguistic anthropology, which was fascinating to me and not totally unrelated to the kind of fieldwork that a sociologist or case writer does, although the study of language is more intimate. Harriet described some of her work on the Comoro Islands and in New Orleans, studying language, culture, and music.
Bibi performed some compositions of Dora Pejačevič, Croatia’s first woman composer, as part of a lecture sponsored by Embassy of Croatia at the Clam-Gallas Palace. I had hoped that the evening would be mostly music with some lecture, but instead it was mostly a lecture (about Sidonie Nadherna, a Czech baroness and patron of famous artists between the World Wars), with a bit of music. I understood very little of the lecture, but was glad to finally hear Bibi play the violin.

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