| Douglass W Bailey |


| Archaeologists as people |

| From Spring/Summer 2008 Newsletter of the Dep of Anthropology, SF State University (external link) Q: What do you do in your spare time? A: As a school-boy in New Jersey, I used to sneak out of school to play pick-up hockey games at a local rink, dreaming of doing impossible things on skates, of winning the Stanley Cup. As I write this, I am riveted to the National Hockey League playoffs. My son and I are huge San Jose Sharks fans and we try to see as many games as we can. There is something extra-ordinary in hockey's mixture of brutal physical power and performative beauty. The speed, the difficulty, the coordination of people and the precision of movement are of a level found in very few public performances or spectacles. Running beneath this, there is an unwritten code that I appreciate: don't behave outside the accepted norms of equitable conduct. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; if you don't, then look out, because you will get what's coming your way and it will not be pleasant. This underlying philosophy draws all sorts of people to hockey games, from all parts of society; I am at home in those sorts of diverse, edgy, crowds. Q: Other interests? A: I am in love with early 20th century photography. I can spend hours looking at work from this period or reading the daybooks of the key practitioners: Eduard Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier and the rest of a group who called themselves the Photo-Secessionists. Q: Anything else? A: I have a lifetime quest to find the best sashimi outside of Japan. |
