[…]The mummers have got a slang of their own, which parties connected with the perfession generally use. […] 'Vada the glaze' is—Look at the window.[…]"

Until 1961 the line was electrified only as far as Rickmansworth, where steam locomotives were attached or detached in place of electric ones. In the same year the stations north of Amersham were given over to British Rail.

One of the ways we explicitize our view of happiness is to talk about our view of a “successful life”.

In what amounted to an act of autoethnocide (which of course is why it has attracted so much anthropological attention), gods, chiefs, and men were desacralized, and men and women (as well as chiefs and commoners) were defined as equal within the framework of a disenchanted world.