Command at Mount Sinai
Tuesday, Nov. 25, was the feast day of St. Catherine, patroness of a monastery at Mount Sinai. (See entries for that date.)
“In a landmark essay,* the anthropologist Bernard S. Cohn showed how the command of language† could become the language of command.‡“
— “Right formula for a nation in the making,”
by Asad Latif
* “The Command of Language
and the Language of Command,”
Subaltern Studies IV, pp. 276- 329
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† B.S. “I think writing about people in science and math is a way we can pay homage to genius and people we admire. And it’s a way of saying, ‘You may be smarter, but I have the last word, I control
— Ira Hauptman, author of a play, “Partition,” about the mathematician Ramanujan and the culture of India |
‡ No B.S. NY Times, Saturday, B. S. Cohn, CHICAGO, Nov. 28 — Bernard S. Cohn, who spent his life studying and writing about British influence on modern Indian culture and society, died here on Tuesday…. |