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29 April 2008
by Giulianna Lamanna
Recently, Jason and I were wandering through REI looking for a birthday gift for Mike when we stumbled upon a book called Let’s Get Primitive: The Urban Girl’s Guide to Camping by Heather Menicucci. It looked to be a clever, irreverent guide to back-country camping designed for women not so used to the outdoors. I [...]
22 April 2008
by Giulianna Lamanna
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to makeup ads in the past few years (and if you haven’t, shame on you! Bad consumer! Bad!), you’ve probably noticed that “all-natural” mineral makeup has been growing in popularity these last few years. It’s gotten so popular that major brands are producing cheaper knock-offs that contain [...]
15 April 2008
by Giulianna Lamanna
Spring is in the air, and we’re ready to get back outside, but sunshine ain’t what it used to be. Primitive living involves spending a lot of time outdoors, but people nowadays have much more to worry about vis-a-vis the sun than our hunter-gatherer ancestors, especially those of us with skin the color of unbaked [...]
1 April 2008
by Giulianna Lamanna
It’s a well-known truism that people (usually teens or young adults) going out of their way to dress differently all end up looking the same. People commonly point that out to mock punks, or Goths, or emo kids, or whatever the new “sub-culture” fashion is, but that completely misses the point. These people generally aren’t [...]
27 March 2008
by Giulianna Lamanna
I can never get into live albums. Or remixes, for that matter, or any alternate version of a song that I know. The few exceptions to this rule tend to be songs I heard first and/or exclusively as live versions (Nirvana’s “About a Girl,” for example) or songs unique to that live performance. But in [...]
3 March 2008
by Giulianna Lamanna
A common concern among women who stumble upon primitivism (usually through their boyfriends or husbands) is that living primitively is necessarily anti-feminist, since there is no way for a woman to control when or if she gets pregnant without the help of latex condoms, pills, and so forth. But looking at the grand sweep of [...]
18 February 2008
by Giulianna Maria Lamanna
At Raccoon Creek State Park’s PATH WAYS’s herbal medicines workshop, the instructors provide a recipe for natural, poison-free insect repellent. When Jason and I first attended the workshop back in 2006, we came back with two 4oz bottles of this “bug juice”: a combination of simple extra virgin olive oil and essential plant oils. Since [...]
7 February 2008
by Giulianna Maria Lamanna
Decorations weren’t–and still aren’t–just for fashion: they carried cultural and personal meanings. I probably should have included this in my last post about Native American dresses, but here’s a fascinating article (from NativeTech, natch) about beads. Native Americans in my bioregion made them out of bone, ceramic, metal, shell, and stone. Beads, of course, are [...]
5 February 2008
by Giulianna Maria Lamanna
The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., is currently running an exhibit on native dresses called Identity by Design. They’ll be running it until August 3, 2008–one reason why Jason and I are looking for some excuse to go to D.C. before then. But even if you can’t get to the exhibit [...]
17 January 2008
by Giulianna Maria Lamanna
Are you getting a good, solid eight hours of sleep every night? Sleeping soundly from the time you lay down to the time you get up to go to work? Well, stop doing that: it’s bad for you and unnatural. Yes, you heard me correctly!
There are so many aspects of our daily lives that we [...]
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