Heyo...

As the great anthropologist Louis C.K. once said, "most people are dead...out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead...there are WAY more dead people". I really feel like Mr. C.K. is on to something there. My name is Shawn and I dig anthropology/archaeology...any of it, it's all cool. Human beings are crazy and interesting and amazing, all in the same moment...how can you not want to know more about them? I'm taking this class because, well, I'm interested in dead things and it seemed appropriate. I like the idea that by looking at different beliefs in death, we're able to get a better understanding of the living and why they did what they did. I spent a year in Japan and a good portion of my free time was spent wandering through cemeteries snapping pictures of intricately detailed shrines and the such...pretty much been interested in the theme ever since. I'd eventually like to parley my experiences in school into working with First Nations on discovery and repatriation of human remains in association with the Indian residential school genocide here in Canada. I guess that's me...?