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cultural anthropology

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    Is energy the true currency?: Energy spiritualists

    The oldest curriculum The Vedic tradition calls it prana — the breath that animates all living things. The Chinese call it qi — the vital force flowing through body and world. The Lakota call it wakan — the sacred power pervading nature....
    comparative religion
    sustainability
    cultural anthropology
    environmental philosophy
    energy economics
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    Why is family structure weakening?: The Story

    Imagine two couples In Searcy, Arkansas — population 24,000, anchored by a Church of Christ university — the marriage rate is roughly double the national average. Median household income is below the state median....
    cultural anthropology
    child development and well being
    demography and fertility
    economics of family formation
    family sociology
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    Is tradition a resource, a trap, or something else?: Dialecticians

    The tea ceremony changed with every generation Okakura published The Book of Tea in 1906 describing a ceremony already transformed multiple times since Sen no Rikyu’s fifteenth-century version....
    sociology
    cultural studies
    religious studies
    history
    cultural anthropology
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    Is tradition a resource, a trap, or something else?: Progressives

    The grandmother’s hands On a September morning in 1994, a nine-year-old girl in rural Yunnan had her feet bound by her grandmother. The grandmother soaked strips of cloth in warm water, folded the girl’s four smaller toes under each foot, and wrapped them so tightly the bones...
    ethics
    human rights
    social policy
    cultural anthropology
    feminist studies
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    casre. The article here on Relatefulness vs Circling, and numerous instances of listening to people try to nuance intriguing distinctions between various tweaks of intersubjective practice, turns my mind back to the shamanic.  What I mean is that these modalities which emphasize conscious access to self-content which is recognisable and verballly communicable, needs to be supplemented by modalities in which we are nonlinear mysteries to ourselves and each other, reaching for the shares we don't understand, the languaging that doesn't make sense, the gibberish, the coded speech of subconscious and nonhuman wisdom.  This emerges to some degree in all the different styles but from my point of view it needs to be more explicitly highlighted in order to invite the strangeness of deeper levels of the self.

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    Could you elaborate on what you mean by biggedly little and whence can, whoopass can? I’m curious how these phrases connect to the idea of shamanic practices.

    linguistics
    cultural anthropology
    shamanism
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