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  • Food and anthropology

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    Food is a complicated theme, to say the least (note to self – when isn’t it, and what isn’t? 😉 ). Many of us think very little about food apart from what it means to us on a daily basis. Anthropology, however, thinks about food all the time, because food creates a large part of…

  • Substance Abuse

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    Today we will discuss substance abuse. We will start with a definition of what we even mean by this. Many anthropologists – and indeed non-scientific members of our cultures and societies – do not consider the topic of abuse of substances within the context of ritual, traditional or social life. In other words, like murder…

  • Syncretism

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    Today’s theme will be syncretism. Syncretism is something many have never even heard of, but the irony is it exists around us everywhere. The simplest explanation of syncretism is that it is the adoption of others’ beliefs into your own as your own. This is true of myth, tale and religion – they are all…