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  • Fiction And Fanfiction

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    There are two kinds of fiction. One supportive of the aura of factuality and one digressing or even openly questioning or defying it. That’s the broad, simple terms. In reality, of course, it’s never that simple. Many works include elements of both where the author was psychologically swaying from one to the other.

  • Anthropology and Crime

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      (Author’s note – This post was written a while ago and scheduled for today. When I heard about the Las Vegas shooting earlier this afternoon, I thought first that I would reschedule as a gesture of sympathy with the victims, many of whom are still fighting for their lives. Then, I decided that perhaps,…

  • Advocacy

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    Advocacy is the part of anthropology that has the anthropologist play an advocate to a specific group or cause. This may be a matter of necessity (such as the questions about human rights of indigenous groups), personal wish or a thankless task given to them by others; just like a lawyer, an anthropologist may have…

  • 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…