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What We can Learn From Fitness? Exercise, Career And Priority Building

Jul 5, 2018

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Helidth Ravenholm

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Am I a fitness enthusiast? Why yes, thank you for asking. If it wasn’t visible at any point before, yes, I am… despite multiple chronic health issues, or possibly because, I cannot imagine living without exercise. By that, I don’t only mean going to the gym. While I like gym well enough, it often doesn’t…
How Do We See Ourselves? Sex/Gender, Social Perception And Personhood

Jun 25, 2018

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Helidth Ravenholm

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Much of how we see ourselves has to do with how our particular social self is supposed to be perceived in our environment, plus our own acceptance, unacceptance and/or perception of it. In a world where we do meet with adversity, and where discrimination by sex/gender is rife from both sides, it is important to…
Adoption

Jun 1, 2018

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Helidth Ravenholm

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As Monday’s post said, adoption is seen predominantly as a study of kinship in anthropology. As I pointed out then, it is a lot more – it explores the social, cultural, religious, superstitious spheres of any group in question, rigid or fluid, past or present.
Eurovision, Hate Speech and Body Image

May 14, 2018

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Helidth Ravenholm

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Eurovision is behind us and as these things go, it was about politics a LOT this year as well (try our British competitor, with the song that should be titled, yet again, “It’s not about Brexit… but it really is”). I’m not much of a Eurovision freak. For me, it’s about finding out about new…
90s Heroes, Old Legends and Today

May 1, 2018

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Helidth Ravenholm

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One of the best things about social and cultural anthropology is that it can literally touch any topic. For me, that means I get to write about (and research) literally whatever I want when not working on a client specific question. This also means that, whatever you look at, technically is anthropology. (Hence the name…

Tag: society

What We can Learn From Fitness? Exercise, Career And Priority Building

How Do We See Ourselves? Sex/Gender, Social Perception And Personhood

Adoption

Eurovision, Hate Speech and Body Image

90s Heroes, Old Legends and Today