Aboriginal rituals synchronize us with ‘how nature works’
What we, anthropologists and urbanized people, call humanization and progress has a dark side. Only very …
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Applying Anthropology
Applying Anthropology has many shapes. In this site I report on a clinical form of applying anthropology. By guiding troubled young men for ten years I learned to look through their eyes. With them and colleagues I co-created a transcultural linqua franca to bridge their personal/family worlds and the worlds of state professionals.
The Lack of and Craving for Deep-Safe-Spaces in Modernity
Science intends to look for and offer understanding/options for at least man-made, if not natural, human …
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PRACTICING EVERY DAY MYTHOLOGY
http://behavioralsocialsciences.blogspot.de/2008/05/ancestor-syndrome-and-hidden-links-in.html
(Nederlands) We Talk, You Listen
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EUROPEANS ARE NOT U.S. AMERICANS
I only recently saw the movie ‘The Master’ by Paul Anderson (2012) and was again struck …
HEGEMONIC ROMANTIC LOVE
We, westerners, are collectively suffering from ‘anorexia natura’. …to express ‘eternal love’ to your ‘just met …
(Nederlands) INITIATIE RITUELEN BESTAAN NOG: DE LIMBURGSE JONKHEID
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Corrupting Family and Social Bonds
In western philosophy and social sciences there seems to persist a conceptual fallacy for more than …
(Nederlands) Poldermodel heeft voor- EN achterkanten
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Young Men’s Deviance as Feedback to System Error
Until recently I struggled with some missing link in my three decades of clinical fieldwork research …
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