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Dirck van Bekkum
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Dirck van Bekkum
Dirck van Bekkum Welcome to an Anthropo-Gazing way of being-in-the-world.

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    • this site
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Practical Mythology

Practical mythology is not studying some exotic event/phenomenon but a rather useful way to re-order your/our daily realities to changed environments. We humans need rituals to transform these realities.

Practical mythology, from an anthropological gaze, is how human systems (families, groups, communities, networks, nations, corporations, religions) remember major collective/contextual events in order to rework and transform in adapting to major, system-in-contexts, changes.

Animal have to cope with the same predicaments but do not need mythology in the way humans do!

Humanity, as a glorious (evolutionary) accident, developed reconciliation rituals to make the transformations (irreversable changes) necessary to let go of unbearable individual and collective pains (traumas). outdated patterns, codes, habits.
We humans need to return frequently (collectively) to animal paradise.

Applying Anthropology, Beauty of Differences and Similarities, First & Second Nations, Practical Mythology, Systematically Getting Lost, Transitional Spaces

GETTING BACK TO WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED

Dirck van Bekkum Jan 4, 2017

Take me back sings Van Morrison (1991) in search for when it felt so right, so …

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Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Practical Mythology, Systemtheory

From Linear to Circular to Rhizomic Thinking and back

Dirck van Bekkum Nov 27, 2016

Practioners in systemtheory and system (family) therapy are familiar with thinking in linear and circular (communication) …

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Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology, Clinical Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Epistemology, Improvising Systematically, Organisms as Selfcorrective Systems, Practical Mythology, Research Practices, Systematically Getting Lost

Cirkelend ‘terugploegend’ leren

Dirck van Bekkum Aug 15, 2016

‘JE ZIET HET PAS ALS JE HET DOOR HEBT’ (Johan Cruijff; voetballer en artiest) Onlangs (mei …

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Applied Mythology, Cultural Selfreflection, Dominating & Subjecting, Practical Mythology

THERE IS NEED TO ACCOUNT FOR TASTE

Dirck van Bekkum Aug 12, 2016

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Applied Mythology, Applying Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Epistemology, Improvising Systematically, Practical Mythology, Research Practices, Systematically Getting Lost

Beyond Ethnography lies Thick Rhyzomatic Thinking

Dirck van Bekkum Aug 5, 2016

Ethnography & Thick Description are two major shibboleths in contemporary anthropology. In hundreds of publications we …

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Applied Mythology, Clinical Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Practical Mythology

Falling Down and the Anxiety of Falling Apart

Dirck van Bekkum Aug 1, 2016

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Applying Anthropology, Cosmic Jokes, Cultural Selfreflection, Practical Mythology

EUROPEANS ARE NOT U.S. AMERICANS

Dirck van Bekkum Jul 27, 2015

I only recently saw the movie ‘The Master’ by Paul Anderson (2012) and was again struck …

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Applying Anthropology, Beauty of Differences and Similarities, Clinical Anthropology, Cultural Selfreflection, Epistemology, Evolutionary Alienation, Evolutionary Authenticity, Family & Community Continuity, First & Second Nations, Practical Mythology

Corrupting Family and Social Bonds

Dirck van Bekkum Jul 9, 2015

In western philosophy and social sciences there seems to persist a conceptual fallacy for more than …

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