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.
On bowing ‘while bending our fate’ antropologist Robert Keesing writes, in a paper from 1978 recently republished as ‘classical’, about anxiety, influencing existential fate and ‘devotional surrendering’ in human ritual (On not understanding symbols 2012): …To be emotionally caught up …
‘JE ZIET HET PAS ALS JE HET DOOR HEBT’ (Johan Cruijff; voetballer en artiest) Onlangs (mei 2016) vroeg een therapeute/student in de 1-jarige opleiding transculturele systeem benadering van het Marjon Arends Instituut Amsterdam, om iets meer te vertellen over ‘handelend …
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Ethnography & Thick Description are two major shibboleths in contemporary anthropology. In hundreds of publications we tried to solve riddles of sphinxs which seem to be only fascinating to ourselves as anthropologists. We are not nearly widely read as e.g. …
Beyond Ethnography lies Thick Rhyzomatic Thinking Read more »
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What we, anthropologists and urbanized people, call humanization and progress has a dark side. Only very recently, 10.000 years, we started living in cities while our ‘aboriginal’ (indigenous people’s) past lasted about 2,5 millions years. The ‘urbanizing era’ lasted only …
Aboriginal rituals synchronize us with ‘how nature works’ Read more »
Science intends to look for and offer understanding/options for at least man-made, if not natural, human suffering. However we (westernized) social scientists do have, looking closely at our (public) time/money investments the last hundred years, a bad track record. We …
The Lack of and Craving for Deep-Safe-Spaces in Modernity Read more »
