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@thedissenteryt.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:42 AM

Learn about how culture can modify cognitive mechanisms in my first interview with Dr. Joseph Henrich. #Anthropology #Psychology #Science

Full interview: youtu.be/1Qx7q4Swruk

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:11 AM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN: The Descents of Man* (2016) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 5, p. 49

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Being Half-Born Makes Humans Variable ... and Reckless

Our birth defines us humans, and it represents a separation in our understanding of life from all other — nine million and more — of species of planetmates. The additional thing is that it is related to a helplessness of our newborns, more helpless after birth than even the most helpless of newborns of other species.

So we have birth trauma with a physically and mentally undevel- oped fetus having to confront a most horrendous ordeal of making a huge head fit through a narrow pelvic opening. Then we have addi- tional trauma in that we have an excessive neediness and reliance on the environment to provide those needs afterward — those physical and neurological needs.

THE FIFTH DESCENT — EGO

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:45 AM

*PLANETMATES: The Great Reveal* (2014) by Michael Adzema

KEYNOTE 3, p. 27

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Horse Sense, Part Three

“Though disgracing yourself in the Cosmos, it might still be that you will succeed ... though I don’t see how you’ll do it. Each day that passes and in your most powerful country, the stupid ‘filthy rich’ continue their game of, well, quite literally, actually, ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ as they pull their strings and their Republican lapdogs cry out the louder being obstructionists to the good people who are trying to save, why, even your foolish hide.”

The Buffoon King

“And their media puppets, having been allowed to back off on the sincere and competent Obama as even the ‘deciders’ behind the scene tired of their C-student puppet, the W, who, while loyal in doing their bidding and indeed giving them such great success, was even more embarrassing than that Nixon…

PROLOGUE: KEYNOTE OF THE GREAT REVEAL

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:02 AM

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema.

INTRODUCTION, p. 22

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• Thirteenth Descent — Hierarchy ... control of others, inequality, domination and submission, class war

• Fourteenth Descent — Misogyny ... domination of women, domination and submission brought into the family

• Fifteenth Descent — Child Use ... and Abuse ... domination and control of offspring, mistreatment and exploitation of children, family “armies” and work groups

• Sixteenth Descent — Work

• Seventeenth Descent — Religion ... instead of spirituality, beginnings of impersonal and ritualized practice in relation to Divinity and authority, sycophantic worship instead of connection with Divinity, phantom and transcendent gods

• Eighteenth Descent — Culture

INTRODUCTION

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:13 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 3, p. 27

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THE THIRD DESCENT — PREMATURITY

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Primates are rarely monogamous, for starters. Among our fur-bearing cousins, only the gibbons mate for life. Chimps are promiscuous and the fathers are not involved at all in the care of the young. Being non- monogamous as well as promiscuous, for one thing, paternity is not known. Some other mammals, such as wolves, pair off for life; and the males are protective and caring of the young, as the mothers are, but the paternity is known. They essentially have family units. Not so for our more closely related mammal planetmates.

However, all these factors of sociability, monogamy, division of labor, and many other changes that came with infant helplessness made it so natural selection would favor those of us who mated for life, were monogamous, and had male assistance for the mother at and around the times of its roles of mothering. Thus, families.

So, culture is born in the helplessness of the human infant.

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:34 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* Prol, Ch 4, p. 46

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PROLOGUE: PRIMAL PSYCHOLOGY, FARTHER REACHES OF EXPERIENCE

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…and be logical, which is separate from all influences ... which is somehow detached or transcendent from Reality and Experience. Sure, we admit this faculty is imperfect. Yet we also believe that we can get it more correct using the methods of science. We believe that its incorrectness lies in faulty logic or faulty data. Both of which are correctible.

Going along with these vanities, we concoct gods with the same characteristics. Like our supposed reason, the Judeo-Christian-Muslim god is one who is separate from all creation, not immersed in it, and is a kind of grand manager of all events ... even as we imagine our intellects and reasoning ability to be. Hence, we create a god in our image, not the reverse as we say in our Western theologies.

Incidentally, this is not the kind of god we created during the majority of human experience when we were primal humans. So this egocentric, ratio-centric, if you will, perspective, this ego- aggrandizement is the product of civilized and patriarchal cultures, occurring as our burgeoning controlling fetish came into full bloom. Indeed, the Age of Reason during our Western European history, which set off the modern version of civilization, was…

@appliedanthro.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:16 PM

New article from Practicing Anthropology: Walking the Narrow Ridge: Freedom, Stance, and the Ordinary Dust of Ethical Life by Alapa Odugbo

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#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #PracticingAnthropology

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:49 PM

*Who To Be* INTRODUCTION, p.XI

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THE DESCENTS OF MAN

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INTRODUCTION

The Descents of Man:

Descents to “Civilization” — Control ...

Human Devolution in Light of the Trauma of Birth;

Our Separation from Nature Began When We Stood Up

@mandycmerciless.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:40 PM

Gotta have a place and some pocket money.
#Anthropology

@appliedanthro.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:59 PM

The John Bodley Student Travel Award deadline is soon approaching. Abstracts are due October 15.

More info: appliedanthro.org/awards-prize...

#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #SfAA2027 #Bodley

@selenamaranjian.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:13 PM

#civilization #care #anthropology

@berghahnbooks.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:00 PM

Correcting the Record: Essays on the History of American Anthropology by Herbert S. Lewis is now available in paperback!

Find out more here: bit.ly/4y8fRQ0

Review by @choicereviews.bsky.social

#Anthropology #Theory #Methodology #ColonialHistory

@menalib.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:13 PM

CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess
#MENAdoc:

"Are work and schooling complementary or competitive for children in rural Ethiopia?“ by Kate Orkin

[Oxford, UK: Young Lives, 2012]

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#ethiopia #school #work #economy #anthropology

@appliedanthro.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:39 PM

SfAA Member Spotlight: Jeremy Spoon, Research Professor of Anthropology, School of Earth, Environment, and Society, Portland State University

To find out more about SfAA membership, visit our website: appliedanthro.org/membership

#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #IAmSfAA

Quote graphic on dark purple background. Heading: "What motivated you to join SfAA?" Response describes joining as a new assistant professor to engage with an accessible, supportive community of applied scholars and practitioners, finding mentors, receiving feedback on research, and learning about innovative methods and inspiring projects.

Quote graphic on dark purple background. Heading: "Any advice for someone just starting out in applied social science?" Response encourages being transparent and vulnerable, building a network of mentors and peers, co-developing mutually beneficial research with communities, and ethically co-producing knowledge while fostering real-world applications.

@thedissenteryt.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:28 AM

Learn about humans’ arrival and migrations in the Americas in my interview with Dr. Thaís Pansani. #Anthropology #Science

Full interview: youtu.be/n3kIoDsjE9c

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:13 AM

*PLANETMATES: The Great Reveal* (2014) by Michael Adzema.

KEYNOTE 3, p. 27

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*PLANETMATES: The Great Reveal* (2014) by Michael Adzema.

KEYNOTE 3, p. 27

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PROLOGUE: KEYNOTE OF THE GREAT REVEAL

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Keynote 3 — Tough Love

A Planetmate’s “Tough Love” Continued and Good News

Horse Sense, Part Three

“Though disgracing yourself in the Cosmos, it might still be that you will succeed ... though I don’t see how you’ll do it. Each day that passes and in your most powerful country, the stupid ‘filthy rich’ continue their game of, well, quite literally, actually, ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ as they pull their strings and their Republican lapdogs cry out the louder being obstructionists to the good people who are trying to save, why, even your foolish hide.”

@brainsandbones.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:10 AM

To get this pathology in your skeleton, you had to survive!

Reading: Saxena, A. et al. (2000) Linear catch-up growth.
Image: PBS (WGBH Educational Foundation)
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