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Magic needs rules
Magic requires rules. Here is what anthropologist Marcel Mauss has to say: ‘Far from being the simple expression of individual emotions, magic takes every opportunity to coerce actions and locutions....
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#approvalmatrix – fourfold typologies make it to Twitter
Here’s an older post from the Savage Minds anthropology blog about Mary Douglas’s grid-group typology (the basis of the four cultures explored on this site). It’s basically a mashup of that typology...
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Switching strategies: if baboons can do it, can’t we?
The work of Robert M. Sapolsky and others on the social life of baboons is interesting in many ways but here it’s significant for two reasons in particular. First, I think it sheds light on what we...
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Levi-Strauss for the masses?
I’ve been enjoying Logicomix, a graphic novel about the quest of Bertrand Russell for the logical foundations of mathematics. So it was with delight that I stumbled upon a Claude Levi-Strauss comic in...
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