Rachel E. Smith

Set up for - for economic anthro see @dme_project

[Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo]

New book alert 📚📚🥳: One Hundred Years of Argonauts "uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize Malinowski's work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives."

[LSE Anthropology @LSEAnthropology]

Just published! 📕
One Hundred Years of Argonauts: Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology Edited by Chris Hann and Deborah James
https://t.co/64eLVJMcZW

[ENPA @enpanthro]

🤓 Join ENPA as a junior scholars representative! 🌟 Contact us at [email protected] by 28 June. #anthrotwitter

[ENPA @enpanthro]

📢 Seeking candidates for the ENPA convenorship (2024-2028)! 🌟 Apply by 28 June. #anthrotwitter

[Oceania @OceaniaJournal]

The University of Canberra's Centre for Environmental Governance (CEG) together with the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Social Systems program are offering four scholarships for Oceania-based researchers and practitioners. Deadline is May 15th.

[manvir singh @mnvrsngh]

For this week's @NewYorker, I wrote about how psychiatric diagnoses create social identities and offer frameworks for self-understanding, establishing personal stakes in flawed systems like the DSM: https://t.co/Pj4Xz45XU2

[manvir singh @mnvrsngh]

There has been a lot of excellent, recent work on beliefs and misinformation, and this was an opportunity to spotlight some of it—not just by @danwilliamsphil, @SachaAltay, & Neil Van Leeuwen but also by @tanyaluhrmann, @hugoreasoning, @steverathje2, & @SinanAlper, to name a few.

[Michelle Pfeffer @michpfeffer]

How has Keith Thomas's classic Religion and the Decline of Magic fared in the 50 years since its first publication? Below is my and @DrJanMachielsen 's take on Thomas's take on magic, astrology, prophecy, & witchcraft and their "decline" ✨

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

"While most medical experts consider depression as a universal, neurobiological disease... anthropologists instead ask why the illness known in psychiatry as ‘depression’ appears to have been extremely rare in much of the world until very recently". 👇
https://t.co/p3cLhAFW9W

[I S O M A Q U I E T @ISOMAQUIET]

The Blob by Maurice Bloch « Anthropology of this Century https://t.co/zBZntvDWpb via @instapaper

[Dreamachine @Drea_m_achine]

We all live on the same planet. But we all experience the world completely differently.

Take part in #ThePerceptionCensus: games, illusions and brain teasers that offer a relaxing and playful way to explore the incredible potential of your mind.

https://t.co/ZligyIeruH

[Giulio Ongaro @giulio_ongaro]

⭐️ New paper out in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, with Doug Hardman and Ivan Deschenaux

“Why the extended mind is nothing special but is central”

#extendedmind

https://t.co/eYQlwnaJQn

[American Anthropological Association @AmericanAnthro]

The latest issue of “Open Anthropology” from editors Cathy L. Costin and Michael C. Ennis-McMillan (@mennisNY) presents anthropological studies of the physiological and psychological effects of plant-based psychoactive substances.
https://t.co/E0qqNqGhaP

[Lily Chumley @lilychumley]

the weirdest thing about evolutionary psychology is how it imagines a semiosis that is both durable (from the Pleistocene to your brain) and variable (infinite range in signifiers of "high status male"). Wrote my undergrad philosophy of science thesis on this

[Oceania @OceaniaJournal]

Gift exchange plays an important role in building and maintaining relationships in Melanesia, and shapes notions of self. Read more from our latest special issue on Dependence in Oceania here: https://t.co/SpQwr7Iwx6

[Rachel E. Smith @kurious_mind]

Believe it and/or not: Opening up to ontological pluralities in Northern Thailand - Felicity Aulino @stinkicity , 2022 @Anthro_Theory https://t.co/RCUgxbhGXz

[Rachel E. Smith @kurious_mind]

@IAmChrisLindsay Wow- congrats Chris!

[James B @piercepenniless]

Nobody cared about Marthe Brossier until the devil spoke through her.

I wrote about exorcism, demoniacs, power, faith and certainty for the new issue of the @LRB: https://t.co/Z3xaitVnal

[Center for Applied Cognitive Science @ApplyCogSci]

📖Hearing the voice of God, feeling the presence of the dead, being possessed by a demonic spirit—such events are among the most remarkable human sensory experiences. They change lives & in turn shape history. Why do some people report experiencing such events while others don’t?