Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
“You are going to have hard time working out what is a biological instinct, and what is a cultural norm,” argues Ruth Mace. | iai.tv/articles/cultu…
Tap the link to read more about how blurred lines actually are between ‘evolution’ and ‘culture’.
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Malcolm X is often written off as a slogan or a threat. iai.tv/video/the-retu…
The UK's first Black studies professor Kehinde Andrews argues he was neither; but the sharpest diagnosis of a racism that is structural, global, and unfinished
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Three Myths People Love to Believe About English (I've debunked each in my books as well): English has twee collective nouns like a shrewdness of apes; languages get simpler over time because lazy speakers slur their vowels and consonants (but what about those lazy hearers?); Elizabethan English survives in Appalachia. nytimes.com/2026/08/06/opi…
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Anthropology is, by far in my opinion, the single most important field for understanding human nature. Many people who make the 'anti-woke' critique here don't even read anthropology, are intellectually lazy, and looking for reasons to dismiss the field.
The reality is the ethnographic record should be of essential interest to anyone who wants to understand human nature. Evolutionary psychologists, behavioral geneticists, economists, archaeologists, etc all need ethnography: they don't know what traits are universal, they don't know if the underlying traits they are interested in manifest the same everywhere, they don't know how social processes influencing and influenced by such traits work around the world, etc. Many big claims in such fields may have strong ethnographic counter-examples or areas where ethnography increases nuance and points to important patterns which need to be engaged with.
Additionally, the great thing about ethnography is that even when theoretically bankrupt the empirical observations can be incredibly valuable. There is plenty of 19th and 20th century ethnography where the theories are total nonsense but are filled with essential first hand observations of long-gone societies which are timeless. So even some of the worst present day stuff plagued by ideological bias and bad theory can be useful.
I think the criticisms of cultural anthropology I mentioned above are true but exaggerated, sometimes in bad faith. I think cultural anthropologists could do themselves a favor by better reflecting on these sort of critiques of the field and not just dismissing them as bad faith culture war complaints (even though, as I said, sometimes they are).
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Non-Reductive Integral Pluralism
which it is integral, that reductionism has much to … -perspectival and integral
approach is warranted: an approach that could include, say, both neuroscience and …
[PDF] Innovative Pedagogies
simply as a process of transmitting knowledge, but as a meaningful journey that
nurtures the intellectual, emotional, social and ethical growth of learners, in a word,“Holistic …
Racial Inequality and the Judicial System
British rule. The whole ideology of this rule was that of the herrenfolk ie, the master
race, and the structure of government was based upon it; indeed, the idea of a …
Settler socialism in the nineteenth-century United States
history of a series of intersecting nineteenth-century socialist projects that variously
emerged in conversation with agrarian Republicanism and predicated the …
[PDF] Vedic Humanism and Global Ethics: Relevance of Swami Dayananda's Thought in Multicultural Societies
because it requires institutions which will connect shared values to cultural diversity
acceptance. This paper investigates how Vedic Humanism from Maharishi …
[PDF] Three Fundamental Currents of Conscious Orientation towards Realisation: Escape, Transformation, and Acceptance
framework. It need not be taken as a metaphysical claim but as an attempt to
articulate the possibility that consciousness may progressively reorganise embodied …
DEATH AND BEYOND: Multidimensional Perspectives on Life, Death, and After Life
distils the reflections of some of humanity’s greatest minds on one of life’s most
profound mysteries. Drawing from the insights of, mystics, philosophers, writers …
[PDF] Writings of the Raj: The Indological Back-and-Forth between Romanticism and Orientalism
filosofía advaita o el yoga realizadas por personalidades como Aurobindo,
Vivekananda o el propio Gandhi. Este último, por supuesto, habrá de ser un …
Exploring media and society through Hindi cinema: the contribution of IPTA theatre artists to social change
In the early phase, religious and mythological films such … foundational role in
shaping a form of political and aesthetic consciousness that defined an entire era of …
Is Non-Popularity of Dalit Epics due to Lack of Translation? Gorakh Prasad Mastana
Mastana’s to be heard alongside those of Tagore, Premchand and Aurobindo.
Moreover, neglecting Dalit epics due to a lack of translation impoverishes the …
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