Anthropologists on Witchcraft

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Take a peek inside the life of the people who get to peek inside the lives of others. This week I talk with two anthropologists about what it's like to go and live in an extremely different culture. We talk about shamanism, leadership, witchcraft and what past health care and court systems might have looked like. Zach Garfield is an evolutionary anthropologist who investigates how behaviors such as leadership and followership, decision-making, and economic strategies are related to group-level pressures such as network dynamics and alliance patterns, sociopolitical structures, group context, and cultural norms. https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/zgarfield/ Manvir Singh Cognitive & evolutionary anthropologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse his research program aims to explain why societies develop complex, recurrent traditions such as shamanism, witchcraft, origin myths, property rights, sharing norms, lullabies, dance music, and gods have appeared in human societies everywhere, from nomadic hunter-gatherer bands to complex, industrial, mega-urbanized states. https://www.manvir.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are we, yes, where are we here?
0:03.0	Why are we here, not entirely clear?
0:06.0	We are misfits, thrust into existence by random chance,
0:11.0	with no hints at all as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all it's
0:16.1	immensely bizarre here we are
0:20.9	hello everybody and welcome to the Here We Are Podcast. My name is Shane Moss. I have two
0:26.0	fantastic guests joining me today. The first one has been on the show once before,
0:35.0	seems like so long ago.
0:37.2	Zach what year was that?
0:39.1	Do you have any idea?
0:40.1	I think it was 2017.
0:41.7	That's a good guess. I think it was. Yeah, that sounds about right.
0:44.8	2017 Portland Bridgetown Comedy Festival. I had a live here we are podcast and Zach you it was it was the last I think that was the
0:58.6	10th year of the Bridgetown comedy Festival, my favorite comedy festival in the country and then it ended after
1:09.7	that year.
1:11.4	So no one's blaming you specifically but it might have been a factor
1:17.6	so first of all zak why don't you introduce yourself to the listeners, especially since you've been doing so many different
1:26.7	things since you were on here three years ago.
1:28.7	Yeah, for sure. Thanks for having us and it seems like this is quite a while ago.
1:34.8	So I'm an anthropologist, also an interdisciplinary behavioral scientist. I'm a research fellow
1:41.4	at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France.
1:44.4	It's an interdisciplinary research institute, so we have anthropologists and psychologists
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