According to recent accounts of so called “liturgical anthropology,” human beings are ritual creatures shaped more by what they feel than think. This is because the liturgies that make up our daily lives orient desires towards certain goals and visions good life. We seek expand this vision liturgical anthropology offering a critique predominantly affective development in which liturgy shapes pr...

Abstract Thirty‐two years after the publication of Faye V. Harrison's edited volume, Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further toward an Anthropology Liberation , I take stock book's origins and its impact on discipline. Despite intellectual barriers postmodernist critiques, has influenced a generation anthropologists who carry forward original spirit. Focusing third edition, show that both ref...

This is a brief guide, for anthropologists with some quantitative experience, to our paper Dynamical Structure of a Traditional Amazonian Social Network [1], an article by me (Simon), Paul Hooper (an anthropologist at Emory), Ann Caldwell Hooper (Anthropology, Emory), Michael Gurven (Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara) and Hilly Kaplan (Anthropology, University of New Mexico), featuring real-world ...