C. William Campbell
@cwilliamcampbell.bsky.social
Anthropologist and critical theorist of lived religion and the LDS Church. I work out of the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada.
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Research just published by Marla MacKinnon and Helen Kurki looks at how environmental factors impact growth of the pelvis in forager populations
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July 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Research just published by Marla MacKinnon and Helen Kurki looks at how environmental factors impact growth of the pelvis in forager populations
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If you haven't seen 28 Years Later yet, and you're an anthropologist, then before seeing it go re-read the chapter on myths from Levi-Strauss' Structural Anthropology. 'Cause that was the most Levi-Straussian myth I've seen in a while. #28yearslater #anthropology
June 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
If you haven't seen 28 Years Later yet, and you're an anthropologist, then before seeing it go re-read the chapter on myths from Levi-Strauss' Structural Anthropology. 'Cause that was the most Levi-Straussian myth I've seen in a while. #28yearslater #anthropology
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Last week, the LDS church made available a document that it had long denied even existing: an 1886 revelation in John Taylor's own hand that prophesied polygamy would never be revoked.
I wrote an essay about the background to & significance of the document.
I wrote an essay about the background to & significance of the document.
The LDS historical department just published an 1886 polygamy revelation
(RNS) — After denying that the 1886 pro-polygamy 'Taylor revelation' existed, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly published it on Saturday.
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June 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Last week, the LDS church made available a document that it had long denied even existing: an 1886 revelation in John Taylor's own hand that prophesied polygamy would never be revoked.
I wrote an essay about the background to & significance of the document.
I wrote an essay about the background to & significance of the document.
Devil's in the details. This is why journalists =\= social scientists, and why news media should hire more of us.
Is the latest Rick Bell column on the APP correct? Only for decided voters. The 55% quoted by bell isn't reflective of the overall poll, which shows 42% of Albertans would vote in a referendum for the APP—*IF IT GUARANTEED THE SAME OR BETTER BENEFITS*.
May 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Devil's in the details. This is why journalists =\= social scientists, and why news media should hire more of us.
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Prof. Daromir Rudnyckyj is co-hosting a series of the “Mergers & Acquisitions” podcast with Counter Currency Lab research associate Ferdi Nur Demirci. The first episode “Carbon Banking, Climate Change, and the Future of Money” is available at econanthro.org/podcasts/car...
Carbon Banking, Climate Change, and the Future of Money: a conversation with Gustav Peebles - Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)
This podcast discusses Dr. Peebles’s forthcoming book, The First and Last Bank: Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons, co-authored with the
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April 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Prof. Daromir Rudnyckyj is co-hosting a series of the “Mergers & Acquisitions” podcast with Counter Currency Lab research associate Ferdi Nur Demirci. The first episode “Carbon Banking, Climate Change, and the Future of Money” is available at econanthro.org/podcasts/car...
Using a huge archaeological dataset, this cool new study indicates that inequality is not an inevitability owing to a society's "complexity", scale, use of agriculture, etc.. Inequality is a choice we've made. Graeber and @davidwengrow.bsky.social would approve. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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April 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Using a huge archaeological dataset, this cool new study indicates that inequality is not an inevitability owing to a society's "complexity", scale, use of agriculture, etc.. Inequality is a choice we've made. Graeber and @davidwengrow.bsky.social would approve. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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NEW ARTICLE 🚨 - OPEN ACCESS
What's involved in learning to become religious? Here, I make the case that learning and being taught how to pay attention is an essential but ironically overlooked aspect of religious socialization. Scholars of religion, let's pay more attention to attention!
What's involved in learning to become religious? Here, I make the case that learning and being taught how to pay attention is an essential but ironically overlooked aspect of religious socialization. Scholars of religion, let's pay more attention to attention!
Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention
A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that ...
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April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
NEW ARTICLE 🚨 - OPEN ACCESS
What's involved in learning to become religious? Here, I make the case that learning and being taught how to pay attention is an essential but ironically overlooked aspect of religious socialization. Scholars of religion, let's pay more attention to attention!
What's involved in learning to become religious? Here, I make the case that learning and being taught how to pay attention is an essential but ironically overlooked aspect of religious socialization. Scholars of religion, let's pay more attention to attention!
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The latest issue of, "Current Anthropology," is out now! buff.ly/cLPUDeN
April 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The latest issue of, "Current Anthropology," is out now! buff.ly/cLPUDeN
This is a good time of year to live where I live
April 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is a good time of year to live where I live
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NEWLY RELEASED @harvarddataverse.bsky.social CES data show the LDS/Mormon vote swung D +2 vs. 2020:
Remarkable D +8 LDS trend vs. R +6 USA swing
🔵2004-2024 LDS swing = D +28
2004: Bush 80% - Kerry 19% (R +61)
2024: Trump 65% - Harris 32% (R +33)
Related: Utah was only state where %Harris > %Biden
Remarkable D +8 LDS trend vs. R +6 USA swing
🔵2004-2024 LDS swing = D +28
2004: Bush 80% - Kerry 19% (R +61)
2024: Trump 65% - Harris 32% (R +33)
Related: Utah was only state where %Harris > %Biden
April 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
NEWLY RELEASED @harvarddataverse.bsky.social CES data show the LDS/Mormon vote swung D +2 vs. 2020:
Remarkable D +8 LDS trend vs. R +6 USA swing
🔵2004-2024 LDS swing = D +28
2004: Bush 80% - Kerry 19% (R +61)
2024: Trump 65% - Harris 32% (R +33)
Related: Utah was only state where %Harris > %Biden
Remarkable D +8 LDS trend vs. R +6 USA swing
🔵2004-2024 LDS swing = D +28
2004: Bush 80% - Kerry 19% (R +61)
2024: Trump 65% - Harris 32% (R +33)
Related: Utah was only state where %Harris > %Biden
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Have a long & prosperous summer, everyone! #StrangeNewWorlds youtu.be/PjAWSIJCcmY?...
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April 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Have a long & prosperous summer, everyone! #StrangeNewWorlds youtu.be/PjAWSIJCcmY?...
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Researchers in #Canada in conversation about #Religious and #Nonreligious identity transmission, with a particular focus on what's happening among Gen Zers on the @carleton.ca campus.
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A closer look at Canada’s growing number of religious ‘nones’
As Canada becomes increasingly secular, younger generations are redefining spirituality and community outside traditional structures.
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March 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Researchers in #Canada in conversation about #Religious and #Nonreligious identity transmission, with a particular focus on what's happening among Gen Zers on the @carleton.ca campus.
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'Do Archives Matter?'
My latest Left Coast Dispatch: buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #BChist #CdnHist #BCpoli #archives
My latest Left Coast Dispatch: buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #BChist #CdnHist #BCpoli #archives
Do Archives Matter?
There has been much talk lately of defending BC and Canada. Canadian flags are flying in apartment windows and on lawns. There’s a giant maple leaf pinned to...
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March 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Just published the entry on "Finance" for the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/finance
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Finance
Finance is a critical dimension of life for most contemporary human beings. Finance refers to the management of money as debt, credit, or capital. Financial practices and techniques date to the dawn o...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Just published the entry on "Finance" for the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/finance
www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/finance
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Grad students: The Wheatley Seminar on Religion and Politics at BYU offers "advanced training on the intersection of religion and public life," with a stellar Faculty lineup.
Apply by March 31, 2025 to attend the funded summer seminar, June 16-21 in Provo, Utah.
wheatley.byu.edu/religionsemi...
Apply by March 31, 2025 to attend the funded summer seminar, June 16-21 in Provo, Utah.
wheatley.byu.edu/religionsemi...
Wheatley Seminar on Religion and Politics
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March 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Grad students: The Wheatley Seminar on Religion and Politics at BYU offers "advanced training on the intersection of religion and public life," with a stellar Faculty lineup.
Apply by March 31, 2025 to attend the funded summer seminar, June 16-21 in Provo, Utah.
wheatley.byu.edu/religionsemi...
Apply by March 31, 2025 to attend the funded summer seminar, June 16-21 in Provo, Utah.
wheatley.byu.edu/religionsemi...
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In the current issue of Anthropologica
Vol. 66 No. 2 (2024): Sounding the alarm
Book Review
The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems, by Adrie Kusserow
@lukekernan.bsky.social
cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...
@alexandrinebf.bsky.social #cdnanth
Vol. 66 No. 2 (2024): Sounding the alarm
Book Review
The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems, by Adrie Kusserow
@lukekernan.bsky.social
cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...
@alexandrinebf.bsky.social #cdnanth
March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In the current issue of Anthropologica
Vol. 66 No. 2 (2024): Sounding the alarm
Book Review
The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems, by Adrie Kusserow
@lukekernan.bsky.social
cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...
@alexandrinebf.bsky.social #cdnanth
Vol. 66 No. 2 (2024): Sounding the alarm
Book Review
The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems, by Adrie Kusserow
@lukekernan.bsky.social
cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...
@alexandrinebf.bsky.social #cdnanth
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Excited to share the beautiful poster by artist Morgan Holder to promote our event "Sailing the Sonic Sea" (funded by SSHRC Connection) that will take place on the Salish Sea and at the University of Victoria @uvic.bsky.social @uvicanthro.bsky.social in June 2025. Stay tuned!
January 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Excited to share the beautiful poster by artist Morgan Holder to promote our event "Sailing the Sonic Sea" (funded by SSHRC Connection) that will take place on the Salish Sea and at the University of Victoria @uvic.bsky.social @uvicanthro.bsky.social in June 2025. Stay tuned!
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please visit us on Monday Feb 3rd at 11:30 to hear from @blueravenart.bsky.social about the journey of making the Witness Blanket and the film events.uvic.ca/anthropology...
witnessblanket.ca
witnessblanket.ca
Anthropology colloquium
Picking Up the Pieces – The Making of the Witness Blanket and ongoing Creative Research. A conversation between Hayalthkin’geme Carey Newma...
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January 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
please visit us on Monday Feb 3rd at 11:30 to hear from @blueravenart.bsky.social about the journey of making the Witness Blanket and the film events.uvic.ca/anthropology...
witnessblanket.ca
witnessblanket.ca
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Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior
A. K. Kalan
Religion, Brain & Behavior 2024 Vol. 14 Issue 4 Pages 416-418
DOI: doi.org/10.1080/2153...
A. K. Kalan
Religion, Brain & Behavior 2024 Vol. 14 Issue 4 Pages 416-418
DOI: doi.org/10.1080/2153...
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior
Published in Religion, Brain & Behavior (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2024)
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January 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior
A. K. Kalan
Religion, Brain & Behavior 2024 Vol. 14 Issue 4 Pages 416-418
DOI: doi.org/10.1080/2153...
A. K. Kalan
Religion, Brain & Behavior 2024 Vol. 14 Issue 4 Pages 416-418
DOI: doi.org/10.1080/2153...
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If you’re in Victoria, join me 20 January for a public talk about the great land grab and our upcoming travelling exhibit on the subject. Details ➡️ www.uvic.ca/socialscienc...
thanks to @iainmckechnie.bsky.social for the invite!
thanks to @iainmckechnie.bsky.social for the invite!
January 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If you’re in Victoria, join me 20 January for a public talk about the great land grab and our upcoming travelling exhibit on the subject. Details ➡️ www.uvic.ca/socialscienc...
thanks to @iainmckechnie.bsky.social for the invite!
thanks to @iainmckechnie.bsky.social for the invite!
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Exciting news! "Mormon Garments: Sacred and Secret," co-authored by me, Jessica Finnigan, and Larissa Kanno Kindred, will be published by the University of Illinois Press! Release date TBA#MormonGarments #MormonStudies #LivedReligion #ReligiousStudies #SociologyofReligion #HistoryofReligion
January 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Exciting news! "Mormon Garments: Sacred and Secret," co-authored by me, Jessica Finnigan, and Larissa Kanno Kindred, will be published by the University of Illinois Press! Release date TBA#MormonGarments #MormonStudies #LivedReligion #ReligiousStudies #SociologyofReligion #HistoryofReligion
@uvicanthro.bsky.social @uvichumanities.bsky.social How does Mormonism relate to transhumanism (supplanting humanity through technological advancement)? Find out by signing up with ANTH 393: Anthropology of Mormonism. We'll discuss an ethnography on the Mormon Transhumanist Association and more!
December 13, 2024 at 7:55 PM
@uvicanthro.bsky.social @uvichumanities.bsky.social How does Mormonism relate to transhumanism (supplanting humanity through technological advancement)? Find out by signing up with ANTH 393: Anthropology of Mormonism. We'll discuss an ethnography on the Mormon Transhumanist Association and more!
@uvichumanities.bsky.social Humanities students looking for a new elective may be interested in the recently launched Anthropology of Mormonism course (ANTH393) beginning in January.
December 5, 2024 at 6:44 PM
@uvichumanities.bsky.social Humanities students looking for a new elective may be interested in the recently launched Anthropology of Mormonism course (ANTH393) beginning in January.