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Bek
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Cultural psychologist | PhD Candidate in cultural anthropology | Founder and President of SAPI | Answering the big questions through research and storytelling | Altered states | Amazonia | Wellington, New Zealand
Rites of passage are cyclical in nature
January 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Reposted by Bek
Important and timely that the contributions of Indigenous science and scientists are finally gaining recognition (and authorship) in mainstream science journals, but here's a reminder that we ethnobiologists have been doing this for quite a while...

In Memoriam, Mateo Italiano Toribio
December 19, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Excited to share that I’ve been named one of the Top 25 Emerging Leaders in Psychedelic Research and Modern Theory in a list compiled by #Webdelics & #nobodystudios 🌱🐇✨

Full article here: www.webdelics.com/top-25-emerg...
December 18, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Late night reading tonight is Psychoactive Plants and Ethnopsychiatric Medicines of the Matsigenka by @tweettropiques.bsky.social

There have been some significant influences in my translation of the jungle to the academy and Glenn Shepard has been one of them. Always a joy to read another article!
December 16, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Thank you all for a lovely first 24hours on BlueSky! Really happy I found this platform 😊 and the algorithm is so much better over here! Wow.
December 15, 2024 at 5:58 AM
I’m Bek. A cultural psychologist and final year PhD cultural anthropology candidate. My research is based in the Peruvian Amazon where I have been going for a near decade. I investigate traditional knowledge, multi-species relations & altered states of consciousness
December 14, 2024 at 2:43 AM
New blog post: Amazonia: Where science meets the field and why the Minister’s cuts to the Marsden Fund are “short-sighted” to say the least

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Amazonia: where the field informs science, and why the Minister’s cuts to the Marsden Fund are “short-sighted” to say the least
The recent cuts to the Marsden Fund in New Zealand sever crucial funding avenues for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The author emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary approaches …
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December 14, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Hi! Finally made the migration from X.
December 14, 2024 at 2:25 AM