Nexus Humano
@nexushumano.bsky.social
#NexusHumano is a point of convergence of #cultures & #stories, where we challenge the ordinary, explore what connects us and reveal the invisible forces that shape us in all our #individuality and #diversity
#Anthropology
#Indigenous
#Decolonise
#Anthropology
#Indigenous
#Decolonise
Being new here, I’m following the trend of sharing my interests. Feel free to reach out! I will share my professional ones next time. My interests:
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#Writers
#TV
#Viral
#Science
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#Nature
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#Games
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#Education
#Culture
#Comedy
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#Animals
January 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
#Reflections on the New Year
Time has different meanings across cultures, and this influences how #NewYear is celebrated. In agrarian societies, time is #cyclical, marked by seasonal changes, so New Year celebrations often align with #harvests, #moon cycles, and #solstices (e.g., #LunarNewYear)...⬇️
Time has different meanings across cultures, and this influences how #NewYear is celebrated. In agrarian societies, time is #cyclical, marked by seasonal changes, so New Year celebrations often align with #harvests, #moon cycles, and #solstices (e.g., #LunarNewYear)...⬇️
December 31, 2024 at 10:09 AM
#Reflections on the New Year
Time has different meanings across cultures, and this influences how #NewYear is celebrated. In agrarian societies, time is #cyclical, marked by seasonal changes, so New Year celebrations often align with #harvests, #moon cycles, and #solstices (e.g., #LunarNewYear)...⬇️
Time has different meanings across cultures, and this influences how #NewYear is celebrated. In agrarian societies, time is #cyclical, marked by seasonal changes, so New Year celebrations often align with #harvests, #moon cycles, and #solstices (e.g., #LunarNewYear)...⬇️
"#Ethnography must become self-critical, imaginative, and constructive; the field worker must be a willing agent of reform, but without sacrificing his scientific integrity." - #FranzBoas
December 30, 2024 at 10:09 AM
"#Ethnography must become self-critical, imaginative, and constructive; the field worker must be a willing agent of reform, but without sacrificing his scientific integrity." - #FranzBoas
“There are no peoples however primitive without #religion and #magic. Nor are there, it must be added, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in #science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.” - Bronisław #Malinowski
December 29, 2024 at 10:09 AM
“There are no peoples however primitive without #religion and #magic. Nor are there, it must be added, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in #science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.” - Bronisław #Malinowski
" #Anthropology is the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences." – Alfred L. Kroeber
December 28, 2024 at 8:14 PM
" #Anthropology is the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences." – Alfred L. Kroeber
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as #Christianity, #democracy or #capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.” - #YuvalNoahHarari
December 27, 2024 at 5:13 PM
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as #Christianity, #democracy or #capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.” - #YuvalNoahHarari
"#Anthropology is the daughter of colonialism, but not its accomplice." - Claude Lévi-Strauss
December 24, 2024 at 10:09 AM
"#Anthropology is the daughter of colonialism, but not its accomplice." - Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Religion is society worshipping itself." – #ÉmileDurkheim
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
"Religion is society worshipping itself." – #ÉmileDurkheim
"Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read, and the speeches they hear." - #WalterLippmann.
December 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM
"Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read, and the speeches they hear." - #WalterLippmann.
"Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun..." – #Geertz
We live within complex cultural webs of #symbols and #beliefs, crafting our understanding of the world, yet those meanings are not always self-evident or fixed—they are constantly being #woven and #reinterpreted.
We live within complex cultural webs of #symbols and #beliefs, crafting our understanding of the world, yet those meanings are not always self-evident or fixed—they are constantly being #woven and #reinterpreted.
December 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM
"Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun..." – #Geertz
We live within complex cultural webs of #symbols and #beliefs, crafting our understanding of the world, yet those meanings are not always self-evident or fixed—they are constantly being #woven and #reinterpreted.
We live within complex cultural webs of #symbols and #beliefs, crafting our understanding of the world, yet those meanings are not always self-evident or fixed—they are constantly being #woven and #reinterpreted.
The #FrenchSchoolofSociology (19th century) significantly influenced anthropology through the work of #Durkheim and #Mauss. They advocated for the scientific study of social phenomena, shaping anthropologists’ understanding of #culture, #social structures, and #collective behaviour in societies...⬇
December 21, 2024 at 6:31 PM
The #FrenchSchoolofSociology (19th century) significantly influenced anthropology through the work of #Durkheim and #Mauss. They advocated for the scientific study of social phenomena, shaping anthropologists’ understanding of #culture, #social structures, and #collective behaviour in societies...⬇
The #BritishSocialAnthropology movement emerged in the early 20th century, becoming a cornerstone of anthropological thought through the works of pioneers like #BronislawMalinowski and #ARRadcliffeBrown, who emphasised fieldwork and structural analysis to understand human societies.
December 13, 2024 at 11:06 AM
The #BritishSocialAnthropology movement emerged in the early 20th century, becoming a cornerstone of anthropological thought through the works of pioneers like #BronislawMalinowski and #ARRadcliffeBrown, who emphasised fieldwork and structural analysis to understand human societies.
#SocialEvolutionism emerged in the 19th century as a dominant framework, deeply influenced by #Darwin’s theory of evolution. It proposed that human societies progress in a linear fashion, moving from #primitive stages such as hunter-gatherers to #advanced stages.
December 12, 2024 at 9:15 PM
#SocialEvolutionism emerged in the 19th century as a dominant framework, deeply influenced by #Darwin’s theory of evolution. It proposed that human societies progress in a linear fashion, moving from #primitive stages such as hunter-gatherers to #advanced stages.
11/ Another critique is #determinism, as it reduces human behaviours and cultures to fixed, linear paths, ignoring #diversity, #adaptability, and the unique #social, #political, and #environmental factors that shape societies, like #agency, #choice, and the complexity of #personality and #history.
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
11/ Another critique is #determinism, as it reduces human behaviours and cultures to fixed, linear paths, ignoring #diversity, #adaptability, and the unique #social, #political, and #environmental factors that shape societies, like #agency, #choice, and the complexity of #personality and #history.
10/ One of the major critiques of Social Evolutionism is its #ethnocentrism, portraying Western societies as the #pinnacle of human progress and treating other cultures as inferior and primitive, with no regard for their unique histories or contexts, leading to #overgeneralisations and #colonialism.
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
10/ One of the major critiques of Social Evolutionism is its #ethnocentrism, portraying Western societies as the #pinnacle of human progress and treating other cultures as inferior and primitive, with no regard for their unique histories or contexts, leading to #overgeneralisations and #colonialism.
9/ Notably, #JamesFrazer proposed that religion evolves through three stages: #magic, #religion, and #science. Early societies first used magic to control nature, followed by structured religious practices with rituals, and then shifted to empirical evidence and rational explanation with #science.
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
9/ Notably, #JamesFrazer proposed that religion evolves through three stages: #magic, #religion, and #science. Early societies first used magic to control nature, followed by structured religious practices with rituals, and then shifted to empirical evidence and rational explanation with #science.
7/ #LewisHenryMorgan divided human societal evolution into three stages: #savagery, #barbarism, and #civilization, and believed that as societies evolved, their complexity increased, particularly in the way they organized #family and #social relations, overlooking diverse paths humans have taken.
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
7/ #LewisHenryMorgan divided human societal evolution into three stages: #savagery, #barbarism, and #civilization, and believed that as societies evolved, their complexity increased, particularly in the way they organized #family and #social relations, overlooking diverse paths humans have taken.
6/ Furthermore, #EdwardTylor emphasised that culture is transmitted from #generation to generation, and proposed that human cultures #evolve through distinct stages, beginning with basic #animism (belief in spirits), followed by #polytheism, and ultimately leading to a complex form of #monotheism.
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
6/ Furthermore, #EdwardTylor emphasised that culture is transmitted from #generation to generation, and proposed that human cultures #evolve through distinct stages, beginning with basic #animism (belief in spirits), followed by #polytheism, and ultimately leading to a complex form of #monotheism.
5/ Others like #HerbertSpencer argued that societies evolve in ways similar to #biological organisms. Spencer believed that the "survival of the fittest" applied to cultures, with only the most adaptable societies #surviving and #progressing to the top of the superior cultural #hierarchy.
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
5/ Others like #HerbertSpencer argued that societies evolve in ways similar to #biological organisms. Spencer believed that the "survival of the fittest" applied to cultures, with only the most adaptable societies #surviving and #progressing to the top of the superior cultural #hierarchy.
4/ Thinkers like #HenryMaine argued that primitive societies were based on #patriarchal and #religious structures, and suggested that #legal institutions evolved from #aristocratic to more #democratic and individualistic forms, emphasising a shift from #traditional authority to #modern governance.
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
4/ Thinkers like #HenryMaine argued that primitive societies were based on #patriarchal and #religious structures, and suggested that #legal institutions evolved from #aristocratic to more #democratic and individualistic forms, emphasising a shift from #traditional authority to #modern governance.
3/ A key idea was the "#Psychic Unity of Man," which posited that all #humans share the same cognitive capacity and, therefore, go through similar stages of cultural #development, ignored cultural diversity, and treated #nonWestern societies as merely on primitive steps towards #Western ideals.
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
3/ A key idea was the "#Psychic Unity of Man," which posited that all #humans share the same cognitive capacity and, therefore, go through similar stages of cultural #development, ignored cultural diversity, and treated #nonWestern societies as merely on primitive steps towards #Western ideals.
2/ This linear #model suggested that human societies evolved in a #universal, step-by-step manner, with #Western industrial societies seen as the pinnacle of human progress. Western industrial societies were often portrayed as the ultimate achievement, devaluing non-Western cultures as "primitive."
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
2/ This linear #model suggested that human societies evolved in a #universal, step-by-step manner, with #Western industrial societies seen as the pinnacle of human progress. Western industrial societies were often portrayed as the ultimate achievement, devaluing non-Western cultures as "primitive."
11/ Another critique is #determinism, as it reduces human behaviours and cultures to fixed, linear paths, ignoring #diversity, #adaptability, and the unique #social, #political, and #environmental factors that shape societies, like #agency, #choice, and the complexity of #personality and #history.
December 12, 2024 at 8:36 PM
11/ Another critique is #determinism, as it reduces human behaviours and cultures to fixed, linear paths, ignoring #diversity, #adaptability, and the unique #social, #political, and #environmental factors that shape societies, like #agency, #choice, and the complexity of #personality and #history.
10/ One of the major critiques of Social Evolutionism is its #ethnocentrism, portraying Western societies as the #pinnacle of human progress and treating other cultures as inferior and primitive, with no regard for their unique histories or contexts, leading to #overgeneralisations and #colonialism.
December 12, 2024 at 8:36 PM
10/ One of the major critiques of Social Evolutionism is its #ethnocentrism, portraying Western societies as the #pinnacle of human progress and treating other cultures as inferior and primitive, with no regard for their unique histories or contexts, leading to #overgeneralisations and #colonialism.