I've been terrible about posting podcast episodes because we're so busy putting them out! We wrapped season 2 last month with a few interviews, including this one with art therapists Simone Alter-Muri and Sarah Nangeroni. I really like the idea of asking people to talk about their tattoos to get at therapeutic information they might not otherwise think to share.
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Dr. Andrew Bishop joined HBERG for a year after completing a BA in New College. He wanted to apply for an anthropology grad program and needed more training in anthropology. He worked on multiple projects, accompanied Max Stein and I to Costa Rica for some fieldwork, and collaborated with Max and I on an article about how our lab works. He then went to Arizona State and earned an MA and PhD in anthropology. He told me if he didn't get a job or postdoc in the first round, he was going to apply to be on this show...
Congratulations and job well done to Julia Sponholtz for passing the defense of her thesis entitled “Eating the Valley: A Paleoethnobotanical Investigation of Local Food Use and Identity in the Cinti Valley, Bolivia in the Late Intermediate Period!”
Julia and her committee members are pictured below (L-R): Michael McKain (University of Alabama Department of Biological Sciences), Chris Lynn, Julia Sponholtz, and Katie Chiou [Stephanie McClure is on Zoom]. I am so pleased to have been a last minute addition to the dissertation committee of Lynn Funkhouser. Lynn was instrumental in helping establish our Anthropology Is Elemental outreach course, which has been on hold during COVID19, but anyway. Congrats to Lynn on her successful defense and excellent dissertation!
My book is out! I've been working on the ideas in this book since before I returned to college as an undergrad & on the actual text since 2016. I'm very proud of it, and to promote it, I'll be reading from it on Instagram & blogging about it here. For now, I'm just dropping in the author photo that Routledge never asked me for (darnit!). Here's what the book is about:
Transcendental Medication considers why human brains evolved to have consciousness, yet we spend much of our time trying to reduce our awareness. It outlines how limiting consciousness—rather than expanding it—is more functional and satisfying for most people, most of the time. The suggestion is that our brains evolved mechanisms to deal with the stress of awareness in concert with awareness itself—otherwise it is too costly to handle. Defining dissociation as “partitioning of awareness,” Lynn touches on disparate cultural and psychological practices such as religion, drug use, 12-step programs, and dancing. The chapters draw on biological and cultural studies of Pentecostal speaking in tongues and stress, the results of our 800,000+ years watching hearth and campfires, and unconscious uses of self-deception as mating strategy. Written in a highly engaging style, Transcendental Medication will appeal to students and scholars interested in mind, altered states of consciousness, and evolution. It is particularly suitable for those approaching the issue from cultural, biological, psychological, and cognitive anthropology, as well as evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and religious studies. Here's a link to order the book from the publisher. Book Description
Transcendental Medication considers why human brains evolved to have consciousness, yet we spend much of our time trying to reduce our awareness. It outlines how limiting consciousness—rather than expanding it—is more functional and satisfying for most people, most of the time. The suggestion is that our brains evolved mechanisms to deal with the stress of awareness in concert with awareness itself—otherwise it is too costly to handle. Defining dissociation as “partitioning of awareness,” Lynn touches on disparate cultural and psychological practices such as religion, drug use, 12-step programs, and dancing. The chapters draw on biological and cultural studies of Pentecostal speaking in tongues and stress, the results of our 800,000+ years watching hearth and campfires, and unconscious uses of self-deception as mating strategy. Written in a highly engaging style, Transcendental Medication will appeal to students and scholars interested in mind, altered states of consciousness, and evolution. It is particularly suitable for those approaching the issue from cultural, biological, psychological, and cognitive anthropology, as well as evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and religious studies. https://www.routledge.com/Transcendental-Medication-The-Evolution-of-Mind-Culture-and-Healing/Lynn/p/book/9780367472634# New doctoral student Lindsey Clark & I were invited speakers for a panel hosted by Napoleon Fireplaces on the Psychology of Fire in Atlanta, GA, March 3-5, 2022.
We have received generous resource and funding support from Napoleon Fireplaces to replicate the 2014 Fireside Relaxation Study with a real, electric fireplace in the coming months. Here we are setting up a fireplace in our lab!
Dr. Cara Ocobock and I are proud to announce the official publication of the #Hackademics Special Issue of American Journal of Human Biology that we co-edited!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206300/2022/34/S1... All articles are #openaccess for the next 3 months and relevant across academia. In this issue you will find:
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Christopher D. LynnI am a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama with expertise in biocultural medical anthropology. Archives
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