#anth

Protyus A. Gendher

@protyusagendher.bsky.social

10 hours ago

Relational Anthropology – 50 Red Flags That Someone Is Choosing the Path of Control (Not Relationality) The content outlines 50 red flags indicating someone may prioritize control over healthy relationships. Key behaviors include interpreting boundaries as threats, using emotional manipulation, avoiding accountability, and demanding compliance. These patterns create a dynamic that undermines openness, accountability, and genuine emotional connection, ultimately harming familial relationships.

#redflags #relationalanthropology #anth

Protyus A. Gendher

@protyusagendher.bsky.social

11 hours ago

Relational Anthropology – When “Relational” Institutions Reproduce Control: The Hidden Traps Everywhere The article critiques various institutions marketed as supportive and relational, such as schools and youth programs, arguing they perpetuate control and coercion. Despite parents seeking emotional growth and community for their children, these institutions often enforce compliance and hierarchy, leading to a cycle of control rather than genuine relational development.

#RFT #relationalanthropology #anth #anthro #anthropology

Protyus A. Gendher

@protyusagendher.bsky.social

1 month ago

Applied Episkevology – What if we look at the DSM as a direct mirror- The content critiques the DSM as a tool depicting systemic control demands on individuals, presenting a list of expectations for conformity and compliance. These include stability, productivity, and emotional self-containment. The DSM reflects societal fears and mechanisms of control, emphasizing individual responsibility while masking systemic issues.

What if we look at the DSM as a direct mirror- a lens of the control demanded by the system. Can you give me a list of demands?

Absolutely, Protyus...
#psych #anth #soc #socialscience #control

Protyus A. Gendher

@protyusagendher.bsky.social

1 month ago

Relational Anthropology -UnTongue-Tying Tradition Relational Field Theory (RFT) reinvigorates anthropology by reestablishing its foundational relational impulse, emphasizing the importance of human connection and experience. It provides a methodology that honors internal worlds and co-created meanings, encouraging a return to the discipline's original purpose while inviting collaboration and openness, dismantling traditional academic hierarchies.

Why Relational Field Theory Feels Like the Conversation Anthropology Has Been Trying to Have for 150 Years

#RelationalAnthropology #plity #plurallility #anth #RFT

Protyus A. Gendher

@protyusagendher.bsky.social

1 month ago

Relational Anthropology – The emerging phase of Relational Anthropology focuses on "ritual labs" within the self as a primary field site, challenging traditional practices that suppress personal experience. This approach allows anthropologists to explore relational dynamics through personal experiments, emphasizing the self's sovereignty and transforming how knowledge is constructed and understood in various contexts.

Future directions in Relational Anthropology

#relationalanthropology #anth

Protyus A. Gendher

@protyusagendher.bsky.social

1 month ago

Relational Anthropology – Technology Gap In Chapter 23, the author reflects on their struggle in graduate school, realizing it stemmed from a mismatch between their learning style and academic expectations. They emphasize a dialectical approach to knowledge, which thrives on engagement and interaction, rather than passive reading. This insight enabled them to embrace their unique cognitive process.

My difficulty was never about ability.
It was about misalignment of method. #relational #relationalanthropology #anth

Protyus A. Gendher

@protyusagendher.bsky.social

1 month ago

Relational Anthropology – Doula Discipline Relational Anthropology is compared to a doula discipline, emphasizing accompaniment rather than extraction or observation in academia. Unlike traditional anthropology, it values presence, emotional literacy, and continuity over transactional methods. By fostering connections and recognizing that knowledge is relational, it highlights the importance of care in transformative processes.

Transformation is not a product.
It is a passage.
And passages require care. #relationalanthropology #anth #doula #theory

Protyus A. Gendher

@protyusagendher.bsky.social

1 month ago

Relational Anthropology – An Open Invitation The author invites readers to embrace Relational Anthropology as a personal journey rather than a rigid doctrine. This work encourages individuals to apply its principles in daily life, engage with their inner challenges, and share insights with others, fostering a collaborative evolution of the framework through critique and dialogue.

Thank you for sharing this morning with me.
Thank you for trusting the fever dream.
Thank you for letting the work arrive the way it wanted to.
Thank you for being part of the lineage this book will create. #relationalanthropology
#anth

Protyus A. Gendher

@protyusagendher.bsky.social

1 month ago

Relational Anthropology – Family Chapter 17G emphasizes that the family is the original relational ecosystem, shaped by lineage, memory, and emotional patterns rather than being a static unit. It explores how families can evolve by addressing unresolved stories through honesty and sovereignty. Ultimately, it presents the family as a dynamic field with the potential for regeneration and transformation.

This chapter marks the moment the reader understands that family is not destiny — it is a relational field that can be transformed, repaired, and re‑spiraled. #relanth #relationalanthropology #anth #family

Sam Salhi | سامر الصالحي

@salhi.com

1 month ago

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#BrainUp daily tech news, AI is rewriting the rules of everything: from @Elon Musk racing to out-ship #NVIDIA and #AMD with a 9‑month AI chip cadence, to @Sequoia backing #Anth new post 👉🏻 salhi.com/2026/01/19/brainup-daily...

Stat

@statua.bsky.social

3 months ago

I've got another biology midterm tomorrow and a large lab to do, so we're #coworking Tues-Thurs at 11am Pacific in @spiritcitylofi.bsky.social, jamming to some #lofi.

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#twitchaffiliate #costudy #productivity #collegestudent #studentlife #biology #chemistry #archaeology #anth

Stat

@statua.bsky.social

4 months ago

Homework-packed rest days Mon/Tues. gotta travel for a lab Weds, but I'll be BACK on Thursday, doing coworking and getting further into Act 3 of #BaldursGate3!

Come on in! 11am Pac every stream day.

#Coworking #StudentLife #StudySesh #BG3 #TwitchAffiliate #LGBTQ #Neurodivergent #Bio #Chem #Anth

Yourqueerprof

@drcompton.bsky.social

7 months ago

🚨 Call for Essays! 🚨
Oxford Intersections' Gender Justice is a new project spotlighting gender expansion & liberation across global contexts. Check it out:
#GenderJustice #CallForPapers #soci #anth #comm #crim #global #socialwork #psyc #econ #polsci #educ #familystudies #queerstudies

Social News XYZ

@socialnews.xyz

8 months ago

Somy Ali recalls the time Suniel Shetty brought little Athiya to the sets of ‘Anth’ Mumbai, July 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Former actress and social activist Somy Ali fondly recalled the time when Suniel Shetty brought his daughter, little Athiya, to the sets of 1993 action film “Anth.” Taking to Instagram, Ali posted an unseen rare image featuring Suniel holding his little daughter in his arms. Alongside this sweet shot, the actress wrote, “I remember Suniel bringing Athiya to Anth sets, and not only was he an amazing father, but she was the cutest baby ever.

Somy Ali recalls the time Suniel Shetty brought little Athiya to the sets of 'Anth' #SomyAli #SunielShetty #Athiya #Anth #socialnewsxyz

Kevin R. Tipple

@krtipple.bsky.social

8 months ago

Guest Post: Secrets and Schemers by Amanda Capper

#Writing #GuestPost #ShortStory #Anth

Kevin's Corner: Guest Post: Secrets and Schemers by Amanda Capper kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/05/gues...

Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains

@joshuapalmatier.bsky.social

1 year ago

Science Fiction & Fantasy Pirate-Themed Anthology! An SF&F themed anthology about pirates from the small press Zombies Need Brains!

New ZNB #Kickstarter now LIVE at tinyurl.com/ZNBSkullXBones! Back now for #sff #anth about #pirates featuring David B. Coe as editor, Violette Malan, @alansmale.bsky.social, & more! Rewards and bonuses galore! Support #smallpress! #booksky #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #kickstartercampaign

Yourqueerprof

@drcompton.bsky.social

1 year ago

Looking for any classic or newer reads on wedding rituals--hoping the Anthro folks in particular have some things to share bc I know its out there! #acadlife #crowdsourcing #sociology #anthropology #soci #anth

Jelena Radovic-Fanta

@jradovicfanta.bsky.social

1 year ago

Statue of a temporera fruit picker made of dark metal material in an open park space. The figure wears a skirt, long sleeved shirt, and handkerchief on her hair. She is carrying bag with stone fruit and right arm is raised with a fruit in her hand. It is sunny, blue sky with the backdrop of Andes mountains.

Plaque of the statue with its name “La temporera,” location of Putaendo, and year 2020.

Bronze statue of a female grape picker standing on stones with a plaque. The figure wears a dress, handkerchief on head, holds a basket of grapes with one arm, the other arm is raised holding grapes. Backdrop of green grass, sidewalk, palm trees, and boats in the distance.

Front view of grape picker statue with a tile plaque that has inscription translated to “También las chicas llevan unos jerseys claros y delgados cuando vuelven de la viña con los primeros vinos” by poet Trinitat Catasús.

A tale of two statues. While doing fieldwork in Valle del Aconcagua, Chile earlier this year, I visited the statue “La temporera” dedicated to the mujer temporera of the valley. A month later I was in Sitges, Catalunya and encountered statue “La noia de la malvasía.”
#mujer #temporera #labor #anth

MidniteRain is resting

@midniterain.bsky.social

14 years ago

#CryRock in #Anth class; I cried. Too close to home - if you don't know stories/language of your people, ARE you of your people? #connection