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Relational v. Transactional
The author reflects on the distinction between relational and transactional approaches in creative and academic environments. While transactional systems focus on output and metrics, the author emphasizes the importance of relational structures that foster connection and meaning. This realization guides their work and teaching, advocating for a transformative approach in a transactional world. Continue reading
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Relational Field Theory – Early Morning Tangents
The concept of parallility describes a cognitive framework utilized by shamans and ritual specialists, enabling them to hold multiple truths and realities simultaneously. This relational awareness facilitates practices like healing and intuition, built on field perception rather than supernatural beliefs, and underscores a shared structure across diverse human cultures. Continue reading
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Self as Disease to Self as Medicine
A shift is emerging in psychology, moving from viewing the self as flawed to recognizing it as a healing entity. This new perspective reframes symptoms as adaptations and emphasizes relational healing. By asking different questions focused on understanding rather than diagnosing, we can better comprehend the complexities of human experience. Continue reading
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RELATIONAL FIELD THEORY – AN EMERGENCE
The content discusses a paradigm shift from viewing the self as a disease to understanding it as a medicine through Relational Field Theory. It critiques Freud’s pathology-focused worldview and the diagnostic lens in psychology, advocating for a relational paradigm that sees symptoms as signals and healing as relational repair. This shift emphasizes coherence, adaptability, and… Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology – Relational Psychology?
The emergence of Relational Anthropology showcases how rigor can develop organically rather than through external pressures. This discipline prioritizes listening and relational knowledge, allowing ideas to find their own structure. The process is depicted as an ecological evolution, emphasizing clarity and coherence through presence rather than perfection, fostering an innovative and flexible academic environment. Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology -Speaking in Constellations
Speaking in constellations – master outline of this whole run I. From self as disease to self as medicine (Freud + diagnosis architecture) II. Lineages of institutional violence disguised as care A. Historical and psychiatric abuses B. Autism, ABA, and Autism Speaks III. Diagnoses, weaponization, and the mismatch of care IV. Violent medicine: treatment through… Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology – Survivor Literacy
Survivor Literacy is an innate understanding developed through hardship, representing unspoken knowledge gained from trauma and resilience. It encompasses various forms of literacy, including endurance, care, and witnessing, emphasizing the importance of community. It reflects how survival informs wisdom, healing, and connection, ultimately fostering a collective ethos of support and remembrance. Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology – Ritual Lab
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. Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology – The Bones We Inherited
This chapter examines the evolution of human origins research through a relational anthropological lens. It critiques historical figures in physical anthropology and paleoanthropology, categorizing them as friends, foes, or contributors to the field. Ultimately, it emphasizes that understanding human origins requires relational insight to combat the discipline’s foundation of hierarchy and scientific racism. Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology – Archaeology
This chapter critiques archaeology for prioritizing its “heroes” over the human histories they uncover. By evaluating major theorists through a relational lens, it reveals the discipline’s biases towards order, systems, and grand narratives, while neglecting relationality, care, and the humanity of those whose lives are excavated. Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology – Rigor 2 – Theory Scouts
The manuscript development process organically revealed a nuanced system of rigor, transforming traditional workflows into a spiral approach that accommodates clarifications without disrupting flow. This led to the creation of “theory scouts,” blog posts that enhance understanding and expand concepts, resulting in a fluid, cohesive manuscript that nurtures relational integrity. Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology – The Primatologists
Chapter Twenty-Eight, “The Primatologists,” explores the ethical and relational depth of primatology compared to anthropology. It evaluates key figures in the field, revealing that primatologists demonstrate more empathy and connection with their subjects. The chapter argues that relationality is essential for understanding and treating both primates and humans compassionately. Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology – The Relational Lineage of Ethnic, Black, Indigenous, and Diaspora Thought
Chapter Thirty One highlights the critical contributions of Black, Indigenous, Chicano, feminist, queer, and diaspora thinkers to Relational Anthropology. These intellectuals reveal essential insights on power, identity, and survival, challenging traditional narratives and offering a foundation for survivor literacy. Their ideas shape our understanding of relational ethics and community resilience. Continue reading
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Relational Anthropology – Feminist, Queer, and Postcolonial Theory
Chapter Thirty emphasizes the influential thinkers in feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory who revitalized anthropology by restoring agency, embodiment, voice, and relational dynamics often overlooked in the discipline. It portrays these scholars as foundational figures who not only critiqued but also reconstructed anthropology’s moral architecture, creating a comprehensive relational lineage. Continue reading
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