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SUMMARY:BEC - Manvir Singh – The nature and origins of religious super-attractors
DESCRIPTION:Manvir Singh\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse \nHuman societies reliably develop “cultural super-attractors”\, or complex practices and beliefs that exhibit striking similarities. In this talk\, I will present research on the nature and origins of three religious super-attractors: shamanism\, religious self-denial\, and beliefs in supernatural punishment. These cultural practices appeared in the vast majority of human societies\, predated doctrinal religions\, and persist even when doctrinal religious authorities try to quash them. Drawing variously on cultural evolutionary theory\, cross-cultural comparative projects\, and studies conducted among the Mentawai people of Indonesia\, I will characterize these practices\, present hypotheses for why they recur\, and test those hypotheses against anthropological data. The findings of these projects suggest that religious super-attractors develop as people selectively retain cultural practices evaluated as best satisfying subjective goals.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bec-manvir-singh-the-nature-and-origins-of-religious-super-attractors/
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SUMMARY:MMAC - Yael Assor - ‘Objectivity’ as a Bureaucratic Virtue
DESCRIPTION:Mind\, Medicine\, and Culture is pleased to welcome back one of our own recent graduates\, Dr. Yael Assor. Her presentation and the reading draw on her doctoral research with a group of Israeli medical bureaucrats and is entitled “‘Objectivity’ as a Bureaucratic Virtue.” The abstract for her presentation is on the attached/embedded flyer. \n**(Please follow link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/vD8ewv98SwmCbJF7A)**\n***If you are already on the permanent Zoom RSVP list please do not RSVP again.\nAccess to the reading will be provided for those who have RSVPed. \nAcross bureaucratic contexts\, “objectivity” is a dominant conception of appropriate conduct. But what does it mean for bureaucrats to work “objectively”? Yael Assor will present her doctoral research\, in which she examined this question through fieldwork with a group of Israeli medical bureaucrats.  Focusing on four central meanings these bureaucrats gave to working objectively\, Assor traced how these meanings oriented their everyday work and considered its effects on policy decisions and dynamics of power between Israeli bureaucracy and its subjects.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/mmac-yael-assor-objectivity-as-a-bureaucratic-virtue/
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