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In this very special topical episode we get the whole gang together to do kind of a mega ep about the field of Anthropology. We ask questions like: what the heck is anthropology? Why anthropology? Who friggin' cares?

Then we get the skull calipers out to discuss the various L's and W's of the field. Last but not least we go down through all of our favorite anthropological digressions and tangents, trying to get the bottom of this whole "human race" question.

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Corrections and sources listed below:

(05:22) Billie Elliot Musical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Elliot

(6:00) Troy Savon - the person Crocus actually meant to say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troye_Sivan

(06:28) Cat's Eye - Gap Ad

(8:50) ARTICLE Netanyahu references to violent Biblical passages raise alarm https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1211133201/netanyahus-references-to-violent-biblical-passages-raise-alarm-among-critics

(14:19) Weaponizing Anthropology by David H Price https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781849351096

(15:15) Jemaine Clement in Avatar

(19:20) Anthropologist Edward Said https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said

(26:25) Dawn of Everything David Graeber and David Wengrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

(29:10) Montesquieu "The Spirit of the Law" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Law

(35:08) ARTICLE Trump orders changes to Smithsonian museum exhibits https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-slavery-museum-smithsonian

(35:30) Trump says museums "too negative" about history of slavery

(38:24) Anthropologist Edward Burnett Tyler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burnett_Tylor

(44:40) Biblical Adam's first wife, Lilith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith

(46:02) Asherah - Canaanite Goddess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah

(47:04) Hindu Pantheon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_deities

(47:19) Hanuman - Indian God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman

(50:57) Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5,000_Years

(51:00) And Forgive Them Their Debts by Michael Hudson https://michael-hudson.com/2018/08/and-forgive-them-their-debts/

(56:05) CORRECTION: Axiom says "David Wilson" but he meant "David Wengrow"

(56:25) Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Enlightenment

(1:03:40) Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel)

(1:04:30) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle

(1:07:07) Food of the Gods Terrence McKenna https://archive.org/details/TerenceMckenna-FoodOfTheGods.pdf

(1:08:51) ARTICLE Fort Bragg soldiers on drugs and selling them https://www.newamerica.org/the-thread/fort-bragg-cartel-drug-trafficking-seth-harp/

(1:09:32) Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Night

(1:13:00) ARTICLE Recent discovery of psilocybin mushrooms in ancient Africa https://phys.org/news/2024-07-species-psilocybe-mushrooms-southern-africa.html

(1:13:10) Maria Sabina wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Sabina

(1:14:22) Mycelium Wassoni graphic novel by Brian Biomerth https://anthology.net/book/brian-blomerths-mycelium-wassonii/

(1:15:55) ARTICLE New polling shows young people are avoiding vices https://nypost.com/2024/12/17/health/over-two-thirds-of-us-teens-dont-drink-smoke-or-use-marijuana-but-this-one-vices-making-grounds-survey/

(1:18:09) ARTICLE Trump talks about his mortality and prospect of going to hell https://ca.news.yahoo.com/guilty-conscience-trumps-raw-confession-090435079.html

(1:18:12) ARTICLE Trump says he wants to get in to heaven https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/trump-heaven.html

(1:18:15) ARTICLE Trump has serious undisclosed health issues https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/trump-hand-bruise-chronic-venous-insufficiency/

(1:21:44) Compassionate Cannibalism by Beth A. Conklin https://archive.org/details/consuminggriefco0000conk

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