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*Audio version* Talking about our research (Chris edition) (Patreon)

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2021-11-22 02:38:54
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The audio version of the video of...

"Matt asking Chris' about his PhD research, and broader topics about religion and ritual.

The Matt focused edition will come next week probably and after that we will periodically release bite size episodes on research themed stuff (as we discuss at the end of the video).

Any suggestions or feedback about the content (or suggestions for a catchy title for the series) is welcome and we hope you enjoy!

Also, I apologise for the video switching style of the video. Zoom changed this for reasons best known to itself, next time the split screen function will be back in effect.

-Chris"

Comments

Emma

Really interesting! Thanks for sharing Chris. Actually I was thinking while I was listening to this, there is a lot of overlap between these hard right gurus and conspiracy theorists and the evangelical Church. And what I would find fascinating is to hear DTG's take on one of the evangelical gurus. Some of them are huge celebrities and are doing a lot of bad stuff like in Australia and NZ, the evangelicals are spreading anti vax conspiracies to the immunologically vulnerable indigenous populations. And causing huge problems with vaccine uptake.

Ciaran Mullan

Name ideas: Decoding the Decoders Decoder Deep-dive Belfast Backstory Dysphoric Ritual

Ciaran Mullan

True. You might end up with a few confused Kenneth Branagh fans as well.

Samantha Rae

You either die a decoder or live long enough to see yourself become the guru… loving the variation in content!

Tom Allison

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. Sparks a lot of thoughts. I've been reading a lot of Michael Tomasello lately (decoding humans by comparing them via experiments to nearest biological relatives, i.e., chimps and bonobos) and in some point in your discussion there was a mention of whether religion has an analog in non-human animals/primates (hmm, or did I make that up/extrapolate from something?) -- anyway, Tomasello's stuff and a film we watched in an undergrad Cultural Anthropology course, 30-odd years ago, combined with your comments on religion possibly just reflecting something about our "cognitive architecture" made me wonder if there is any work on religious analogs in other species -- do you guys know of any? So this film (which I once found a clip of online but have since lost track of) was documenting a troop of chimpanzees in the wild and commenting on various aspects of their social organization and behavior. Much was made of dominance hierarchies amongst the males and there was a scene at some point where the alpha male was displaying his alpha-ness and all the other males were displaying their submission. Much later -- and I can't believe this is not a more famous clip -- and one never knows of course how much ones memory is adding -- but, like I said, I have seen it at least once since and it wasn't completely wrong -- anyway: the troop is in a grassy area as a large storm is coming up on the horizon and there is a great deal of thunder and lightening and the *whole troop* -including the alpha male - start gesticulating in the same way the subordinate chimps had earlier gesticulated to him apparently in response to the storm. If our religious behavior/belief stems from our cognitive architecture, is it too much of a stretch to think we might find traces of it in species that share large portions of that architecture?

Tom Allison

Re: names for the category of segments like these. I like "Decoding the Decoders" from Ciaran, above. Something incorporating "Day Job" maybe? "Decoder Day Job Musings", "Notes from our day jobs", "Topics from our day jobs", "Topics from Chris and Matt's day jobs"... Anyway, it is kind of interesting what the relationship is between this podcast and your more standard academic work -- I think you've talked about deriving some serious contribution to your fields from it, right? A paper or maybe even goal for some actual research (the latter may only be in my head ;)). I wonder if you might also find topics for other podcasts or an expansion of this one in things folks find especially resonant in your wider focii... Looking forward to hearing more from you both.