“….those of us who wanted to live must die, and those of us who wanted to die would live.”
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Initiation
Why was flexibility so important? What is the challenge with habits? Why is the individual aspect so critical for this “collectivist” process? Why must death be a very real possibility?
Ranking
How do the Dagara understand the hierarchy of plants, animals, and humans? What drives their beliefs?
Taker tools
How did the Dagara elders view reading and writing?
Veneration
How does Some’s interpretation of ancestor veneration connect to the takers culture of forgetting?
Veneration
How does Some’s interpretation of ancestor veneration connect to the takers culture of forgetting?
Animism
What are the differences between civilized religion and animism?
Of Water & Spirit
How does Some pick up where Quinn left off?
The law of life
What is an evolutionarily stable strategy? And how do these add up to the law of life?
The hand of the god
How do the lines in the palm of our hands equate to the hand of the god of this place?