@Manigarm

Anthropologist 💀 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams ⛰ and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷‍♀️ She/They)

 Massachusetts, USA
peregrinationblog.com/about-dr-holly-walters/
Joined December 2014
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Well met! I'm an anthropologist (PhD)! My ethnographic research is on Hindu/Buddhist pilgrimage and sacred fossils (called Shaligrams) in the Himalayas of Nepal. My new project focuses on robot religion in South Asia. I also wrote "The Way By." CV: peregrinationblog.com
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On the one hand, I have a degree in archaeology and really want to see this new 4,700 year old shipwreck. On the other hand, I have SCUBA certification as an underwater lionfish hunter. I am deeply conflicted by this photo.
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I told him he had to wait another thirty minutes for dinner.
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He's been fed and walked. Crisis averted everyone.
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This whole thread. All of it.
Dr. Holly Walters@ManigarmOct 16
Given the kinds of comments I keep seeing on this monologue, let me add an anthropologist's two cents. First of all, humor is contextual.
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Pepsi and spite.
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Given the kinds of comments I keep seeing on this monologue, let me add an anthropologist's two cents. First of all, humor is contextual.
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Women "wearing the wrong thing" gets us killed. That's not a joke. And rolling your eyes and telling every to relax because "it's just a joke" means that you don't actually know what humor is. Or what it does. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…

When Humor Helps—and Hurts—in the Face of Stigma

Humor can make difficult topics easier to talk about, but it can also reinforce the stigma it seems to challenge.

psychologytoday.com
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Tl;dr What you wear is not an excuse to dehumanize you. Not even "for laughs."
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And every vampire in the crypt would burn down the entire world if anyone ever did anything bad to him.
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@TheBestqueenxOct 8
Lil dracula!
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And an anthropologist's office....
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#TimesUp didn't go far enough. #MeToo didn't go far enough. #IAmJaneDoe won't go far enough. There is a reckoning yet to come that no one is going to be prepared for. The fuel is pouring out and the matchstick is in hand. phoenixnewtimes.com/news/con…

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

phoenixnewtimes.com
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Dr. Holly Walters retweeted
Pratyoush Onta@pratyoushontaOct 7
I think there is the capacity to run a university press; if not, the capacity needs to be built.
pigreen1@pigreen1Oct 7
Replying to @pratyoushonta
Nepal is lucky to have some very good private sector publishers - is there the capacity to launch a university press?
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