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Aug 20 •

New Book on the Filipino Experience!

The Invisible Philippine War and Other Essays: Attempts at Making Sense of This Filipino Life

Aug 8 •

July 2024

Animist Anthropology: What, Why, and How

Can treating cultural forces as beings help make anthropology more people-shaped?

Jul 9 •

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Last Saturday, I found out that Mexicans also call their coconut sap wine “tuba”—just as it was called when proto-Filipinos brought it there via the…

Jul 4 •

June 2024

Conquistador's Gambit

Opening chapter of Rajah Versus Conquistador

Jun 4 •

May 2024

Why Sacrifice? The Other Answers.

On Cleo Kearns's Problems with René Girard’s Scapegoat Mechanism

May 20 •

April 2024

Your Ancestors and Mine Practiced Ritual Sacrifice. Why?

Margaret Mead's Trance and Dance in Bali as a Girardian Persecution Text

Apr 5 •

March 2024

The Departed (2006): Sociopaths Versus Normies Versus Clueless Truth-Seekers

Using The Philosopher-Citizen-King Triangle For Fiction

Mar 18 •

Durkheim on the Nature of Psychic Megafauna

An orientation before going out for psychofauna safaris

Mar 14 •

January 2024

On Filial Love, Cringe, and Mild Sociopathy

Jan 25 •

December 2023

Rajah Vs. Conquistador: Preface

The Philippines Through Experimental Lenses

Dec 29, 2023 •

René Girard's Science Through David Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge

My anxieties on Girard's approach finally got resolved

Dec 21, 2023 •

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