Riikka E

@riikkae.bsky.social

9 months ago

It tells about a rich and insightful conference, when you don't wanna use time in social media 😅
#Comparisons2025 was just that. Thanks to organising commitee with Sarah Green in charge, Soumhya Venkatesan for the keynote speech and Tom Boellstorff for the #Westermarck lecture!

Ria-Maria Adams

@riaadams.bsky.social

9 months ago

✍🏻 In the #Westermarck Lecture, Tom #Boellstorff reminded us that the task of comparison is “not restricted to that of classifying the different phenomena of culture. Its ultimate object is to answer to the question: ‘why‘”
Our goal as #anthropologists should be to understand how people think 🌀💡