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Giulio Ongaro @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social · last wk.

New paper on "David Graeber's anthropology and historical materialism" out in Critique of Anthropology journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Free version here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

David Graeber’s anthropology and historical materialism - Giulio Ongaro, 2026

This article examines the one thread in David Graeber’s thought that unifies his approach to anthropological knowledge, global history, and political action: hi...

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Giulio Ongaro @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Here's an essay I wrote on 'voodoo death' that was shortlisted for the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition. giulioongaro.substack.com/p/conscious-... Congrats to winners @anilseth.bsky.social, Xin Huang, and Xiaoben Liu!

Conscious Life and Voodoo Death

An essay shortlisted for the 2025 Berggruen Prize essay competition, “on the theme of consciousness, intelligence, and the nature of mind in an age of advancing artificial systems”

giulioongaro.substack.com

Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 2y ago

As Claude Lévi-Strauss once noted, while “the psychotherapist listens, the shaman speaks.”

Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...

Giulio Ongaro @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social · 2y ago

In this guest post I write about shamanism as a form of externalist psychiatry. Follows up on a recent trio of papers +commentaries I published in Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology. Feedback welcome!

Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...

Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...

The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create

Giulio Ongaro explores what this means for our approach to mental healthcare in a guest post and accompanying Q&A

psychiatrymargins.com

Coinman of the Month @meetzow.bsky.social · 2y ago

Makes me think of Zhou Enlai.

It is said that, just before the Sino-Soviet split, Nikita Khrushchev had a tense meeting with Zhou Enlai at which he told the latter that he now understood the problem. “I am the son of coal miners,” he said. “You are the descendant of feudal mandarins. We have nothing in common.” “Perhaps we do,” murmured his Chinese antagonist. “What?” blustered Khrushchev. “We are,” responded Zhou, “both traitors to our class.”