Anthropology, Our Imagination, and How to Understand Difference | Michael Kilman | TEDxMSUDenver
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Michael Kilman discusses how our imagination can change the world through better storytelling and why understanding diversity is so important to solving our biggest problems. Michael Kilman is an Anthropologist, Author, and Filmmaker based out of Denver, Colorado. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Anthropology from Portland State University. Between 2013-2014 he conducted his graduate research on the Denver based community theater known as the Romero Theater Troupe and created the companion documentary film, Unbound: The Story of the Romero Theater Troupe. Much of Michael’s research focuses on representation in media and it’s impact on culture. Further, he has conducted research in Mexico and on Native American reservations. Michael is the author of 5 books including four science fiction novels in the series The Chronicles of the Great Migration, and co-author on the book Build Better Worlds: An Introduction to Anthropology for Game Designers Fiction Writers, and Filmmakers. Michael is also the host and lead producer on the YouTube series Anthropology in 10 or Less. He is the father of four wonderful children and an avid cyclist. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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@Wnees_19Really good speech! ❤ I just don't think using the word "race" is the best way to describe what you mean
@v2280he's pronoming amine!
@jasonmclarry2884It is beautiful!! ❤
@aps.20561Excellent talk, very glad I stumbled upon this
@emilyblakely3621Listening helps. It’s not always easy.
@RyanWeaver-fp5kqBreathing.
@RyanWeaver-fp5kq3 c’s… currencies.
@RyanWeaver-fp5kqHealth, climate and tools. The work is actual… health interoperability. Systems of infrastructure. There’s a lot.
@RyanWeaver-fp5kqLight over darkness.
@RyanWeaver-fp5kqDiversity. Matters.
@RyanWeaver-fp5kqHouse and housing and rooms and pie charts and layers of confluence.
Choices and needs… and ducks quaking and looking like but aren’t ducks… a seal and a goose…. Neural diversity and pieces of puzzles. Just ugh… sometimes it’s exhausting… but it’s also so very needed.
Sociology and cultural anthropology have a lot to say… if we think about geographies and overlays. UNC… Boston, PA, Florida…. On and on. American (Nacirema)…. Mirrors and influence. Carpentry… “Witness” and “Die Hard”…. Heroism and imperfections and yet better… seeds… butterflies, agile and waterfall. The dystopian process… of imagining and reimagining. The contexts and definitions. Seeking perfection while it is impossible… yet better is needed and real.
Think of leadership and lenses of skills needed and or usury experience of projections
And anger… layers and concepts of linear and complexity… reactions and needs of empathy and also… meeting moments of long standing entrenched dysfunctional process….
The economists
And naive cynicism which also has very real points to consider…. The large data sets… and needs. In quiet moments of understanding the scatter charts scatter, yet here we all are… context matters. The mediocrity of groups yet… our brains wired and connected.
It’s a lot… family and honesty and over reach of fear… the better is workable.
Thank you for your excellent way of explaining and applying anthropological reasoning to build a better world!
@vlablablaContext: a closeted man from Portland
Conditions: working a government job in the Marxist field of academic racism
Choice: give a Tedx talk on diversity, obs😂
Lots in writing
@barreneric00Zero anthropology. Genomic scientists have discovered based on the DNA and mitochondria structure we came from one man and one woman. They were so actuate in their scientific discovery that these two lived about 6,000 years ago. I might add, these were secular scientist who discovered this.
@nalcon1Congrats.
@GothTradeUnionistIs presenting the past the best way of shaping the future? No to shape the future you must shape the past!
@mycount64Really impressive
@barnalighosal5567I live in cultural diverstiy. I work in a nursery in Scotland. We have 20 children, not all at the some time, and there are from 16 or 17 different countries. Im learning English in this work, and to singing lullaby songs in gaelic. Most of the children, 2 Years old were born in their countries so we have different native languages: arabic, rupu, hungarian, turkish, romanian, arabic, urdu, scot, tagalog, cantonese, mandarin. I love saying hello in to them in their languages. And I sing lullaby songs in French and Spanish too
@SsaidakBest way to understand a society, ancient to present is religious beliefs of that society.
@nalcon1I echo what you say but, doesn’t everyone know this?
@Tassie5050Can you explained how context and habitus interact within the environment?
@brimiller8426I identify with this. I was born this way. I believe the unbelievable. I go against the grain of society. I feel like I have learnt back to front. I care a lot about people and want to change the world. It feels normal to me. I want education that enhances children. Getting something wrong is not a failure but rather a learning curb. I could go on forever. 🙂
@PureWater-w7cAmazing to hear a great thought about applied anthropology. The 3C principles - Context->Conditions->Choices explain a lot and connect quiet well with social, political, and even judicial understandings.
@parth6764<3
@renedrumpoet4004No a concrete example? For context + condition -> decision making … nothing to attach…kinda void
@smbdcryNice
@mdrasekulkhan7464Well done!
@angusosonnell6208Oh hey I read that book and it was really awesome...yay! congrats Professor Kilman!
@EdgeOfTime4455Well done! Thank you for spreading what anthropology can teach!
@danielortega7627so proud of you!! good job!!
@sally-hm8ezOutstanding Michael! Bravo!
@michaelmyers3205