Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Agustín Fuentes - A master class in anthropology and a life lived among complexity

21 May 2024

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Agustín Fuentes reads a multi-million year history of our world, a student of its myriad lessons that often subvert unquestioned modern narratives and the problematic ways we've arrived at them. His is an anthropological, ecological, refreshingly unalloyed sensibility, an uncommon concoction whose life of scholarship and insight illuminate what we all might need to cultivate for the world we are walking into. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Positionality (04:20)Interest in the transcendent (06:15)Willingness to contend with complexity (11:30)Awe and beautify of biology and anthropology (14:20)Eric Wolf '[anthropology is] the most scientific of humanities, the most humanistic of sciences' (16:20)Phyllis Dolhinow (18:00)Karl Popper and falsifiability (22:00)Margaret Lock and local biologies (24:00)Dialectic (24:30)Curriculum for the future (25:00)Myth of 'evolution as progress' (26:00)Teju Cole (33:00)Complexity: connecting the micro and macro (37:00)Approach to teaching and sharing knowledge (40:00)Cultural moment with the idea that we need to hold two truths at once (42:30)'healing comes in the return' (46:40)Jeff Tweedy on writing (49:00)Lightning Round (50:00)Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryPassion: Travel, being on planesHeart sing: Book he's writing (and his prior book Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You) Screwed up: a couple of relationships and guitarFind Agustín online:WebsitePrinceton'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series Agustín’s playlistLogo artwork by Cristina GonzalezMusic by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media

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Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Agustín Fuentes - A master class in anthropology and a life lived among complexity

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13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 22 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 04 MAR 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

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