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  • About Cameron R. Freeman
  • Socio-Cultural Anthropology
    • The Applied Anthropology Group
    • Anthropology of Culture
      • Population Control and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies in a Neo-Liberal World
      • Marketing Feminine Hygiene in a Capitalist Consumer Driven Society
      • Israeli Personhood and the Politics of Reproductive Technologies
      • The cultural biography of the Verner’s Pattern prismatic compass
      • Kinship, Kin Cues and the Fulfillment of Institutional Aims
    • Anthropology of Religion: General
      • Anthropology of Indigenous Peoples
      • A Comparison of Schleiermacher’s Inner Religious Sanctuary and the External Domain of Robert Orsi’s Religious World
      • Religion: The promise of an afterlife
      • Spiritual Interventions: Inside A.A.’s Fundamentalist Healing Program of Faith With Works
    • Medical Anthropology
      • Book Review: Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel by Susan Kahn
      • Illness Narratives and the Construction of Self and Healing
      • Collaborative partnering with traditional healers for improved access to ARVs in rural Malawi
      • Ayurvedic Ethics and Modern Medical Ethics
    • Anthropology of Religion: Hindu Tradition
      • Constructing and Deconstructing the Bonds of Modern Guruship in the Cult of Sai Baba
      • Maintaining the Guru’s Hegemonic Influence Over Devotees
      • Christianity in British Colonial India and the Crystallization of Modern Hindu Religious Identities
      • The Dynamics of Bhakti in the Guru-Shishya Relationship
      • A Film Critique of Robert Gardner’s Video Ethnography: Forest of Bliss
      • To Love Siva is to Know Siva: Reflections on Ciruttontar—the Little Devotee
    • Anthropology of Religion: Asian Traditions
      • A Precis of Thomas A Wilson’s Sacrifice and the Imperial Cult of Confucius
      • A working definition of the Chinese term ‘wuwei’ (nonaction, doing nothing)
      • Chinese Popular Religion
      • Shang Divination: A Theocratic Stage for Emerging Chinese Religious Thought and Practice
    • Anthropology of Indigenous Peoples
      • Settler Colonialism and Eliminating the Native
      • Identity, Social Invisibility, Institutional Structures of Violence and the Mortality of Aboriginal Women
      • Define or be defined: Constructing indigenous identities for health and well being
      • Recovering Native Identities: From a traumatic ruptured past to a locally driven pan-Native spiritual present for holistic health and well being
      • The Legacy of Colonial Intrusions and Native Women’s Health
    • Anthropology of Religion: Judeo-Christian Tradition
      • Scribes, Prophets, & Temple Priests: The process of establishing and maintaining Judean boundaries through the canonization of scripture.
      • Honour and Shame and the Qualifications of the Overseer (bishop) in Timothy 3:1-7
      • The successful transmission of Paul’s expectations for a centrifugal missionary tradition in the early Christian Church
      • A hypothesis for the original oral version of the Parable of the Sower
      • Jesus and First Century Jewish Purity Laws
      • Who were the post-Wycliffe Lollards, what did they practice and what became of their movement?
      • Holiness Snake-handling: A Context for Pentecostal Epistemology
  • Principia Discordia
    • Contemporary Archaeology
      • WW1 Verners pattern MKVII military marching compass
      • Antique gramophone lovers beware of crap-o-phones and franken-phones
      • Come into my parlor for afternoon tea and listen to my “authentic” Victor Victrola
    • Confessions of A Cult Leader: My Lifestream Seminar Experience
      • Confessions of a Cult Leader or How I learned to get the best of life running a personal development seminar company.
      • Confessions of A Cult Leader: Thursday Evening of the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • Confessions of A Cult Leader: Friday Evening of the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • Confessions of A Cult Leader: Saturday Morning of the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • Confessions of A Cult Leader: Saturday Afternoon of the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • Confessions of A Cult Leader: Saturday Evening of the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • Confessions of A Cult Leader: Sunday of the Lifestream Basic
      • Excerpt: The pit: a group encounter defiled, by Gene Church and Conrad DCarnes. (Out of Print)
      • Courage
      • Please Hear What I’m NOT Saying
      • Love is NOT enough! – A Handout at the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • The girl I used to know – A Handout at the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • The Penalty of Leadership – A Handout at the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • The Little Boy who put the world back together: A story by Jim Quinn, Founder of the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • Clarifying questions – Asked throughout the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • Guiseppe – A story by Jim Quinn, Founder of the Lifestream Basic Seminar
      • Mexican Crabs – A story by Jim Quinn, Founder of the Lifestream Basic Seminar
    • Charles Haanel: The Master Key System
      • Part One: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Two: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Three: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Four: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Five: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Six: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Seven: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Eight: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Nine: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Ten: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Eleven: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Twelve: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Thirteen: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Fourteen: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Fifteen: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Sixteen: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Seventeen: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Eighteen: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Nineteen: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Twenty: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Twenty-One: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Twenty-Two: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Twenty-Three: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
      • Part Twenty-Four: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
  • Presentations
    • Rules For Results
    • Media Skills Training
      • Case Study: Guerrilla tactics for maximizing the results of your media campaign
    • Keynote & Workshop Accolades
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The Applied Anthropology Group

Practical solutions to complex social-cultural issues

Multi-Disciplinary Research for Public Policy Analysis & Recommendations:

Our focus is religious diversity in the public sphere and developing effective social policy to cope with the potential conflicts and enhance societal harmony. Secondly, Medical Anthropology, specifically increasing patient accountability and responsibility and awareness in mental health and addictions.

Informed public policy responds to a wide variety of often competing, social, economic, regional, ethnic and cultural pressures. Policies must acknowledge and respond to these influences, otherwise they can inadvertently trigger a myriad of other problems. Rather than using a top-down, “One solution fits all situations” approach, Applied Anthropology uses a bottoms-up approach. The Applied Anthropology Group identifies hidden and indirect relationships — the wheels within wheels — to assist public policy makers in creating and developing practical solutions to public problems.

The Applied Anthropology Group targets policy analysis and recommendations in the area of community-based health programs and religious diversity in the public sphere. Applied Anthropology is often retained to help researchers and administrators with government agencies design relevant new programs and/or update existing policies.

Cultural anthropology has many strengths that are useful in the development of new and/or the modification of existing, public policies. These include:

1. The ability to see the larger picture including the impact of the policy on the micro (individual and family) and macro (community, region and country) levels, including the potentially negative impact on cost.

2. Cross-cultural analysis, interpretation, and impact at both the micro and macro levels. It is important to develop culturally appropriate policies. Anthropology is especially helpful when decision makers are not familiar with either the people or the community.

3. Interdisciplinary competencies – anthropologists draw from the methods, theories, and bodies of data from a variety of sub-disciplines and are intellectually equipped to work in and with interdisciplinary teams.

4. Ability to frame policy discussions in theoretical or descriptive language. Using the most appropriate language may help an individual or group to buy into a particular policy solution they might not have considered beforehand.

5. A focus on community. Policies formulated at the province or country level have to be implemented at a local level. Those contact points are where actual people live and where policies are delivered through programs and services.

Rapid Assessment Procedures (RAPs)

Most often, Applied Anthropology uses rapid or focused research or Rapid Assessment Procedures (RAPs) to identify needs, evaluate programs and predict the local and regional impacts of public policies and projects. Our work is collaborative in nature and pays close attention to local values and perceptions of reality. RAPs typically embrace local community representatives as stakeholders. This approach is especially helpful in evaluating new programs. This streamlined approach to data collection means the recommendations are available relatively quickly – usually within four to six weeks of being retained.

Our Multidisciplinary Team

Team members pay close attention to the local values and perceptions of the various stakeholders. Our analysis includes identifying, utilizing and articulating the right balance of qualitative and quantitative data.

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