My formal training is in the area of educational anthropology, with my greatest love in the field of " forbidden knowledge " and most specifically as expressed in entheogenic knowledges and cyber anthropological research into virtual communities.
Recent publications haves focused on medical cannabis , entheogens and the entheogentsia virtual community.

I have done anthropological research in Fiji, Israel, Sudan, China, Mexico, the United States. Currently I am the research director at the Cyber Anthropology Institute . While cyberculture studies celebrates the existence of online communities, critical cyberculture studies seeks to better understand their participants. While scholars from across the disciplines flock to the general topic of cyberculture, few have made their way into the margins to explore issues of class, race, ethnicity, technological savvy, sexuality and other marginalities online as CAI endeavors to do.

While my interests are diverse - the common goal of anthropology whether one studies the medical anthropology of cannabis or cyberanthropological understandings of virtual communities -- the concern is to advance our understanding of who we are and how we came to be this way. Anthropology attempts to understand the whole of the human condition, --- I have always asked "who are we?" and "how did we come to be this way?" What is human nature? How did we come to be this way? See ourselves this way? How do we organize ourselves? Culturally how do we define ourselves? or them, the objectified other? What's culture? I'd like to think we can apply what we learn about other societies on our own, to examine our own culture with a more critical eye.. to learn to walk in another's shoes...

So why really did I become an anthropologist?

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