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14 Dec 2016 Conversations with Tyler Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason)
“I think I always had that kind of engineer in me, which might’ve led me to think ways different from your usual anthropologist.”
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- Joseph Henrich
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- 14 Dec 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Outside of your field, what’s really influenced you? Outside of my field. My undergraduate degree was aerospace engineering, or one of my undergraduate degrees. That gave me a real appreciation for a body of math and a way of thinking that’s very different from the field I went into, which was anthropology at first. I think I always had that kind of engineer in me, which might’ve led me to think ways different from your usual anthropologist. That’s quite unusual for an anthropologist, correct?…
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