20: Violence and Sacred Rites with Will Buckner

Will Buckner is a research assistant at the Human Systems and Behavior Lab based in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. Evolutionary anthropologists trace the origins and development of human nature and culture in societies around the world. Join Will Buckner (@evolving_moloch) and I as we delve deep on secret societies, initiation rituals, tribalism, the Hobbesian-Rousseauian split in the Western mind, technological complexity and the incentives surrounding human violence, belief systems, sexual violence, and a number of other topics. Will also writes on cultural traditions and conflict patterns on his blog, TraditionsofConflict.com; and for such popular outlets as Quillette, Nautilus, Areo, and a number of other publications. Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhs Or wherever you get your podcasts If you like the work I'm doing at Agora Politics, and want to hear more interviews like this one, consider becoming a supporter on Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapolitics