#1106 Kevin Hong: Magic, Divination, and Dream Interpretation Across Societies
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Kevin Hong. He's an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Macau. And today we're going to talk about, I mean, he has several different lines of research, but we're going to focus on magic, divination, dream interpretation across human societies, and also a little, we're also going to talk a little bit about
cultural evolution and transmission biases and taboos. So Dr. Hong, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Thank you.
It's it's a pleasure to talk to you. So let's start with magic then. I mean I know that you approach uh I mean the kinds of phenomena we're going to talk about today, you approach them from a cognitive perspective. So how do you approach magic specifically from a cognitive perspective? Yeah, so I study magic and I conduct both fieldwork and theoretical analysis of magic.
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