Many of us are oblivious to the underlying history and culture in everything. We fail to notice the details and technicalities within our everyday life. In a “Creative Approach Podcast”, we will explore the anthropology of many different cultures and how it correlates with us today. Professor William Doonan is a professor at Sacramento City College, Archaeologist, Cruise line speaker, and published novelist. Over his travels and personal explorations, he has acquired immense knowledge on subjects involving civilization and cultural awareness, which he uses as inspiration for his own novels and others. Tune into this episode, with your host Karen Poirier-Brode, in order to be enlightened on the culture around you.
Show highlights:
- The inspiration drawn from daily life in order to create novels
- Meeting fascinating people on cruise ships
- Traveling to Costa Rica to work as an archeologist
- Where Professor Doonan grew up and got to where he is today
- Exploring different aspects of archaeology
- Studying Mayan archeology and writing a book on it
- Irish language revitalization and helping people learn the native language
- Genealogy
- The melting pot of cultures
- Getting involved in cruise ships
- Teaching forensic anthropology and understanding culture
- Learning to determine different aspects of people in the past and learning to respect all the individual people
- Finding culture and diversity from people around you
- The gravitational pull towards the topics Professor Doonans books are about
- How cruise ships regulate and manage security
- Anthropology being incorporated into literature
- The meaning of creativity and developing others ideas
- Broadening culture awareness and being confident
- Selective listening
Links:
http://www.williamdoonan.com
Grave Passage