Radical Anthropology Group

    Radical Anthropology talks Autumn 2025:

    Language, art, music and culture emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, culminating in a symbolic explosion or ‘human revolution’ whose echoes can still be heard in myths and cultural traditions from around the world. These talks are a general introduction to social and biological anthropology, ranging over fields as diverse as hunter-gatherer studies, mythology, primatology, archaeology and archaeoastronomy. Radical Anthropology brings indigenous rights activists, environmentalists, feminists and others striving for a better world together with people of all ages who just want to learn about anthropology.

    Radical Anthropology talks will be back Tuesday evenings from Sept 30, 6:30pm start LIVE in Daryll Forde, Room 230 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW (unless otherwise indicated) and ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak. If you are coming LIVE please arrive between 6:10-6.25 to get through the doors.

    Please check out our Vimeo channel for any talks you missed https://vimeo.com/user33365184

    Sept 30 Chris Knight and Camilla Power How to resist alpha males

    Oct 7 Volker Sommer In praise of lying (venue is G20 Christopher Ingold Building, Gordon St)

    Oct 14 Hugh Brody Tracks across sand

    Oct 21 Francesca Declich Matrilineal Zigula-speaking peoples of Somalia and Tanzania

    Oct 28 Chris Knight The science of mythology: The Sleeping Beauty and other tales

    Nov 4 Chris Knight The Fire of the Jaguar: Problems with perspectivism

    Nov 11 Chris Stringer New evidence from China helps to clarify the ‘muddle in the middle’ of human evolution (NB venue LG11 Lecture Room, Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens WC1H 0EG)

    Nov 18 Mark Jamieson Old wine in new bottles: Brideservice, the politics of intimacy and Miskitu women’s baseball

    Nov 25 Jerome Lewis The Flourishing Diversity Manifesto (NB venue Room 612, 6th Floor Archaeology Institute, entrance in Gordon Sq, WC1H 0PY)

    Dec 2 Camilla Power and Chris Knight The advantages of living with Mum

    Dec 9 Morna Finnegan and Ingrid Lewis BaYaka childcare and corporeal morality

    Dec 16 Chris Knight A Xmas fairytale: The shoes that were danced to pieces

    The sex-strike theory of human origins

    On Tuesday Oct 1, 6:30pm (London time) Chris Knight and Camilla Power will be speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology Dept, 2nd Floor, Daryll Forde Seminar Room (please get there on time before doors close!). You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak. The first Word was spoken by a woman. It was ‘No’. […]

    Did matriarchy ever exist?

    Radical Anthropology Seminars return on Tues Sept 24, 6:30pm in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room at UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of Blood Relations, discusses myths of matriarchy, which are found all over the world. Is there any truth in the idea […]

    Remember who you are; Kinship in an age of crisis

    NB This talk is ZOOM only, Tues May 21, 6:30pm (London time) Morna Finnegan specialises in the anthropology of gender, the body and kinship. She investigates the female reproductive body as model of the person as porous and multiple. Morna writes: “”In his paper ‘When individuals do not stop at the skin’, Alan Barnard reiterates […]

    Gender and ritual power among African hunter-gatherers

    On Tues April 16, at 6:30pm, Camilla Power, for many years Senior Lecturer at University of East London and Research Fellow at University College London, is speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology, in the Daryll Forde Room (2nd Floor). You can also join on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Camilla explores the relation of sex and […]

    Trust, digitality and the hunter-gatherer cradle of language

    On Tuesday March 19, 6:30pm London time, Chris Knight will be speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, Dept of Anthropology, UCL, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW (please use the Archaeology Institute entrance, Gordon Square). You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Chris writes: “For […]

    Hunter-gatherers of words

    On Tues March 5, 6:30pm London time, Cedric Boeckx will be speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology in the Daryll forde Room, 2nd Floor, Dept of Anthropology, UCL, 14 Taviton St London WC1H 0BW (currently please use the Archaeology Institute entrance). You can join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor […]

    Batek Shamanism: healers, warriors and cosmopolitical diplomats

    On Tues Feb 27, 6:30pm (London time), Ivan Tacey will be speaking LIVE @UCL Anthropology, in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, Dept of Anthropology, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. You can join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Ivan Tacey is a sociocultural anthropologist specialised in Southeast Asia.. His research […]

    Now We Are in Power: The Politics of Passive Revolution in 21st.C Bolivia

    On Tues Feb 20, 6:30pm (London time) Angus McNelly adn Matthew Doyle will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. You can join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 Passcode Wawilak). Angus McNelly is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Greenwich. Matthew Doyle is Lecturer […]

    ‘The Three Enchanted Princes’: Ritual Syntax and the Interpretation of Fairytales 

    On Tues Feb 13, 6;30pm, Helena Tužinská and Chris Knight are speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. You can join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 Passcode Wawilak). Helena Tužinská, PhD. is an Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University […]

    Raising Tomorrow: BaYaka Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods and Global Perspectives on Child Development

    On Tues Feb 6, 6:30pm, Deniz Salali is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. You can join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 Passcode Wawilak). G. Deniz Salali is an assistant professor in evolutionary anthropology at University College London. She researches human behaviour and health using evolutionary […]

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