Radical Anthropology Spring talks 2024:
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.
All talks are FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology Tuesdays 6:30 pm term time in Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Dept of Anthropology UCL, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW and on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
NB Due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute, round the corner in Gordon Sq. Someone will help direct you across to the Anthro building.
Jan 9 Camilla Power Egalitarianism made us human: why Graeber and Wengrow get it wrong
Jan 16 Chris Knight The story of the Bird-Nester: an introduction to the science of mythology
Jan 23 Chris Knight The Australian Aboriginal Rainbow Snake
Jan 30 Jerome Lewis ‘Woman’s biggest husband is the Moon’: BaYaka hunter-gatherer gender relations
Feb 6 Deniz Salali Raising Tomorrow: BaYaka hunter-gatherer childhoods and global perspectives on child development
Feb 13 Chris Knight and Helena Tužinska ‘The Three Enchanted Princes’: Ritual syntax and the Interpretation of fairytales
Feb 20 Angus McNelly with Matthew Doyle, discussant. Now We Are in Power: The politics of passive revolution in 21st Century Bolivia
Feb 27 Ivan Tacey. Batek Shamanism: healers, warriors and cosmopolitical diplomats
Mar 5 Cedric Boeckx Hunter-gatherers of words
Mar 12 Shakti Lamba Building well together: a study of human cooperation
Mar 19 Chris Knight Trust, digitality and the hunter-gatherer cradle of language (NB Morna Finnegan’s talk is rescheduled for May 21)