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)


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 […]

Building Well Together

On Tuesday March 12, 6:30pm London time, Shakti Lamba 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), Before her talk, Shakti presents a video exhibition from 5:45 to 6:30pm in Room 129, (floor […]

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 […]

‘Women’s biggest husband is the Moon’: gender relations among BaYaka hunter-gatherers

On Tues Jan 30, 6:30pm (London time), we have Jerome Lewis LIVE @UCLAnthropology, Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, Anthro building. We are also on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak) Jerome explores BaYaka Mbendjele gender relations, ritual and economy through the concept of ‘ekila’, a potency that belongs to women, men and animals Reading […]

The Australian Aboriginal Rainbow Snake

Chris Knight continues his Introduction to a science of mythology with a core motif from Australia: the Rainbow Snake. He is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 Passcode Wawilak) Chris writes: The image of a water-dwelling, fire-breathing, […]

The story of the Bird-nester: an introduction to the science of mythology

On Tues Jan 16, 6;30pm London time, Chris Knight will introduce Claude Levi-Strauss’s great contribution to the Science of Mythology. He’s 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) Chris writes: According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, all the world’s […]

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