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 Seminars Autumn 2024
Gender, we-ness, wild service – what made us human?
Sept 24 Chris Knight (UCL) Did matriarchy ever exist?
Oct 1 Chris Knight and Camilla Power (UCL) The sex-strike theory of human origins
Oct 8 Tamas David-Barrett (Oxford) Gendered Species: A natural history of patriarchy
Oct 15 Volker Sommer (UCL Emeritus) The Evolution of We-Ness
Oct 22 tba
Oct 29 Ingrid Lewis BaMbendjele Polyphony practice: Learn to sing in polyphonic chorus, a dark Moon workshop
Nov 5 tba
Nov 12 Denise Arnold (UCL) Sea shells, women’s blood and an Andean bioclimatology of water
Nov 19 Chris Stringer (NHM) Human evolution: some recent discoveries and their implications
Nov 26 Harry Jenkinson (R2R) Wild Service – And the Human Right to Roam
Dec 3 Camilla Power (UCL) Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’
Dec 10 Chris Knight A Xmas Fairytale: the Shoes that were danced to pieces
All talks are Tues 6:30-8:00pm LIVE in Daryll Forde Seminar Room and on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
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