Radical Anthropology Group

    Author: Barney Harris

    • Fabio Silva

      Fabio Silva has a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Portsmouth and an MA in Cultural Astronomy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has shifted his interests into Anthropology and Archaeology since coming across Lionel Sims’ work on decoding Stonehenge and Avebury. He has been studying Iberian megaliths and other aspects…

    • Thea Skanes

      Thea Skanes is Managing Curator of the UNESCO collections at the Moesgaard Museum, Denmark. The author of many scientific papers, she has conducted extensive field research into the material culture, social life and cosmology of the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. Her writing and lecturing has been described as ‘dripping from blood, taboo, darkness, ancestors and…

    • Robyn Spencer

      I am visiting Endowed Chair of Women and Gender Studies and Visiting Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College, New York. I am a product of Brooklyn’s public schools, legendary dance halls, and radical political culture rooted in places like Medgar Evers Community College. My parents came to New York from Guyana in the 1970s.

    • Simone Pika

      Simone Pika lectures in evolutionary anthropology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manchester. She wrote her Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, in collaboration with the Department of Ethology, University of Münster, Germany. Her research centres on the evolutionary roots of language by pinpointing similarities and differences in…

    • Simon Pirani

      Simon Pirani is the author of “Burning Up: A global history of fossil fuel consumption” (forthcoming in 2018 from Pluto Press). He is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

    • Rebekah Pluekhahn

      Rebekah Plueckhahn has researched and worked in Mongolia since 2006 and completed her PhD at the Australian National University in 2013. Having trained in anthropology and ethnomusicology, Rebekah’s doctoral research drew from ethnography conducted in western Mongolia’s Hovd Province on performance, music, value, and perceptions of the future. Since 2014, she has been working as…

    • Kate Prendergast

      Kate Prendergast gained her Ph.D in Archaeology at the University of Oxford. She has published in British Archaeological Reports, Archaeopress, 3rd Stone and Science & Spirit magazine. Her research interests include explorations of prehistoric and indigenous cosmologies and the role of ritual in social continuity and change. She currently works as a Researcher in African…

    • Milan Rai

      Milan Rai is a longstanding anti-war activist and writer. He is the author of several books including Chomsky’s Politics (Verso, 1995), the only monograph on the subject, and 7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War (Pluto, 2006). He has been co-editor of Peace News since 2007.

    • Martin Richards

      Martin Richards studies variation in gene frequencies to reconstruct the routes taken by our distant palaeolithic ancestors as they dispersed out of Africa to settle in Asia and Europe between 100,000 and 40,000 years ago. With Hans-Jürgen Bandelt and Vincent Macaulay, he co-edited ‘Mitochondrial DNA and the Evolution of Homo Sapiens’ (Springer-Verlag, 2006).

    • Bruce Rimell

      Bruce Rimell is an artist, born in Swindon, but now living in Shipley. He has said of the mythological influences on his work: ‘I’ve been reading mythology since I was a kid and it has become the ruling passion of my life, contributing a great deal of inspiration to my art. For me, the technical…