Author: Camilla Power
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BITCH: on the female of the species
On Tues Mar 28, 6:30pm, we are back LIVE @UCLAnthropology to welcome Lucy Cooke, author of BITCH: a revolutionary guide to sex, evolution and the female animal. This is a hilarious and brilliant expose of the ways patriarchy prevents us being scientific about female strategies in evolution. Lucy will guide us through the sheer diversity…
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An Australian Aboriginal Sacred myth
On Tuesday March 21 we are ZOOM only at 6:30pm. Please sign into eventbrite for ZOOM ID Chris Knight will recount and interpret the intensely dramatic story of The Wawilak Sisters and the Rainbow Snake, told by the Yolngu people of North-East Arnhem Land, explaining why it is the most widely discussed myth in all…
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Anthropology, activism and local environmental knowledge
Tues March 14, 6:30pm we have a panel discussion LIVE @UCLAnthropology LIVE and on ZOOM How can we live well in our urban, suburban and rural environments facing the climate future? We explore ways that anthropology might inform, foster, and support climate & environmental activism through connection to local knowledge, or TEK (traditional ecological knowledge),…
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Matchwoman or vampire?
We are back LIVE at UCL Anthropology dept on Tues Mar 7 with Dr Louise Raw delivering a Special Lecture for International Women’s Day: ‘Matchwoman or vampire? Strikes, sisterhood and the Victorian fear of female sexuality’. When the Bryant and May Matchwomen went on strike in 1888, it caused outrage. A ‘respectable’ woman’s place was…
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Social norms underlying collective intelligence in hunter-gatherers
On Tues Feb 28, 18:30 GMT, Vivek Venkataraman will be talking to RAG on ZOOM only on some of his latest research on collective decision-making as an adaptive process. Accurate collective decision-making in the context of foraging, social life, and warfare was likely crucial to the demographic success of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers. Theoretical and empirical work…
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The hunter Monmanéki and his wives
On Feb 21, Chris Knight will be decoding this Tucuna story, which is the introductory myth of Lévi-Strauss’ Origin of Table Manners. Myths are not science, but they are rich with information about the dilemmas which matter most to the people who tell them. This complex narrative from the Tucuna Indians of Amazonia presents many…