Category: Blog
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Gendered Species: A Natural History of Patriarchy
On Tues Oct 8, 6:30pm (London time), Tamas David-Barrett will be speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, from 6pm for start 6:30pm. Please come early before doors close! To join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak. Gendered Species: A Natural History of Patriarchy offers a reframing of our species’ current debate about…
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The sex-strike theory of human origins
On Tuesday Oct 1, 6:30pm (London time) Chris Knight and Camilla Power will be speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology Dept, 2nd Floor, Daryll Forde Seminar Room (please get there on time before doors close!). You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak. The first Word was spoken by a woman. It was ‘No’.…
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Did matriarchy ever exist?
Radical Anthropology Seminars return on Tues Sept 24, 6:30pm in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room at UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of Blood Relations, discusses myths of matriarchy, which are found all over the world. Is there any truth in the idea…
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Remember who you are; Kinship in an age of crisis
NB This talk is ZOOM only, Tues May 21, 6:30pm (London time) Morna Finnegan specialises in the anthropology of gender, the body and kinship. She investigates the female reproductive body as model of the person as porous and multiple. Morna writes: “”In his paper ‘When individuals do not stop at the skin’, Alan Barnard reiterates…
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Did matriarchy ever exist?
On Tues May 14, 6:30pm (London time), Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture, is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept. You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak) Chris discusses…
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The sensory ecology of deception in human societies
On May 7, 6:30pm London time, evolutionary anthropologist Will Buckner looks at the role of deception and mimicry from hunting, to ritual and shamanic practice. He is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Will writes: “Humans…
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The supply chain capitalism of AI
On April 30, 6:30pm, Ana Valdivia, Lecturer in AI, govt & policy at the Oxford Internet Institute will speak LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthro Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW. Everybody welcome and you can join on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Ana writes: “Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
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Shifts in kinship from matrilaterality to patrilaterality in a Miskitu village
On Tues April 23, 6:30pm LOndon time, Mark Jamieson, Senior Lecturer at University of East London, will speak LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW. You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Drawing on many decades of fieldwork…
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Gender and ritual power among African hunter-gatherers
On Tues April 16, at 6:30pm, Camilla Power, for many years Senior Lecturer at University of East London and Research Fellow at University College London, is speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology, in the Daryll Forde Room (2nd Floor). You can also join on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak). Camilla explores the relation of sex and…
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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…