Category: People

Daiara Tukano, of the Tukano indigenous nation of the Upper Rio Negro, is an indigenous activist and artist. With a Masters Degree in human rights at the University of Brasilia, she is a researcher on the right to memory and truth of indigenous peoples. She is an independent communicator and coordinator of Radio Yandê, the…

Frederique Darragon is an economist by training who has spent many years in rural China and Tibet. Since 1998, she has been researching the extraordinary ancient skyscrapers that are found in Kham. She is Professor Honoris at Causa at Sichuan University.

Helen Nde is a Cameroonian-born researcher, writer and artist currently based in Atlanta, GA. She received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Buea, Cameroon and a master’s degree in Public Health with a focus on Epidemiology from Loyola University Chicago. She currently curates Mythological Africans, an online space for…

Ian Watts gained his PhD in 1998 from the University of London with a thesis on the southern African Middle Stone Age ochre record and modern human origins. In addition to his archaeological work on ochre and pigment use, Ian has published widely on African hunter-gatherer cosmology and gender ritual. He is currently completing his…

Jason Wilcox is an English Literature graduate who went on to do an M.A. by Independent Study in Anthropology and Film at the University of East London after attending Chris Knight’s “Human Revolution” evening class, where his special project was published as a pamphlet under the title “Civilization, Repression and the Modern Horror Film”. Subsequently…

Jean-Louis Dessalles is Associate Professor at Telecom Paristech. His research focuses on the quest for fundamental principles underlying the language faculty and its biological origins. He is particularly interested in the study of narrative relevance, argumentative relevance and the conditions that make honest communication among selfish agents possible. He has authored several books, including Why…

Jerome Lewis is a specialist on Central Africa and hunter-gatherer societies. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) with Yaka forest hunter-gatherers and to a lesser extent with neighbouring farming peoples. His research is a continuing long-term ethnographic study focused on Yaka social organisation, religion and ritual structures, child development and…

João Zilhão is professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the University of Bristol, Dept of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 1998, he directed the salvage excavation of the Early Upper Paleolithic child burial of Lagar Velho (Portugal) and, in 2004-2005, the archaeological excavations at the Peştera cu Oase (Romania), site of Europe’s earliest modern humans. Ongoing projects…

Luc Steels is a professor of computer science at the University of Brussels (VUB), director of the VUB Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. His scientific research interests cover the entire AI field, including natural language, vision, robot behaviour, learning, cognitive architecture and knowledge representation. His current research…

Mark Jamieson is a social anthropologist currently working as a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow. He has been conducting fieldwork and working with Miskitu-speaking people for twenty-nine years studying kinship, gender, domestic organisation, language, political processes, economy, language, ritual, land rights and the contraband narcotics trade. Besides his work in Nicaragua, which has included some research…