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RadicalAnthro

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London's longest running evening class, studying What it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
#anthropology #socialanthropology #evolutionaryanthropology #archaeology

New term starts in September
LIVE @UCL and on ZOOM
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/

Vimeo collection of previous talks
https://vimeo.com/user33365184

Artist: Diego Rodriguez-Robredo

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RadicalAnthro, to random
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Good discussion in NY Times (can anyone get non-paywall version?) On of and the scientific debate around the so-called

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/science/childbirth-evolution-obstetrical-dilemma.html

Jedigirl, to science

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@Jedigirl this is strongly connected to what calls the 'ontological turn'. We have a nuanced position: yes absolutely science first, but epistemologies have very important things to teach science and science needs to listen, not simply dismiss these cosmologies as religious mumbo jumbo.

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@mfamelis we do a lot of work on mythology, for example, somewhat in the tracks of Levi-Strauss, the famous structuralist. In Mythologiques, analysis of almost 1000 Amerindian stories, he came very close to demonstrating a universal structure through transformations of myth. We think he was successful in that demonstration but not in explaining why it was there (he had various mentalist reductionist ideas, and no background of evolution whatsoever). So in our research, we think this kind of data, from myths and cosmology, is very important for archaeologists studying human origins to take on board as a field of data where predictions can be made or models constrained.

There are many other areas where Indigenous ecological and zoological knowledge are simply much more deepgoing in understanding of ecosystems and Western science plays catch up (I could cite examples e.g. about eland behaviours, which figure centrally in ritual of African hunter-gatherer groups).

That's just for starters...

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@mfamelis
This is quite old but it's a good example
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2801763

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Jack says #SundayBunday is for #apple twig munchies! 😴🐇🐇
#rabbitsofmastodon

RadicalAnthro, to instagramreality
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Prof on his classic 'Blood Relations: menstruation and the origins of culture'.
This book undoubtedly changed my life!!

https://www.tiktok.com/

RadicalAnthro, to Anthropology
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Good discussion of the uncertainties around the (Spain) mandible, dating to very early phase of modern humans in Europe 66-45 Ka?). But is it modern human when it lacks a chin? Could it represent interbreeding? And if so, with who?

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/mandible-fossil-migrate-europe/

RadicalAnthro, to art
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Women's shared culture of #beauty -- call it 'beauty magic' -- is the fundamental of #art and symbolic culture in our species. This is the ultimate #patriarchal attack on women's #solidarity and safe spaces.

#women #gender #power #cosmetics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66271855

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Good to see this happening: local level climate gatherings. Organiser Jess Johannesson said: "we want to start a conversation so we no longer talk about the cost of living crisis separate from the climate crisis,
"Both are very much one thing and they affect the same people the most and the same people also profit from it."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66200324

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Exciting giant discovery at a new site at Frindsbury, dating >300,000 yrs, uncertain which human population made this.


https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue61/6/index.html

RadicalAnthro, to photography
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An exhibition of photography
'A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography'
opening at the for the rest of this year into Jan 2024.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/04/african-photography-world-in-common-tate-modern-exhibition

Photo below by Atong Atem shows two young women in dazzlingly patterned African robes, one seated on a modern folding chair, the other on vibrant textiles spread over the floor, with her head in a green silk turban resting in the lap of the other who has intricate long braided hair. They both look right into the camera, confident in their intimacy. The whole background is swathed in flowers, animal skin prints and tessellated designs.

RadicalAnthro, to Women
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'Man the Hunter is dead!'
Supposedly, because a new study shows #women doing some #hunting across almost all hunting societies. That sure doesn't mean men DON'T hunt or that men's contribution doesn't matter.

#Hadza women (and children) will opportunistically take small animals -- they can #scavenge off lion kills! But when it comes to #large game -- that's men.

https://www.science.org/content/article/worldwide-survey-kills-myth-man-hunter

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Here is the paper https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

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@ncrav
the idea people were a 'few steps from starvation' is an even bigger myth!! Hunter-gatherer diets tend to be much better and more seasonally resilient than farmers' and modern humans would have had real abundance with lots of game before farmers turned up.

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They're not vengeful. They're just playing!

https://english.elpais.com/society/2023-06-03/the-biography-of-gladys-the-killer-whale-who-breaks-sailboats-and-reigns-supreme-on-social-media.html?outputType=amp

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/two-big-thumps-woke-up-30149754?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

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Attacks might escalate!
https://www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.businessinsider.com/killer-whale-attacks-likely-escalate-further-former-orca-trainer-says-2023-6?amp=&amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16859512810227&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fkiller-whale-attacks-likely-escalate-further-former-orca-trainer-says-2023-6

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@NatureMC @ScotHomestead 💯

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The last of our FREE ZOOM series on
'Becoming Human' goes out on Sat Jun 24, 5-7 pm BST (London time)
With #ChrisKnight and the spellbinding #MornaFinnegan on
'Language and Laughter'

Sign in 👇👇👇
#anthropology #evolution #language #laughter
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-anthropology-becoming-human-saturday-new-moon-series-tickets-543049925947

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What is language? Do other animals have language? If not, are the barriers to them creating language cognitive – a matter of sheer brain power – or more about trust and sociality? We will delve into the relationship between laughter and the evolution of language.
Chris Knight ‘Did Laughter Make the Mind?'
https://aeon.co/essays/does-laughter-hold-the-key-to-human-consciousness

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More Prof on TikTok explaining why is kept secret from school students. It's a conspiracy!

https://www.tiktok.com/@profchrisknight/video/7239990816360451354?_t=8cpiyCQq8tf&_r=1

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Next Tuesday Jun 6, 6:30pm BST
we are ZOOM only with John Cox on
'Courtyard and coincidence in prehistoric temples in Malta and Gozo'
Sign onto eventbrite for ZOOM links
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-anthropology-talks-tickets-599448726277

Prehistoric buildings were constructed in a late neolithic and agrarian island culture in Malta and Gozo up to a sudden abandonment c.2500 BCE. The largest is Ggantija, the giant woman, dating from about 3600 BCE. Astronomical theories have involved coincidences of direction with the stars and the most southerly moonrise, something seen for a couple of years in a ‘lunar standstill’ every nineteen years. John Cox has explored a moonrise theory, which involved taking photographs over the most recent standstill 2005-2007 from inside three of the older temples. In this talk he will show photographs taken on that survey and discuss some of the cultural factors that might be involved.

Image shows Last Quarter Moon April 2007, view through Hagar Qim E temple, photo: Michael Spiteri

RadicalAnthro, to science
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Very interesting piece on scholar author of 'The Equality of the Human Races' in 1885. He used science to dismantle White Supremacist models, and prefigured Franz Boas on race as a cultural construct by decades.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/antenor-firmin-anthropology-racism-haiti

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Pupils are having to run '❤️ your period' campaigns to help them get through exams.

#menstruation #teenagers #school
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-65695115

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@grb090423 😲 let's hope there will be a youth uprising about it!

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