Tues April 23 18:30 (BST)
with #MarkJamieson
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
'Shifts in kinship from matrilaterality to patrilaterality in a Miskitu village'
Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online! Just turn up!
Mark Jamieson, Senior Lecturer at UEL, will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
We can now use the front door in Taviton St again!
You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
Radical Anthro summer talks start up next
Tues April 16, 18:30 (BST)
with #ChrisKnight on
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online!
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, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW (the entrance may still be through the Archaeology Institute in Gordon Sq). You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
Chris will discuss myths of matriarchy, which are found all over the world. Is there any truth in the idea that women once exercised political power over men? Many feminists have dismissed such stories as ideological narratives invented simply to justify men's rule. Does biology prevent women from exercising real political power? Does sexism prevail everywhere? Has patriarchy always existed? He will discuss the ethnographic, archaeological and genetic evidence for and against these ideas.
I had this amazing discussion with Elizabeth Ferry on @newbooksnetwork about my Caribbean futurism scifi book, SORDIDEZ. We talked about being Anthropologists writing fiction, & the differences between scholarly + artistic styles of storytelling. I read a bit from the prologue and we also chatted about the peculiar naming conventions for Hurricanes. #scifibooks#anthropology#IndigenousFuturism#puertorico#taino#speculativeprose
"Since the 19th century, scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have obtained, studied, and stored more than 30,000 human remains, one of the largest such collections in the United States." A LOT of stolen bodies. #bioethics#anthropology
I want a more current book on human evolution for freshman/sophomore college students to read that has the sensibilities of Chris Stringer's Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
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If modern human intelligence evolved 60,000 years ago, why did civilization not develop until 10,000 BC? This question lies at the heart of the sapient paradox, one of the great mysteries of human existence. Potential explanations range from a reconsideration of prehistory to the power of collective learning to early humans getting stuck in "gossip traps."
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The connection to social media and "cancel culture" seems like a stretch (as this social pressure has nowhere near the same consequences as institutionalized power), but the idea that big societies with high levels of specialization require a different mechanism for organization than raw social pressure sounds sensible.
Perhaps unsurprisingly this is how democracy manifests in the modern world, via electoral politics.
I hate the time before elections when streets are filled with billboards of politicians' faces. Just an endless stream of faces, names and numbers. Votes being cast based on party association and perceived reputation.
"Civilization" did not "start" 10,000 years ago. This is a profoundly flawed model of human culture and economics, and constitutes a racist trope that treats hunter-gatherer cultures and economies as "uncivilised".
What started 10,000 years ago was agriculture, and shortly afterwards feudalism and slavery.
The baseless claim that hunter-gatherers have no "civilisation" has been used for centuries to justify continent-wide land theft and genocide of hunter gatherers by agricultural societies. It has no place in science.
"The researchers devised a way to disentangle the extensive genetic mixing of populations that has occurred since the dispersal out of the hub in order to pinpoint this region."
I’m hiring for a 2-year postdoc position for my project “Silicon Island” funded by the Danish research council, researching in/equities and tech futures in Newfoundland. The postdoc position focuses on policy practices relating to technology innovation & entrepreneurship.