RadicalAnthro

RadicalAnthro, 9 months ago to random

This image shows the far side of the #Moon, illuminated by the #Sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the #Earth - one million miles away.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth/

The disc of the Earth is a marbled swirl of cloud and ocean blue. The small disc of the Moon nestles against the South West quadrant, showing it's dark side ash-grey, pitted with craters.

RadicalAnthro, 16 days ago to random

This research is really sweet -- showing the size and complexity of ancient #African #huntergatherer networks, before farming.

Hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo maintained social networks across vast distances thousands of years before agriculture arrived. The cultural diversity is shown in musical instruments, specialist vocabulary and genetic analyses.

https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2024/Hunter-Gatherers.html

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

#AndreasMalm on
'The destruction of Palestine is the destruction of the Earth'

'The genocide is unfolding at a time when the state of Israel is more deeply integrated in the primitive accumulation of fossil capital than it has ever been. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have zero stake in that process: no platforms, no rigs, no pipelines, no companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. But Arabs in the UAE and Egypt and Saudi Arabia do, of course. This is the political economy of the Abraham Accords and its expected sequels: a unification of Israeli and Gulf capital in the process of making money by producing oil and gas. This is the political ecology of normalisation: a sacralisation of the business-as-usual that destroys first Palestine and then the Earth.'

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/the-destruction-of-palestine-is-the-destruction-of-the-earth?utm_source=klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=verso_weekend_highlights&utm_content=april&_kx=gSvmt20rd682fx2TLcFdkmmh9ZMquxU4Zxq-n-n-YJ1rWeaLxbVubhHvzLZnjk0R.SNgHad#_edn81

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

Naomi Klein's great speech at the Seder in the Street Passover protest in NYC this week

https://youtu.be/U75KcMUjMyI?si=YgFhnw7hab1zpqMG

RadicalAnthro, 7 months ago to random

This is very powerful

#neveragain
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/18/israel-gaza-hamas-palestinians

RadicalAnthro, 7 months ago to random

#Indigenous perspectives on 'Killers of the Flower Moon' https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/03/indigenous-native-american-review-opinion-killers-flower-moon-movie

RadicalAnthro, 7 months ago to random

Next Tues Nov 14, 18:30 GMT London time we welcome #FreyaHope to talk on

'"This land is our land": Exploring New Travellers' worldmaking and activism'

LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM.
Sign on Eventbrite for ZOOM links (sent Mon/Tue)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-anthropology-talks-tickets-707087105567

#NewTravellers #Nomadism #PolicingBill

Image shows a Travellers and New Travellers allied demo against the Policing Bill, with placards and pictures of campsites and caravans. People are wrapped in scarves and coats.

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Holocaust survivors and their relatives are right at the front of today's march

RadicalAnthro, 3 months ago to Amazon

Some Radical Anthropology talk videos for #InternationalWomensDay starting with the wonderful artist and activist #DaiaraTukano on 'Existence as resistance'

#Amazon #Indigenous

https://vimeo.com/332291159

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Religion is organized by the Moon. Period

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

THE most terrifying article today:

'Poleward winds, which previously made few inroads into the atmosphere above Antarctica, are now carrying more and more warm, moist air from lower latitudes – including Australia – deep into the continent…'🔥
..
'After examining recent changes in sea ice coverage in Antarctica, the group concluded there had been an “abrupt critical transition” in the continent’s climate that could have repercussions for both local Antarctic ecosystems & global climate system.'

Meanwhile all the patriarchy can do is arm the warmongers and torturers.

#Antarctic #climatecatastrophe

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/simply-mind-boggling-world-record-temperature-jump-in-antarctic-raises-fears-of-catastrophe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to worldwithoutus

#Africa's #greatapes feeling the impacts of #climatechange

https://www.ecowatch.com/africa-great-apes-climate-change-impacts.html

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

Would they face arrest on the streets of Berlin? Our friend Mark 2nd from left and Stephen Kapos in the cloth cap.

RadicalAnthro, 11 months ago to Women

'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

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

#DawnChorus sunrise, Forest Hill with blackbird

Sunrise over Dawson Heights, S London, Dawn chorus with Blackbird

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

Devastating Tanzanian floods
#ElNino #climatediary

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/25/at-least-155-killed-in-tanzania-as-heavy-rains-pound-east-africa

RadicalAnthro, 29 days ago to random

Off to get this book!

#SarahHrdy #Fatherhood #humanevolution

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

'Many of those fleeing Rafah had already gone to the “expanded humanitarian zone”, designated by the IDF at al-Mawasi on the coast, where aid workers said conditions were “horrific”. Others had fled to the north.
...
'Al-Mawasi, a strip of sandy coast and dunes, is packed with hundreds of thousands of displaced people who have overwhelmed entirely inadequate supplies of food, clean water and healthcare. Sanitation systems barely exist, leading to the rapid spread of disease.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/israel-orders-central-rafah-residents-to-evacuate-as-major-offensive-looms

RadicalAnthro, 26 days ago to Rabbits

Jack says have a floofy #BunnyButtFriday!

#RadicalAnthropologyRabbits
#rabbitsofmastodon

RadicalAnthro, 29 days ago to random

Got our mits on it! And chuffed to get mentions in the text!

#FatherTime #SarahHrdy

RadicalAnthro, 22 days ago to random

Great news that #AndrewFeinstein is going to stand against genocide complicit #Starmer in the Holborn/StPancras constituency in the UK General Election this year

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-andrew-feinstein-starmer-challenge-politics-hope-rekindle

RadicalAnthro, 25 days ago to london

Amazing lineup stand under the new
'Holocaust survivor descendants against Gaza genocide!' banner on yesterday's march in #London commemorating Nakba.

We are very proud of Mark (standing rhs of the left banner pole) who has brought this network together. They attend all the marches and actions.

#GazaGenocide #nakba76 #holocaustsurvivor

RadicalAnthro, 21 days ago to worldwithoutus

On the amazing work by Jennifer #Miller and Yiming #Wang on #ostricheggshell #bead networks across #Africa 50,000 years ago

#MiddleStoneAge #archaeology

https://www.heriuct.co.za/news-content/beads-reveal-our-ancient-connections-across-africa

RadicalAnthro, 21 days ago to Egalitarianism

A decent summary of the discussion over shrinkage of brain size in Homo sapiens in the past 100,000 years.

One very strong point is made by Eva #Jablonka, linking reduction of brain size to stratification and class society:
'Jablonka argues that if even if brains did shrink when complex societies emerged, it doesn't necessarily follow that smaller brains were necessarily an adaptive response.
"If 3,000 years ago much larger more complex societies emerged, this could correlate with much greater differences in social classes. If, as a consequence the majority of people were poor, then we know that poverty and malnutrition and things like that would compromise the developing brain."'

We would agree, metabolic and energetic/nutrient constraint is likely important. Marta #Lahr also suggests a link to nutrient deficiency associating to onset of agriculture.

A significant implication is that the super large brains of our ancestors came about through #egalitarianism and strong ethics of #sharing vital nutrients to mothers and children.

#brainsize #humanorigins #evolution #anthropology

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240517-the-human-brain-has-been-shrinking-and-no-one-quite-knows-why

RadicalAnthro, 18 days ago to Anthropology

More discussion on that preprint (yes just a preprint and getting Nature commentary!) about when exactly did the #Neanderthal gene flow into modern humans happen. Acc to Iasi et al, from 47 Ka for about 6000 years. Interesting here is the 'introgression deserts' with immediate selection against Nean genes for certain areas.

#genomics #anthropology #Homosapiens #evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01452-3