RadicalAnthro

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

Interviews with 50 women domestic workers subject to the #kafala system in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Jordan.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/25/kafala-labour-system-gulf-women-talk-about-life-as-a-domestic-worker-in-the-gulf

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to Rabbits

Hoppy birthday Jack! 🥰
🎈🎂🐇🥂
12 TODAY!

We gotched him at 18 months in autumn 2013, so he's a Spring 2012 kit.
The official birthday is
🌕Full Moon of the apple blossom 🌸.
So it's herby drops, fenugreek crunchies, sweet potato nibs and 🍎 for Jack!!

#RadicalAnthropologyRabbits
#RabbitsofMastodon

White rabbit lying stretched on his belly, stuffing his face with apple leaf
White and grey splotched rabbit on a colourful carpet

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

Happy Full moon Tonite!

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to ai

FREE community #fediscience please BOOST!

🌖NEXT WEEK🌗
Tues April 30 18:30 (BST)
with @ana_valdi
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM

'The supply chain capitalism of AI: a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance'

Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online! Just turn up!

Ana Valdivia, Lecturer at Oxford Internet Institute, will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
**NB We can now use the front door in Taviton St again **

You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)

#AI #supplychain #extraction #fieldwork #datacentres #environmentalimpact #politicalecology

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to Rabbits

#SundayBunday
Elderbun Jack reclaims his under towel heat pad, stretching out luxuriantly!

I switched it off thinking it was getting too warm. But when I put it back on after a cold night he moved in quick! I think he gets to keep it on during the countdown to his TWELFTH official birthday 🐇🥂🌕🎆 --
that's 86 to you!

#rabbitsofmastodon
#RadicalAnthropologyRabbits

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

Rat number sense

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240415231839.htm

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

Statement signed by #HolocaustSurvivor and sons and daughter of Holocaust survivors on the Gideon Falter incident at London demo on April 13 (These include some friends and comrades of ours).

They absolutely refute the idea that 'openly Jewish' people needed any special protection amid the pro-Palestine marchers! They were standing together close to Falter and felt totally safe.
'Claims that these protests are no-go zones for Jews are completely untrue.'

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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 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 Anthropology

FREE community #fediscience please BOOST!

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)

#Miskitu #Nicaragua #kinship #migration #anthropology #gender #marriage

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the #Maasai from the last of their #Serengeti homeland

Article free of paywall
https://archive.ph/2024.04.10-125831/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/maasai-tribe-tanzania-forced-land-evictions-serengeti/677835/

#Tanzania #safari #boycott #UAE

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/maasai-tribe-tanzania-forced-land-evictions-serengeti/677835/?src=longreads

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

The natural world falls silent.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/16/nature-silent-bernie-krause-recording-sound-californian-state-park-aoe

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

'Palestinian doctors tell Al Jazeera they have discovered another mass grave in the courtyard of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, recently besieged by Israeli soldiers, with nine bodies believed to be those of patients found so far.'

#GazaGenocide #warcrimes
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/15/israels-war-on-gaza-live-five-killed-in-nuseirat-as-israel-strikes-camps

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to Rabbits

#SundayBunday
Jack would appreciate some attention!
#rabbitsofmastodon #RadicalAnthropologyRabbits

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, 1 month ago to Germany

#Germany, this is disgusting!

#GhassanAbuSitta, famed plastic surgeon and Rector of #Glasgow University, detained and deported at Berlin airport on his way to give his testimony to a #Palestine conference. German police have shut down the Congress.

'Abu Sittah added on X that barring him from the event was “silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany’s complicity in the ongoing massacre."'

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/12/germany-cancels-pro-palestine-event-bars-entry-to-gaza-war-witness

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

'Capitalism and extreme poverty'
#DylanSullivan and #JasonHickel

'This paper assesses claims that, prior to the 19th century, around 90% of the human population lived in extreme poverty (defined as the inability to access essential goods), and that global human welfare only began to improve with the rise of capitalism....
We assess this narrative against extant data on three empirical indicators of human welfare: real wages (with respect to a subsistence basket), human height, and mortality..
three conclusions. (1) It is unlikely that 90% of the human population lived in extreme poverty prior to the 19th century. Historically, unskilled urban labourers in all regions tended to have wages high enough to support a family of four above the poverty line by working 250 days or 12 months a year...(2) The rise of capitalism caused a dramatic deterioration of human welfare. In all regions studied here, incorporation into the capitalist world-system was associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality. In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America, key welfare metrics have still not recovered(3) Where progress has occurred, significant improvements in human welfare began several centuries after the rise of capitalism..

#capitalism #poverty #baresubsistence

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Bird (starling?) mimics police sirens

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-68785461

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Religion is organized by the Moon. Period

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to climate

The reality that #climatecrisis is a #feminist issue: Extreme heat affects women more than men.

'For women, the percentage change in mortality rate increased by 4.63% in 2000 to 2010 and 9.84% between 2010 and 2019'

#Heat #climatejustice
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/extreme-heat-affects-indian-women-more-than-men-analysis-finds-spike-in-deaths-due-to-high-heat-since-2005-95437

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to Anthropology

FREE community #fediscience please BOOST!

Did #matriarchy ever exist?

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.

#matriarchymyth #gender #humanorigins #anthropology

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Happy Dark Moon 🌑

Visible today if you're in the path of the #eclipse (just before sunset UK time)

Tattooed Sun (stonecut) | 🎨 Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuk) from Paul Seesequasis

#SolarEclipse #darkmoon

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, 2 months ago to ireland

On the work of Akihiko #Okamura, Japanese war photographer who moved from #Vietnam to Ireland, to record the 'surreal dislocation of the everyday' during the troubles in the North of #Ireland

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/07/akihiko-okamura-photographs-troubles-northern-ireland-memories-of-others-exhibition

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to IceAge

Describing an #IceAge route for #Indigenous people migrating into #NorthAmerica

'Hiking through swamps, cutting across thick bush, and canoeing across open waters, archaeologists have identified a corridor through Vancouver Island where Indigenous peoples may have sojourned 18,500 years ago.'

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ice-age-route-indigenous-peoples/