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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 Apr 16, 2024
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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'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

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'...An early, provisional, conservative analysis found that emissions caused during the first 60 days of the war equalled annual emissions of between 20 and 33 low-emitting countries: a sudden spike, a plume of CO2 rising over the debris of Gaza. If I repeat the point here, it is because the cycle is self-repeating, only growing in scale and size: Western forces pulverise the living quarters of Palestine by mobilising the boundless capacity for destruction only fossil fuels can give.

'It is easy to forget just how central military violence has been and remains to business-as-usual. More than 5 per cent of annual CO2 emissions stem from the militaries around the world.'

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'...The genocide in Gaza provides a useful object lesson in callousness. In the climate catastrophe, the lives of non-white multitudes in the global South do not count. They are expendable, valueless. We saw this playing out in the disaster that struck Derna: the more than 11,000 people killed over one single night left only the tiniest trace in the media of the West and none whatsoever in its politics. Just imagine if these had been 11,000 white Americans or Brits or Swedes killed over one night – imagine if it had been 11,000 of the people that really count: imagine the uproar!'

RadicalAnthro, to worldwithoutus
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's feeling the impacts of

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

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Including in and with 48 degree heat last week and many excess deaths among people over 60 in Bamako

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68835575

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FREE community please BOOST!

Tues April 23 18:30 (BST)
with
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)

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How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the from the last of their 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/

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

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The natural world falls silent.

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

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'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.'


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

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Jack would appreciate some attention!

RadicalAnthro,
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@thepoliticalcat
A size or two bigger, he's dutchie shape. And quite a bit older, coming up for 12.

RadicalAnthro,
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@thepoliticalcat aww that's nice, he's a big softie. And quite a grumpy old man. It's roughly 86 (his official birthday week after next).

RadicalAnthro,
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@ncrav boop back to Lua!

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@ncrav

A bunny getting cheek and head rubs

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

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#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,
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And here is the banned and suppressed speech of Yanis #Varoufakis -- who was also issued with "Betätigungsverbot” -- a ban on any political activity. Not just a ban on visiting Germany but also from participation via Zoom!

"...German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words:

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/04/12/my-berlin-speech-on-palestine-that-german-police-entered-the-venue-to-ban/

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'Capitalism and extreme poverty'
and

'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..

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

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Bird (starling?) mimics police sirens

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

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    @DemocracySpot
    Fantastic animals! Among many amazing things about , they are one of the few species with long post reproductive lifespan for females--a kind of . This says something about sophisticated social organization and cooperative breeding.

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    Religion is organized by the Moon. Period

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    @NatureMC sorry, not sure I understand? Who's blaming who?

    I just think that there is NO good theory for religion which does not account for this basic fact.

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    @NatureMC oh I see.
    I have a very broad category 'religion' as an anthropologist. My work is on the origin of religion at all -- the shared engagement with other worlds (great respect to Durkheim on this one, and Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse)

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    Happy Dark Moon 🌑

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

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

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    This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

    “Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

    This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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    @pvonhellermannn

    I do disagree that revolutions are won by armies or violence. That's simply a recipe for male gangs. Revolutions win by anti-violence.

    The human was exactly that -- laughter which disarmed and disallowed violence, establishing through a cosmic joke that some things are sacred.

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