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TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

🌔Tues Mar 11, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌕
Chris Knight on
'On women and jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'

Across Amazonia, myths hold that in early times it was the jaguars, parrots, tapirs and other animals who first invented bows and arrows, cooking fire, ceremonial buildings, religious ceremonies and other complex cultural accomplishments. Then humans stole these things from the animals, elevating themselves above all other creatures – but at the cost of losing their former ability to engage in easy conversation with the animal world. This mythic view of our origins is the reverse of the Darwinian narrative which our own culture holds up as science.

In this talk, #ChrisKnight will introduce a recent trend in social anthropology – known as ‘perspectivism’ – and discuss whether such radically different ways of perceiving our origins and place in nature can be made to converge.

Chris will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

A Piro girl emerges from her Kigimawlo seclusion, body painted and wearing beautifully crafted organic decorations on her head, breast and arms
#Amazon#perspectivism#anthropology
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🌖Tues Feb 18, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌗
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'How we got stuck: The hunter Monmanecki and his wives can teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson'

'The Dawn of Everything' argues that human political arrangements got stuck when divine kings and other patriarchal despots began to confuse paternal care with coercive control. Drawing on insights provided by an Amazonian myth, #ChrisKnight argues that the decisive changes occurred much earlier than Graeber and Wengrow suppose. Gender politics got stuck when patriarchal forms of marriage and residence took over, disconnecting women from their former freedom to choose where to live – a freedom in turn linked with the periodicity of the moon.

Chris will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

A Tukuna woman carries a caiman in a pot on her head from the river
#Amazon#myth#gender
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TONIGHT!!
Our Spring Term of Radical #Anthropology starts
6:30pm London time.

Everybody welcome, just turn up! LIVE or ZOOM

🌕Tues Jan 14 gregorian🌖 18:30 (London)
with #ChrisKnight and #JeromeLewis
LIVE @UCLanthropology + on ZOOM

'When Eve Laughed: The origins of language'
"Why, out of 220 primate species, are we the only one which talks? Laughter, too, is unique to our species. Although different from language, collective, contagious laughter may have set the scene for words + grammar to evolve by establishing the necessary bonds of trust. In addition to the latest archaeological research, this talk will draw on hunter-gatherer studies to show how men learn to communicate with birds and beasts and how women use laughter as a levelling device."

#humanorigins #language #ritual #symbolicculture

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

BaYaka Mbendjele girls come out laughing, singing, dancing, drumming from their initiation school Ngoku Photo: Jerome Lewis
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Last RAG session before Xmas!
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
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TONIGHT!!

🌓Tues Dec 10🌔 18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisKnight
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM

'An Xmas Fairytale: the Shoes that were Danced to Pieces'

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

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This delightful fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm has become a RAG tradition, told every year on the last day of the autumn term, just before Christmas. It tells of twelve princesses and their periodic trips to the underworld, the narrator treating patriarchal marriage as a cruel punishment imposed on a coalition of sisters who had previously been free to dance the nights away. This magical tale introduces us to universal mythological themes which will be explored more fully in the Spring Term. Chris Knight shows how these tales make sense if human sexual morality was initially established by women.

#fairytale #femalecoalitions #kinship #marriage

Chris is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. Get there in good time by 6:30 pm before doors close.or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.

Illustration of the twelve dancing princesses partying under a waning moon and starry sky
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TONIGHT!
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LIVE or ZOOM

🌑Tues Dec 3🌒 18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisKnight and #JeromeLewis
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM

'Modern metaphors from political resistance movements applied to human evolution'

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Jerome Lewis and Chris Knight will be discussing the final chapter of their book on the topic of importing modern industrial political action as models for human evolutionary strategies. How can such ideas address an Indigenous voice to make them relevant?

#strikeaction #directaction #picketline #humanorigins #symbolicculture #red #ritual #solidarity

They are speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. Get there in good time by 6:30 pm before doors close.or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.

Young women decide to use red ochre body paint to say NO to Heathrow expansion. They are surrounded by protestors in red t-shirts
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Social anthropologist #ChrisKnight uses another source of indigenous voice – #Amerindian mythology – to interrogate Graeber and Wengrow’s oscillatory model, addressing their key question about ‘how did we get stuck?’ A structuralist binary lies at the heart of these mythic discourses, beating to a lunar cyclical rhythm. Although Graeber + Wengrow pay little attention to indigenous myths, he discerns ‘an uncanny fit’ between their ‘getting stuck’ thesis and a worldwide motif central to myths -- a preoccupation with loss of periodicity and movement between worlds. This is taken to a high degree of elaboration in the #Tucuna story ‘The hunter Monmanéki and his wives’ which opens 'The Origin of Table Manners', Vol 3, Lévi-Strauss’s 'Mythologiques'. The animal wives move through an algebraic sequence of structural oppositions, more and more handicapped by the increasingly absurd demands of patrilocal marriage. The last wife literally flies apart, split into 2 halves. This story's Amazonian voice explains how we ‘got stuck’.

#anthropology #Amazonia #myth #structuralism #Mythologiques #LeviStrauss

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Our first class of the Autumn Term open to all!
THIS EVENING 6:30 London

🌖Tues Sept 24, 18:30 (London UK)🌗
with #ChrisKnight
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM

'Did matriarchy ever exist?'

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

Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of 'Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture' will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

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

A collection of European Upper Palaeolithic female figurines including Willendorf, Lespugue, Dolni Vestonice and the wall relief 'Venus of Laussel'
#matriarchymyth#gender#humanorigins
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The authors, led by Dapschauskas and including @sommer "try to answer the question of when and where habitual ochre use emerged and what significance this had for the development of ritual behavior during the Middle Stone Age" with a meta-analysis of 100 African sites.

They directly address the model developed by myself #CamillaPower with #ChrisKnight and world-leading pigment specialist #IanWatts -- the #FemaleCosmeticCoalitions (FCC) hypothesis. We made predictions three decades ago. How do they hold up?
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Image: map of Africa showing over 100 Middle Stone Age sites, some with lithics, some ochre, some both, stretching the length of the continent south, east and north.

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