Radical AnthropologyMay 14, 2025

Our ZOOM session TONIGHT with leading researcher of hunter-gatherers Vivek Venkataraman

🌗 TUESDAY May 20 🌘6:30pm (London UTC + 1)
Vivek Venkataraman
'The meanings and dividends of Man the Hunter'
ZOOM only ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Vivek writes:
'The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with sexist theories of human evolution, but wildly disparate use of the phrase has led to unnecessary scientific disagreement and popular misunderstanding. In this talk, which follows a recently posted collaborative paper with other hunter-gatherer scholars, I ask: what does Man the Hunter mean?

I distinguish three historical meanings of Man the Hunter; first, the 1966 conference; second, popularized sexist theories of human origins; and third, the human behavioral ecology of hunter-gatherers. I then trace the historical development of these three meanings of Man the Hunter, situating their origins in evolutionary biology, ethnology, feminist studies, ethology, genetics, and other disciplines. This allows us to ask: how are these meanings connected intellectually? After presenting a surprising answer to this question, I conclude by offering suggestions for improving scientific and popular discourse regarding Man the Hunter.'

Vivek is a biological anthropologist who employs evolutionary approaches to the study of foraging behavior, energetics, and health. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College and conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. His present research focuses in Malaysia, where he is one of the Principal Investigators of the Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OA HeLP), which studies the rise of chronic non-infectious diseases over time due to rapidly changing environments. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Hunter-Gatherer Research.

Everybody welcome!
Please join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

#huntergatherers #sexualdivisionoflabour #manthehunter #gender #anthropology #behaviouralecology #humanorigins

Radical AnthropologyAug 28, 2024

This is old 2025 post with Video links
After Easter Radical Anthropology goes to the pub!

🌑MONDAY April 28 🌒from 6pm
A poetry reading by our Alternative Radical Poet Laureate, #PaulDave 'Larkin's Toilet' on themes of Englishness and Comedy Communism. LIVE at the
Two Chairmen pub in Dartmouth St, SW1H 9BP. Just come upstairs, FREE to all. If you can't get there, join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

🌓TUESDAY May 6 🌔 6:30pm
Arba Bekteshi 'Romani and Egyptians in Albania's Informal Recycling Economy'
ZOOM ONLY with an early career urban anthropologist, cultural researcher, and artist. ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

🌕 TUESDAY May 13 🌖 Menstrual Hut Coalition 'Where have all the menstrual huts gone?' LIVE from 6pm upstairs in The Two Chairmen pub, Dartmouth St, London SW1H 9BP. On the past, present and future of menstrual huts. Come for food, drink and healthy discussion, or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

🌗 TUESDAY May 20 🌘Vivek Venkataraman 'The meanings and dividends of Man the Hunter' 6:30pm ZOOM only with a leading international hunter-gatherer scholar. ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
Recording
https://vimeo.com/1086362131

Check venue for each event and if LIVE or ZOOM only (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)

#poetry #Englishness #ComedyCommunism #lunarchy #menstruation #Moon #MenstrualHut #MantheHunter #anthropology #huntergatherers
#RomaniandEgyptian #recycling #urbananthropology

SEE VIMEO LINKS BELOW for last terms' talks
Radical Anthropology Spring seminars
started on 🌕Jan 14, 2025🌖
6:15 for 6:30pm,
LIVE @UCLanthropology
14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
or on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/events/research-seminars/radical-anthropology-seminars

Perspectives on human origins: language, body art, hunting, architecture

Jan 14 Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis 'When Eve Laughed'
https://vimeo.com/1047955270

Jan 21 Camilla Power 'Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’'
https://vimeo.com/1050011589

Jan 28 Annemieke Milks
'Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt'
https://vimeo.com/1053040279?share=copy

Feb 4 Paulina Michnowska 'Notes from the forest – storytelling with the Penan of Borneo'
https://vimeo.com/1055179553

Feb 11 Sasha Farnsworth 'Architecture meets anthropology: Womb temple – Lunar rebirth'
https://vimeo.com/1057043706?share=copy#t=0

Feb 18 Chris Knight 'How we got stuck: the hunter Monmaneki and his wives teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson'
https://vimeo.com/1061208125?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-email&utm_campaign=44349

Feb 25 Erica Lagalisse and Chris Knight in conversation 'On anarchist anthropology'
https://vimeo.com/1063172694?share=copy

Mar 4 Christine Binnie
'Neonaturist body painting: a red RAG to patriarchy'
https://vimeo.com/1074465398

Mar 11 Chris Knight 'On Women and Jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'
https://vimeo.com/1073597720

Mar 18 Kit Opie 'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'
https://vimeo.com/1075096840

Mar 25 Ivan Tacey 'Serpentine cosmopolitics: a cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'
https://vimeo.com/1075098313

May 20 Vivek Venkataraman 'The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter'
https://vimeo.com/1086362131

#humanevolution #language #art #bodypaint #architecture #lunarchy #anarchism #consensus #anthropology #archaeology #fediscience #polyphony #storytelling #RainbowSerpent #primates

ÜtOct 17, 2023

Und die #Frauen jagten doch! Ein aktueller Artikel in Scientific American räumt mit der Legende auf, dass in der Steinzeit Männer #Jäger und Frauen Kinderhüter waren. Immer wieder verblüffend, was "man" alles lernen kann, wenn man Daten vollständig und richtig interpretiert statt nur die passenden auszuwerten. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong/

#ManTheHunter

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence

Scientific American
Show threadJens NotroffJul 7, 2023

Originalstudie:

A. Anderson et al., The Myth of #ManTheHunter: #Women’s contribution to the #hunt across ethnographic contexts, #PLoSONE 18(6), 2023. 🔓

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101#sec002

The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts

The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, though many of these authors assert the pattern of women hunting may only have occurred in the past. The current project gleans data from across the ethnographic literature to investigate the prevalence of women hunting in foraging societies in more recent times. Evidence from the past one hundred years supports archaeological finds from the Holocene that women from a broad range of cultures intentionally hunt for subsistence. These results aim to shift the male-hunter female-gatherer paradigm to account for the significant role females have in hunting, thus dramatically shifting stereotypes of labor, as well as mobility.

Brian SmallJul 4, 2023

The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101「男性は狩猟、女性が採集」という長年の定説が誤っていたことが大規模分析で判明.> 世界中の数十の狩猟採集社会のデータを分析したところ、こうした社会の少なくとも79％で、女性が狩猟を行っていた事実が示された。.> これまで「男は狩猟、女は採集」という定説が広く定着していたが、これを覆す結果となった。.> 　この研究は、アメリカ、シアトル・パシフィック大学のアビゲイル・アンダーソン氏らが行ったもので『PLOS ONE』（2023/06/28）に論文が掲載された。 - https://karapaia.com/archives/52323768.html

#GenderViews #GenderMyths #ManTheHunter #WomanTheGatherer #Ethnography #EthnographyStudies
#男性は狩猟 #女性が採集

The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts

The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, though many of these authors assert the pattern of women hunting may only have occurred in the past. The current project gleans data from across the ethnographic literature to investigate the prevalence of women hunting in foraging societies in more recent times. Evidence from the past one hundred years supports archaeological finds from the Holocene that women from a broad range of cultures intentionally hunt for subsistence. These results aim to shift the male-hunter female-gatherer paradigm to account for the significant role females have in hunting, thus dramatically shifting stereotypes of labor, as well as mobility.

bs2Jul 4, 2023

> The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

> 「男性は狩猟、女性が採集」という長年の定説が誤っていたことが大規模分析で判明
- https://karapaia.com/archives/52323768.html

#GenderViews #GenderMyths #ManTheHunter #WomanTheGatherer #Ethnography #EthnographyStudies
#男性は狩猟 #女性が採集

The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts

The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, though many of these authors assert the pattern of women hunting may only have occurred in the past. The current project gleans data from across the ethnographic literature to investigate the prevalence of women hunting in foraging societies in more recent times. Evidence from the past one hundred years supports archaeological finds from the Holocene that women from a broad range of cultures intentionally hunt for subsistence. These results aim to shift the male-hunter female-gatherer paradigm to account for the significant role females have in hunting, thus dramatically shifting stereotypes of labor, as well as mobility.