Cette semaine, c’est l’actualité française vu par des journalistes belge, allemande, espagnol et il sera notamment question de notre engouement pour les fictions politiques au cinéma et dans les séries avant de rejoindre Cécile de France pour une échappée hors du studio, avec le film "Second tour".
In our view, the most significant book on #humanorigins from last century, focused on the emergence of #symbolicculture is #ChrisKnight 's
'Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture' (1991, Yale UP)
A #marxist and structuralist, Knight saw the domain of symbolism as critical to becoming human. He produced a comprehensive interdisciplinary volume combining #huntergatherer ethnography, #primate #behaviouralecology and #archaeology -- even early molecular genetics (this was when #AfricanEve was 1st dated). Following primatologists like #SarahHrdy he put female strategies front and centre of his account.
From his #socialanthropology background, Knight was aware of taboos on #menstruation and initiation #rituals, and the #totemic logic of sexual and economic exchange in hunter-gatherer economics. He argued for a culture-creating #sexstrike as source of human solidarity ✊
#humanorigins #sexstrike #humanrevolution
You can download the book here
https://libcom.org/article/blood-relations-menstruation-and-origins-culture-chris-knight-complete-book
This highly original book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behaviour and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual and political revolution initiated by women.
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