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Tuesday Jan 30, 6:30pm London time
we have #JeromeLewis on

'Women's biggest husband is the Moon': gender relations among BaYaka hunter-gatherers

FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

http://radicalanthropologygroup.org

Jerome is speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building.

NB due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute round the corner in Gordon Sq. Please plan to arrive between 6:15-6:30 if possible.

#BaYaka #huntergatherers #gender #egalitarianism #anthropology #Congo #ForestPeople

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Jerome has spent many years in the Forest with BaYaka #Mbendjele people. He explores gender relations, ritual and economy through the concept of #ekila -- a potency that belongs to women, men and animals.

He's speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, Dept of Anthropology. You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 Passcode Wawilak)

NB Use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute, round the corner in Gordon Sq. Take the lift to the 2nd floor, turn left out of the lift, go along the corridor until you reach a door needing a card. Someone will let you through! Please arrive between 6:15-6:30pm

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Key reading on egalitarianism here
https://libcom.org/article/egalitarian-social-organisation-among-hunter-gatherers-case-mbendjele-bayaka-jerome-lewis
Egalitarian social organisation among hunter-gatherers: the case of the Mbendjele Bayaka - Jerome Lewis

It would be absurd to try to return to the social relations of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. But these social relations did last for 100,000 years in the most successful anarchist-communism experiment in history. So there must be something to learn from hunter-gatherers. The pygmies of Central Africa traditionally live in ways that come closest to the ways prehistoric hunter-gathers may have lived. This article is one of the most recent studies of the way African pygmies maintain egalitarian social relations and so make anarchist-communism work.

libcom.org
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Recording for Jerome's talk here
'Women's Biggest Husband is the Moon' https://vimeo.com/911260047

And a YouTube link too!
https://youtu.be/ZOYZyWb1X5o?si=jrgekJoXNJictlXA

‘Women’s Biggest husband is the Moon’- gender relations among BaYaka hunter-gatherers

Vimeo