Radical AnthropologyDay 1: Daiara Tukano, artist, activist, talks and chants on Existence as Resistance
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Day 2: Chris Low has practised osteopathy and studied healing with various Kalahari groups including Ju/'hoansi and Naron. This is a great talk on healing for humans.
Chris Low: Massage and Bushman Shamanism, 19 March 2019
Talk given to the Radical Anthropology Group at Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Anthropology Building, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW on 19 March 2019. The Bushmen…
Day 3: This was a RAG classic, a wonderful ZOOM with the amazing #MornaFinnegan on 'Is there any Body out there? Love and loneliness in anthropology'
She casts a spell, on her experience of touch and corporeal morality, and how #African #hunter-gatherers create systems of power and value through the collective tactile body.
'Is there any Body out there? Love and loneliness in anthropology' by Morna Finnegan 16 November 2021
Day 4: an inspiring talk with #HarryJenkinson of #Right2roam. We are a #nomadic species, and our capacity to care for nature depends on our political and cultural rights to be part of it -- not cut off from it.
Wild Service - and the Human Right to Roam by Harry Jenkinson 05/11/24
In this talk, Harry Jenkinson will present the concept of Wild Service: a philosophy of reciprocity with our fellow species, made possible through increased human…
Day 5: Dr #ToyinAgbetu, (Lecturer in Social and Political Anthropology at UCL) revisits Action Anthropology, arguing although anthropology is centred around the study of humanity, in its applied and military guises, it is not necessarily egalitarian, equitable or activist.
He had us all eating out of his ✋
A Return to Action, A discussion revisiting the values of Action Anthropology by Toyin Agbetu Oct 17 2023
Day 6: the brilliant #DenizSalali
talks about her decade of fieldwork with BaYaka children and how they become active and autonomous people in an egalitarian #huntergatherer society of the #Congo rainforest.
Raising Tomorrow- BaYaka Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods and Global Perspectives on Child Development
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] https://twitter.com/radicalanthro http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/ https://www.facebook.com/RadicalAnththropologyGroup Deniz…
Day 7: #cedricboeckx, world leading researcher of the neurobiological foundations of the human #language #faculty, gave this fantastic talk on 'Hunter-gatherers of words'
Hunter-gatherers of words by Cedric Boeckx TUE, MAR 5 2024
Day 8: a beautiful talk with #kirstyegraham
on the extraordinary #Fongoli #chimpanzee community
The expressive chimpanzees of Fongoli by Kirsty Graham Oct 10 2023
Kirsty Graham (St Andrews) will be talking about her recent work on primate gesture with chimpanzees at Fongoli and bonobos at Wamba: "As someone who has spent…
Day 9: #HelgaVierich talks about ancient stories from the #Kalahari. This material is super important for anyone who wants to know about #huntergatherer #gender relations.
How do children learn to be human? Adults model behaviour and instruct morals by examples, with the help of the stories. These can be original myths, biblical and folktales, or sometimes parables, coming-of-age adventures, and legends, that illustrate good as well as bad outcomes. Here one such tale is recounted, as told to an anthropologist by a Kua storyteller in the southeastern Kalahari four decades ago. This features the Creator, a termite mound, a Buffalo wife, foolish humans, and poisonous farts. Enjoy.
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The tale of the buffalo wife, a sacred narrative of the Kua by Helga Vierich April 26, 2022
How do children learn to be human? Adults model behaviour and instruct morals by examples, with the help of the stories. These can be original myths, biblical and…
Day 10: a follow-up talk from #MeganBiesele, world expert on #Ju/'hoan folklore, with the 'Story of the Elephant Girl' -- strongly similar to the Kua Buffalo Wife tale (they are some of the #oldest #stories in the world)
'Helga's story eerily echoes those Megan recorded in northwestern Botswana, also in the 1970s, of the Ju|'hoan Elephant Girl. Both address basic problems of life (e.g. that people's food prominently includes sentient beings). But her retold version appears to answer questions posed by seeming "gaps", puzzling to a western audience, in versions Megan collected.'
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