Radical Anthropology

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✨Tues Mar 10, 18:30 (UTC London)🌗
Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis
The Revolutionary Origins of Language

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LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Mar 4 at 9:52amWeb
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Anthropologists Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis talk about their forthcoming book 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' (Yale UP 2026). Drawing on primatology, linguistics, evolutionary theory, biological and social anthropology, in particular of existing central African hunter-gatherer societies,
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they show how early human societies' unique cooperative childcare, ritualized practices and egalitarian politics was fundamental to language emergence.

language emerged not just for practical communication but through dramatic, shared cultural performances fostering deep trust and symbolic understanding, a shift from primate dominance to shared humanity.

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Chris Knight is the founder of the Radical Anthropology Group and author of Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture (1991).

Jerome Lewis lectures in Social Anthropology at University College London.

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@RadicalAnthro can anyone attend?
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@fluffykontbiscuits yes, it says All welcome. Come along or join on ZOOM!
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@RadicalAnthro thabk you!
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@RadicalAnthro evenng :) Has it started yet?
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@fluffykontbiscuits it is on Tuesdays, next Tues Mar 10.

We always do Tuesday evening
Here is the UCL listing
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/anthropology/events/anthropology-research-seminars/radical-anthropology-seminars

Radical Anthropology seminars

Radical Anthropology brings indigenous rights activists, environmentalists, feminists and others striving for a better world together with people of all ages who just want to learn about anthropology.

UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences