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From: Brian McKenna
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Radical Anthropology
Evolution, Archaeology
and History
Summer 2013
Symbolic culture
emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, in a social revolution whose echoes
can still be heard in myths and rituals around the world. These talks are a
general introduction to anthropology, including the latest findings from
genetics, evolutionary biology, primatology, cave painting research and
archaeology. There is hot food in the venue and plenty of time afterwards for
socialising in local pubs.
April 9 Myth,
Market and Media: the bauxite-rich Niyamgiri in the London Stock Exchange
Samarendra
Das
April
16 The
evolutionary emergence of language Chris
Knight
April
23 The
social life of counterfeits and the ascription of meaning and value to things
Mark
Jamieson
April
30 Ethnomusicology
and the anthropology of sound Noel
Lobley
May
7 Revolution
in Judea: Jesus in anthropological perspective Chris Knight
May
14 Early
human culture as reverse dominance Chris
Knight
May
21 Culture
as creative refusal David
Graeber
May
28 Greenham
Common: a modern matriarchy June
Cleevely
June
4 The
secrets of Stonehenge: a critique of Mike Parker Pearson Lionel Sims
June
11 Frogs,
moon and sun at the Avebury monuments Lionel
Sims
June
18 The
origin of the family, private property and the state Chris
Knight
June
25 Red
stars and snowy mountains: linking folklore and archaeology Fabio Silva
July
2 Radical
Anthropology Group Annual General Meeting
All
talks held at the St Martinʼs Community Centre43
Carol St, London NW1 0HT (2 minutes from Camden tube)Tuesday evenings, 6.15–9.00
pm.http://radicalanthropologygroup.org <http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/>
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