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From: Chris Knight <[log in to unmask]>
Radical Anthropology
The Science of Mythology
Spring 2014
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.
Jan 14 Gender, resistance, and the origins of English transnationalism
(1558 - present) Sandra Hausner
Jan
21 The song-lines of Aboriginal Australia
Chris Knight
Jan
28 The evolutionary emergence of language Chris Knight and Jerome
Lewis
Feb
4 Conceptions of life and death in lowland South
America Istvan Praet
Feb 11 Chomsky, anarchism and the military mind
Chris
Knight
Feb
18 Egalitarian hunter-gatherers in the East
African Rift Valley Thea
Skaanes
Feb
25 The magic of law in Upper Amazonia
Harry Walker
Mar
4 Bunbangfai: Buddhism and the carnivalesque.
Paul Twinn
Mar
11 Dance, play, laugh: What capitalism can’t do
Morna Finnegan
Mar
18 Introducing Claude Lévi-Strauss: the science
of mythology Chris Knight
Mar
25 A Plains Indian myth: ‘The wives of the sun and moon’
Chris Knight
Apr
1 The trickster: core of hunter-gatherer
religion Camilla
Power
Apr
8 An Amazonian myth: ‘The hunter Monmanéki and his wives’ Chris
Knight
These talks are free but we
ask for a donation of £1-£5 to cover expenses. We meet at 88 Fleet Street,
London EC4 1DH
(next
to St Bride’s church, 5 mins walk from Blackfriars tube)
Tuesday evenings, 6.15–9.00 pm.
For regular updates on meetings and
anthropology news, please follow us on Twitter (@radicalanthro)
and Facebook
www.radicalanthropologygroup.org
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