Radical Anthropology

London's longest running evening class, studying What it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
#anthropology #socialanthropology #evolutionaryanthropology #archaeology

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2026-03-18 19:24:38 UTC

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nice one!
More important things to do with menstrual time

2026-03-18 19:01:56 UTC

Dark moon 🌚 is in the early hours of Thursday morning for us here.
This time the Moon is busy with Hindu ceremonial for New Year.
https://www.space.com/stargazing/new-moon-of-march-2026-brings-stunning-views-of-jupiter-venus-zodiacal-light-and-more

2026-03-17 15:19:09 UTC

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Better pic here
https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/116/245/179/608/014/702/original/d4bcb6e08a50db9f.png

2026-03-17 14:44:40 UTC

Celebrating ancient Snakes today, like the glittering scaled Snake Rock in Rhino Cave, Tsodilo Hills, at least 70,000 years older than that misogynist patriarch Patrick.
https://share.google/nDaCLRJiEQw0fz24W

2026-03-17 13:26:18 UTC

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'The hearth, smoke, cardinal directions, colors, plants, animals, water, wind, clouds, rain, thunder, lightning, minerals, even toolstone, all are viewed as sentient, volitional spirit-beings with human-like temperaments, needs, and expectations....
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'I suggest that technological complexity cannot resolve the modernity issue, and that the current focus on symbolism expressed exclusively in non-utilitarian objects and practices is far too narrow and fails to recognize the pervasive nature of spiritualism in traditional societies'

2026-03-17 13:25:16 UTC

Looks like a good and wise paper by John Speth on the problems of dividing 'technological complexity' from the 'nonutilitarian' symbolic in assessing 'modern human' behaviour.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950236526000083

2026-03-15 13:32:53 UTC

Can the USA do anything about a President not 'in compos mentis'?

2026-03-15 11:49:38 UTC

#BundaySunday
Elderbun Jack is intent on fresh spring forage, sampling hawthorn, hazel, willow, pear buds, yarrow and dandies.
#RadicalAnthropologyRabbits
#RabbitsofMastodon
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2026-03-13 12:22:31 UTC

"...We evolved outside, under the sky, [and so] we are animals that are caged most of our time, in schools or cars or offices or homes. As soon as we get outside, we’re free.”
Guaranteed no side effects
#Doseofnature
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/it-has-changed-my-life-how-a-dose-of-nature-is-treating-mental-illness

2025-10-15 16:31:12 UTC

'This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.'
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face?utm_source=iosapp&utm_medium=share

2025-09-23 08:15:57 UTC

Radical Anthropology Autumn Term talks, start
Tues 🌓Sept 30🌔 6:30pm
Chris Knight and Camilla Power
'How to resist alpha males'
LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor,
UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/115/252/605/459/471/317/original/3efbf6da3763fe34.jpg

2025-09-20 11:32:06 UTC

Humans were born to move and mix
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/claims-of-pure-bloodlines-ancestral-homelands-dna-science-says-no/

2025-09-15 11:26:44 UTC

Asian water monitors at home in #Bangkok
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/15/little-godzilla-bangkok-reckons-with-its-giant-lizard-boom-aoe

2025-09-07 16:15:52 UTC

Look east at sunset (UK time). With a clear horizon, you should see the moon rise in total eclipse looking bloody. But only if you can see it really low
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/reasons-to-see-september-2025-blood-moon

2025-08-31 05:24:24 UTC

Magnificent action by Chinese athlete Yu Biao
https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1n442bu/chinese_runner_yu_biao_raised_the_palestinian/

2025-08-26 12:30:50 UTC

Longer thumbs, larger brains!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/26/primates-with-longer-thumbs-tend-to-have-bigger-brains-research-finds?CMP=share_btn_url

2025-07-14 05:31:50 UTC

200,000 years of recurrent #Neanderthal and #Homosapiens interaction.
#Palaeogenomics #anthropology
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250713032519.htm

2025-06-14 11:01:53 UTC

The slogan 'Jin, Jîyan, Azadî' originates with the #Kurdish women's revolution. It was the horrifying death of a Kurdish woman Mahsa #Amini in Iran which mobilised the courageous women's revolt in 2022. This genocidist woman-killer Netanyahu needs his mouth washed out.
#JinJiyanAzadi
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2025-06-10 11:35:43 UTC

Routes for #Neanderthal migration from West to East #Eurasia during warm climatic periods (MIS5e, 125 Ka, and MIS3, 60 ka)
#LatePleistocene
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086737

2025-05-06 07:57:46 UTC

Go beavers!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c705le51rpzo

2025-04-17 16:26:38 UTC

Harvard vs Donald Slump, who's gonna win?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/17/donald-trump-harvard-stripped-funds-el-salvador-us-politics-latest-updates-news

2025-04-13 07:54:15 UTC

The story of #Denmark's colonial #extraction of cryolite for well over a century in southern #Greenland
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/greenland-documentary-forces-danes-to-confront-their-colonial-heritage

2025-03-21 16:24:50 UTC

Oooh! Our very own Professor Chris Knight has just launched a lovely new website! Enjoy!
https://www.professorchrisknight.com/

2025-03-20 13:00:07 UTC

An interesting piece here on difference between human and other species' #cultural complexity, highlighting the aspect of #diversity.
True enough, but this is not dealing with the #symbolic, the shared #imaginary. Humans share their dreams about things that don't exist. Crows, chimps, elephants, whales, they don't.
Try Rainbow Snakes, for instance. Instead of being diverse, they are astoundingly similar around the world. Come and and hear our talk with Ivan Tacey on Tuesday for more on that.
https://theconversation.com/humans-arent-the-only-animals-with-complex-culture-but-researchers-point-to-one-feature-that-makes-ours-unique-245526?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton

2025-02-21 09:25:00 UTC

Communities in #Nigeria take #Shell to court for oil spills
At least 1.5 million tons of crude oil has been spilt in the Niger Delta since 1958, writes PAVAN KULKANI
JUSTICE OVERDUE: Activists stage an ‘Ecocide Babe’ stunt outside The Royal Courts Of Justice, central London where the Ogale and Bille communities v Shell hearing is taking place
NIGERIA has suffered hundreds of oil leaks and spills from Shell’s infrastructure in the country. Devastated by the contamination of their land and water sources, the Bille and Ogale communities have successfully put the oil giant in the dock at the London High Court after a decade-long struggle.
#fossilfuels #EnvironmentalLaw #extractivism #pollution #colonialism #ecocide
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nigerian-communities-take-shell-court-over-decades-oil-pollution

2025-02-19 13:32:00 UTC

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM
🌘Tues Feb 25, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌑
Erica Lagalisse
'On Anarchist Anthropology' in conversation with our own activist and radical anthropologist Chris Knight.
Erica is author of 'Occult Features of Anarchism' (PM Press, 2019). And many many popular anthropology zines!
Erica will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
#anarchism #anthropology #politics #activism #ethnography #conspiracytheory #religion
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