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THE HUMAN REVOLUTION: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHOPOLOGY
An Introduction to Anthropology
The Human Revolution
Autumn 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.
Programme:
September 24: Decoding myths: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ and other tales – Chris Knight
October 1: Claude Lévi-Strauss: The science of mythology – Chris Knight
October 8: African hunter-gatherers and the moon – Chris Knight
October 15: Darwinism and genetics: ‘the science of solidarity’ – Chris Knight
October 22: Egalitarian societies today – Jerome Lewis
October 29: People, animals, blood and the moon – Jerome Lewis
November 5: The revolution which worked – Chris Knight
November 11: Utopian disjunctures and participatory democracy in Bolivarian Venezuela – Matt Wilde
November 19: Bronislaw Malinowski: Sex and family life in the Trobriands – Chris Knight
November 26: Key problems in human evolution – Chris Stringer
December 3: Women in Ice Age cave art – Camilla Power
December 10: African hunter-gatherers’ communal singing – Ingrid Lewis
December 17: A Christmas fairy-tale: ‘The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces’ – Chris Knight
All talks held at the St Martin’s Community Centre
43 Carol St, LondonNW1 0HT (2 minutes from Camden tube)
Tuesday evenings, 6.30–9.00 pm.
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