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This evening in London 🩸⬇️🩸⬇️
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE or ZOOM

🌔Tues Nov 12 18:30 🌕 (London UK)
with #DeniseArnold
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM

'Sea shells, women's blood and an Andean bioclimatology of water'

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Denise Arnold explores the mutual rearing practices between Andean populations and water, in its different manifestations, as a key life-giving element in their mountainous habitat. Andean animist ontologies recognise how humans and water flow are constituted mutually, through a dynamic relationality, which extends to other aquatic phenomena, including the sea-shell Spondylus princeps. This knowledge is learned and transmitted between the generations in the rites of passage of adolescent girls and boys, when they learn an interdependence with water, establish relations with water beings, and practice equivalences between their own blood flow and water flow.

Examined in this context are Inka rites of passage, a school ritual focused on learning about water flow, a female rite of passage when women learn to use particular designs and colours in their weavings, and a ritual offering of Spondylus to high mountain shrines. These practices are situated in the emerging discipline of bioclimatology.

Denise, an Anglo-Bolivian anthropologist, directs the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara, in La Paz, Bolivia. She will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW. Please arrive by 6:30pm before doors close. Or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

#Andes #animism #ontology #morethanhuman #Aymara #Inka #anthropology

#Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On #Nakba and Return

"As the essays in this series go to press, a genocidal war in #Gaza continues to escalate throughout Palestine and around the region. [..] In the face of this ongoing catastrophe, this Hot Spots series contributes to continued efforts to amplify and produce multi-dimensional and layered scholarship on #Palestine in regional perspective."

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/anthropology-in-a-time-of-genocide

#PalestineQuestion #oPt #ColonialViolence #MiddleEast

@palestine

"There’s a certain kind of person who likes to talk about Chesterton’s Fence, and who will tell you that you should obey tradition because, being the distillation of centuries of human experience, it encodes tacit knowledge and gives you truths you couldn’t possibly reach on your own. This person, whom we may call the utilitrad, is rarely from a society that burns its widows."

#JanePsmith

Touché.

https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-sick-societies-by-robert-b

#traditionalism #anthropology #maladaptation #GKChesterton
#ThePsmiths

Next was a fascinating (and troubling) talk by Jason Porter on economic strategies and slavery in classical Athens at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD-ASfLDUwE (4/12) #history #Greece #anthropology #economics

Sometimes.
W.E.I.R.D.-ly.

"Even the highly cited examples of 150-people networks have been criticised as overwhelmingly skewed towards rich, educated, and industrialised societies, with non-western cultures rarely mentioned. Confirmation bias may well be a factor in the popularity and acceptance of Dunbar’s number."

https://oxsci.org/end-of-dunbars-number/

#sociology #psychology #anthropology #ecology #PopularScience #SocialNeworks #correlation #nuance #context #friendship #PopCulture #WEIRD