An Evening Class Introduction to Anthropology:

Researchers into the origins of human language, mythic narrative and ritual have recently made exciting new discoveries. It is now known that symbolic culture began emerging in Africa some 100,000 years ago, in a social revolution whose echoes can still be heard in mythic narratives and ritual traditions from around the world.

Spring Term Syllabus 2012

Jan 17 ‘Bonobo girl power’ (female dominance and bonding in our ape cousins) Zanna Clay
Jan 24 ‘Song-lines and rainbow snakes’ (myths from Aboriginal Australia) Chris Knight
Jan 31 ‘Human heroes, power and the cosmos in Borneo’ Monica Janowski
Feb 7 ‘The Tower of Babel’ (Noam Chomsky and the myth of ‘Universal Grammar’) Chris Knight
Feb 14 ‘The Utopian Promise of Government’ (Cargo cults in Papua/New Guinea) "
Feb 21 An Amazonian Myth and its History "
Feb 28 The Politics in African Ethnomusicological Field Recordings Noel Lobley
Mar 6 Reproduction and spirit owners among the Miskitu Indians Mark Jamieson
Mar 13 ‘The Wives of the Sun and Moon’ (Arapaho Indians) Chris Knight
Mar 20 ‘The hunter Monmaneki and his Wives’ (Tukano Indians) "
Mar 27 ‘The Woman with the Zebra’s Penis’ (myths of African hunter-gatherers) Camilla Power

All lectures held at the St Martinʼs Community Centre
43 Carol St, London NW1 0HT (2 minutes from Camden Town tube)
Tuesday evenings, 6.15–9.00 pm.
See radicalanthropologygroup.org for more information