Language, art, music and culture emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, culminating in a symbolic explosion or ‘human revolution’ whose echoes can still be heard in myths and cultural traditions from around the world. These talks are a general introduction to social and biological anthropology, ranging over fields as diverse as hunter-gatherer studies, mythology, primatology, archaeology and archaeoastronomy. Radical Anthropology links indigenous rights activists, environmentalists, feminists and others who believe that another world is possible with people of all ages who just want to learn about anthropology. There is always time for questions and discussion after each talk and there are good local pubs for those wanting to continue into the evening.

Sep 22 Introducing Radical Anthropology Chris Knight and Camilla Power

Sep 29 Claude Lévi-Strauss: the structural analysis of a fairytale Chris Knight

Oct 6 The ‘sex-strike’ theory of human origins Camilla Power and Chris Knight

Oct 13 Palaeolithic politics – and why it still matters David Wengrow & David Graeber

Oct 20 Baseball, sorcery and women’s solidarity among the Miskitu of Nicaragua Mark Jamieson

Oct 27 Collective action and the collaborative brain Sergey Gavrilets

Nov 3 The origins and evolution of Homo sapiens Chris Stringer

Nov 10 Hunter-gatherers and the origins of language Jerome Lewis and Chris Knight

Nov 17 A tomb with a view? Megaliths, skyscape and folklore in western Iberia Fabio Silva

Nov 24 ‘Women’s biggest husband is the moon’: gender egalitarianism among the BaYaka hunter-gatherers (Congo Basin) Jerome Lewis

Dec 1 Are apes persons? Demanding rights for our next of kin Volker Sommer

Dec 8 Spirits of the forest: a workshop on African hunter-gather polyphonic singing Ingrid Lewis

Dec 15 A Christmas fairy tale: ‘The shoes that were danced to pieces’ Chris Knight

All talks are free and open to all in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Anthropology Building, 14 Taviton St, off Gordon Square, London WC1E 6BT. Tube: Euston.

Info: radicalanthropologygroup.org @radicalanthro Facebook