Radical Anthropology<p>Day 13: our leading scholar <a href="https://c.im/tags/IanWatts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IanWatts</span></a> takes us to the heart of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hadza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hadza</span></a> cosmology by following the zigzag trail of the mysterious entity !o!oko, cannibal grandmother and mantis trickster and transformer. </p><p>Stories and beliefs associated to the Mantis among the Hadzabe of Tanzania compare with the well-known figure of the Mantis among the /Xam Southern <a href="https://c.im/tags/San" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>San</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huntergatherers</span></a>. This suggests great antiquity of the concepts related to <a href="https://c.im/tags/lunar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lunar</span></a> time. </p><p>The word itself -- !o!oko -- is probably very ancient with double alveolar-palatal click (pop sound from taking your tongue quickly away from the alveolar ridge). The -ko ending implies femaleness, but this entity has gender fluidity.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/13daysofXmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>13daysofXmas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RAGtoptalks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAGtoptalks</span></a> <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/egalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>egalitarianism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/trickster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trickster</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IndigenousCosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousCosmology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/761741261" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vimeo.com/761741261</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>