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Radical Anthropology<p>TONIGHT our last LIVE meet before summer down the pub! 🩸🩸🩸</p><p>🌕 TUESDAY May 13 🌖 Menstrual Hut Coalition 'Where have all the menstrual huts gone?' LIVE from 6pm upstairs in The Two Chairmen pub, Dartmouth St, London SW1H 9BP. On the past, present and future of menstrual huts. Come for food, drink and healthy discussion, or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak</p><p>Where have all the menstrual huts gone? was the question posed by US archaeologist Patricia Galloway in the late 90s. She wondered why there was so much ethnographic evidence for historic and current menstrual observances among SE Native American groups (eg Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw), and yet archaeology scarcely identified ‘menstrual seclusion’ sites. Menstrual taboos, she realised, often associated with matriliny and matrilocality rather than patriarchal societies. She said: ‘Because Western societies practice the hiding of menstruation…the topic itself is treated with reticence by females, discomfited derision by males, and with pollution anxieties ...by both’.</p><p>Members of the London Menstrual Hut Coalition will be leading open discussion about the past, present and future of menstrual huts, drawing on recent experience in London to reclaim women’s time/space at Dark Moon.. We can learn from Indigenous cosmologies of how these space/times can move whole communities between worlds and usher ‘World Renewal’. People of all genders welcome, as we are thinking about gender interactive celebrations.</p><p>We are LIVE upstairs at The Two Chairmen pub, Dartmouth St, SW1H 9BP If you can’t get there, you can join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak from 6 pm</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/menstruation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>menstruation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/originsofculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>originsofculture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/taboo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taboo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/initiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>initiation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ritual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/femalecosmeticcoalitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>femalecosmeticcoalitions</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sacred</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/FemaleCosmeticCoalitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FemaleCosmeticCoalitions</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/beauty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beauty</span></a> tips and <a href="https://c.im/tags/pigments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pigments</span></a> (Bombjakova, Power, Watts)</p><p>+ </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Blood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blood</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/taboos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taboos</span></a>, the 'ideology of blood' affecting <a href="https://c.im/tags/hunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hunting</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/menstruation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>menstruation</span></a> etc how much are these in women's <a href="https://c.im/tags/strategic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strategic</span></a> interest? (Woodburn, Testart, Lewis, Knight, Power, Watts)</p><p><a href="https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1317602/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/</span><span class="invisible">1317602/</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>The <a href="https://c.im/tags/FemaleCosmeticCoalitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FemaleCosmeticCoalitions</span></a> theory of human symbolic origins</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_cosmetic_coalitions#:~:text=The%20theory%20of%20female%20cosmetic,together%20with%20archaeologist%20Ian%20Watts" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female</span><span class="invisible">_cosmetic_coalitions#:~:text=The%20theory%20of%20female%20cosmetic,together%20with%20archaeologist%20Ian%20Watts</span></a>.</p>
Radical Anthropology<p>This is an interesting idea: that xtian <a href="https://c.im/tags/patriarchal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patriarchal</span></a> control of <a href="https://c.im/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> especially attacked and belittled or shamed use of <a href="https://c.im/tags/cosmetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cosmetics</span></a>. This was particularly in the heritage of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/puritans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puritans</span></a> but here the author argues it developed much earlier. </p><p>The very word 'cosmetic' in English connotes superficial, shallow, trivial. Yet the classical Greek etymology connects to a notion of beauty underpinning a morally ordered universe -- cosmos, cosmology. This is a concept frequently found in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> thinking.</p><p>Since our <a href="https://c.im/tags/FemaleCosmeticCoalitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FemaleCosmeticCoalitions</span></a> theory argues for women's <a href="https://c.im/tags/ritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ritual</span></a> use of <a href="https://c.im/tags/bodypaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bodypaint</span></a> as fundamental to human <a href="https://c.im/tags/symbolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>symbolic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a>, we think this suppression of body art is a likely pathway to patriarchy. Where women have power and freedom, they use cosmetics and adornment -- especially in solidarity -- to express that.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/23/medieval-christian-misogyny-shapes-how-we-judge-women-today-says-scholar" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/education/2024</span><span class="invisible">/mar/23/medieval-christian-misogyny-shapes-how-we-judge-women-today-says-scholar</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Still time to sign in on Eventbrite for tonight! 👇👇👇<br>Oct 24, 18:30 London time with<br>Radical Anthropologists<br>Camilla Power and Ian Watts </p><p>'On the Human Revolution'</p><p>They are speaking LIVE @UCLanthropology (Daryll Forde Seminar Room on the 2nd Floor)<br> and on ZOOM. Everybody welcome!</p><p>Sign into Eventbrite for ZOOM ID (sent out on the morning/pm of the date)<br><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-anthropology-talks-tickets-707087105567" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-ant</span><span class="invisible">hropology-talks-tickets-707087105567</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/humanevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanevolution</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culturalevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culturalevolution</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/symbolicculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>symbolicculture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pigments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pigments</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ritual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humanorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanorigins</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/femalecosmeticcoalitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>femalecosmeticcoalitions</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MiddleStoneAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleStoneAge</span></a> <br>Image shows the cover of 'The Human Revolution', edited by the late Paul Mellars and Chris Stringer in 1989.</p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Most importantly, the authors "view...habitual ochre use as a proxy for the emergence of regular collective rituals". While ochre definitely can have functional uses, ritualised, visual display use appears primary: MSA ochres reflect costly and repetitive behaviours, including long-distance procurement and intentional colour selection.</p><p>"The overall dominance of grinding use-wear on archaeological specimens from the MSA indicates the primary production of powder". The authors note red residues produced on shell beads, when these appear later in sites like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blombos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blombos</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taforalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Taforalt</span></a> and now <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bizmoune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bizmoune</span></a>. This likely results from bodypaint on skin or deliberate colouring.</p><p>In sum, they "view a large proportion of ochre finds from the MSA as the material remains of past ritual activity". This builds cogently on the position the <a href="https://c.im/tags/FemaleCosmeticCoalitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FemaleCosmeticCoalitions</span></a> team took three decades ago that the ochre marked <a href="https://c.im/tags/ritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ritual</span></a> activity which was critical to the emergence of <a href="https://c.im/tags/symbolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>symbolic</span></a> cognition.</p><p>5/</p><p>Image: from the Moroccan MSA at Bizmoune dating for large blocks of ochre accompanying ochre-residued shell beads are now back to 140 thousand years ago.</p>
Radical Anthropology<p>The authors, led by Dapschauskas and including <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@sommer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sommer</span></a></span> "try to answer the question of when and where habitual ochre use emerged and what significance this had for the development of ritual behavior during the Middle Stone Age" with a meta-analysis of 100 African sites.</p><p>They directly address the model developed by myself <a href="https://c.im/tags/CamillaPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CamillaPower</span></a> with <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChrisKnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisKnight</span></a> and world-leading pigment specialist <a href="https://c.im/tags/IanWatts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IanWatts</span></a> -- the <a href="https://c.im/tags/FemaleCosmeticCoalitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FemaleCosmeticCoalitions</span></a> (FCC) hypothesis. We made predictions three decades ago. How do they hold up?<br><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_cosmetic_coalitions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female</span><span class="invisible">_cosmetic_coalitions</span></a></p><p>2/<br>Image: map of Africa showing over 100 Middle Stone Age sites, some with lithics, some ochre, some both, stretching the length of the continent south, east and north.</p>
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