Tuesday April 29 18:30 London time
ZOOM only with #MornaFinnegan
'The Politics of Eros: how BaYaka women make their egalitarian world'

Morna Finnegan asks how women's 'bodies in motion' create and maintain egalitarian gender relations among the BaYaka hunter-gatherers of the Congo forest.
Morna is a leading scholar of gender and sexual egalitarianism among African hunter-gatherers. She focuses on ritual and political domains structured through BaYaka women's dance collectives. Her articles include 'The Politics of Eros' (2013) and 'Dance, play, laugh: What capitalism can't do' (2015), and she is co-editor of 'Human Origins, contributions from social anthropology' (Berghahn 2017)
This is ZOOM only, ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.
Everybody welcome.

@gwensnyder.bsky.social @dgoldsmith

The #American ethos, #culture, and #FirstPrinciples promote #egalitarianism over #regicide.

And always have: https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/skeptical-of-god-kings/

Day 13: our leading scholar #IanWatts takes us to the heart of #Hadza cosmology by following the zigzag trail of the mysterious entity !o!oko, cannibal grandmother and mantis trickster and transformer.

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 #San #huntergatherers. This suggests great antiquity of the concepts related to #lunar time.

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.

#13daysofXmas #RAGtoptalks
#egalitarianism #gender #trickster #IndigenousCosmology

https://vimeo.com/761741261

Day 12: in this brilliant talk Dasa Bombjakova describes #moadjo, the #BaYaka theatre of #ridicule run by older #women if some man misbehaves!

'this lecture portrays the role of ridicule and other powerful levelling mechanisms in learning about the normative world of this gender-egalitarian BaYaka hunting and gathering society. How do you teach norms to children in this specific cultural context? What this has to do with the Colin Turnbull’s concept of noise? Dasa Bombjakova will address these questions and raise some tips on future research on norms in an egalitarian hunter-gatherer context.'

#13daysofXmas #RAGtoptalks
#egalitarianism #gender #laughter #IndigenousCosmology #levelling

https://vimeo.com/714542452

Day 10: a follow-up talk from #MeganBiesele, world expert on #Ju/'hoan folklore, with the 'Story of the Elephant Girl' -- strongly similar to the Kua Buffalo Wife tale (they are some of the #oldest #stories in the world)

'Helga's story eerily echoes those Megan recorded in northwestern Botswana, also in the 1970s, of the Ju|'hoan Elephant Girl. Both address basic problems of life (e.g. that people's food prominently includes sentient beings). But her retold version appears to answer questions posed by seeming "gaps", puzzling to a western audience, in versions Megan collected.'

#13daysofXmas #RAGtoptalks
#egalitarianism #IndigenousCosmology

https://vimeo.com/776639178

Day 9: #HelgaVierich talks about ancient stories from the #Kalahari. This material is super important for anyone who wants to know about #huntergatherer #gender relations.

How do children learn to be human? Adults model behaviour and instruct morals by examples, with the help of the stories. These can be original myths, biblical and folktales, or sometimes parables, coming-of-age adventures, and legends, that illustrate good as well as bad outcomes. Here one such tale is recounted, as told to an anthropologist by a Kua storyteller in the southeastern Kalahari four decades ago. This features the Creator, a termite mound, a Buffalo wife, foolish humans, and poisonous farts. Enjoy.

#13daysofXmas #RAGtoptalks
#egalitarianism #IndigenousCosmology

https://vimeo.com/703668006?turnstile=0.dTAaLPXqbTgk09m0a-WmaXvUCCiWVTKfPr2tffo1ssVTfcKvuFdSMcboGvNbwrgQqPM2UhkiLK4tXhIq7zvHZxvlcoxYcb8SzMc5yFQJYQkI6UqqWq1bNxh0LG4cE03k79pCnow0sG-B1Jk0as7kAsbyiV6OjUkQzsAzpi279lS7vbjEsxL1mWVFKrvZEEvkF3fhHxsMqSVYzXgY20iEJV_6aMsBoW5gxfCGGBdsGuBgGHaaluN427lAK5MPgWeSyfqLtcOWznIrRKkdSr8gjcahI57Kms-GFS-Hny-wbwhEgD1qT5QoR1IdtZWtw2wrhGD3nSBr9NfKsshnFeTljFtod9Urck9dX_V2wShHqXxP06TMNZ05cKu0DsN5QX6xQZvtIFg4sSqn_h7E4sTSVTtqTXXGNOka_g0cdkM0mlu-R8s3yyAI9kQ6o_iCvMKdVd_EbDPHTPlNR78tyjFXYFdmMyaUNkLAkmyjbRcom9R-E7Ua9xTnqGvyS-zgfFzJjtoQPmmuv-8wmyMzuw10QMTF9Drfbltwgp3shaRNx-3gC8T_6rWCxvUCqXvKE_GIgmKIDrVNc5jhJyJrLXxAl2QiQvv6hWj9DbW9HRQnnImBao5lfwerEVW0mgHKzl067e7Z5dLhHM_4E5QQT5SAZT0lEWat8ekn08qjLyA0Si3qzoDchmEIAENz7ewpDOu7ajbb0MxNOD0yVf91L8UAepWQU_x0s4mcDE-Wx8J-784wQp2jSG64_NCKoP52yWNu.GENHmX2V-3nSpgJRix8U8w.d2d81da8a5a6aba4d70fc8a3deb59fce2c115d4c840d8fd9cf9d1f06db31a1e3

@CassandraVert @JoshuaHolland @csstrowbridge
#republicanism #egalitarianism #FirstPrinciples #ParticipatoryLeadership #DigitalPamphleteering #American

@SearingTruth "Some factors, notably large game hunting with weapons, would appear to require high levels of cooperation as a precondition."
From "The emergence of #egalitarianism in a model of early human societies" (2017)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5727548/

Here is Emeka, doing a proper job of sharing meat of a black-fronted duiker, making sure his hunting stays good!

This is real #Inequityaversion

Photo: Jerome Lewis

@TimWardCam @soc_i_ety

The French policy towards indigenous interests was much more accommodating than the British.

The entire concept of #egalitarianism came to Europe via the First Nations people.

There is a reason it’s one of the #FirstPrinciples of the French now…

@DoomsdaysCW @OccuWorld @egalitaire

The European #Enlightenment learned of the concept of #egalitarianism from the #FirstNations people.