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Our ZOOM session next Tues May 20 with leading researcher of hunter-gatherers Vivek Venkataraman

🌗 TUESDAY May 20 🌘6:30pm (London UTC + 1)
Vivek Venkataraman
'The meanings and dividends of Man the Hunter'
ZOOM only ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Vivek writes:
'The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with sexist theories of human evolution, but wildly disparate use of the phrase has led to unnecessary scientific disagreement and popular misunderstanding. In this talk, which follows a recently posted collaborative paper with other hunter-gatherer scholars, I ask: what does Man the Hunter mean?

I distinguish three historical meanings of Man the Hunter; first, the 1966 conference; second, popularized sexist theories of human origins; and third, the human behavioral ecology of hunter-gatherers. I then trace the historical development of these three meanings of Man the Hunter, situating their origins in evolutionary biology, ethnology, feminist studies, ethology, genetics, and other disciplines. This allows us to ask: how are these meanings connected intellectually? After presenting a surprising answer to this question, I conclude by offering suggestions for improving scientific and popular discourse regarding Man the Hunter.'

Vivek is a biological anthropologist who employs evolutionary approaches to the study of foraging behavior, energetics, and health. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College and conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. His present research focuses in Malaysia, where he is one of the Principal Investigators of the Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OA HeLP), which studies the rise of chronic non-infectious diseases over time due to rapidly changing environments. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Hunter-Gatherer Research.

Everybody welcome!
Please join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

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#PennedPossibilities 660 — What is your MC’s relationship with their family like?

Thorn Rose's mother was smuggled out of the dragon lands in a crate of onions and garlic to prevent her from becoming a slave, but her mother is obviously an immigrant with an accent and foreign ways despite resembling the majority. Her mother lives in the bad neighborhood because it feels safer. Since her mother has no brother, Thorn has no uncle and was raised by servants. Fathers play no role in the Reluctance Series. Her mother is a grandmother's age, runs a business, and is strict about school and study; that's okay with Thorn because she loves both. What's not okay is her mother thinks boys are a distraction, but is too old to perfectly police a frequently appearing male nuisance. What makes it difficult, and it's because her mother insisted on living in the wrong neighborhood, is it's a daemon consorting with a day angel. Thorn Rose understands her mother's worry and their relationship is tense at times, but Thorn thinks that with Streak at her side they can navigate the prejudice they'll face (like a white girl with a black man in the 1960s) together.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2025.05.02 — If you paint, do you have “recipes” or tricks for mixing colors, or do you eyeball it?

I paint with light. My two main recipes is to recognize bright colors on a dim background (which will render black in posts) or to recognize contrasting colors that will render a bright foreground (orange, purple, yellow, white) against a contrasting background (usually blue, brown, or green). Though it's a bit harder, I try to imagine the scene as bright against dark, as monochrome. This renders as either painterly (low contrast) or blown out (solarized). I do these things instinctively without having to raise the camera. Lots can be fixed in post.

Technique described in #altText.

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