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"More research needed", of course.

I'm not sure that reading fiction leads to more progressive, political outcomes. After all, the term "fiction" refers not only to the literary fiction reviewed in the New York Times and discussed on NPR but also to military thrillers of the Tom Clancy type and to "Christian fiction" such as the apocalyptic novels of the Left Behind series. Over the past four decades, books like these have enjoyed a wide male readership and in doing so have helped push US politics to the right.

The viral panic over men’s reading habits, fact-checked | Vox

https://www.vox.com/culture/392971/men-reading-fiction-statistics-fact-checked?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

A 🧵 for the hot topic of factors involved in here. Being friends and pupils of the late, great , we feel his use of 'egalitarian' reflects the dynamic quality of relations (authors who discuss the issues are mentioned, off the top of my head! I will try to fill in details/sources later)

Woodburn had some brilliant stuff on gender buried in unpublished notes which we are getting some access to. In his classic 1982 article here, he's addressing egalitarianism among men

https://libcom.org/article/egalitarian-societies-james-woodburn

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Day 12: in this brilliant talk Dasa Bombjakova describes , the theatre of run by older 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.'


https://vimeo.com/714542452

The latest issue of InterAlia: A Journal of Studies, has been published.

https://interalia.queerstudies.pl/issue-19-2024/

It includes:

Are the Queer Movements in India Inclusive?: Explorations of Hierarchies within the Queer Community,
Swakshadip Sarkar

Belief in Unsubstantiated Claims about and Discriminatory Behaviour of Slovak LGBTQ+ and Heterosexually-identified Adolescent Boys and Girls Towards Sexual and Minorities,
Daniel Lenghart, Michal Čerešník, Martin Dolejš, Nikoleta Kontová

Globalny język LGBTQ+ w polskich narracjach o tranzycji,
Joanna Chojnicka

Kopciuszek i Sarmaci. Kamp w polskim i norweskim dramacie współczesnym,
Anna Artwich

Diary as a queer technology of the self: David Vilaseca’s Els homes i els dies
Álvaro González Montero

Recenzja tomu zbiorowego pt. Odmieńczość. Obywatelstwo seksualne i archiwum
pod redakcją Tomasza Basiuka, Jędrzeja Burszty i Agnieszki Kościańskiej,
Dominika Ferens


replied to Radical Anthropology's status

Day 11: for all who want to know about egalitarianism, our own draws on many years of fieldwork with Mbendjele people in this extraordinary talk on 'Egalitarian Civilisations'

Jerome Lewis presents research tracing the long duration and resilience of a Central African hunter-gatherer 'civilisation'. This civilisation cannot be traced through archaeological evidence, but rather by combining genetic, ethnographic and ethnomusicological studies. These suggest a structural form or style that endures across different 'Pygmy' societies


https://vimeo.com/794802741

replied to Radical Anthropology's status

Day 9: talks about ancient stories from the . This material is super important for anyone who wants to know about 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.


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

A breathless, fast read ! Set in the fledgling Jamestown colony in early 1600s in the "starving time" of disease, famine and death, a 16-year old servant girl escapes, runs , hides, and survives in the wilderness to the north and west. Her reflections, demons, night terrors, wit, wonder, and belief in a god compel the girl to keep on running until she doesn't. It's a commentary on the natural world, , , and the human spirit.