Near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona, Migrant African-American Cotton Picker and Her Baby.
#Buckeye #MaricopaCounty #Arizona #African-American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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Near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona, Migrant African-American Cotton Picker and Her Baby.
#Buckeye #MaricopaCounty #Arizona #African-American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
Cooperative women's labour networks (Kraft et al #Batek #foragers show more extensive female networks than #Tsimane forager/horticulturlists) and gift exchange (Wiessner, Apicella)
Women's leisure time (Dyble et al, Agta women foragers have more than those who have settled as #farmers)
And last but not least is the influence of #music, #dance and #song on #women's solidarity and #collective power (Lewis, Finnegan, Kisliuk, Grauer, Bombjakova, England)
#MornaFinnegan writes beautifully here on the #danceoffs of women among Central #African #Forest peoples, and the incredibly rude words they sing to men!
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.12060
Day 3: This was a RAG classic, a wonderful ZOOM with the amazing #MornaFinnegan on 'Is there any Body out there? Love and loneliness in anthropology'
She casts a spell, on her experience of touch and corporeal morality, and how #African #hunter-gatherers create systems of power and value through the collective tactile body.
An earlier review of 2022 studies on #Neanderthal #family life. Social structure according to #genetics looks like #patrilocal with #females moving out of groups.
We are close to ๐ฏ per cent certain that #Homosapiens did the exact opposite -- daughters stayed with their mums, and sons-in-law came into the group to do #brideservice. We are so sure here because it's what #African #huntergatherers do. As a result, our lineage flourishes (thanks to grandmothers), Neanderthals dwindled (lack of grandmothers?) and numerous Neanderthal women could have moved into the incoming African origin groups.
#humanorigins #anthropology #Pleistocene #kinship
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2822%2901755-9
The #Friendship bench, a wonderful #African initiative using trained (trained by evolution) #grandmothers to help heal #mentalhealth issues.
Should go global.
A superb and scholarly analysis of #African #huntergatherer pigment use by our very own #IanWatts.
World expert on Middle Stone Age #red #ochre, he is extending to #plant #pigments in the #ethnographic record.
#anthropology #archaeology #cosmetics #pigment #ritual #hunting #initiation #blood #symbolicculture #humanevolution
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416524000588
Interesting piece on the ideas of #sexstrike so troubling the US.
What this misses out is that #sexstrike was how we created human culture! And it was periodic -- not forever! Aligned to the #moon and #menstrualcycles
See 'Blood Relations' on this link
https://libcom.org/article/blood-relations-menstruation-and-origins-culture-chris-knight-complete-book
Sex Strike takes specific forms among #African #huntergatherers, that is #menstrual #taboos and rules about #brideservice which is the work a son-in-law does for his mother-in-law (she is boss) otherwise no nooky!
I know and love the author Helen Nde, who runs @MythicAfricans -- about the best thing on wretched twitter. https://x.com/MythicAfricans
Caught up with her yesterday on her visit from America. She is a brilliant, clear-sighted person, seeking fundamental knowledge and wisdom from the voice of communities, told in this #oralhistory. For anyone with interest in story, folklore, her #African #Folklore collection will be wonderful, a key primer into the area. She has true storytelling skills and scholarship. We went along to the National Gallery with its famous European art collection here in London. It was so educational to get her original perspectives on classical art's use of mythology, and what a powerful vehicle myth and story are. She herself is a skilled artist who tried pointillist techniques!
Preorder for Spring 2025 (can make a great if belated Xmas present ๐)
I know and love the author Helen Nde, who runs @MythicAfricans -- about the best thing on wretched twitter. https://x.com/MythicAfricans
Caught up with her yesterday on her visit from America. She is a brilliant, clear-sighted person, seeking fundamental knowledge and wisdom from the voice of communities, told in this #oralhistory. For anyone with interest in story, folklore, her #African #Folklore collection will be wonderful, a key primer into the area. She has true storytelling skills and scholarship. We went along to the National Gallery with its famous European art collection here in London. It was so educational to get her original perspectives on classical art's use of mythology, and what a powerful vehicle myth and story are. She herself is a skilled artist who tried pointillist techniques!
Preorder for Spring 2025 (can make a great if belated Xmas present ๐)
https://www.helennde.com/projects/watkins-book-of-african-folklore
The mythos of #BlackSavagery remains so imprinted on the #American psyche that many are quick to believe it, even without evidence. And so #Trump has again turned to it; it seems clear that his attack on #HaitianImmigrants, who are of #African descent, is in part an attempt to link broader #antiImmigrant sentiment with #antiBlack sentiment.
cc: @KamalaHarrisWin
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsARacist #dogWhistle #bigotry #hate #TrumpIsHatred #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-about-haitian-immigrants/
#Xi Jinping has just announced $50 billion 'in the next 3 years in finances to create a million jobs on the #African continent' at the #China - #Africa Summit.
#TheGlobalJigsaw has looked into China's #narratives and #media operations on the continent - it is more interesting than meets the eye
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hx9h3z
Another Slovak genius Dasa #Bombjakova has beautiful material in her stunning ph.D on #BaMbendjele women's use of #cosmetics to create coalitions. Besides #African hunter-gatherers, there would be soooooo much to say on #Amazonian cultures. And it goes around the world.
Our colleague Ian #Watts (world expert on #ochre) is just about to publish wonderful ethnography on plant-based #pigment use and social contexts. Will be linking that up ASAP!
UNESCO registers five new African sites as world heritage
A defining year for #African heritage. With 5 new sites inscribed this year, Africa has crossed the symbolic milestone of 100 sites inscribed on the World Heritage List.
https://fr.apa.az/culture/lunesco-inscrit-cinq-nouveaux-sites-africains-au-patrimoine-mondial-4628
#Hรฉritage #Culture #news #Afrika #Afrique #Africa #ุฅูุฑูููุง #UNESCO
There are some terrible things going on right now in Kenya due to a controversial finance bill, leading to mass protests, protesters being shot by police and an official state of emergency being declared. The parliament is on fire.
For a Kenyan voice on what is happening, recommend following:
โก๏ธ @JonathanMBR
Jonathan is a teacher in Kenya, one of the longest-running members of the Fediverse. He's posting and boosting posts about what is happening.
This research is really sweet -- showing the size and complexity of ancient #African #huntergatherer networks, before farming.
Hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo maintained social networks across vast distances thousands of years before agriculture arrived. The cultural diversity is shown in musical instruments, specialist vocabulary and genetic analyses.
#anthropology #genetics #culturalevolution
https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2024/Hunter-Gatherers.html