Day 1: Daiara Tukano, artist, activist, talks and chants on Existence as Resistance
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Day 2: Chris Low has practised osteopathy and studied healing with various Kalahari groups including Ju/'hoansi and Naron. This is a great talk on healing for humans.
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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.
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Day 4: an inspiring talk with #HarryJenkinson of #Right2roam. We are a #nomadic species, and our capacity to care for nature depends on our political and cultural rights to be part of it -- not cut off from it.
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Day 5: Dr #ToyinAgbetu, (Lecturer in Social and Political Anthropology at UCL) revisits Action Anthropology, arguing although anthropology is centred around the study of humanity, in its applied and military guises, it is not necessarily egalitarian, equitable or activist.
He had us all eating out of his ✋
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Day 6: the brilliant #DenizSalali
talks about her decade of fieldwork with BaYaka children and how they become active and autonomous people in an egalitarian #huntergatherer society of the #Congo rainforest.
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Day 7: #cedricboeckx, world leading researcher of the neurobiological foundations of the human #language #faculty, gave this fantastic talk on 'Hunter-gatherers of words'
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Day 8: a beautiful talk with #kirstyegraham
on the extraordinary #Fongoli #chimpanzee community