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Radical Anthropology<p>FREE community <a href="https://c.im/tags/fediscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediscience</span></a>, please BOOST!</p><p>TONIGHT <br>Everybody welcome, just turn up! <br>LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM </p><p>🌔Tues Mar 11, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌕<br>Chris Knight on<br>'On women and jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'</p><p>Across Amazonia, myths hold that in early times it was the jaguars, parrots, tapirs and other animals who first invented bows and arrows, cooking fire, ceremonial buildings, religious ceremonies and other complex cultural accomplishments. Then humans stole these things from the animals, elevating themselves above all other creatures – but at the cost of losing their former ability to engage in easy conversation with the animal world. This mythic view of our origins is the reverse of the Darwinian narrative which our own culture holds up as science.</p><p>In this talk, <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChrisKnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisKnight</span></a> will introduce a recent trend in social anthropology – known as ‘perspectivism’ – and discuss whether such radically different ways of perceiving our origins and place in nature can be made to converge.</p><p>Chris will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/perspectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perspectivism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ritual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/animism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/alterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alterity</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/femaleinitiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>femaleinitiation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a></p>
Küpa<p>Another example. When I fell ill with malaria, a Yukpa shaman told me that our blood was beer that mosquitoes fermented to celebrate, "just like us". Each species has a perspective with the same inner world as the human one, but for others it looks different depending on the relationship that one species [or collective] has with another. In the context of ethnology this is called “amerindian <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/perspectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perspectivism</span></a> ”, term coined by the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/shamanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shamanism</span></a></p><p>5/?</p>