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RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the #Maasai from the last of their #Serengeti homeland

Article free of paywall
https://archive.ph/2024.04.10-125831/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/maasai-tribe-tanzania-forced-land-evictions-serengeti/677835/

#Tanzania #safari #boycott #UAE

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/maasai-tribe-tanzania-forced-land-evictions-serengeti/677835/?src=longreads

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

The natural world falls silent.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/16/nature-silent-bernie-krause-recording-sound-californian-state-park-aoe

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

'Palestinian doctors tell Al Jazeera they have discovered another mass grave in the courtyard of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, recently besieged by Israeli soldiers, with nine bodies believed to be those of patients found so far.'

#GazaGenocide #warcrimes
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/15/israels-war-on-gaza-live-five-killed-in-nuseirat-as-israel-strikes-camps

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to Rabbits

#SundayBunday
Jack would appreciate some attention!
#rabbitsofmastodon #RadicalAnthropologyRabbits

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

Would they face arrest on the streets of Berlin? Our friend Mark 2nd from left and Stephen Kapos in the cloth cap.

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to Germany

#Germany, this is disgusting!

#GhassanAbuSitta, famed plastic surgeon and Rector of #Glasgow University, detained and deported at Berlin airport on his way to give his testimony to a #Palestine conference. German police have shut down the Congress.

'Abu Sittah added on X that barring him from the event was “silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany’s complicity in the ongoing massacre."'

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/12/germany-cancels-pro-palestine-event-bars-entry-to-gaza-war-witness

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

'Capitalism and extreme poverty'
#DylanSullivan and #JasonHickel

'This paper assesses claims that, prior to the 19th century, around 90% of the human population lived in extreme poverty (defined as the inability to access essential goods), and that global human welfare only began to improve with the rise of capitalism....
We assess this narrative against extant data on three empirical indicators of human welfare: real wages (with respect to a subsistence basket), human height, and mortality..
three conclusions. (1) It is unlikely that 90% of the human population lived in extreme poverty prior to the 19th century. Historically, unskilled urban labourers in all regions tended to have wages high enough to support a family of four above the poverty line by working 250 days or 12 months a year...(2) The rise of capitalism caused a dramatic deterioration of human welfare. In all regions studied here, incorporation into the capitalist world-system was associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality. In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America, key welfare metrics have still not recovered(3) Where progress has occurred, significant improvements in human welfare began several centuries after the rise of capitalism..

#capitalism #poverty #baresubsistence

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

RadicalAnthro, 1 month ago to random

Bird (starling?) mimics police sirens

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-68785461

DemocracySpot, 1 month ago to photography

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RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Religion is organized by the Moon. Period

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Happy Dark Moon 🌑

Visible today if you're in the path of the #eclipse (just before sunset UK time)

Tattooed Sun (stonecut) | 🎨 Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuk) from Paul Seesequasis

#SolarEclipse #darkmoon

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to Anthropology

FREE community #fediscience please BOOST!

Did #matriarchy ever exist?

Radical Anthro summer talks start up next
Tues April 16, 18:30 (BST)
with #ChrisKnight on
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM

Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online!

Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of 'Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture' is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW (the entrance may still be through the Archaeology Institute in Gordon Sq). You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)

Chris will discuss myths of matriarchy, which are found all over the world. Is there any truth in the idea that women once exercised political power over men? Many feminists have dismissed such stories as ideological narratives invented simply to justify men's rule. Does biology prevent women from exercising real political power? Does sexism prevail everywhere? Has patriarchy always existed? He will discuss the ethnographic, archaeological and genetic evidence for and against these ideas.

#matriarchymyth #gender #humanorigins #anthropology

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to climate

The reality that #climatecrisis is a #feminist issue: Extreme heat affects women more than men.

'For women, the percentage change in mortality rate increased by 4.63% in 2000 to 2010 and 9.84% between 2010 and 2019'

#Heat #climatejustice
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/extreme-heat-affects-indian-women-more-than-men-analysis-finds-spike-in-deaths-due-to-high-heat-since-2005-95437

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to ireland

On the work of Akihiko #Okamura, Japanese war photographer who moved from #Vietnam to Ireland, to record the 'surreal dislocation of the everyday' during the troubles in the North of #Ireland

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/07/akihiko-okamura-photographs-troubles-northern-ireland-memories-of-others-exhibition

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

THE most terrifying article today:

'Poleward winds, which previously made few inroads into the atmosphere above Antarctica, are now carrying more and more warm, moist air from lower latitudes – including Australia – deep into the continent…'🔥
..
'After examining recent changes in sea ice coverage in Antarctica, the group concluded there had been an “abrupt critical transition” in the continent’s climate that could have repercussions for both local Antarctic ecosystems & global climate system.'

Meanwhile all the patriarchy can do is arm the warmongers and torturers.

#Antarctic #climatecatastrophe

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/simply-mind-boggling-world-record-temperature-jump-in-antarctic-raises-fears-of-catastrophe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Using multiple complementary forms of knowledge, we provide a scenario for #Blackfoot population history that fits with #oraltradition and provides a plausible model for the..peopling of the #Americas" by Dorothy First Rider et al. #Genomics

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl6595

pvonhellermannn, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

#Budget #UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

#FollowTheMoney

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other