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Two-time CASBS fellow and renowned anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann discusses her past and current work as an anthropologist of the mind, both in religious and psychological contexts, in conversation with 2023-24 CASBS fellow Erica Robles-Anderson. Luhrmann's award-winning work investigates visions, voices, psychosis, the supernatural, and other unusual sensory experiences and phenomena, found often at the borderlands of spirit, culture, and the mind.TANYA LUHRMANN: Stanford faculty page | Stanford profile page | Personal website | Wikipedia page | on Google Scholar | CV |Luhrmann, Of Two Minds. Winner of: the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, the Bryce Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology, the Gradiva Award from the Association for the Advancement of PsychoanalysisLuhrmann, When God Talks Back. Winner of the Grawemeyer Prize in Religion and the Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year.Luhrmann, "A life in books," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2020)Luhrmann, et al. "Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021)ERICA ROBLES-ANDERSON: NYU faculty page | CASBS page | on Google Scholar |  Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford UniversityExplore CASBS: website|Bluesky|X|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach​Human CenteredProducer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |

In this prize-winning essay for the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest, Dr. Ruickbie examines the evidence for the survival of consciousness after death (“life after death”). Initially skeptical, he found that there was sufficient evidence from a wide variety of sources, including apparitions, reincarnation, near-death experiences, after-death communication, and premonitions, that met the contest's criteria of being “beyond reasonable doubt.”Such claims are often dismissed as contravening the laws of physics; however, Ruickbie takes the ground-breaking approach of organizing the evidence as eye-witness testimony to the "block" universe (in which past, present and future exist at the same time) described by Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski; and finds further support in the latest theories and findings of Quantum Physics for what Ruickbie calls “timetanglement” and “cloud consciousness.” Using a novel framework inspired by Charles Dickens, this is a readable and convincing account of a complex and highly debated subject.BioDr Leo Ruickbie, FRHistS, FRAI, ARPS, PhD (Lond), MA, BA (Hons), ACIQ, Associate of King's College London, is a Visiting Fellow in Psychology at the University of Northampton, where he is a member of the Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies research group.Described as a ‘leading historian and sociologist of the paranormal' by the Daily Express newspaper (print) and ‘a leading expert on the paranormal‘ (express.co.uk online), Dr Ruickbie specialises in controversial areas of human belief and experience, sometimes called ‘exceptional human experiences'. A phrase coined by Rhea White in 1990, exceptional human experience is ‘an umbrella term for many types of experience generally considered to be psychic, mystical, encounter-type experiences, death-related experiences, and experiences at the upper end of the normal range, such as creative inspiration, exceptional human performance' (White, 1994:5).Dr Ruickbie is closely involved in the work of the Society for Psychical Research as a member of Council, former Editor of its Magazine and a member of its Spontaneous Cases Committee. Established in 1882, the Society for Psychical Research is the world's largest, oldest and most reputable organisation for the scientific study of what we now call ‘the paranormal'.He is also a Professional Member of the Parapsychological Association. Established in 1957, the Parapsychological Association is affiliated to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.In recognition of his contribution to scholarship sustained over the course of his career, Dr Ruickbie has been elected a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute.Dr Ruickbie's PhD is from King's College, London, for his thesis on contemporary witchcraft and magic use, building on research that won him an MA with distinction from Lancaster University. He is the author of several books, all based on rigorous research: Witchcraft Out of the Shadows (2004 and 2011), Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician (2009), A Brief Guide to the Supernatural (2012), A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting (2013), The Impossible Zoo (2016) and Angels in the Trenches (2018); as well as numerous articles and chapters in scholarly publications.https://ruickbie.com/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRMN4D41/ https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife

In this prize-winning essay for the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest, Dr. Ruickbie examines the evidence for the survival of consciousness after death (“life after death”). Initially skeptical, he found that there was sufficient evidence from a wide variety of sources, including apparitions, reincarnation, near-death experiences, after-death communication, and premonitions, that met the contest's criteria of being “beyond reasonable doubt.”Such claims are often dismissed as contravening the laws of physics; however, Ruickbie takes the ground-breaking approach of organizing the evidence as eye-witness testimony to the "block" universe (in which past, present and future exist at the same time) described by Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski; and finds further support in the latest theories and findings of Quantum Physics for what Ruickbie calls “timetanglement” and “cloud consciousness.” Using a novel framework inspired by Charles Dickens, this is a readable and convincing account of a complex and highly debated subject.BioDr Leo Ruickbie, FRHistS, FRAI, ARPS, PhD (Lond), MA, BA (Hons), ACIQ, Associate of King's College London, is a Visiting Fellow in Psychology at the University of Northampton, where he is a member of the Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies research group.Described as a ‘leading historian and sociologist of the paranormal' by the Daily Express newspaper (print) and ‘a leading expert on the paranormal‘ (express.co.uk online), Dr Ruickbie specialises in controversial areas of human belief and experience, sometimes called ‘exceptional human experiences'. A phrase coined by Rhea White in 1990, exceptional human experience is ‘an umbrella term for many types of experience generally considered to be psychic, mystical, encounter-type experiences, death-related experiences, and experiences at the upper end of the normal range, such as creative inspiration, exceptional human performance' (White, 1994:5).Dr Ruickbie is closely involved in the work of the Society for Psychical Research as a member of Council, former Editor of its Magazine and a member of its Spontaneous Cases Committee. Established in 1882, the Society for Psychical Research is the world's largest, oldest and most reputable organisation for the scientific study of what we now call ‘the paranormal'.He is also a Professional Member of the Parapsychological Association. Established in 1957, the Parapsychological Association is affiliated to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.In recognition of his contribution to scholarship sustained over the course of his career, Dr Ruickbie has been elected a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute.Dr Ruickbie's PhD is from King's College, London, for his thesis on contemporary witchcraft and magic use, building on research that won him an MA with distinction from Lancaster University. He is the author of several books, all based on rigorous research: Witchcraft Out of the Shadows (2004 and 2011), Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician (2009), A Brief Guide to the Supernatural (2012), A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting (2013), The Impossible Zoo (2016) and Angels in the Trenches (2018); as well as numerous articles and chapters in scholarly publications.https://ruickbie.com/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRMN4D41/ https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife

In this episode I chat once again Timothy Larsen, this time to discuss his wonderful new book, "12 Classic Christmas Stories: A Feast of Yuletide Tales" (Moody Press). Whether you're a lover of classic literature or simply looking to deepen your appreciation of Christmas traditions, and connect them to Christ, this book will do it, and hopefully this conversation as well! Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College, an Honorary Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Research Fellow, School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.  He has been a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, All Souls College, Oxford, and Christ Church, Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has been elected President of the American Society of Church History for 2025. He is the author or editor of twenty books including Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith, John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life and The Oxford Handbook of Christmas (all with Oxford University Press). https://www.ryleyheppner.com https://www.instagram.com/ryleyheppner/ For all collaboration requests (speaking, advertising, etc.) go to: https://www.ryleyheppner.com/collaboration

Adam KuperProfessor Adam Kuper  is an anthropologist and public intellectual. He has held positions at a number of universities  and is a recipient of the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Kuper is the author or editor of 19 books and  has published over 100 journal articles focusing on anthropological theory, the history of anthropology in the US and Britain, and southern African societies and cultures. He has made numerous appearances on BBC TV and radio, and reviewed regularly for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Wall Street Journal.  The Museum of Other PeoplePublished by Penguin Random House, in this deeply researched, immersive history, Adam Kuper tells the story of how foreign and prehistoric peoples and cultures were represented in Western museums of anthropology. Originally created as colonial enterprises, their halls were populated by displays of plundered art, artifacts, dioramas, bones, and relics. Kuper reveals the politics and struggles of trying to build these museums in Germany, France, and England in the mid-19th century, and the dramatic encounters between the very colorful and eccentric collectors, curators, political figures, and high members of the church who founded them. He also details the creation of contemporary museums and exhibitions, including the Smithsonian, the Harvard's Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, and the famous 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago which was inspired by the Paris World Fair of 1889.Listen to an excerpt from The Museum of Other People  Elizabeth Howard  The Short Fuse Podcasts, hosted and produced by Elizabeth Howard, are conversations with artists, writers, musicians, and others who have a lens on contemporary thought and stir us to seek change. With their art, their music, their performances, and their vision they lead us through the social and environmental transformations sweeping across the globe.“Artists are here to disturb the peace.” James Baldwin.The Short Fuse is distributed through the Arts Fuse, a journal of arts criticism and commentary. 

Today's conversation is with Professor of History and Christian thought, Dr. Timothy Larsen. Dr. Larsen's latest project is the reissue of a powerful devotional from the 19th century Scottish author and minister, George MacDonald, Diary of an Old Soul, in which Dr. Larsen provides an introduction and explanatory notes throughout the book. We talked lots about George Donald, about his Christian faith, his influence on people like Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the uniqueness and ongoing relevance of this devotional Diary of an Old Soul, and what exactly an Old Soul even is. Dr. Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College, an Honorary Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Research Fellow, School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.  He has been a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, All Souls College, Oxford, and Christ Church, Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has been elected President of the American Society of Church History for 2025. He is the author or editor of twenty books including Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith, John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life and The Oxford Handbook of Christmas (all with Oxford University Press).

Why do people migrate from one country to another, leaving behind friends, family, and familiarity in search of another life elsewhere? And how might their experiences look different if they are deaf? Ala' Al-Husni is a deaf Jordanian who moved to Japan five years ago, where he still lives with his deaf Japanese wife and their family just outside of Tokyo.Reported by Timothy Y. Loh, a hearing anthropologist who researches deaf communities in the Arabic-speaking Middle East, this episode explores the joys, pains, and unexpected gains of Ala's journey and the meaning of deaf migration in a globalizing world.Timothy Y. Loh is an anthropologist of science and technology, and a Ph.D. candidate in history, anthropology, and science, technology, and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. His ethnographic research examines sociality, language, and religion in deaf and signing worlds spanning Jordan, Singapore, and the United States. His research has been published in Medical Anthropology, SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine, and Somatosphere, and he has received support from the Social Science Research Council, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation, among others.We thank Annelies Kusters, Laura Mauldin, and Kate McAuliff for advice on accessibility for this episode.Check out these related resources: The MobileDeaf Project, Heriot-Watt University “Building the Tower of Babel” and “Deaf cosmopolitanism” Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India by Michele Friedner "How Deaf and Hearing Friends Co-Navigate the World" Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity edited by H-Dirksen L. Bauman and Joseph J. Murray

Museums, the distinguished anthropologist Adam Kuper argues in his new book Museums of Other People, are actually mirrors of ourselves. Rather than revealing curiosities about cultures of antiquity, they are actually living documents of power - particularly western, colonial power. Does this mean we affluent westerners should all feel horribly guilty ever time we go to the British Museum or the Peabody? Perhaps. But Kuper brings these old museums back to life by reminding us of their contemporary political significance. So maybe guilt isn't such a bad thing, if it makes us think a little more deeply about how and why we value other people's culture.Professor Adam Kuper (FBA) is an anthropologist and public intellectual. Most recently a Centennial Professor in this department and a Visiting Professor at Boston University, and a recipient of the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, he has authored or edited 19 books and published over 100 journal articles focusing on anthropological theory, the history of anthropology in the US and Britain, and southern African societies and cultures. He has made numerous appearances on BBC TV and radio, and reviewed regularly for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Wall Street Journal. His new book, The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions, Profile Books, was launched in America in April 2024.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Serial entrepreneur Brady Brim-DeForest is CEO of Formula.Monks, the technology solutions division of Media.Monks, which transforms the world's most ambitious companies with AI. He has co-founded six successful startups, closed sales worth over $250 million, and helped global, monolithic organizations reorganize for innovation. An in-demand mentor, speaker, and writer on AI, innovation, entrepreneurship, and diversity, Brady has more than 20 years of experience in product design, brand strategy, and startup management. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, among others. He currently resides in Texas. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dylanconroy/support

In life and in death, our bodies have stories to tell. Isabelle Rycroft, third-year Human Scientist at St Hugh's College, is joined by Professor Sue Black to discuss the ever-advancing field of Forensic Anthropology. Sue Black is one of the world-leading forensic anthropologists and anatomists. Professor Black is the 65th President of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Life-Time Professor of Anatomy for the Royal Scottish Academy.

Gavan Tredoux is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a mathematician and statistician by training, with extensive interests in the History of Science (galton.org, burtoniana.org). He was a Senior Scientist in Research and Development at Xerox PARC, and currently works in the Data Science field. Follow him on Twitter here. Without doubt, this is one of our most educational and fascinating podcasts so far. We hope you enjoy.

On the podcast this week, there's a chance to listen again (or perhaps for the first time) to a conversation between Professor Robin Dunbar and Dr Mark Vernon. They discuss Professor Dunbar's book How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures, which is now available in paperback from the Church House Bookshop. In a review of the book for the Church Times (Books, 29 April 2022), Dr Vernon wrote: “The longstanding tendency has been to treat the almost universal presence of religious beliefs and rituals in human populations as a by-product of human needs, from lessening the terrors of death to bolstering the moral imperatives that support sociality. But, instead of treating religions as noble lies or discardable delusions, Dunbar presents the evidence for religious practices' being a necessary part of human evolution. This necessity is why he thinks that religion will endure and resist secularising pressures.” Dr Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Dr Mark Vernon is a psychotherapist and writer. His latest book is Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps (Iff Books, 2022). His other recent books include Dante's “Divine Comedy”: A guide for the spiritual journey (Angelico Press, 2021) (Podcast, 10 September 2021) and A Secret History of Christianity (John Hunt Publishing, 2019). Photo: Alamy Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader

In this thought-provoking interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of leading thinkers on the spot - from writers to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Anthropologist and author, Adam Kuper, explores the intricate relationship between museums and the societies that they represent.Adam joins Matthew to discuss the ways in which museums have become cultural battlegrounds for debates about power, identity, and representation. They explore the ethical dilemmas that arise when museums display the cultural artefacts of others, and how these objects can both inform and misinform our understanding of history.Adam Kuper was most recently Centennial Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and a visiting professor at Boston University. A Fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Kuper has appeared many times on BBC TV and radio and he has reviewed regularly for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Wall Street Journal.A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA. In this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking here.

Today I'm speaking with evolutionary behavioural scientist, Tamas David Barrett. His work focuses on how the structure of social networks change during falling fertility, urbanisation, and migration; as well as, how social networks vary over the human life-course. Tamás's current projects include the origins of inequality regulation; why the behavioural rules between women and men vary so much across cultures; and the evolutionary foundations of sharing behaviour. Tamás teaches Trinity College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and is affiliated with the Population Studies Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Today I'm speaking with evolutionary behavioural scientist, Tamas David Barrett. His work focuses on how the structure of social networks change during falling fertility, urbanisation, and migration; as well as, how social networks vary over the human life-course. Tamás's current projects include the origins of inequality regulation; why the behavioural rules between women and men vary so much across cultures; and the evolutionary foundations of sharing behaviour. Tamás teaches Trinity College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and is affiliated with the Population Studies Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3bZdTO5 In this webinar Bob McDowall will discuss how anthropology and technology can be of mutual benefit in the future. Both anthropology and technology rely on study and analysis of human behaviour for their success and deployment. Behavioural aspects of adoption of technology will be of more importance in deployment of more sophisticated technologies. Z/Yen conducts an irregular series of short webinars, Community Chest, featuring people from its various communities and clubs, viz. technology, financial services, civil society, and business. These webinars provide an opportunity to meet people from the wider Community, to share ideas, and to make connections. Robert (“Bob”) McDowall spent his career in banking and finance in the City of London, working for a number of institutions including Merrill Lynch, Pru-Bache and Singer and Friedlander, and retains a number of consultancies and directorships in the finance and technology sectors. He has authored, co-authored and presented a number of research papers on finance and technology. Robert is a former President of the Folklore Society, an Academic Charity. He has delivered a number of papers, lectures and blogs on many facets of folklore from literature and food and drink to finance, money, urban myths and legends. He currently serves on the Finance Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute and is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and chairs its fund raising committee. He lives in the Channel Islands. He is a former member of the States of Alderney (2013-2016) where he chaired the Policy and Finance Committee and the Finance sub-committee. He currently chairs Conservatives Abroad in the Channel Islands and sits on the Board of Conservatives Abroad. Robert is a Livery Man and former Member of the Court of the Livery Company, The Tin Plate alias Wireworkers Company, a Member of the Gresham Society. He has a degree in law (LL.B) from University College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (“FRAI”).

This discussion is with Adrienne Cohen, an Assistant Professor of cultural anthropology at Colorado State University. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Guinea, West Africa on urban dance and political change, and in the United States among migrant artists from Guinea. Cohen is the author of Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in American Ethnologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, African Studies Review, and Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute. 

Die Sonderreihe "UNrecht" des UNhörbar-Podcastes der DGVN Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen führt in Thematiken des Völkerrechts ein. Dazu wird Vanessa Vohs (Twitter: @VohsVanessa) in verschiedenen Episoden Interviews führen und das Völkerrecht in Zusammenhang mit internationaler Politik und den Vereinten Nationen bringen. In dieser Folge spricht Vanessa mit Nicolas Lamp, Associate Professor in der Rechtsfakultät der Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in Kanada. Wir fragen diesmal: Was ist das internationale Handelsrecht? Warum steckt die Welthandelsorganisation in der Krise? Und was hat diese Krise mit verschiedenen kritischen Narrativen über die Globalisierung zu tun? Wie wird sich der Krieg in der Ukraine auf die Globalisierung auswirken? All das erfahrt ihr in dieser Folge von UNrecht. Literatur: - “Six Faces of Globalization. Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters” (2021, Nicolas Lamp und Anthea Roberts) Weiterführend: - How Should We Think about the Winners and Losers from Globalization? Three Narratives and Their Implications for the Redesign of International Economic Agreements, in: European Journal of International Law 30 (4), 2019, 1259-1397. [EJIL-freely accessible] - At the Vanishing Point off Law; Rebalancing, Non-Violation Claims, and the Role of Multilateral Trade Regime in the Trade Wars, in: Journal of International Economic Law 22 (4), 2019, 721-742. [JIEL] [SSRN] - "The Receding Horizon of Informality in WTO Meetings", in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23 (1), 2017, 63-79. [JRAI] [SSRN] - "The 'Development' Discourse in Multilateral Trade Lawmaking", in: World Trade Review 16 (3), 2017, 475-500. [WTR-freely accessible] - “Value and Exchange in Multilateral Trade Lawmaking”, in: London Review of International Law 4 (1), 2016, 7-55. [LRIL] [SSRN] - “The Club Approach to Multilateral Trade Lawmaking”, in: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 49 (1), 2016, 107-190. [published version available on SSRN] - “How Some Countries Became 'Special': Developing Countries and the Construction of Difference in Multilateral Trade Lawmaking”, in: Journal of International Economic Law 18 (4), 2015, 743-771. [JIEL] [SSNR] - “Conceptions of War and Paradigms of Compliance: The ‘New War' Challenge to International Humanitarian Law”, in: Journal of Conflict and Security Law 16 (2), 2011, 225-262 [JCSL-freely accessible] Zum Schluss bleibt der Aufruf an EUCH, Kritik/Wünsche/Anregungen/ Fragen an unrecht@dgvn-mitteldeutschland.de zu senden.

María Martinón-Torres, doctora europea en Medicina y Cirugía, presenta en Fin de Semana con Cristina su libro 'Homo imperfectus' y desvela datos sorprendentes de nuestro pasadoEs un hecho que, desde que llegamos a este mundo, estamos expuestos a multitud de amenazas en forma de virus. No los vemos pero ahí están, por eso es tan importante que los padres nos vacunen rápidamente de lo esencial y vivamos con la máxima normalidad posible para que el cuerpo adquiera inmunidad.Eso nos lleva a una reflexión: el hombre está expuesto a dos fenómenos insalvables como son envejecer y enfermar. Hemos evolucionado muchísimo desde los primeros homínidos, nuestros cuerpos aguantan mucho más el desgaste y vivimos más que nunca, y a pesar de ello seguimos enfermando. ¿Por qué? ‘Homo imperfectus' (Ed. Destino) se plantea esta cuestión amén de otras muchas relacionadas con la salud y la evolución. Está escrito por María Martinón-Torres, doctora europea en Medicina y Cirugía, directora del Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana y es la primera española en recibir la Medalla Rivers Memorial del Royal Anthropological Institute de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda, y lo ha presentado en Fin de Semana con Cristina, donde ha asegurado que “los paleoantropólogos parece que miran al pasado y los muertos pero en realidad el interés en el ser humano es el presente, indagar y aprovechar cualquier posible...

How many friends do you have?50?100?Now how about close friends?If you'll recall back in the early days of Facebook, everyone was busy adding every single friend, casual acquaintance and stranger that they came across as a “friend” until it became too much and a “purge” took place. A purging that was partly influenced by a burger chain and this thing called Dunbar's number: which concerns the maximum number of friends that one person can have at any one time. The person who formulated it?Professor Robin Dunbar: Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford, who was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal for services to anthropology by the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the highest honour at the disposal of the RAI.Fun fact: Robin was a featured character in the adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind into a graphic novel in 2020!In this episode you'll learn about who Robin is, how he went from philosophy to tracking primates in Africa to formulating Dunbar's Number, why we can only have 150 friends, the psychology behind romantic scams and what he thinks of the Web 3.0 space.Do you agree that one person can only have 150 friends?Highlights:2:56 How Robin got hooked onto human evolution7:18 Why Robin wanted to do philosophy8:50 Tracking monkeys & antelopes in Africa in the early 1970s24:50 The 7 pillars of friendship30:35 Do opposites attract?35:47 Where Dunbar's Number came from40:11 Why 150?45:06 Even dogs can be part of your 15051:54 Can you guard yourself against romantic scammers?55:05 The problem with Web 3.01:02:21 How do you build a strong virtual community?1:10:58 Common misconception with Dunbar's Number1:13:18 Challenging 1501:16:34 How listeners can help Robin

Estamos mal hechos, pero a la vez estamos bien hechos, todo depende del entorno, de los retos, y cuando se trata de sobrevivir nuestro cuerpo responde a la perfección. Sin embargo, la calidad de vida, las enfermedades y otros detalles son los que acaban apareciendo cuando cambiamos el contexto, revelando las imperfecciones de nuestro cuerpo. Ahora que vivimos en una sociedad tan distinta del entorno natural nos encontramos con problemas para los que no estábamos preparados, y es la evolución quien nos ayuda a comprenderlos.Para hablar sobre ello tenemos con nosotros a María Martinón-Torres, que es doctora en Medicina y Cirugía, y especialista en Evolución Humana y Antropología Forense. Actualmente dirige del Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) y es Catedrática Honoraria el Departamento de Antropología de University College London. Es miembro del Equipo Investigador de Atapuerca y co-Investigadora del proyecto Atapuerca. Su trabajo ha sido clasificado dentro del Top 1% de los trabajos más citados en el campo de las ciencias sociales y en 2019 se convirtió en la primera española en recibir la Medalla Rivers Memorial del Royal Anthropological Institute de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda (RAI), la institución académica más antigua del mundo dedicada a la antropología en su sentido más amplio. Aparte de todo esto, es autora de varios libros y hace tan solo 3 días publicó el último, el muy recomendable: Homo imperfectus, cuyo contenido adelantaremos un poco durante el programa.

EPISODE Part 2:The renowned physicist and philosopher David Bohm once said, “The great strength of science is that it is rooted in actual experience. The great weakness of contemporary science is that it admits only certain types of experience as legitimate.” Life after death, or the survival of post-mortem consciousness, is one of the areas modern science has tended to shun despite the fact that there is a mountain of evidence that supports it. The volume of evidence is indisputable, from over 1700 solved reincarnation cases, plus countless other examples of out of body experiences, messages received in dreams, and much more, including so-called near death experiences (which are often after clinical death has been noted). The evidence is there, so the question becomes: “Why do we not believe it? “ Is it because it upends our current paradigm based on the notion of a fundamentally material universe and consciousness being an epiphenomenon of matter? Or is it because our understanding of time, space, and consciousness is too limited? Our two guests think it is both – and fortunately, Jeffrey Mishlove and Leo Ruickbie, are willing, and able, to stretch the scientific paradigm to a broader vision. Mishlove and Ruickbie are the newly awarded Grand Prize and 3rd place winner of the Robert Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest that asked for hard evidence beyond a reasonable doubt for the existence of the afterlife. Join us as they share some of that evidence with you today, and more, as we explore a new science of life after death.Here is a link to Jeffrey Mishlove's video channel New Thinking Allowed:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFk448YbGITLnzplK7jwNcwJeffrey Mishlove is a licensed clinical psychologist, an accomplished radio and television interviewer, and one of the most erudite and articulate personalities on television. He is the author of an encyclopedic volume of consciousness studies, The Roots of Consciousness.He is keeping up the flame as host of New Thinking Allowed, an ongoing YouTube based series.Dr. Mishlove is a past director of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and has served as President of the Intuition Network.Jeffrey holds the only doctoral diploma in parapsychology to be awarded by an accredited American university (University of California, Berkeley). A revision of his doctoral dissertation, Psi Development Systems, was released in 1988 as a Ballantine paperback. This book evaluates methods purported to train psychic abilities. He is also author of The PK Man.Jeffrey teaches parapsychology to ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living (formerly the Church of Religious Science) through their Holmes Institute. His avocations include financial forecasting (see his occasional Forecasting Systems newsletters), hiking in the Mojave desert and karaoke.Dr Leo Ruickbie is a Visiting Fellow in Psychology at the University of Northampton, where he is involved with the Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies Research Group. With a PhD from King's College, London, on contemporary witchcraft and magic, he has written six books exploring a range of supernatural topics, most recently Angels in the Trenches about Spiritualism, superstition and other paranormal beliefs and experiences during the First World War. In addition, he has contributed almost a hundred articles and presentations in his field. In recognition of this sustained contribution to scholarship, he has been elected a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 2021, he won 3rd prize in the highly competitive essay contest on life after death organized by the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies. He is currently editing a two-volume academic series on life after death and will be presenting at this year's conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute on the subject of artificial intelligence.

On the podcast this week, Dr Mark Vernon interviews Professor Robin Dunbar about his new book, How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures. Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Anthropological Institute. How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures is published by Pelican at £22 (Church Times Bookshop £19.80) Mark Vernon is a psychotherapist and writer. His recent books include Dante's “Divine Comedy”: A guide for the spiritual journey (Angelico Press, 2021) and A Secret History of Christianity (John Hunt Publishing, 2019). Picture credit: Alamy Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader.

TWO PART EPISODE:The renowned physicist and philosopher David Bohm once said, “The great strength of science is that it is rooted in actual experience. The great weakness of contemporary science is that it admits only certain types of experience as legitimate.” Life after death, or the survival of post-mortem consciousness, is one of the areas modern science has tended to shun despite the fact that there is a mountain of evidence that supports it. The volume of evidence is indisputable, from over 1700 solved reincarnation cases, plus countless other examples of out of body experiences, messages received in dreams, and much more, including so-called near death experiences (which are often after clinical death has been noted). The evidence is there, so the question becomes: “Why do we not believe it? “ Is it because it upends our current paradigm based on the notion of a fundamentally material universe and consciousness being an epiphenomenon of matter? Or is it because our understanding of time, space, and consciousness is too limited? Our two guests think it is both – and fortunately, Jeffrey Mishlove and Leo Ruickbie, are willing, and able, to stretch the scientific paradigm to a broader vision. Mishlove and Ruickbie are the newly awarded Grand Prize and 3rd place winner of the Robert Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest that asked for hard evidence beyond a reasonable doubt for the existence of the afterlife. Join us as they share some of that evidence with you today, and more, as we explore a new science of life after death. Here is a link to Jeffrey Mishlove's video channel New Thinking Allowed: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFk448YbGITLnzplK7jwNcwJeffrey Mishlove is a licensed clinical psychologist, an accomplished radio and television interviewer, and one of the most erudite and articulate personalities on television. He is the author of an encyclopedic volume of consciousness studies, The Roots of Consciousness.He is keeping up the flame as host of New Thinking Allowed, an ongoing YouTube based series.Dr. Mishlove is a past director of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and has served as President of the Intuition Network.Jeffrey holds the only doctoral diploma in parapsychology to be awarded by an accredited American university (University of California, Berkeley). A revision of his doctoral dissertation, Psi Development Systems, was released in 1988 as a Ballantine paperback. This book evaluates methods purported to train psychic abilities. He is also author of The PK Man.Jeffrey teaches parapsychology to ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living (formerly the Church of Religious Science) through their Holmes Institute. His avocations include financial forecasting (see his occasional Forecasting Systems newsletters), hiking in the Mojave desert and karaoke.Dr Leo Ruickbie is a Visiting Fellow in Psychology at the University of Northampton, where he is involved with the Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies Research Group. With a PhD from King's College, London, on contemporary witchcraft and magic, he has written six books exploring a range of supernatural topics, most recently Angels in the Trenches about Spiritualism, superstition and other paranormal beliefs and experiences during the First World War. In addition, he has contributed almost a hundred articles and presentations in his field. In recognition of this sustained contribution to scholarship, he has been elected a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 2021, he won 3rd prize in the highly competitive essay contest on life after death organized by the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies. He is currently editing a two-volume academic series on life after death and will be presenting at this year's conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute on the subject of artificial intelligence.

After the recent industrial action across the Higher Education sector, the Mile End Institute Podcast returns with a fascinating discussion about the history and future of the Aylesbury Estate in South East London, which was once described as one of Britain's 'more disastrous experiments in postwar municipal housing' and a 'byword for crime and deprivation'. The Institute's Deputy Director, Dr Lyndsey Jenkins, is joined by Dr Michael Romyn (QMUL) - the author of London's Aylesbury Estate: An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle'. She also talks to Caterina Sartori (a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths and the Film Festival Director at the Royal Anthropological Institute) as well as Aysen Dennis and Laura Fudge, two housing activists, about their experiences of living and campaigning on the Aylesbury Estate.

Adapted by Julie Hoverson from the story "The Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family" by H.P. Lovecraft The "Lovecraft 5" - Warren, Herbert, Charles, Edward, and Richard - gather again for another night of tall tales.  Tonight, Warren regales the group with a history of a noble house that ... went downhill. Cast List Warren - Glen Hallstrom Charles - Michael Coleman (Tales of the Extraordinary) Richard - Philemon Vanderbeck Edward - Bryan Hendricksen Herbert - Carl Cubbedge M. Verhaeren - Domien De Groot (The Witch Hunter Chronicles) Mwanu - Danar Hoverson Soames - Ayoub Khote Music by  Skidmore College Orchestra, found on MusOpen Editing and Sound:   Julie Hoverson Cover Design:  Brett Coulstock "What kind of a place is it? Why it's a private dining room at a well-known New England University, can't you tell?" ************************************************************** The Facts Concerning.... Cast: Warren Herbert Charles Edward Richard Verhaeren Mwanu Soames OLIVIA     What do you mean, what kind of a place is it?  Why, it's a private dining room in a college faculty wing, can't you tell?  MUSIC 1_dinner SOUND     DINNER ENDING SOUND    WINDOWS ARE OPEN, MUSIC IN THE DISTANCE WARREN    So nice to have you all here.  The weather has been so mild, I feared it would destroy any atmosphere I might have expected for my story.  And the orchestra would be in rehearsal.  RICHARD    At least it's rather somber.  HERBERT    A clear day can mean a darker night.  RICHARD    True. HERBERT    Depending on the phase of the moon. CHARLES    Yes.  Well, the dinner was-- EDWARD    Passable. RICHARD    Oh!  Faint praise indeed, coming from our resident starving writer. WARREN    Do you know, I believe the college's food plan is quite brililant! EDWARD    Brilliant?  Are they strapped for economy? WARREN    You see, the food is precisely enough to sustain life, but without anything so extravagant as taste, which might take one's mind off one's studies. HERBERT    I found it perfectly adequate. CHARLES    But very little in this world will take your mind off your science, Herbert. EDWARD    How about having the studies take our mind off the food then?  We came for a story. RICHARD    And I perceive a box on the table behind you which does not match the décor - or the amount of dust - in this room. WARREN    [chuckles] You artists notice everything.  Though your comment on dust surprises me - after seeing your "house". RICHARD    It "does things" for me.  Inspiration. HERBERT    At least this place, while old, is well maintained. WARREN    Not so old as all that.  The dining hall wing wasn't built until 1804.  Very recent, comparatively.  But my story. 2_the box SOUND    CARDBOARD BOX MOVED WARREN    I warn you I have a little idea as to presentation - after that night at your place, Richard, I wanted something unique-- HERBERT    Don't expect anything like that from me.  CHARLES    Don't worry.  We don't. WARREN    I have this rather long history to my tale, you see, and I know I tend to wax a bit pedantic, so I thought I would help to set certain facts in the mind by beginning with a bit of a game. EDWARD    I'm game.  Is it questions, again? WARREN    No.  I have a small description written for each of the major players in the history of the story, and thought I might give one to each of you - well, each of us, for I include myself - to portray.  It would help keep them all straight. CHARLES    Is it necessary to keep them straight? WARREN    I think it will help make the history flow.  It's a technique of acting out history used to great advantage by Mrs. Schartz-Mettaklume [reference to a comedic story by Saki], a fellow teacher here. HERBERT    [disparaging] Amateur dramatics? WARREN    Oh, you needn't do more than read from the card.  I don't expect strutting about and soliloquizing. CHARLES    [declaring] It sounds amusing. EDWARD    I'm in. RICHARD    You may be in for more than you expected, old pal. SOUND    PASSING OUT CARDS WARREN    Good, then.  Let's see - Herbert, here, then Charles, Edward, and Richard.  The cards have only the basics on each of the fellows - they're generations in a single family, you see - and the back side is a name plate, to aid in recalling who is who. HERBERT    [sour] Charming.  [after a pause]  You're staring.  Am I supposed to begin? CHARLES    I could go first.  EDWARD    [reading his card]  Oh, no!  Let me! WARREN    No, no, I will begin the tale, and then we'll go around the table.  You will be second, though, Herbert. HERBERT    At least it will be over with early. RICHARD    That must mean I am the climax of the tale! EDWARD    Oh, you got nothing on me.  Just wait. 3_Sir Wade WARREN    Ahem.  We begin with Sir Wade Jermyn.  [reading, putting on a bit of a British accent] I was one of the earliest explorers of the Congo region, and had written eruditely of its tribes, animals, and supposed antiquities. RICHARD    Are we supposed to be British?  You haven't really given us any background. WARREN    Oh, yes.  The Jermyn family was part of a well-respected house in England, though it has ...um... died out. CHARLES    So these are not only brits, but long-dead brits?  Are we doing Shakespeare? WARREN    We needn't worry about accents. HERBERT    I should say not. WARREN    I don't want to lose my place or I might have to start again.  "Indeed, my innovative conjectures on a prehistoric white Congolese civilisation were the basis for my book, "Observation on the Several Parts of Africa," published in 1765.  I, fearless adventurer that I once had been, was then placed in a madhouse." HERBERT    That sounds a bit promising.  Madness is quite fascinating. WARREN    I have a strong hope that there will be details in this story to intrigue you, Herbert.  Have you ever looked into the study of ethnology? HERBERT    Hmm...  Should I read now? CHARLES    History first.  Quick precis. WARREN    Well, this family - the Jermyns, are not German [chuckle], but British.  And there's this - the history of the family is quite interesting, but it ended recently with the death of the final generation - a son - just one - who... uh... set himself on fire when he discovered something about his heritage. EDWARD    He set himself on fire?  RICHARD    Now I'm interested. CHARLES    You've got our attention. HERBERT    It's not some simple defect like a harelip?  A club foot?  WARREN    Much more than that.  Let's begin again.  [quick recap] I am Sir Wade Jermyn, famous explorer of the Congo region.  I wrote a book, and went mad. now... 4_philip HERBERT    Me next, I suppose?  [not really trying]  This one is Sir Wade's son, Philip. WARREN    Sir Philip. HERBERT    "Philip was a highly peculiar person. His appearance and conduct were in many particulars so coarse that he was universally shunned. Though he did not inherit his father's madness, he was densely stupid--" EDWARD    [laughs!] HERBERT    "--and given to periods of uncontrollable violence."  Is this supposed to be funny? WARREN    [baffled?] Funny? HERBERT    Did you give me this one on purpose? WARREN    Well, yes, but only because it was the shortest - I felt you'd have less interest in the dramatic and more in getting it over with. HERBERT    Hmph. CHARLES    Is that the sum of your wisdom, great sir Philip? HERBERT    No, there's more-- WARREN    I forgot to mention, it's just the first part now.  We'll come back to you. EDWARD    So Herbert is violent and stupid, what are YOU Charles? CHARLES    [hamming it up a bit]  I am Robert - Sir Robert - Jermyn, son of Philip and the daughter of his gamekeeper.  [offhand] They'll let anyone in, won't they?  Oh!  I am "Tall and fairly handsome, with a sort of weird Eastern grace.  A scholar and investigator, I studied scientifically the vast collection of relics which my mad grandfather brought from Africa. HERBERT    You should have given me the scientist.  At least I would know where I stand. CHARLES    Robert is an ethnologist and explorer, not a hard scientist. HERBERT    Even so. 5_alfred EDWARD    My turn!  I am Sir Alfred Jermyn, son of Nevil - wait, are we missing someone? WARREN    No, um Nevil is the son of Robert - you're Robert's grandson. EDWARD    Where's Nevil then? WARREN    He's um - we didn't have enough people.  I felt we could skip over Nevil - I'll fill in his details, should they become necessary. EDWARD    All right. WARREN    Don't worry - You'll like Alfred.  He ran away with the circus. EDWARD    What?  You're joking, right? WARREN    No, no - he actually literally ran away with the circus.  We'll come back to that. RICHARD    So I am Sir Arthur Jermyn.  Son of Alfred, the circus performer and a Music Hall singer.  [laughs]  And they blink at who we Americans decide to marry.  Arthur is a poet and a dreamer.  Oh, Warren, you had too much fun choosing who was to play what, didn't you?  "The poetic delicacy of Arthur Jermyn was the more remarkable because of his uncouth personal appearance. His expression, his facial angle, and the length of his arms gave a thrill of repulsion to those who met him for the first time." HERBERT    Sounds a bit like Abraham Lincoln. CHARLES    You know, it does.  How odd.  So now we know who we are.  What's next? 6_wade again WARREN    We go back to the beginning.  And that's me, Sir Wade.  Oh, first, there's been mention of the physical oddities that crept into the family line - I should state that before Sir Wade's time, portraits showed that the family was very typical of English nobility.  RICHARD    Chinless and pasty? CHARLES    Now now.  Every brit I've ever met has been perfectly nice. WARREN    You have to remember Sir Wade's era was the mid-18th century.  And there is no record of any physical issues, or madness before his time.  Or at least not out of the ordinary for the time and place. HERBERT    And state of medicine. WARREN    True.  Sir Wade made several trips to Africa, returning from one of those trips with a reclusive bride and new born son. EDWARD    And that's Herbert. HERBERT    Philip. WARREN    This bride was notable, for no one ever saw her - or at least not much of her.  She was supposed to have been the daughter of a Portuguese trader who despised English ways, and wouldn't have any English servants.  Wade  humored her, and put her up in a wing of her own at the estate, where no one saw her, or the child, but Wade himself. EDWARD    A woman who doesn't want go out to gossip or shop?  Quite a mythological figure. WARREN    His wife had accompanied him back from the second and longest of his trips, and left again with him on the third and final, never to return. RICHARD    But Wade returned - he hasn't yet gone mad.  We're all waiting for that. WARREN    The only thing ever said about the wife - even her name is left unrecorded - was that she had a violent disposition.  While they made the journey back to Africa, Wade would permit no one to care for his young son save a loathsome native woman from Guinea. EDWARD    This family sure knows how to pick their women, don't they? CHARLES    I notice you don't give names for any of them.  Funny how wives tend to be forgotten in these epic histories. WARREN    There's one among them, Arthur's mother herself, who was actually quite a fascinating character, and I might look further into her antecedents - but for the most part, the family made some odd choices, indeed. HERBERT    So far, I get the feeling that this is leading to a disquisition on eugenics, rather than on ethnology.  In other words, take a so-called "noble house" and marry in, generation after generation, people of dubious merits, and see how the line flows. WARREN    Well... that's a part of it. HERBERT    I'm rather surprised.  It is fascinating.  I've heard of similar experiments with rats - much easier to observe since their generations are months, rather than decades, apart.  And of course the difficulties of convincing a human family to participate. WARREN    I'm just pleased you're so enthusiastic.  Go ahead and read the second card, then. 7_second card HERBERT    Right.  [a bit more enthusiastically than the first time]  "As Philip grew out of infancy, his father started to avoid him, muttering wild stories about his encounters in Africa, but never making anything clear.  Philip grew up small but powerful, with incredible agility.  He married, but before his son was born, he joined the navy as a common sailor.  He made his way onto a merchantman in the African trade, and gained a reputation for feats of strength and climbing." EDWARD    Wait a minute - this is not gonna just turn into a big argument against intermarrying with native tribespeople, is it?  Was Wade's wife a Zulu or something? WARREN    Oh, no.  I would say that was surprisingly far from the point of the history, though you might well suspect it, since so much of the story centers around Africa.  But no, none of the individuals involved are Africans, tribal or otherwise. CHARLES    Interesting, I had a little idea about that myself. WARREN    Put it aside and let's finish with Philip. HERBERT    Ah, one last note.  Philip disappeared one night as the ship... what ship?  Ah, the merchantman.  As the ship lay off the Congo coast. EDWARD    Maybe he went looking for his mother - you said she went back to the Congo and never returned, right? RICHARD    And Philip was never heard from again? WARREN    More or less.  CHARLES    Oh? WARREN    Rumors.  We'll be there later. CHARLES    Me then? WARREN    Another short interlude - some details about Sir Wade's madness.  He spent a great deal of time at the local pub-- EDWARD    While avoiding his son? WARREN    Actually yes.  But he had a tendancy to rave while in his cups. RICHARD    Doesn't everyone? WARREN    And it was this rather - ahem - random talk that chiefly led his friends to deem him mad. He would often speak of wild sights and scenes under a Congo moon; of the gigantic walls and pillars of a forgotten city, crumbling and vine-grown, and of damp, silent, stone steps leading interminably down into the darkness of abysmal treasure-vaults and inconceivable catacombs. RICHARD    Oh!  Yes, I can see it.  I never really considered the artistic possibilities of Africa.  Hmm. WARREN    It was particularly unwise of him to rave of the strange creatures that populated such a city.  For he boasted of what he found in the jungle and of how he dwelt among terrible ruins and the creatures that inhabited them.   CHARLES    Little wonder he was locked away. WARREN    The wonder lay in that he showed no particular regret when being shut up.  In fact, he seemed to find the confinement comforting - as if something were being locked out, rather than he being locked in. EDWARD    Hmm.  I must make a note. 7_Robert CHARLES    Feel free.  It's my turn to reveal the next bit. WARREN    Oh, I should add that Robert broke the cycle and married a perfectly acceptable woman - a daughter of the seventh Viscount Brightholme - rather than following the - um - family tendency to pick entertainers and other... women at random. HERBERT    Did it help the line at all? WARREN    Actually, no.  Of the three children they had, two were never seen - they were kept locked away.  Presumably due to some hereditary defect.  HERBERT    [interested] Interesting. CHARLES    May I? WARREN    Oh, yes - go ahead. CHARLES    Now Philip is tall and handsome-- HERBERT    No, I'm Philip. You're my son Robert. CHARLES    Of course.  Robert was quite the scholar.  He scientifically studied - as best as possible in 1815 - the vast collection of relics which his mad grandfather - that's you, Warren, brought from Africa.  WARREN    It's really quite a pity, the way early explorers looted everything in sight.  All those things are of great historical value, and should be in the hands of researchers, not adorning trophy rooms. EDWARD    I read in the paper recently about someone selling a mummy at one of the big art auction houses.  Maybe the college should buy it. HERBERT    Most of the items that have spent time in personal collections are worthless anyway - in any scientific sense.  Without any provenance, there's no way to tell the real from the fake. WARREN    Precisely.  CHARLES    Can "Robert" get a word in edgewise? WARREN    So sorry.  Go on. CHARLES    Robert spent a great deal of time on his own expeditions into the interior of Africa.  In 1849, his second son, Nevil-- EDWARD    The non-deformed one? RICHARD    Non-deformed, but invisible. EDWARD    Maybe we should pull him up a chair. CHARLES    Nevil, a singularly repellent person, ran away with a vulgar dancer-- RICHARD    Another one! CHARLES    --but was pardoned upon his return in the following year. He came back a widower with an infant son, Alfred-- EDWARD    ta-da! CHARLES    Who was one day to be the father of Arthur Jermyn.   RICHARD    And I'm the one who set himself on fire? WARREN    We're not there yet.  But before we move on to Alfred, there's another tragic instance to recount.  Robert became a bit unhinged himself. CHARLES    Do I have a card for that? WARREN    Not really, I was just going to-- EDWARD    Get on with it. WARREN    An elderly man, Robert had spent years collecting the legends of the Onga tribe - native to the area of the expeditions taken by both Robert and his mad grandfather.  He expressed a desire to validate his grandfather's claims of a strange lost city, particularly one populated by the sort of creatures Wade used to rave about. HERBERT    Do you have any solid information about these creatures you keep hinting about? 8_crossbreeding WARREN    Not much, but accounts say Sir Wade made wild claims about a white tribe that had once lived in a stone city deep in the interior - though that, apparently, wasn't recent.  Others said that he claimed that while people built the city, it had been overrun with apes, but apes who were able to mix with the humans. HERBERT    Mix?  Are you talking getting together for tea, or interbreeding? WARREN    [flustered] It was - um - no details.   Um - that was someone's vague recollection in a journal, so it's anyone's best guess what Sir Wade actually said. HERBERT    Hmph.  Despite the persuasive nature of the evolutionary theory, there is no evidence that any strain of apes is close enough to humans to crossbreed. CHARLES    Crossbreeds aren't impossible.  Not with humans, of course, but there's always mules. EDWARD    I always pitied the donkey... WARREN    [loud clearing of throat] EDWARD    It's sort of like the Ooh-ah bird... WARREN    [louder clearing of throat]  EDWARD    Right. WARREN    So, through correspondence, Wade reached a fellow explorer, Samuel Seaton, who eventually made his way back to England and brought some interesting tales with him. RICHARD    How interesting? WARREN    No one knows. EDWARD    No one?  WARREN    Yes.  We can only conjecture from the effect it had on Sir Robert. HERBERT    Which was? WARREN    He went upstairs and killed all three of his children - Nevil and the two no one ever saw - before making every feasible attempt to kill himself. EDWARD    Holy cow! RICHARD    I thought you were one of the saner ones, Charles. CHARLES    Should I be killing someone now? HERBERT    "Every feasible attempt"? WARREN    He failed to end his own life and was locked away, dying two years later. HERBERT    What did the Seaton fellow say about it all? WARREN    Oh, nothing.  He was already dead - Robert strangled him first.  The only survivor was young Alfred.  It appeared that Nevil, for all his - um - EDWARD    Absentness? WARREN    Um - basically.  For all he lacked, he died in defense of his son.  And Alfred inherited the title before he could even walk. EDWARD    And he still ran away with the circus? HERBERT    Nothing survived of the information Seaton brought? WARREN    Pieces of correspondence survived.  Mostly notes of tales from the Onga tribe, who believed in a gray city peopled by white apes and ruled by a white god. EDWARD    [avid] My turn, right? WARREN    Almost. EDWARD    [disappointed noise] WARREN    I didn't think this would catch your fancy so well. CHARLES    It's quite an amusing idea, Warren.  Rather surprised, really. WARREN    Thank you.  [realizing] Oh. CHARLES    Pray continue. WARREN    Let's just move on to Edward - Um, Alfred. 9_circus EDWRD    [clears throat dramatically]  "Sir Alfred Jermyn was a baronet before his fourth birthday, but his tastes never matched his title.  At twenty he had joined a band of music-hall performers, and at thirty-six had deserted his wife and child to travel with an itinerant American circus. CHARLES    Quite apart from their tendency to marry beneath them, the men themselves tend to abscond, which doesn't speak much for nobility. HERBERT    An argument could be made that they're tainted from past generations. RICHARD     Or that rich men are just predisposed to be bastards - in the personality sense. EDWARD    [clears throat dramatically, hams it up]  "Alfred's end was very revolting!  Among the animals in the exhibition with which he travelled was a huge bull gorilla of lighter colour than the average." HERBERT    You mentioned something about white apes, didn't you?  Oh, no - it was a supposed white race in the interior.  Hmm... WARREN    [satisfied] And the apes that took over their city. HERBERT    Hmm. EDWARD    The beast was very popular among the performers. Alfred Jermyn was fascinated with this gorilla, and on many occasions the two would eye each other for long periods through the intervening bars. CHARLES    Sounds like he was a bit of- [realizing] oh! RICHARD    A what? CHARLES    [covering smoothly] Bit of an anthropologist himself. EDWARD    Alfred obtained permission to train the animal, astonishing audiences and fellow performers alike with his success. One morning, as the gorilla and Alfred were rehearsing an exceedingly clever boxing match, the beast hit him too hard. RICHARD    I thought it was kangaroos who were notable for boxing. CHARLES    Or orangutans - recall that odd story from out friend Auguste. EDWARD    I guess gorillas can box if they want to. RICHARD    What's next?  A female president? EDWARD    Of what followed, members of "The Greatest Show On Earth" do not like to speak. CHARLES    Oh, he was with Barnum!  Funny.  You never think of these tales happening in places you might actually have been. RICHARD    P.T. Barnum could hardly be called a place. CHARLES    You know what I mean. EDWARD    I know you keep interrupting me!  "They did not expect to hear Sir Alfred Jermyn emit a shrill, inhuman scream, or see him seize the gorilla with both hands, dash it to the floor of the cage, and bite fiendishly at its hairy throat. The gorilla retaliated and before anything could be done, the body which had belonged to a baronet was past recognition."  [taking a bow]  Thank you! Thank you very much!  CHARLES     There's one born every minute. [quoting Barnum] HERBERT    One what? CHARLES    Idiot who wants to box a wild animal, I suppose.  Well, Richard, I suppose you will be ending this little tale? a1_Arthur RICHARD    Am I? WARREN    Oh, just a moment...  Right.  A few notes first.  [aside, to Edward]  I thought you might enjoy that bit. EDWARD    Cheers. WARREN     Can't find my notes just now, but if you'd like to go on, Richard, I'll interject as things come up? RICHARD    Certainly.  Arthur Jermyn was the son of Sir Alfred Jermyn and a music-hall singer of unknown origin. WARREN    If I may interject? CHARLES     That was short. RICHARD    Go ahead. WARREN    This woman - whose name was never recorded, but I don't doubt I could find it if need be, since she only died in 1911, I believe, was the one I mentioned earlier as being quite an interesting character. HERBERT     Not the titled lady? WARREN     No she appears to have been very ... stolid.  Arthur's mother, however, was determined.  When Alfred left them, or possibly after his horrid death, she apparently marched right into Jermyn house, infant son on her hip-- CHARLES    Not even a perambulator to her name? RICHARD    Makes for a prettier and more destitute picture. WARREN    Babe in arms, anyway, and took over.  She apparently stood toe to toe with any and all opposition on behalf of her son.  HERBERT    People will do most anything for money. RICHARD    Women, particularly. WARREN    That's the rub.  There was almost no money left, per se.  There was the title, and some land, and Jermyn house, and not much else.  And yet she claimed it on behalf of her son.  And apparently did a reasonably good job of running the estate during his childhood - got at least enough money out of it to send Arthur to decent schools and see to it he had some idea of family and history. CHARLES    Brave woman.  RICHARD    Very well.  So "my mother" had redeeming qualities above and beyond her social status.  May I go on? WARREN    I have a bit more.  Arthur Jermyn was not like any other Jermyn before him, for he was a poet and a dreamer. EDWARD    Ta-da! RICHARD    As an artist, I can sympathize, anyway. WARREN    Locals attributed his sensitivity to the Latin blood of his Portuguese great-great-great... great? a2_great great EDWARD    Let's see, I'm great - Charles is great great-- CHARLES    Don't forget invisible Nevil. WARREN    You know who I mean, anyway.  Besides, most people just chalked it up to his music-hall mother - who, of course, was never accepted by the gentry.  EDWARD    [silly brit voice] Oh, no, of course not! CHARLES    How horrible! WARREN    While his nature was poetic, his appearance was just the opposite.  Most of the Jermyns had possessed a subtly odd and repellent cast, but Arthur's case was very striking. RICHARD    Ape-like? WARREN    [lying poorly] Um, uh - possibly.  I suppose. RICHARD    [chuckles]  I, Arthur Jermyn, being of sound mind and ugly body... [laughs] "took highest honours at Oxford and seemed likely to redeem the intellectual fame of the family." CHARLES    Oxford?  Kudos to "your mother" indeed. RICHARD    [aside] I'll tell her when I see her.  [narrating] Arthur planned to continue the work of his forefathers in African ethnology and antiquities, utilising the truly wonderful though strange collection of Sir Wade. HERBERT    Which, though valueless in many ways, having been tossed about by a collector, would still be fascinating to see. WARREN    [eager] I daresay!  Who knows what he may have found in-- RICHARD    [loud] The prehistoric civilisation in which the mad explorer had so implicitly believed? Arthur explored tale after tale about the silent jungle city and the nameless, unsuspected race of jungle hybrids mentioned in Warren's journal.  WARREN    Wade. RICHARD    [shrugs] Right person, wrong name.  Sounds like a clear case of morbid fascination, though, for he sought out more information after his mother's death in 1911, and even made an expedition himself as soon as he could liquidate some assets to fund it. WARREN    That's not precisely what's on the card. RICHARD    I'm embellishing.  "Arranging with the Belgian authorities for a party of guides, he spent a year in the Onga and Kahn country.  Among the Kaliris was an aged chief called Mwanu, who possessed not only a highly retentive memory, but a singular degree of interest in old legends." a2_Mwanu WARREN    Mwanu even added his own account of the stone city and the white apes. MWANU    Many long years it has been since things walked in the city of grey stones.  And many years more and more since man ever trod the paths within.  WARREN    He told Jermyn of the N'bangu tribe, which had annihilated the beings within the city, and destroyed many of the structures. MWANU    Every ape lay dying.  Every ape lay dead.  The chief of the N'Bangus, him they called Iron foot, trod on the bodies of the enemy, for they were no more than dirt to him.  And lo, in their wicked shrine, in the center of the ruined city, lay the prize Iron Foot had come to possess. WARREN    What they had come for was apparently a mummy.  It was called, among the various local tribes, the "white goddess" and was supposed to be the remains of one of the ape-things' queens, preserved and revered for ... [hinting] just over a century. MWANU    The white goddess was a queen in her own right, when she lived like mortals live - down among the hairy folk.  But came a god from a distant land far to the west!  He wore the sun for a crown and strode the land on giant feet.  WARREN    Apparently this strange new "god" married the princess - later known as the white goddess - and they ruled the ape-city together. EDWARD    This is starting to sound a bit like a Burroughs fancy, though I don't think Tarzan ever stooped to "wooing" apes. RICHARD    I always say live and let live, but that's a bit outside even my tolerance. CHARLES    That is assuming the strange god was a human, and in fact was-- [cuts himself off] are we assuming? WARREN    We'll assume in a moment.  Mwanu had an interesting little end to his tale. MWANU    When the princess bore the god a son, they returned to the homeland of the god.  It was many, many moons before the god and princess returned, for the princess was lonely in the distant world and wished for the company of her own people.  They ruled but a short time, before the princess left her mortal life and rose to the top of the great world tree. EDWARD    She died? WARREN    I hope so.  You see-- MWANU    The god, stricken with grief at her passing and loathe to lose her, mummified the body, so he would always know she remained in the city, awaiting his return. RICHARD    [creeped out]  Romantic. CHARLES    I - I am at a loss for words.  Impressive. SOUND    [slight golf clap from Herbert] WARREN    Though the god never returned to reclaim his princess, the white goddess, as it was now called, became a symbol of supremacy to all the neighboring tribes - which is why the N'bangu felt the need to capture it. RICHARD    They should have stuck with a flag. MWANU    Many moons later yet, the child of the princess and the god, grown to impressive manhood, found his way to the city to claim his rightful place.  RICHARD    Really? CHARLES    And what happened to him? WARREN    Sadly, Mwanu didn't know.  [briskly] Whatever the truth behind any of the legends, they make for picturesque storytelling. a3_lost city CHARLES    Herbert?  You've been awfully quiet. HERBERT    I'm ...interested.  We still haven't made the leap from unlikely legends to Richard going up in flames.  Pray continue, Warren. WARREN    In early 1912, Arthur found the fabled lost city, or what was left of it.  It was apparently rather smaller than he had expected.  Unfortunately, the modest size of the expedition prevented operations toward clearing the one visible passageway that seemed to lead down into the system of vaults which Sir Wade had mentioned. EDWARD    You never mentioned underground vaults before! RICHARD    Oh yes he did.  WARREN    It's really just mentioned in passing. CHARLES    And it was blocked up. WARREN    They spoke with as many natives and chiefs as they could, but found no further information on the white goddess, except that the N'bangu had it. EDWARD    Probably performed unspeakable rites and rituals beneath the glassy eyes of the once-living thing. WARREN    Very likely.  Finally, Arthur was introduced to a Monsieur Verhaeren, Belgian agent at a trading post-- RICHARD    Is the congo still under Belgian control? CHARLES    If it isn't, the change must have been rather recent.  WARREN    Verhaeren claimed he could not only locate, but obtain the stuffed goddess VERHAEREN    C'est vrai.  These once mighty N'bangus are now the submissive servants of King Albert's government.  Ignorant savages.  Some beads and trinkets, perhaps some rum, and I could get them to part with their own mothers. WARREN    Jermyn sailed for England, therefore, with the exultant probability that he would, within a few months, receive a priceless ethnological relic and confirm the wildest of his great-great-great-grandfather's stories. CHARLES    Wildest?  Perhaps not.  Frankly, I wouldn't want to see proof of some of the implications. HERBERT    The miscegenation?  That's actually what I'm finding the most fascinating to consider. a4_Missagewhozits EDWARD    Missagewhozits?  CHARLES    Finish first.  Once you let Herbert start, there's no telling where it might end. WARREN    Arthur Jermyn waited.  Meanwhile, he studied the papers and reports of his great-- um-- Sir Wade.  He found it interesting that while there was much whispering about the mysterious and secluded wife, no tangible relic of her remained. EDWARD    What, you expect someone stuffed her, too? CHARLES    Ahem.  I think he means a portrait, or a lock of hair, even a journal of her own.  WARREN    And there was nothing.  Jermyn put it down to Wade's insanity, figuring that she might have angered him by contradicting some of his wild Africa tales, particularly since she had also spent time on the dark continent. CHARLES    Or perhaps they'd just had an efficient maid or two in the intervening century. [hinting] WARREN    ahem.  In June of 1913, a letter arrived from Monsieur Verhaeren, saying he had found the stuffed goddess!  He averred it was a most extraordinary object, quite beyond the power of a layman to classify. Whether it was human or simian only a scientist could determine. RICHARD    Unless, like such artifacts from Barnum and his brethren the world over, it was made piecemeal. CHARLES    Stitched out of whole cloth? RICHARD    More like a crazy quilt. WARREN    And, of course, time and the Congo climate are not kind to mummies. HERBERT    I shudder to think of the depredations of insects, and mildew.  [ugg - shudder noise] WARREN    And apparently this one was not preserved by a craftsman with any sort of skill.  And yet, it was still intact, in the whole, and recognizable, so they couldn't fault him over much. HERBERT    Mummies are primarily preserved through drying.  How could anyone ever undertake that in a damp and steamy jungle? A6_ALMOST DONE WARREN    Almost done now.  Where was I?  Ah!  Around the creature's neck was a golden chain bearing an empty locket on which were armorial designs - no doubt some hapless traveller's keepsake, taken by the N'bangus and hung upon the goddess as a charm. HERBERT    No doubt. CHARLES    Utter coincidence. WARREN    In commenting on the mummy's appearance, the Belgian expressed a humorous wonder just how it would strike his correspondent-- RICHARD    Me, in case anyone has forgotten during the intermission. WARREN    But these hints really don't give much to go on.  The boxed object was delivered to Jermyn on the afternoon of August 3, 1913, and was conveyed immediately to the large chamber which housed the collection of African specimens. RICHARD    The final card now? EDWARD    He got an extra card? WARREN    Richard has the artistic temperament.  [to Richard] Just one more moment.  [to all] What ensued can best be gathered from the tales of the servants and from things later examined.  Aged Soames, the family butler, tells the most ample and coherent tale. A6_SOAMES SOAMES    Sure and the master sent all of us away, wanting to be alone with his new treasure.  This was not unusual, and none thought twice on it.  We heard the sound of hammer and chisel when he opened the box almost right away - that excited he was to clap eyes on't.  WARREN    Shortly, there came a terrible scream. RICHARD    [screams] WARREN    [surpised noise] Gah!  That wasn't part of the-- RICHARD    Artistic license.  It comes with artistic temperament.  Ready now? WARREN    Warn me next time.  Yes. RICHARD    Immediately after, Jermyn emerged from the room, rushing frantically about as if pursued, and finally disappearing down the stairs to the cellar. The servants were utterly dumbfounded, and watched at the head of the stairs, but a smell of oil was all that came up from the regions below. WARREN    After dark, a rattling was heard at the door leading from the cellar into the courtyard; and a stable-boy saw Arthur Jermyn, glistening from head to foot with oil and redolent of that fluid, steal furtively out and vanish on the black moor surrounding the house. RICHARD    Then, in an exaltation of supreme horror, a spark appeared on the moor, a flame arose, and a pillar of human fire reached to the heavens. The house of Jermyn no longer existed! HERBERT    Did he at least leave a note? WARREN    No, but the fragments that add up to the horror he discovered were clearly found and assembled afterward, principally the thing in the box. HERBERT    His ancestress. CHARLES    Don't jump ahead. EDWARD    [snort] Funny. WARREN    The stuffed goddess was a nauseous sight, withered and eaten away, but it was clearly a mummified white ape of some unknown species, less hairy than any recorded variety, and infinitely nearer mankind - quite shockingly so. HERBERT    Was it supposed to be a secret?  I thought warren made it eminently clear. EDWARD    You're serious?  Warren? WARREN    [sigh] Yes.  [chuckles]  The arms on the golden locket about the creature's neck were the Jermyn arms, and the ... resemblance between the shrivelled face to none other than the sensitive Arthur Jermyn applied with vivid, ghastly, and unnatural horror. HERBERT    This should lead to an interesting field of study - do you think the white apes she belonged to might still exist in the congo? EDWARD    No, they were wiped out by the nubumbums. HERBERT    Is the mummy at least intact? WARREN    Oh, no.  Members of the Royal Anthropological Institute burned the thing and threw the locket into a well. HERBERT    [almost yelling] They did what? CHARLES    [sigh] Thus endeth the lesson. HERBERT    [still loud, fading out] And they call themselves scientists? CLOSING

Diese Folge schließt an die letzte direkt an. Wir beschäftigen uns mit Frontex, der Grenzschutzorganisation der Europäischen Union. Wir sehen dies als die direkte Konsequenz des Sicherheits-Migrations Nexus. Illegale Pushbacks, Zusammenarbeit mit der Lybischen Küstenwache und kaum Kontrolle. Wie sprechen darüber was die Frontex Files zu Tage gebracht haben und was sich die Europäische Union von Frontex erhofft. Wie sinnvoll ist Frontex? Hier ist der Link zum Fuck Frontex T-Shirt: https://suicycle-store.com/shop/bekleidung/streetwaer/fuck-frontex-t-shirt/ Und zu privaten Seenotrettungen, die wir benötigen, also gerne unterstützen: Mission Lifeline https://mission-lifeline.de/ Sea Watch: https://sea-watch.org/spenden/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAweaNBhDEARIsAJ5hwbe0974-TWLCvjt1YGK9WMuVpaTbwIYyFZc4hDCgGR8MIHPSC9-1AUAaAu3XEALw_wcB Pro Asyl: https://www.proasyl.de/news/toedliches-versagen-auf-dem-mittelmeer/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAweaNBhDEARIsAJ5hwbfXbM6hnEu6bwuaebEEpIDuSiWnSw0w6_QnaxhRiDw6zJWrFHptaY0aAixSEALw_wcB Wer Gast sein möchte, Fragen oder Feedback hat, kann dieses gerne an houseofmodernhistory@gmail.com oder auf Twitter an @houseofModHist richten. Quellen: Bauman, Mechthild: Frontex–Fragen und Antworten: https://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/kurzdossiers/179679/frontex-fragen-und-antworten Cave, Stephen & Dihal Kanta: The Whiteness of AI. Philosophy & Technology volume 33, S. 685–703 (2020). Douo, Myriam; Izuzquiza, Luisa & Silva, Margarida: Lobbying Fortress Europe. The making of a borde-industrial complex: „Frontex Files” https://corporateeurope.org/en/lobbying-fortress-europe Jan Böhmermann: Die geheimen Dates von Frontex und der Rüstungsindustrie | ZDF Magazin Royale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uk0w8SvUMw&vl=de&skip_registered_account_check=true Ben-Yehoyada, Naor: “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men”: the moral and political scales of migration in the central Mediterranean. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22, S. 183- 202. Frontex Website: https://frontex.europa.eu/de/uber-uns/vision-mission-werte/ Frontex: Risk Analysis for 2018 Podcast Asyl im Dialog: FRONTEX–Grenzschutz außer Kontrolle Podcast Save our Souls: Frontex und die Grenzen der Menschlichkeit

In the home stretch of this holiday season, wildlife veterinarian Jerry Haigh, author of Reindeer Reflections: Lessons from an Ancient Culture, sits down with you for a one-of-a-kind romp through the reindeer lore and science. Reindeer are sure to put you in the mood for peace on Earth. Get to know these stunningly gorgeous and supremely gentle creatures, find out when and why to call them "caribou," and learn how spellbinding their lives are under the northern lights. Included in the Show Notes, below and on the This Animal Life website, you'll find many links to videos that will further immerse you in their beauty and wonder.  Jerry Haigh is a cross between James Herriot and Farley Mowat, a wry and compassionate veterinarian who's ventured far from his native Scotland to travel four continents, all to bring health and healing to animals, both wild and domestic. He's written books about everything from porcupines to rhinos, but his latest book finds him tending to the reindeer of Finland and Mongolia.  So strap on your snowshoes and tromp along as Jerry regales you with mind-blowing facts about reindeer. For example what, if anything, is so special about Rudolph's nose? Discover the stunning truth about this supremely peaceful animal.   SHOW NOTES: Adopt a Reindeer Foundation Cairngorm Reindeer Herd on Facebook Cairngorm Reindeer Herd: Home  The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd is Britain's only free-ranging herd of reindeer found in the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland. These tame and friendly animals are a joy to all who come and see them. Reindeer are not just for Christmas! “Caribou (Reindeer),” National Geographic. “Follow Thousands of Reindeer on an Epic Journey,” Nature on PBS, YouTube, November 2020. Haigh, Jerry, Reindeer Reflections: Lessons from an Ancient Culture, Rocky Mountain Books, October 2021. –Website https://www.jerryhaigh.com/ –Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jerry.haigh  –Twitter @glasgowwildvet –LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-haigh-9b63735/   “Highly competitive reindeer males control female behavior during the rut,” by G. Body et. al, PLoS One, National Library of Medicine, April 2014. Intelligence of reindeer. “On Reindeer and Men,” by Tim Ingold, Man, New Series, Vol. 9, No. 4, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, December 1974, pp. 523-538.  “Living With Reindeer,” Nat Geo WILD, Youtube, December 2016. Winter is coming and indigenous Sami reindeer herders make preparations for their domesticated reindeer.  “Norway, the Twilight of Reindeer,” Show Me The World, YouTube, November 218. Sami herders struggle with the threat of global warming.  Red noses on reindeer. – “Reindeer Noses Really Do Glow Red!” Nature on PBS, YouTube, December 2016.  – “The Scientific Reason Why Reindeer Have Red Noses,” by Joseph Stromburg, Smithsonian Magazine, December 2012. – “Why Rudolph's Nose is Red,” Can Ince et. al., The British Medical Journal, December 2012.  “Reindeer” by Travis Kemp, podcast, Calming Facts, December 2020. A hilarious (and relaxing) list of cool reindeer facts. Reindeer Cyclone Videos --from drone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOr8I0rh0hE  (In an article about this video we find out a veterinarian caused it)  --about reindeer cyclones on PBS https://youtu.be/xv8UtXWk8UI  --Reindeer cyclone on BBC YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8UtXWk8UI --cyclones as predator evasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffkKy3brFzk  “Reindeer Were Domesticated Much Earlier Than Previously Thought,” by Geoff McMaster, PhysOrg, June 2020. “Top 5 Reindeer Moments,” on BBC Earth -- 20 amazing minutes just chilling with reindeer and their peaceful personalities. All about riding in a sleigh and witnessing the northern lights. Chockfull of beauty and fascinating facts. Super charming!

  How is digital technology impacting the way people work, learn and think – and what upcoming technology trends should we look out for? In this episode, John talks to Ezri Carlebach, writer, lecturer, communications expert and imagineer, who has worked extensively in educational and workplace learning contexts. Why is imagination so important to learning – and in what ways has the pandemic changed the way we relate to technology?   2:31 - What is 'imagineering'? 5:54 - Ezri's career journey 13:22 - Digital anthropology 20:40 - Are we worrying about the right things? 25:12 - Imagination as a focus 42:35 - How covid has affected human/machine interaction 46:35 - Views on 'Hybrid Working'   The Royal Anthropological Institute: https://www.therai.org.uk/ Centre for Study of Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/chm The Happy Writing Book, by Elise Valmorbida https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57356168-the-happy-writing-book Contact Ezri Twitter: @ezriel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezrie/detail/contact-info/#:~:text=linkedin.com/in/ezrie   Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/   Don't miss Cornerstone Convergence on November 16 and 17. With an incredible lineup of speakers focused on helping talent and learning leaders like you gain the tools to create a better experience for your people, you won't want to miss this all-virtual, all-free event. Register today at https://www.cornerstoneconvergence.com/?utm_campaign=EMEA_UK_PROS_2021_Q4_10_EN_Convergence-2021&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_source=the-learning-hack&utm_content=registration.

  Welcome to episode 355 of the COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Adia Benton and I'll be your guest host today. I am a cultural anthropologist of public health and medicine in post-conflict and “development” settings at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.  I'm coming to you live from Oakland, California. Today I talk with anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas, author of Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic .  Amy Moran-Thomas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT, interested in the human and material entanglements that shape health in practice. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University in 2012, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Brown, which is where we met, before going to MIT. Her writing often focuses on the social lives of medical objects. She also works on the cultural anthropology of intergenerational health, planetary change, and chronic conditions; as well as questions of equitable device design, technology and kinship, and the afterlives of "carbohydrates and hydrocarbons" across scales. ​Professor Moran-Thomas has conducted ethnographic and historical research in Belize, Guatemala, Ghana, Brazil and the U.S, supported by the Mellon-American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the West African Research Association, and the American Philosophical Society. Her first book, Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic (2019), examines the global rise of diabetes as part of the ongoing legacies of sweetness and power -- including how unequal access to insulin varieties, oxygen chambers, glucose meters, dialysis devices, farming machines, coral reef care, and prosthetic limb technologies can become part of how plantation histories live on in the present, impacting lives and landscapes across generations. She is the winner of the James A. and Ruth Levitan Research Prize in the Humanities at MIT, a Diabetes Foot Center Group Appreciation Award; the Curl Essay Prize, awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the David Schneider Award, American Anthropological Association, among others.   

In this episode, hear Dr. Erica Borgstrom discuss End-of-Life Care, anthropology, palliative care, ethnography, thanatology and death studies, as well as ‘imposter syndrome' in academia. Who is Erica? Erica is a medical anthropologist and lecturer at the Open University, where she is the Qualifications Lead for Health and Social Care and the lead for Open Thanatology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Erica is one of the two editors for the academic journal Mortality. Her specialist area in research and teaching is death and dying, with an emphasis on end-of-life care. She uses her anthropological skills to disrupt the normative concepts in end-of-life care by foregrounding people's everyday experiences and the structural and discursive elements that shape how care is provided. She is involved in several projects about palliative and end-of-life care. You can follow Erica on Twitter @EricaBorsgstrom Watch ‘Should everyone have an ‘end-of-life' plan?' here. Watch ‘Life or Death Decisions' here. Experience the ‘Life or Death Decisions' interactive here. How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists? To cite this episode, you can use the following citation: Borgstrom, E. (2021) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 17 September 2021. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16640065.v1 Check out more episodes or find out more about the hosts! Got a question? Get in touch. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedeathstudiespodcast/message

FOOD IN THE GILDED AGE: What Ordinary Americans Ate with ROBERT DIRKS Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Illinois State University America's Gilded Age, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, is renowned for the excesses of robber barons and tycoons. The lavishness of their tables impressed contemporaries and historians alike. But what about the eating habits of ordinary people at the time? Robert Dirks, author of Food in the Gilded Age, poses that question and discovers some surprising answers by peering through the lens of what then was a newly emerging science of nutrition. Robert Dirks, a member of Chicago Foodways Roundtable, grew up in suburban Milwaukee. After earning a Ph.D. in anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, he joined the faculty at Illinois State University. He retired from there in 2003 and moved to the New Eastside area of Chicago. Professor Dirks has conducted research on various aspects of food and nutrition worldwide. His publications include papers in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Journal of Nutrition, and Annual Review of Nutrition. His previous book, Come & Get It! McDonaldization and the Disappearance of Local Food from a Central Illinois Community, traced a changing American food culture from frontier days to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Recorded at the Chicago History Museum on May 21, 2016 www.CulinaryHistorians.com

Discussing Supernatural's Season 1, Episode 18 "Something Wicked." We delve into the lore behind the Shtriga and determine Albanian witches are drunken bees. Shtriga: Summer Camp https://youtu.be/01ryGT9OJO8 Gothic metal band Shtriga https://www.bandmix.com/deva/ Malyasian instrumental rock band Reset to Zilch who has a “A Phantasm; Antithetical” https://resettozilch.bandcamp.com/track/shtriga Sources: https://thedemoniacal.blogspot.com/2010/07/shtriga.html (https://thedemoniacal.blogspot.com/2010/07/shtriga.html) https://wikimili.com/en/Shtriga (https://wikimili.com/en/Shtriga) https://lotsoflore.blogspot.com/p/shtriga.html (https://lotsoflore.blogspot.com/p/shtriga.html) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striga) https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Shtriga/68384 (https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Shtriga/68384) http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/1.18_Something_Wicked Durham, M. (1923). 121. Of Magic, Witches and Vampires in the Balkans. Man, 23, 189-192. doi:10.2307/2788569 Durham, M. (1910). High Albania and its Customs in 1908. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 40, 453-472. doi:10.2307/2843266

Today’s guest is quite possibly the most bad-ass, to borrow an American expression and pronunciation, person I’ve had on the podcast. Professor Sue Black is a distinguished forensic anthropologist and dame from Inverness, Scotland. She’ll explain exactly what that is, but she is the President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and a leading professor at Lancaster University. As an expert in human anatomy, she took two tours of Iraq, worked on the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification of bodies operation, and speaks of how she waded through piles of melted dead corpses in Kosovo. Anecdote after anecdote, she had me absolutely floored, and appreciative that there are people like her doing the work they do, because I sure as hell couldn’t, and we couldn’t function as a society with them.Sue Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/profsueblackWritten in Bone book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Written-Bone-hidden-stories-behind-ebook/dp/B084KJBPZBAndrew Links:Twitter: http://twitter.com/andrewgold_okInstagram: http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okVideo clips: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1Join my Patreon: http://patreon.com/andrewgoldLater, she became known for her vein pattern analysis, where she found that no two hands appear to have the same pattern of veins, as well as marks, wrinkles and folds. This helped her prove the identity of a father whose hands were caught on film as he molested his daughter. The research has continued and helped to catch many other child sex offenders.I was fascinated to get inside the mind – briefly, at least – with a person who is regularly confronted with the horrors of child sex abuse material and mutilated bodies from murders and wars. I wanted to know how such images change a person and their outlook on life and death, their relationship with their daughter, their views on humanity. Click here to go ads-free and support the show See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we're talking about Steven Spielberg's Amistad! Join us for a discussion of John Quincey Adams, Lomboko, Poro, and more! Sources: Poro: Lydia Polgreen, "A Master Plan Drawn in Blood," New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/weekinreview/a-master-plan-drawn-in-blood.html Caroline Bledsoe, "The Political Uses of Sande Ideology and Symbolism," American Ethnologist 11, 3 (1984) Richard M. Fulton, "The Political Structures and Functions of Poro in Kpelle Society," American Anthropologist 74, 5 (1972) Kenneth Little, "The Political Function of the Poro, Part II," Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 36, 1 (1966) Sasha Newell, "Brands as Masks: Public Secrecy and the Counterfeit in the Cote d'Ivoire," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19, 1 (2013) Christine Whyte, "Freedom But Nothing Else: The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928-1956," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 48, 2 (2015) James Covey: Steve Thornton, "A Different Look at the Amistad Trial: The Teenager Who Helped Save the Mende Captives," available at https://connecticuthistory.org/a-different-look-at-the-amistad-trial-the-teenager-who-helped-save-the-mende-captives/ Letter from James Covey to Lewis Tappan, available at https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A54180/datastream/PDF/view Letter from James Covey to Lewis Tappan, December 14th 1840, available at https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A54176/datastream/PDF/view Richard Anderson, "The Diaspora of Sierra Leone's Liberated Africans: Enlistment, Forced Migration, and "Liberation" at Freetown, 1808-1863," African Economic History 41 (2013) Charles Alan Dinsmore, "Interesting Sketches of the Amistad Captives," Yale University Library Gazette 9, 3 (1935) Film Background: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/amistad https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/amistad-1997 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/12/14/amistad-through-a-different-lens/aaf8318e-93ab-44f9-93ce-2a6d92e08191/ https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-11-30-1997334068-story.html John Quincey Adams: Oral Arguments for the Supreme Court: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/amistad_002.asp Louisa Catherine Adams, A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams eds. Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor (Harvard University Press, 2014) Joseph Wheelan, Mr. Adam's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress (PublicAffairs, 2009). Lomboko: Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: an Atlantic Oddyssey of Slavery and Freedom (New York: Penguin, 2012) Daniel Domingues da Silva, David Eltis, Philip Misevich, and Olatunji Ojo, "The Diaspora of Africans Liberated from Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century," The Journal of African History 55:3 (November 2014): 347-369. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1017/S0021853714000371 Donald Dale Jackson, "Mutiny on the Amistad: in 1839, African freemen seized as slaves, struck a daring blow for freedom," Smithsonian 28:9 (December 1997). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A20078601/AONE?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=AONE&xid=995b0aac https://archive.org/details/amistad0000gray/page/6/mode/2up?q=Lomboko

In this fortnight's exciting episode we talk about how having a terminal lung disease makes you sexy, and also a very early, really extremely uncomfortable imaging technology, with special guest Hannah Polasky, MSc of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Also, we talk about salad tongs for babies, really unhappy places to get burned, hair dye, makeup, more hair dye, Tombstone, e-girls, and why you might want to learn the tensile strength of the human placenta.Also, RIP to Horatio/Horatia, the last Mütter Museum leech. 

"Cuando en el registro fósil encontramos una patología o una enfermedad, alguno puede pensar que estamos leyendo una historia negativa o triste, y resulta que es todo lo contrario. Un hueso deformado está hablando de fortaleza a dos niveles: fortaleza individual de aquel que fue capaz de superar esa enfermedad. Y fortaleza del grupo que cuidó y protegió a ese individuo". María Martinón Torres, paleoantropóloga y directora del Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), lleva décadas investigando las huellas fósiles de nuestros antepasados prehistóricos y cómo influyeron en nuestra definición del ser humano. "A lo largo de la evolución humana, los comportamientos altruistas, solidarios y cooperativos se remontan a miles de años en el registro fósil", explica la investigadora. Martinón Torres se doctoró en Medicina, especializada en Evolución Humana y Antropología Forense, y es catedrática honoraria en el Departamento de Antropología de University College London. Forma parte del equipo investigador de Atapuerca desde 1998 y ha participado en varios proyectos internacionales, como Dmanisi (Georgia) y China. Ha publicado más de 70 libros y artículos científicos sobre dentición humana y en 2019 recibió la Medalla Rivers Memorial otorgada por el Royal Anthropological Institute de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda (RAI), la institución académica más antigua del mundo dedicada a la antropología.

For this episode you need to have read through chapters FIVE AND SIX of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Our original episode for chapter five came out a little short and you guys said to combine the two, so here we are! We're going over: Dementors, Professor Lupin, Divination, Hippogriffs, and Death Omens. Please remember to subscribe, rate, and review. If you do so and leave your name and Hogwarts house in your review, you'll get a shoutout on here as well as earn house points toward the 2nd House Cup Tournament! Follow us! Insta and Twitter: @firstyearspod Email us with your thoughts: firstyearspodcast @ gmail . com SOURCES: Badone, Ellen. “Death Omens in a Breton Memorate.” Folklore, 1987, Vol. 98, No. 1 (1987), pp. 99-104. Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/1259406 Bergen, Fanny D., W.M. Beauchamp, and W.W. Newell. “Current Superstitions. I. Omens of Death.” The Journal of American Folklore, Jan. - Mar., 1889, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan. - Mar., 1889), pp. 12-22. American Folklore Society. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/533697 Bergen, Fanny D., and W.W. Newell. “Current Superstitions. II. Omens of Death (Continued).” The Journal of American Folklore, Apr. - Jun., 1889, Vol. 2, No. 5 (Apr. - Jun., 1889), pp. 105-112. American Folklore Society. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/533318 “Church Grim.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Apr. 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_grim “Dog Meaning and Symbolism.” The Astrology Web, 5 May 2020, https://www.theastrologyweb.com/spirit-animals/dog-meaning-symbolism “Dog Symbolism, Dreams, and Messages.” Spirit Animal Totems, 9 May 2020, https://www.spirit-animals.com/dog-symbolism/#section10 Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. “Hippogriff.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 1 Sept. 1999. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://www.britannica.com/topic/hippogriff Ettlinger, Ellen. “Omens and Celtic Warfare.” Man, Jan. - Feb., 1943, Vol. 43 (Jan. - Feb., 1943), pp. 11-17. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/2792721 “Hippogriff.” Mythology Wiki, https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Hippogriff McKenna, Amy. “Where Does the Concept of a ‘Grim Reaper’ Come From?” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/story/where-does-the-concept-of-a-grim-reaper-come-from Rowling, J.K., and Newt Scamander. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2009.

Segundo a Grande Encyclopedie (obra publicada em fins do século XIX), uma sociedade científica é uma "Uma reunião de homens da ciência, letrados, acadêmicos, pensadores, que juntam esforços, conhecimento e recursos para proporcionar o avanço do ramo do conhecimento humano ao qual eles estão especialmente dedicados." Priorizando uma leitura socioantropológica do processo de formação das primeiras sociedades científicas de Antropologia, este episódio busca analisar qual sua importância e como se deu o processo de sua formação. O recorte será uma análise dos conflitos em três ordens; a tensão entre pensamento científico e pensamento religioso; as disputas internas dentro do campo científico; a corrida do imperialismo colonial que formou praticamente um "nacionalismo científico". E isso ocorreu fundamentalmente na França e na Grâ-Bretanha. Siga-nos; Facebook e Instagram: @antropocast Comentários, críticas e sugestões: antropologia@uol.com.br Referências: Adriana Keuller. Os Estudos Físicos de Antropologia no Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro: Cientistas, objetos, idéias e instrumentos (1876-1939). FFLCH/USP. 2012. Bernardo Bernardi. Introdução aos estudos etno-antropológicos. Lisboa. Edições 70. 1988. Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus; André Berthelot Berthelot (eds.). La grande encyclopédie: inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts par une societé de savants et de gens de lettres. Tome Trentième (Sigillateur - Thermopole). Paris. Societé Anonyme de la Grande Encyclopedie. 1901. George Stocking Jr. Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology. History of Anthropology, Vol. 5. University of Wisconsin Press. 1990. George Stoking Jr. What's in a Name? The Origins of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1837-71). Man. New Series, Vol. 6, No. 3 . 1971, pp. 369-390. Jean-Luc Chappey. La Société des Observateurs de l'Homme (1799-1804). Des anthropologues au temps de Bonaparte. Paris, Société des Études Robespierristes, 2002, 560 p. Jean Copins. Aux origines de l'anthropologie française: Les mémoires de la Société des observateurs de l'homme en l'an VIII (Les Hommes et leurs signes). Paris: Sycomore. 1978.

Tamás Dávid-Barrett is my guest on Episode 04 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Tamas is a behavioral scientist, who asks what traits allow humans to live in large and culturally complex societies. His work focuses on how the structure of social networks changes during falling fertility, urbanization, and migration; as well as, how social networks vary over the human life-course. Tamás's current projects include the origins of inequality regulation; why the behavioral rules between women and men vary so much across cultures; and the evolutionary foundations of sharing behavior. Tamás is a professor at the Centro de Investigación de Complejidad Social at the Universidad del Desarollo in Santiago de Chile, teaches economics at Trinity College, the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and is affiliated with the Population Studies Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. In the past, Tamás ran his analyst company and did macroeconomic and development research in 35 countries all around the world. It was the highlands of Irian Jaya that changed the way he sees human societies. Tamás Dávid-Barret https://www.tamasdavidbarrett.com/ Human Beasts Channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/humanbeast #behaviouralscience #sharing #inequality #societies #TamasDavid-Barrett #MarcBuckley #innovatorsmag Inside Ideas by One Point 5 Media/Innovators Magazine Systemic change is needed to move us on to the right side of history. Marc Buckley talks with the game-changers on a mission to get us there as fast as possible. Marc is an Advocate for the SDGs, member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network, and award-winning Global Food Reformist. Take a deep dive with thought leaders, Innovators, Futurists, and those solving Global Grand challenges. Listen to renowned experts share their insight on topics including sustainability, environmentalism, global food reform, regenerative practices, systems thinking, innovation, new economic models, new civilization frameworks, The new podcast from Innovators Magazine https://www.innovatorsmag.com/ and OnePoint5 Media http://onepoint5media.com/ is available on Social media, YouTube, Spotify, iTunes News, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Overcast, and Pocket Casts. Marc Buckley https://marcbuckley.earth/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/buckleymarc/ Inside Ideas https://www.innovatorsmag.com/inside-... Innovators Magazine https://www.innovatorsmag.com/ OnePoint5 Media http://onepoint5media.com/ Sign up for our 'Innovate Now' newsletter to get episodes straight to your inbox: http://bit.ly/2pMbxKo YouTube Channel Inside Ideas https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEpV... Anchor FM Inside Ideas https://anchor.fm/inside-ideas Facebook Inside Ideas Page https://www.facebook.com/Inside-Ideas... Pocket Casts Inside Ideas https://pca.st/15amnfoj Overcast Inside Ideas https://overcast.fm/itunes1518311299/... Breaker https://www.breaker.audio/inside-ideas Google Podcasts https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=... Radio Public Inside Ideas https://radiopublic.com/inside-ideas-... Spotify Inside Ideas Show https://open.spotify.com/show/1igBKvw... Castbox Inside Ideas https://castbox.fm/channel/Inside-Ide... Apple Podcasts Inside Ideas https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Tamás Dávid-Barrett is Marc Buckley's guest on the latest edition of Inside Ideas. Tamas is a behavioural scientist, who asks what traits allow humans to live in large and culturally complex societies. His work focuses on how the structure of social networks change during falling fertility, urbanisation, and migration; as well as, how social networks vary over the human life-course. Tamás's current projects include the origins of inequality regulation; why the behavioural rules between women and men vary so much across cultures; and the evolutionary foundations of sharing behaviour. Tamás is a professor at the Centro de Investigación de Complejidad Social at the Universidad del Desarollo in Santiago de Chile, teaches economics at Trinity College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and is affiliated with the Population Studies Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. In the past, Tamás ran his analyst company, and did macroeconomic and development research in 35 countries all around the world. It was the highlands of Irian Jaya that changed the way he sees human societies.

In this episode I had the privilege of talking about life, death and everything in between with Professor Dame Sue Black, a leading anatomist and forensic anthropologist with an exceptional career and personal insight into death and dying. Sue was the lead forensic anthropologist for the UK response to war crimes investigations in Kosovo and has also served in Sierra Leone, Grenada, Iraq and in Thailand following the Asian tsunami. She has been awarded two police commendations for her work in Disaster Victim Identification training and also for helping to secure convictions against perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Sue was awarded an OBE in 2001 and a DBE in 2016 for her services to education and forensic anthropology. She is a fellow and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Biology as well as the lifetime professor of Anatomy for the Royal Scottish Academy. Her research portfolio has secured over £22M of funding and she is the author of 14 text books and in excess of 150 peer reviewed publications. She is also the author of the best-selling book ‘All That Remains’ - which is, in all honesty, one of the best books I’ve ever read! Despite the topic, Sue and I laughed throughout this episode as we shared our deep and dark Scottish humour. I hope you enjoy connecting with Sue as much as I did.

When the Royal Anthropological Institute decided to work with Wiley to digitize their records, they got more than they expected.

In this episode we talk to Stephen Rea and Taylor Nelms about mobile money and financial apps. Stephen Rea and Taylor Nelms are two anthropologists who work at University of California, Irvine. We talk about their research, people's relationship/interaction with mobile money, debate ethical concerns and the nature of money itself and much more. We really dive into what mobile money is and the structures, relationships and beliefs built around it. Stephen C. Rea is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on how digital and mobile technologies intersect with issues of community, labour, and health. He has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork on digital gaming culture in South Korea, and has published on the social and technical infrastructures involved in mobile money for development. Taylor C. Nelms is an anthropologist and ethnographer of money, technology, bureaucracy, and everyday economic and political life. He has done extensive work in Latin America and the United States on the intersections of money and technology and how they shape the lives and livelihoods of the people who use them. Stephen and Taylor's work: Maurer, Bill, Taylor C. Nelms, and Stephen C. Rea. (2013). “‘Bridges to cash': channeling agency in mobile money.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19 (1): 52-74. Rea, Stephen C. and Taylor C. Nelms (2017). “Mobile Money: The First Decade.” Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion working paper. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/574243f9 Rea, Stephen C., Ursula Dalinghaus, Taylor C. Nelms, and Bill Maurer. (2016). "Riding the Rails of Mobile Payments: Financial Inclusion, Mobile Phones, and Infrastructure." In The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography Their work can be found on the website of the Future of Money Research Collaborative: https://moneyfutures.org/ Follow their work at: https://www.stephencrea.com/ http://www.taylornelms.net/ and after our publications, could you include a link to our joint website with the follow line:

Roundtable Discussion and Launch of Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt by Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka) with Morgan Clarke (University of Oxford). The event will be chaired by Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford). What does it mean to be an intellectual in Egypt today? What is expected from an "authentic scholar"? Hatsuki Aishima explores these questions by examining educated, urban Egyptians and their perceptions of what it means to be "cultured" and "middle class" - something that, as a result of the neoliberal policies of Egyptian government, is widely thought to be a shrinking sector of society. Through an analysis of the media representations of 'Abd al-Halim Mahmud (1910-78), the French-trained Sufi scholar and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar under president Anwar al-Sadat, Aishima discusses the connection of Islam to these middle-class considerations and makes an original contribution to the debate on the commodification of religious teaching and knowledge. Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt is thereby a unique addition to the fields of anthropology, Middle East and media studies. Hatsuki Aishima is Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. She read DPhil in Oriental Studies at St Antony's College (2005-11). Before arriving in Osaka in July 2016, she taught at Free University of Berlin and the University of Manchester. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Die Welt des Islams.

This week we explore the Neolithic period and talk about henges. Resources Driver, T., Clegyr Boia, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 2007. http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/305389/details/CLEGYR+BOIA/ Fitch, Simon et al. West Coast Palaeolandscapes Survey, University of Birmingham, 2011. Smyth, Jessica, The house and group identity in the Irish Neolithic, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies,History, Linguistics, Literature, Vol. 111C, Special Issue: Domestic life in Ireland (2011), pp.1-31 Thomas, Julian, Death Identity and the Body in Neolithic Britain, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Dec., 2000), pp.653-668. Nash, George, Mechanisms of Production and Exchange: Early Prehistoric Perforated Bead Production and Use in Southwest Wales, Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, Volume 5—Issue 1, March 2012, pp. 73–84. Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Sue Margaret Black is a Scottish forensic anthropologist, anatomist and academic. She is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University and current President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

It’s an unusual approach for an academic: a hands-on approach. Literally a hands-on approach. Trevor Marchand is an anthropologist interested in how information about crafts is transferred from expert to novice. This has led him to Nigeria, Yemen, Mali, and East London and has required him to use his hands to build, among other things, minarets and homes of mud bricks. Marchand, currently at SOAS, University of London, started his studies -- in architecture -- at Canada’s McGill University, which paved the way for field research on mud-brick building in northern Nigeria. That experience in turn spurred Marchand’s focus on an anthropological approach to architecture, a crafts-oriented approach to anthropology, and now study of how all of this plays out in a neuro-scientific context. This unusual approach has also allowed him to build up a pile of awards resulting from his investigations. For example, hs 2009 monograph on The Masons of Djenné, written after his rise from apprentice to skilled craftsman in this Malian city, won the Elliot P. Skinner Award from the Association for Africanist Anthropology, the 2010 Melville J. Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association, and the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Just last year he was awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute, an honor that recognizes exceptional work accomplished in the field. In this Social Science Bites podcast, philosopher Nigel Warburton asks about Marchand’s field work, looking at what ties these disparate locales together and what sets them apart, not just in techniques but how crafts [people approach their work and how it influences them.   But as he tells Warburton, Marchand has a larger agenda behind his scholarship. “I think it’s extremely important for a general public to gain appreciation for the kind of skill and the diversity of knowledge that goes into producing something with the body,” he explains. “I think for far too long we’ve made that division between manual labour and intellectual work, and it’s something that goes back centuries. Leonardo da Vinci made that distinction between manual labour and intellectual work, and that distinction too between craft and fine art. And so, it’s been kind of relegated to the side-lines; it’s been marginalised and unfortunately vocational education - not just here in the UK but in other parts of the world - is something that children go into or are steered into when their peers or adults feel that they’re not academically inclined.”

BIO: Dr. Kusimba has served as Curator of African Archaeology and Ethnology at the Field Museum since 1994. He is also Adjunct faculty in the Departments of Anthropology at Northwestern University. Chap is involved in a number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary field and collection-based research as well as interdisciplinary and interdepartmental research projects. He has initiated international collaborative programs with colleagues at the National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Services, Deccan College, India, and Pardubice University, Czech Republic.His research agenda focuses on the role of economy, technology, and politics in the development of urban societies. In East Africa, He studies the origins of urbanism and its influence in East African history. In India, he is studying the role of South Asian merchants on African urbanism. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1990-91), National Geographic Society (1996-98), Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1990), Eli Lilly Foundation (1998), Chicago 2020 (2000), and the Norwottock Charitable Trust (2005).