Human Anthropology

[Jimmie Higgins]

Formerly typo-titled: “Human Anghropolgy” lol

Anyone here an anthro nerd... or actually studied this in university recently?

Just looking for reading suggestions for any radical left takes - anything current and relatively accessible (like anything from pop-science - i.e. current knowledge and theory but translated for lay-people - to undergrad or general grad student level.) if it assumes a strong familiarity with various famous sites or obscure cultures, it might be over my head [emoji3]

[Homo Songun]

Anyone here an anthro nerd... or actually studied this in university recently?

Just looking for reading suggestions for any radical left takes - anything current and relatively accessible (like anything from pop-science - i.e. current knowledge and theory but translated for lay-people - to undergrad or general grad student level.) if it assumes a strong familiarity with various famous sites or obscure cultures, it might be over my head :D

I'm only posting because at first glance I read "Human Anghropolgy" as "Humane Anthropophagy", I guess I'm a sick fuck :lol:

I presume you meant "Human Anthropology" though. I don't know anything about "current", but as far as "accessible", how about Frederick Engels? After all, he wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Then there is good old Margaret Mead, also Eleanor Laycock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Leacock) (who wrote the introduction to the International Publishers edition of Frederick Engels' book above)

[Jimmie Higgins]

Haha, I’m keeping the typo. Yeah I’ve read Engels, but I was curious about contemporary updates. There is still a very slim archeological record, but most of it was recorded or studied after Engels. It’s interesting how relevant he still is in broad strokes considering how little he had to go off of. He’s dismissed or ignored by the mainstream because the details are now antiquated but a lot of the points he made are still open debates within mainstream anthro.

[ckaihatsu]

(Maybe it's the study of human *anger* as an organizing force for social groupings....) (heh)

[Ele'ill]

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fredy-perlman-against-his-story-against-leviathan
















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