Name: How we got stuck: the The hunter Monmanéki and his wives teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson
Start: 2025-02-25T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-25T20:15:00+00:00
Location: UCL Anthropology

$How we got stuck: the The hunter Monman\u00e9ki and his wives teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson$

'The Dawn of Everything' argues that human political arrangements got stuck when divine kings and other patriarchal despots began to confuse paternal care with coercive control. Drawing on insights provided by an Amazonian myth, Chris Knight argues that the decisive changes occurred much earlier than Graeber and Wengrow suppose. Gender politics got stuck when patriarchal forms of marriage and residence took over, disconnecting women from their former freedom to choose where to live – a freedom in turn linked with the periodicity of the moon.
Chris will be speaking live in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. We also go out on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak