Anthropologists Chris Knight and Camilla Power will discuss their theory of human symbolic originsAbout this Event
NB this FREE event cannot be sold out, loads of room LIVE or ZOOM (see venue/links below)
The first Word was spoken by a woman. It was ‘No’. Acted out in sounds and gestures and exploding into a chorus of laughter, it was a signal to the male sex that their behaviour needed to stop. Chris and Camilla will explain how menstrual bleeding was constructed as the world’s earliest taboo and how blood-red ochre came to symbolize ritual potency as our species emerged.
LIVE in Daryll Forde, Room 230 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW and ZOOM ID 948 6108 7055 passcode Wawilak
Event venue
UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, United Kingdom
Tickets
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