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Xmas fairytale: The shoes that were danced to pieces

  • UCL Anthropology · London
Radical Anthropology Group Publisher / Host Radical Anthropology Group
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Xmas fairytale: The shoes that were danced to pieces
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This delightful fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm has become a RAG tradition, told every year on the last day of the autumn term, just before Christmas. It tells of twelve princesses and their periodic trips to the underworld, the narrator treating patriarchal marriage as a cruel punishment imposed on a coalition of sisters who had previously been free to dance the nights away. This magical tale introduces us to universal mythological themes which will be explored more fully in the Spring Term. Chris Knight will show how all such tales make sense in the light of the theory that human sexual morality was initially established by women
Event is FREE and open to all!
LIVE Daryll Forde, Room 230 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW and
Online ZOOM ID 948 6108 7055 passcode Wawilak
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