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Radical Anthropology

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TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

🌘Tues Mar 25, 6:30pm🌑 (London UTC)
Ivan Tacey on
'Serpentine Cosmopolitics: Cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'

From Amazonia to Australia, rainbow snakes coil at the heart of the cosmologies of Indigenous peoples, embodying forces of creation, destruction, and renewal. Known variously as nagas, dragons, or rainbow serpents, these chthonic entities are intimately entangled with water, blood, women, and untamed power. Among Batek hunter-gatherers of Malaysia, as well as other Southeast Asian Indigenous communities, the violation of taboos—especially those linked to blood—is believed to incite the wrath of these beings who are said to unleash catastrophic floods capable of annihilating entire settlements.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, Ivan Tacey examines the roles of rainbow serpents in Batek creation myths, rituals, and cosmological landscapes, comparing these traditions with similar narratives and practices from Amazonia and Australia. Offering a cosmopolitical analysis, Ivan critiques the limitations of New Animist approaches, proposing instead that the global prevalence of rainbow snakes in Indigenous cosmologies reflects a 'time-resistant syntax of myth and ritual,' as theorized in Knight, Power, and Watts’ model of human origins.

Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, Ivan will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

A Batek Naga/Rainbown Snake glittering with yellow and green scales and horned, with a long red tongue emerging from an open mouth
#RainbowSnake#cosmopolitics#NewAnimism
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Swede’s Photographs

Good morning. ⛈️🌩️⚡

15 March 2025

Thunder crashed, shaking the house and jolting me from a deep sleep. It happened right at six, the time I usually wake up. Was it mere coincidence, or do gods conspire to control my days? After brushing my teeth and pulling on my trousers, I opened the bedroom door to find Ben waiting, alone. Clearly, he was frightened by the thunder, seeking the comfort and reassurance of our steadfast companionship. But where was Charlie? He almost always greets me at the bedroom door in the morning. I found him at the back door, anxiously waiting to go outside. The morning urge to relieve oneself is, after all, a biological necessity shared by both dogs and humans.

"As the dawn comes up like thunder." - Rudyard Kipling

"We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor." - Henry David Thoreau

Flight of Six The image captures a flock of six Western Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) soaring gracefully against a clear blue sky. Their wings are outstretched mid-flight, showcasing their streamlined forms and aerial elegance. The egrets are loosely arranged, with some leading slightly ahead, creating a beautiful sense of motion and freedom.
#photography#wildlife#nature
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Klaus Frank

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#Thunder

We gotta rock, rock, party 'til the last shot
Fill that jug and raise your cup up
We gotta chug, chug, better take it non-stop
Hey, come drink until the last drop
So please just let us, burnin' down this place
And we will end up in the hall of fame
Let's get ready for a drinking game
So come and sip until the last drop
Over and over
We're down the river, we're drunk and all of our thumbs went up in the air
Sung it in the wind and sung to the thunder, rollin' over and over

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