Yes We Cant: Anti-Languages and Argots - Ep 163

Come along for an exploration of anti-languages and the qualities that make them successful in building community and maintaining safety among the people that develop them. From occupational jargon to survival as a marginalized group to being hip with the kids, we tour a few of these languages, and subject everyone to a 16th century dialogue with translation.

Links

• O latín dos canteiros en Cabana de Bergantiños (Madrygal, in Galician)

• Anti-Languages (American Anthropologist)

• The Language of the Underworld and its Sociolinguistic Significance (Contributions to the Study of Language, Literature and Culture)

• The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know (BBC Future)

• The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars: With a Vocabulary of Their Language (via Google Books)

• A caveat or warning for common cursetors, vulgarly called vagabonds. Whereunto is added, The tale of the second taking of the counterfeit crank (via Google Books)

• Uncovering Thieves’ Cant, the Elizabethan Slang of the Underworld (MentalFloss)

• Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (via Project Gutenberg)

• A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men (The Conversation)

• The Polari Bible (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)

• Putting on the Dish (via YouTube)

• Putting on the Dish Screenplay (Brian and Karl)

• This Month in Linguistics History: Lavender Language/Linguistics (Linguistic Society of America)

• Cants And ‘Anti-Languages’ — The Hidden World Of Secret Languages (Babbel Magazine)

• Verlan - French Slang (ThoughtCo)

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Kyle Jordan - Ep 162

Anna and Amber are joined by wonderful Special Guest, Kyle Jordan! Kyle is a disabled Egyptologist interested in themes of religion, magic and identity in the Egyptian world, with a specific focus on the appearance and interpretation of disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology as a discipline. We had a wonderful-- and long-- conversation with Kyle about how Egyptians viewed the embodiment of disability, how perception of disability in archaeology has changed (and how it still needs to change), and more.

Listener note, we mistakenly discuss the dialogue of a man and his ka, which was in fact between a man and his ba. This dialogue is on the subject of suicidal ideation, so please take care or skip forward at about [41:04.000].

Links

• Follow Kyle on Twitter!

• "Disability in Ancient Egypt - the Case of Geheset" (via YouTube)

• "Disability in Ancient Egyptian Myth and Literature" (via YouTube)

• Let That Be Your Last Battlefield: Tutankhamun and Disability (via Semantic Scholar)

• Dialogue of a Man with His Soul (Ethics of Suicide Digital Archive) (cn discussion of suicidal ideation)

• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

• Westcar Papyrus: Khufu and the Magician (Ancient Egypt Online)

• Human History Gets a Rewrite (The Atlantic)

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Let's Call It a Ritual Object - Ep 161

Thanks to everyone who came out to our virtual live show! This is the edited audio of that event. We talk about the role of ritual in daily life, how our big round human brains have evolved the ability to think about abstract meaning and ritual significance, and the theory underpinning all of this. We also take a trip to two incredible archaeological sites to think about how the people living there might have thought about the unknown and unseen in their lives. Whoa.

Links

• Emile Durkheim: religion – the very idea, part 3: ritual, ancient and modern (The Guardian)

• Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice

• ‘Materiality, Belief, Ritual – Archaeology and Material Religion’. An Introduction (Material Religion)

• Materiality: An Introduction (UCL Anthropology)

• Materiality (Society for Cultural Anthropology)

• How Did Belief Evolve? (Sapiens)

• The evolution of modern human brain shape (Science Advances)

• A Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France (The Atlantic)

• Neanderthals Built Mysterious Stone Circles (National Geographic)

• Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France (Nature)

• Athens in Pieces: What Really Happened at Eleusis? (New York Times)

• The Psychedelic Cult That Thrived For Nearly 2000 Years (Gizmodo)

• mysteries, Eleusinian (Oxford Classical Dictionary)

• Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)

• The Ritual Path of Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries (Rosicrucian Digest)

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Spooktober: Fear Itself - Ep 160

We explore the evolutionary roots of fear, and the science of how it works. Why do some people love thrills and chills, while others don't? Why does fear make us stinky? And how can we think about something as personal and ephemeral as fear in the archaeological record?

Links

• Why We Physically Feel Fear (University of West Alabama)

• The biology of fear- and anxiety-related behaviors (Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience)

• What Happens in the Brain When We Feel Fear (Smithsonian)

• Humans can smell fear - and it's contagious (NBC News)

• Humans Respond to Scent of Fear (LiveScience)

• The Powerful Smell of Fear Doesn’t Smell Like Anything At All (Inverse)

• Alexithymia and emotional reactions to odors (Nature: Scientific Reports)

• Instructed fear learning, extinction, and recall: additive effects of cognitive information on emotional learning of fear (Cognition & Emotion)

• Monsters on the Brain (Social Research)

• What we fear most: A developmental advantage for threat-relevant stimuli (Developmental Review)

• Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror (Psychological Science)

• Why is it fun to be frightened? (The Conversation)

• Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear? (The Atlantic)

• Our age of horror (Aeon) - cn image of human remains

• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry and Fear (via Google Books)

• The Architecture of Fear: San Sabá’s Lasting Impact on Spanish Colonial Mission Construction as Exemplified at Mission San Lorenzo in Real County, Texas (The Digital Archaeological Record)

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Spooktober: Monster Mash - Ep 159

This week, we lift our spirits (oooOOOooo) with a round-up of monsters. We explore their origins and effects on us, with examples ranging from memories of very real things in the past to a hypothesis that doesn't quite have legs (unlike griffins).

Links

• Why we'll always be obsessed with – and afraid of – monsters (The Conversation)

• Why the scariest monsters look almost human (Wellcome Collection)

• Why We Still Need Monsters (Nautilus)

• Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids? (Nautilus)

• A History of Monsters (Aeon)

• Why do we want to feel sorry for monsters that scare us? (Gizmodo)

• Why Frankenstein is the story that defines our fears (BBC)

• Neanderthals, Scandinavian trolls, and troglodytes (Norwegian American)

• Ōnamazu (Yokai.com)

• Namazu-e: Earthquake catfish prints (Pink Tentacle)

• Namazu (World History Encyclopedia)

• Giant catfish and a legacy of disaster in one of the world's most seismically active regions (Phys.org)

• Folklore and earthquakes: Native American oral traditions from Cascadia compared with written traditions from Japan (Geological Society, London, Special Publications via ResearchGate)

• Why Protoceratops almost certainly wasn't the inspiration for the griffin legend (Mark Witton)

• Griffin Bones (American Museum of Natural History)

• Andrewsarchus, "Superb Skull of a Gigantic Beast" (American Museum of Natural History)

• Jumbies of the West Indies (The Brown Geeks)

• Rare Book Library Summons Tales of World’s Oldest Monsters (Smithsonian)

• The evolution of monsters in children’s literature (Nature)

• A Visual History of Society’s Monsters (Hyperallergic)

• The Nazi Werewolves Who Terrorized Allied Soldiers at the End of WWII (Smithsonian)

• Doin’ The Mash (Tedium)

• The strange tale of ‘Monster Mash’, the graveyard smash that will never die (NME)

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