Regeneration of self and of community: the Hadzabe

Is creating relations and relationships an increasingly lost skill? How can we create a future not only for ourselves but a future of belonging, connection, and togetherness? Who creates the future? A programmer or a potter? For the Hadza, the future is made by women in an earthen child: a clay-born baby that rebirths society and connects generations of women through spiritual relations. Regenerating the future is not a task for women alone. Thea Skaanes trace the honey love letters and the sharing practices in a hunting and gathering society that, contrary to impressions given in academic accounts, is more dealing in life than in death.

Thea Skaanes, PhD, is a museum curator with special focus on African cultural heritage at the National Museums of World Culture, Sweden. She is head of content for the upcoming permanent exhibition, Existens, and she engages in difficult questions such as meaningful reparations and how to move forward with ethical forms for active museum collection practices. Thea is a trained ethnographer and social anthropologist researching fields such as cosmology, rituals, power objects, and human-animal relations among the hunter-gathering Hadza of Northern Tanzania.

Thea will speak LIVE in LG11, Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG

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