Publications

 
 

Full publications list

Chris KNight

Blood Relations (book available from Amazon)

Decoding Fairytales booklet/A4

Human Revolution and the Origins of Language

The Cradle of Language (book available from Amazon)

The Origins of Human Society

The Wives of the Sun and the Moon

Revisiting Matrilineal Priority

Why Ritual?

Early Human Kinship was Matrilineal

Unpublished papers:

Family Ideology and the Crisis in Twentieth Century Kinship Theory

Noam Chomsky and the Human Revolution

Revisiting Matrilineal Priority

The Human Revolution

The Politics of Early Kinship

The Moon Inside you (film)

Diana Fabianova

Another World is Possible: How the Liverpool Dockers launched a Global movement

Pauline Bradley & Chris Knight

Sex Strikes Through the Ages: The Legacy of Lysistrata

Lucy Burns

Edmund Bradden

The Origins of Anthropomorphic Thinking

Chris Knight & Camilla Power

The Human Symbolic Revolution: a Darwinian account [low quality, text version]

Chris Knight, Camilla Power & Ian Watts

The Human Symbolic Revolution: a Darwinian account [high quality, publication version]

Forest Hunter-Gatherers and their World: a study of Mbendjele Yaka Pygmies of Congo-Brazzaville and their Secular and Religious Activities and Representations [high quality, PhD thesis]

Jerome Lewis

From Abundance to Scarcity: Indigenous resource management and the industrial extraction of forest resources - some issues for conservation

'Beauty Magic': Deceptive sexual signalling and the evolution of ritual

Camilla Power

Sham menstruation, sex-strike theory and contemporary implications

Women in Prehistoric Art

A reply to Helena Cronin

Lysistrata: the Ritual Logic of the Sex-strike

Sex and the Human Revolution

Biological Substrates of Human Kinship: the view from life - history theory and evolutionary ecology

Female Proto-symbolic Strategies

Camilla Power & Leslie Aiello

The day the women went on strike (news article)

Annadis Rudolfsdottir

Apes that write, start fires and play Pacman (TED talk)

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Contemporary Art and Anthropology (book)

Arnd Schneider & Christopher Wright

Discount Order form & Reviews

The Solarization of the Moon: manipulated knowledge at Stonehenge

Lionel SIMS

A Place Where Women Rule (news article)

Emily Wax

Civilisation, Repression and the Modern Horror Film

Jason WIlcox

Anti-Marxist Myth of Our Time [Weekly Worker article]

Sex and the class struggle [Selected works of Wilhelm Reich]

Menstruation and the Origins of Culture [wikipedia entry]

Secret language use at female initiation. Bounding gossiping communities.

Emily Wyman

Young Children’s Understanding of and Engagement in Social Conventions [high quality, PhD thesis, requires latest version of Adobe Reader]

The Chomsky Enigma [Weekly Worker article]

US Establishment Anarchist [Weekly Worker article]

Chomsky’s Parallel Lives [Weekly Worker article]

Labor Tribune interview Chris Knight [great introductory stuff]

Ready Steady Books interview Chris Knight [great introductory stuff]

The Decadence of the Shamans

ALAN COHEN

The Decadence of the Shamans : reflections in 2010 (new intro)

Chris Knight's Theory of Human Origins: an abridged account

Noam Chomsky: Politics or Science?

Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (PhD thesis, UCL 1987)

The Moon and Menstruation: A taboo subject - selected extracts from Robert Briffault’s ‘The Mothers’

Hilary Alton

Sigmund

Chris gray

Socialism and Anthropology

Women in Revolutionary History

TEMMA KAPLAN

Is capitalism's present crisis putting revolution back on the agenda?

MARK KOSMAN

Cosmetics, Identity and Consciousness

The Origins of Symbolic Culture

The political is personal: Eros, Ritual dialogue, and the Speaking Body in Central African Hunter-Gatherer Society (unpublished PhD Thesis, Edinburgh University)

MORNA FINNEGAN

Matriarchy really did exist - selected extracts from Robert Briffault’s ‘The Mothers’