thanks for your sharing of ideas on mountains. the wide space, the large scale and the comparative view as an anthropologist

Yeah. You definitely crash on tea caffiene. Lets not spread the english propaganda

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Rest in peace Dr. Renfrew. You are one of the greats in our field.

Tea is also a favourite for many in the Indian subcontinent too

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Thanks for this recording. I can recall my childhood memory watching it.

Watching this video from Pokhara. Do you have more old video related Pokhara or other places of Nepal ?? Anyway thanks!!

Great summary. The people of Darjeeling would love this video.

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Thank you as always Professor Macfarlane my favourite beverage tea!🙏🏼👍💗🤗👍🙏🏼💗🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

It's quite popular here in South Africa too -- certainly, I'd be lost without a good strong mugful of English Breakfast.

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Ji. Acrylyc mirors. Thank you, had wonderful time in Venezia. 😊

Enjoying these little vignettes.

Irritating shouty ads for financial scams by absolute assholes every 5 minutes. Fk your channel

Kuki people wanted to enter India from Myanmar through Mon border but there were konyak who hunt enemy's head so they escaped through Mizoram and Manipur..

Thank you. It is reinforcing and nice to hear this. In one of his recent encyclicals' Francis himself gives this very same caution when he says, "Beware of complaining". It is, he goes on to say, 'A poison in the soul" . And he then goes on to give a clue into its remedy. Thank you for this really helpful reminder.

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So glad to see this!

Really enjoy having this interrupted multiple times by some orange knobhead shouting at me about currency trading. Fk youtube.

So glad you mentioned the impenetrability of Foucault, Lacan, et al -- I thought my inability to understand them was simply because I was thick.

This was an episode of the BBC series "The World About Us," originally aired January 2, 1972.

many people said the same thing 50 years ago. Nothing’s changed. Hopeless idealism

Thank you.

Look at how many animals eat meat. Do carnivorous animals look at us as their slaves? This is ridiculous. Many ppl are thriving physically on total carnivorous diets. There are thousands of testimonials on the internet about it. We’ve gone from eating meat to considering ppl who do eat meat as inconsiderate barbarians and from realizing humans are far above animals in intelligence to thinking that dolphins could write a symphony if they just had hands! Speaking of dolphins, apparently an extremely cruel species to each other and other animals, in spite of their “intelligence.” Everyone has to get way out of balance and go out on a precarious limb of thinking that takes ppl to the end of reason. I love meat. I will always love meat and if l swim in the ocean a shark might eat me or if l camp in the forest l may be breakfast for a bear. That’s life. We would all be better off if grown ppl would stop trying to see bears as Winnie the Pooh and sharks as Bruce attending AA meetings for meat addiction. Reality bites, but there it is. Fantasyland is for Tinkerbells to which most ppl will always say, No Thanks!

If I was educated I would aspire to be a psychologist like minds of Rowan Williams and William James. Would nickname myself william in honor, and the english accent Welsh would be a plus 😂

Jolly good my dear fellow 👏 ! As the man said - " .. I am now a true eskimo . " 😅

Lovely way to start a Sunday, thank you

Western women choose to follow fashions. They make slaves of themselves.

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The Chinese are a religious, spiritual, poor, agricultural people who practice agriculture and farming. We, the Mongolians, are nomadic, sky-worshipping, pastoralists. We, the Mongolians, have been tortured and exterminated in large numbers by the Chinese for thousands of years, and we still are today.🤮🤮🤮🤮

oh my word. what a fantastic clearsighted interviewee. I watched the first chunk and bought Gillian's book on Japan. It's probably true to say that Britain has a very large number of anthropologically interesting cultures all of which raise the question, why do they do that ? For instance:The coffee machine might have been donated by a much loved member of staf and every cup reminds people of that person. That is almost like drinking from a relatives skull . Or, that everyone's too busy or concentrated to fret about such a lower order thing or Gillian spent too much time in the States where they all go on about coffee all the time because they're all addicts. Great erm podcast I suppose that's what it's called.

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Adilabad లోని తెగల గురించి haimondarff గారు 1940 లో తీసిన అరుదైన tribes video ఇదీ great effort

Fascinating honest discussion.

How will this "tragedy" be rewritten?? I wonder!!

You'd expect a very different behaviour now.. especially following such perpetual "tragedy". These "tragedies" are due to conflict, behaviour and theft of wealth from many countries..like Africa, which is ongoing to this day. Trillions have been stolen quite revently .. in fact since the 2nd ww, more people have died unnecessarily in many African nations than in both world wars. All due to theft. This is the ongoing behaviour that im talking about. Makes me sick.

I failed to correctly respond to the professor's discussion of the Jewishness of the modern Israeli state. It is an error to view the established religion of modern Israel, Orthodox Judaism, and assume that Netanyahu's government and, likewise, other functionaries of the state is formed of practising Orthodox Jews. The current Israeli president, as an example, is the grandson of a former Israel Chief Rabbi. His 'religiosity,' meaning his public level of Orthodox Jewish practise - let alone his personal level of practise - is not all that strict. Contrast this mix with that of any of the Moslem heads of state. Israel was established by Zionists who were secular. The present government does not have many strictly Orthodox Jews in its mix. Half of the Israeli parliament have been made ministers of government. The Speaker of the House is clearly not a practising Orthodox Jew. That he represents his side of the House shows just how irreligious is even the current government. The current home for the Jews, made homeless by the Roman empire, is not tribal. Most Israelis, Jews, Druse, moslems and others, who take a part in the Israeli military are held to the national breast as brothers and sisters. That the Ultraorthodox seek to be part of the secular nation but avoid the military creates much tension. This modern technological state is not more of a tribe than is the Britain that I knew in my years in the United Kingdom. David Lixenberg

Dear Professor Alan Macfarlane, I spent from age 8 years until 19 in the UK. It is true that most of those years of growing up I attended Orthodox Jewish Schools. However I spent the last year of elementary in the local primary school. I also tried a shot at a polytechnic where I might have become a science teacher. So I don't know whether my judgement is completely sound but I must believe it is. The primary school was Church of England. I wouldn't imagine for one moment that children are educated without a tribalism in England. I seem to remember leaving class when Church of England religious studies classes were being taught. I attended United Synagogue 'Hebrew' (meaning Jewish Studies) classes after regular school hours. So what you are saying about Israel is with regard to the political system there. The system in the Mother of all Parliaments and the contrasting Israeli arrangement. Now because Israel chose a unicameral parliament and did not allow the Israeli President any real authority what has happened is that the Prime Minister is supreme. Much too much supreme. Netanyahu, the longest serving Israeli Prime Minister, believes it to be his duty to fill this role as long as he may physically do so. We may see him still in this position at a comparable age to that of the US presidents Reagan and Biden. The US system saw FDR president for 4 terms. Netanyahu has already been prime minister longer than FDR served as US president. What we Jews do is distinguish between 'ultra' and 'modern' forms of Jewish orthodoxy. We have other flavours of Jews and of Judaism as well. What has happened in the Israeli unicameral supreme prime minister arrangement is not tribal so much as a royal construction. The prime minister shares out beneficences - very unfortunately. It is nothing to be pleased about but it isn't more tribal than is the UK. Respectfully, David Lixenberg

我也认为犹太人的历史悲剧会再次上演，但这次屠刀可能不是穆斯林世界 很可能是 美国。 其实犹太人刻意回避了一个问题，是什么原因导致希特勒屠杀犹太人？如果全世界都在思考这个问题，犹太人的受害者角色很快就消失。

Looks like a single state solution is slowly becoming untenable, while two or three or even no state solution, such as an UN administrative area under permanent neutral status might emerge.

Interesting insights!

If the situation were the opposite, meaning the Palestinians were massacring the Israelis, would we still be able to speak this calmly?

Very interesting insights without the usual baggage. Thank you for your thoughts.

Is it not the people in 'Palestine' who are indoctrinated with Nazi style Jew-hating propaganda in schools and taught to hate and kill, ergo Oct. 7? Why should Israel be labelled an 'apartheid' state? There's also a genocide against whites in SA which nobody tals or cares about, no?

There are enormous Christian and Islamic lands in our world. The French and British conquerors of the First World War separated out the Lebanon to the north and the territory to the south on two sides of the jordan river Turkish lands all. Initially the political heads at Britain's colonial office and foreign office were Conservative in one and Liberal in the other under the prime minister, the Liberal Lloyd George. In another government of Lloyd George's both ministers were Conservatives. In this situation palestine was divided into a greater eastern and a lesser western palestine. The larger department was created Transjordan. At a later time the Black September group would attempt to turn this into Arab Palestine but, at this juncture, Winston Churchill made it over to Sheikh Hussein. It would have been wise, prophetic, had all palestine moslems been awarded citizenship of the emirate irrespective of their actual palestine residence. I hold multiple citizenships but, obviously, am resident in only one. I do not hold citizenships of Germany, Italy nor of Poland though my mother was a German Jewess in hiding in Italy during the nazi persecutions and left europe on a Polish passport to become an American. Had the Lloyd George government and his Conservative colonial secretary Winston Churchill conditioned the formation of Transjordan on the distribution of nationalism in this palestine emirate there would never have arisen a problem needing a two-state solution in western palestine. Democratic and republican Israel and a royal house in Transjordan, the home and state for all moslem palestinians. The British Empire reneged on it's timely undertaking made to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild. The Labour governments of Ramsay MacDonald, the Conservative governments of Stanley Baldwin and of Neville Chamberlaine and the unity coalition under Winston Churchill in wartime. Had Britain followed through on it's undertaking many millions of Jewish lives would have been preserved. These lives were lost consequential on the White Paper Policy which only ended when Clement Atlee's Labour government quitted western palestine nine months after renouncing it's hold on the Indian subcontinent. The wealth of the Islamic lands should be used to educate their peoples not to idealize endless warfare.

Nepal was never narrow and small. Nepal was forced to become narrow and small due to a British treaty (Treaty of Sugauli 1816 March) which was forced by the British bureaucracy for their business and personal interests. In 1946, the British left their colony in India but did not give Nepalese land. Why should India give it back after getting such a large land for free? India is called the world's largest democratic country, but it also loves other people's land. This is the reason why Nepal has to suffer unnecessarily to fulfill the interests of others.

Dear Professor Alec Macfarlaine, I am not able to deny that much that is happening and being caused by my people is imperfect. Relying on warfare to create a larger and larger state seems bad thinking. But the size of territories that identify themselves as this or other culture seem to be vast in comparison to that of the Hebrew state. If Britain, Spain, France and Germany are Christian nations that though Latin-based speak languages that are enough different to be spoken of as being different cultures they are still one block even when their versions of Christianity differ. It would seem that while Turkey, Iran-Persia, Croatia have different languages and Islamic cultures it ought to be conceivable that Moslems who inhabit the Holy Land including Transjordan-Jordan ought to be able to attain passports and nationality in other states belonging to one Islamic block. Why must the Palestine-Israel Arab battle for the corner of the world that is, presently, Israel. So much natural wealth has been conferred on Moslem nations that what appears to be seemly is that it be invested in the beautiful world of knowledge and advancing the Islamic peoples and not in destruction as in Iraq and Syria. The friendship of the Mufti of Jerusalem for a cruel WW2 ideology. Respectfully, David Lixenberg.