School of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Anthropology

• AN247 African Cosmology: Gender and Ritual Power
• AN351 Biological Anthropology & Human Evolution
• AN365 Human Sociobiology and Ecology

• Ph.D. on the evolution of female sexuality, evolution of ritual, cosmetics and body art. Overall project is for a comparative anthropology of women's strategic use of sexuality and sexual display for economic ends. Current fieldwork with Hadzabe of Northern Tanzania, investigating importance of ritual culture of Hadzabe women.
• Comment on Hovers et al. "An early case of color symbolism" Co-authored with C. Knight & I. Watts, Current Anthropology 44:513-514. (2003)
• "Women in prehistoric art". In Perspectives on prehistoric art, G Berghaus (ed.) Praeger Books (in press, 2004)
• "Grandmothers, politics and getting back to science evolutionary theory". Co-authored with C. Knight Chapter for E Voland (ed.) Grandmotherhood - the Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Life. Rutgers University Press. (in press)
• 'Biological substrates of human kinship: The view from life history theory and evolutionary ecology'. Chapter for J Lassègue (ed.) The Emergence of Kinship: Editions Rue d'Ulm. (in press)

Conferences

• Organiser of Indigenous Peoples Conference, at United African Alliance Community Centre, Maji ya Chai, Arusha, Tanzania (2003)
• 'Menstruation and the Origins of Art' at conference on "Menstruation: Blood, body, brand", organised by Institute for Feminist Theory and Research, Liverpool University, (2003).
• 'Grandmothers, the psychological, social and reproductive significance of the second half of life' Hanse Institute, Delmenhorst, (2002).
• 'The Hadzabe of Tanzania' at African Hunter-gatherers day, the British Museum, organised in conjunction with Survival International, (2002).
• 'Biological Substrates of Human Kinship' at Workshop "Modelling the evolution of kinship", run by Ecole Normale Superieure, Foljuif, (2002).

• Female Proto-symbolic strategies. In L. Hager (ed.) Women in Human Evolution. London and New York: Routledge, pp.153-72. with L.C Aiello (1997)
• 'Beauty Magic': the origins of art. In R. Dunbar, C. Knight and C. Power (eds) The Evolution of Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp.92-112. (1999)
• First Gender, Wrong Sex. In H. L. Moore, T. Sanders and B. Kaare (eds) Those who play with fire: gender, fertility and transformation in East and Southern Africa. London: Athlone Press, pp.101-132. with I. Watts (1999)
• Secret language use at female initiation: bounding gossiping communities. In The Evolutionary Emergence of Language. Social function and the origins of linguistic form, (eds) C. Knight, M. Studdert-Kennedy and J. R. Hurford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.81-98. (2000)
• The woman with the zebra's penis: gender, mutability and performance. Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 3, 537-560. with I. Watts (1997)
• The human symbolic revolution: a Darwinian account. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5, 75-114. with C. Knight, and I. Watts (1995)