A Xmas fairytale: the Shoes that were danced to pieces

This delightful fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm has become a RAG tradition, told every year on the last day of the autumn term, just before Christmas. It tells of twelve princesses and their periodic trips to the underworld, the narrator treating patriarchal marriage as a cruel punishment imposed on a coalition of sisters who had previously been free to dance the nights away. This magical tale introduces us to universal mythological themes which will be explored more fully in the Spring Term. Chris Knight will show how all such tales make sense in the light of the theory that human sexual morality was initially established by women

You may also like the following events from Radical Anthropology Group:

• Next Tuesday, 14th October, 06:30 pm, Tracks across Sand in London
• This month, 21st October, 06:30 pm, The matrilineal Zigula speakers of Somalia and Tanzania in London
• Next month, 11th November, 06:30 pm, New evidence from China helps to clarify the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution in London