#1022 Vivek Venkataraman: Tree Climbing, Running, and Hunting across Human Societies
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Vivek Van Katarman. He is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. And today we're talking mostly about human tree climbing running. and hunting. So Doctor Van Katarman, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. Thanks me. So let's start with uh tree climbing because i it's curious because on the show I've already had many anthropologists on and with a few of them I talked about walking
And running But this is the first time I'm going to talk about. Tree climbing specifically so I mean, do you think that that's because it's a topic that is not as explored in anthropology as something like walking And running, and if so, why?
Yeah, um thanks for thanks for the question. Um Yeah, it it's interesting. We do kind of focus on walking and running and I think The big reason for that. Um, is that in industrialized societies that Anyone listening to this show.
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