Being Human Podcast

Discussion of how to define trauma, the trade-offs that come into play in the wake of traumatising events (and their roots in evolution), the difference between healing and curing trauma.
My animal body

How my understanding of the world and my place in it, was forever changed by moonlight and mosquitoes.
Sensing my primate self

How I came to know my evolutionary heritage from inside the fibres of my muscles and the immediacy of my senses.
Disturbed ancestors: Datoga history in the Ngorongoro Crater

The village chairman agreed to the pilgrimage with three Datoga elders to the Ngorongoro Crater. Our purpose was to visit the grave of Gitangda, the revered ancestor and spiritual leader who died over 100 years ago..