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RAI Book Launch: Social Anthropologies of the Welsh

RAI BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 25 November,  4.00pm-6.00pm (GMT) Social Anthropologies of the Welsh: Past and Present  with editors Prof W. John Morgan (Cardiff University) Dr Fiona Bowie (Oxford University) and Dr Elaine Forde (Swansea University) Prof Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology) Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones (Aberystwyth University) […]

Book Launch: Time and its Object

RAI BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 27 January 2022,  3.00pm-5.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucO2qrTsuGdUhd5QFHlQYIgavrkasAySu    Time and Its Object A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images   with editors Dr Paolo Fortis (Durham University) Prof Susanne Kuechler […]

Book Launch: Encounters with Anthropology in Austria

BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 22 February 2022,  2.00 - 5.30pm (GMT) / 3.00-6.30pm (CET) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErceivqzsuEt2vZO8B8iwK57iTqG-zmFca  Encounters with Anthropology in Austria The RAI is proud to present this two part event, which discusses two important publications highlighting Anthropology in and from […]

Book Launch: Harvey Whitehouse

BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 1 March 2022,  4.00pm-6.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqdO2vqz4rGtJL4ohDCd-PfVydU-b80pFO  The RAI is proud to present this book launch event, which discusses a new theory of how ritual has shaped human societies over the millennia: The Ritual Animal: Imitation […]

Book Launch: Tim Ingold

BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 11 March 2022,  4.00pm-6.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__0fwz8ouQb6J6Yujigcmxg  BEING ALIVE BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION  Prof Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) with Dr Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford) as discussant  and David Shankland (Royal Anthropological Institute) as chair November […]

Book Launch: Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value

BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 11 April 2022,  10.00am - 12.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SIlZxalvRSut62E6YkExGg  Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value with editors Robyn McKenzie (Australian National University)  Prof Howard Morphy (Australian National University) and Prof Paul Basu (SOAS)    Dr […]

JRAI Forensic Anthropology supplement Issue – Launch event

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Monday 4 September 2023, 10am - 12.00pm (BST)Register for the Zoom event here    JRAI Forensic Anthropology supplement Issue – Launch event   This supplement has been an exciting project which has allowed us to not only examine the areas of work that forensic anthropologists are involved in on […]

Joint book launch: Reproductive Realities in South Asia

Joint Book Launch Tuesday 19 September 2023, 3.00 - 5.00pm (BST)Register for the Zoom event here          Reproductive Realities in South Asia: Ethnographies from Bangladesh and India   Book 1- Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India (Maya Unnithan) Book 2- Childlessness in Bangladesh: Intersectionality, Suffering and Resilience (Papreen Nahar) The authors […]

Book Launch: Paul Richards and Perri 6 – ‘Mary Douglas’

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 6 October 2023,  2:30-4:30pm BSTThis is a hybrid event. To join us in Person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-mary-douglas-tickets-721992267307?aff=oddtdtcreator To join us online on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eWzD3PmKSHGh5CvY-vQN5g#/registration     MARY DOUGLAS Paul Richards (Adjunct Professor Njala University) and Perri 6 (Queen Mary University, London) with Richard Fardon (SOAS) as chairand Gillian Tett […]

Book Launch: Music and Digital Media – A planetary anthropology

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Tuesday 28 November 2023,  4.00-6.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us in Person at the RAI, please register here   (Address below) To join us online on Zoom, please register here Music and Digital Media A planetary anthropology with editor Prof Georgina Born (University College London) discussants Prof Tom Boellstorff (Department […]

Book Launch: Giovanni Ercolani

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 19 January 2024,  3.00-5.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DZS2Io7HSYy4Z3x8JPPjyA#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-giovanni-ercolani-tickets-772922761787?aff=oddtdtcreator The Maidan Museum: Preserving the Spirit of Maidan Dr Giovanni Ercolani (University of Murcia, Spain) chair Prof Chris Farrands (Nottingham Trent University)   […]

Book Launch: Soraya Tremayne

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 26 January 2024,  3.00-5.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. Registration links to be added soon!   INCONCEIVABLE IRAN To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce? Soraya Tremayne (Co-Founding Director of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group; Research Affiliate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford) […]

Book Launch: Itsushi Kawase

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Wednesday 31 January 2024,  6.00-8.00 pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RUZ3SgBiRTCx-PambWXoRg#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-itsushi-kawase-tickets-793419076817?aff=oddtdtcreator Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets Itsushi Kawase Chair: Stephen Hughes, RAI Film Translator: Jeffrey Johnson (from Japanese)   […]

Book Launch: André Chappatte

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 9 February 2024,  4.00-6.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ovJUROgNStqUc2mwEvzAIw#/registration To join in person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-andre-chappatte-tickets-773158115737 In Search of Tunga: Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town André Chappatte and Gunvor Jónsson (Honorary Research Associate in Sociology at […]

Book Launch: María Cruz-Torres

ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 23 February 2024,  4.00-6.00pm GMT To join us online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2PY_ciYCQQmWGtq391Ew6A#/registration   Pink Gold Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico María L. Cruz-Torres (Arizona State University) The "shrimp ladies," locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell seafood in open-air markets, forming an extralegal but key part […]

Book Launch: Ross Bowden – ‘The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik’

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Monday 25 March 2024,  1.00 - 3.00pm GMT To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oEht-kTwRYKSxZKW1J9DFQ  The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik Dr Ross Bowden with Dr Robert Welsch as discussant This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of […]

Hybrid Book Launch: Nancy Lindisfarne & Jonathan Neale

HYBRID BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Tuesday 30 April 2024,  3.00 - 5.00pm BST   This is a hybrid event. To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kAQf9bUFQSaPEAeosj6uWw#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1196881 Why Men? A Human History of Violence and Inequality with authors Nancy Lindisfarne […]

Book Launch: Gunvor Jónsson

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 7 June 2024,  3.00-5.00pm BST This is a hybrid event. To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e56Hd_WrQdekan-sWAmIXw#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T5BT), register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-gunvor-jonsson-tickets-824104357317?aff=oddtdtcreator  Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market: An anthropology of endings Gunvor Jónsson (Honorary Research Associate in […]

Book Launch: Webb Keane

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 13 September 2024,  time tbc This is an online event. (Registration links to follow soon) Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination   ~ Webb Keane (George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan) How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating, mind-expanding exploration of our moral universe […]

Book Launch: Ann R David

Book Launch This is a hybrid event. To join online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZnLwTXc-SGGlntFb4vWqoA#/registrationTo join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here: https://buytickets.at/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1362032  Ram GopalInterweaving Histories of Indian Dance ~ Ann R. David (Prof Emerita of Dance and Cultural Engagement, University of Roehampton) Both a biography and a history, this […]