RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Voices in Music, Voices on Music: anthropology and ethnomusicology in dialogue Dr Suzel Reily, Queen’s University Belfast Wednesday 5 November at 5.30 pm The word ‘voice’ indicates the vocal production of sound, but it is also used in a metaphorical fashion to indicate an individual’s or […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Modernism, method and the making of Anthropology Dr David Mills, University of Oxford Wednesday 12 November at 4.00 pm In 1922, proclaimed as modernism's 'Year One' by Ezra Pound, the anthropological project was redefined by the publication of Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Humanitarian Intervention Professor Raymond Apthorpe, Vice-President, RAI Wednesday 3 December at 5.30 pm One of anthropology’s currently rapidly developing areas is with regard to humanitarian intervention and aid studies (see the speaker’s JRAI Review Essay in this year’s June issue ‘Anthropology and humanitarianisms across […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Writing the biography of an unknown African: an 'engaging' form of anthropology? Professor Pat Caplan, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday 14 January at 5.30 pm This paper addresses a series of questions about ‘engaged’ anthropology, including how anthropologists may ‘give back’ to the people whom they […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Pragmatism, identity, and the state: how the Nuaulu of Seram have reinvented their beliefs and practices as "religion" Professor Roy Ellen, University of Kent Wednesday 28 January at 5.30 pm The Dutch colonial state categorized animists and ancestor-worshippers and inscribed them into written records in ways […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Listening to ghosts Dr Sarah Buckler, Robert Gordon University Wednesday 4 February at 5.30 pm The small and isolated settlements of Peat Carr and Moorsley in the Sunderland coalfields cling to a precarious existence just as they cling to the edge of an escarpment overlooking the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ethnographic biography: telling leprosy through a life Dr James Staples, Brunel University Wednesday 11 February at 5.30 pm This seminar addresses the question of how anthropologists might write in ways that better allow the objects of our fieldwork to be represented as themselves – or in […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Socioeconomics and the supernatural amongst the Miskitu and Ulwa of eastern Nicaragua Dr Mark Jamieson, University of East London Wednesday 18 February at 5.30 pm This seminar considers in comparative terms the relationships between socioeconomic processes, misfortune and belief in supernatural agency amongst the people of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ethnomusicology and Filmmaking Dr Barley Norton, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday 25 February at 5.30 pm This seminar will examine filmmaking in ethnomusicology and its relationship with ethnographic film more broadly. The historical development of ethnomusicological film, I will argue, is characterized by a movement from […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Christian dividual and sacrifice: Personal partibility and religious efflorescence among North Mekeo (PNG) Professor Mark Mosko, ANU/LSE Wednesday 4 March at 5.30 pm I take it to be indisputable that Melanesian anthropology has received its greatest theoretical impetus over the past three decades in the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ‘The greatest delight to all present’: public engagement with Aboriginal performances and displays in Melbourne Victoria, 1836-1914. Professor Lynette Russell, Monash University Wednesday 11 March at 5.30 pm This paper emerges from a book length project on the Racial Thought at the Edge of the World: […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Forensic Anthropology in the 21st Century Dr Lucina Hackman, University of Dundee Wednesday 18 March at 5.30 pm This seminar will look at the development of the profession of forensic anthropology from its first use in a criminal case through to its utilisation in casework today. […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Westermarck and Muslim Saint Worship in North Africa: Thoughts Based on Recent Fieldwork Dr Tsuyoshi Saito, Kobe University, Japan Wednesday 25 March at 5.30 pm This seminar takes up a particularly significant phenomenon in the social anthropology of Islam: maraboutism in North Africa, and looks at […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Meeting Anthropology, or how to talk to chairs Dr Simone Abram, Durham University and Leeds Beckett University Wednesday 1 April at 5.30 pm Almost anyone working in a university, in a political party, in government at any level, or in any large-scale organisation, knows what a […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Haddon in Ireland, reconstructing the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey Ciarán Walsh, Maynooth University Dr Joe Dudding, Arch and Anth Museum, Cambridge Wednesday 8 April at 5.30 pm This illustrated talk outlines a project to reconstruct the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey that was […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Alevis of Turkey: twenty-five years on Dr David Shankand, RAI & University of Bristol Wednesday 22 April at 5.30 pm (in conjunction with the Anglo-Turkish society) This talk looks back on twenty-five years research conducted by the speaker amongst the Alevis of Anatolia, outlining the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom AND/OR A Retired Anthropologist rethinks her first degree in General Science Professor Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes Wednesday 29 April at 5.30 pm Joy’s “retirement” was marked by a year taking up exciting invitations to visit universities in Australia, New […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Subjects as Objects: how heritage practice works with the past Dr Tom Yarrow, Durham University Wednesday 20 May at 5.30 pm Based on ethnographic research with Historic Scotland, the government heritage agency, this paper considers how the historic environment is produced. Focusing on the process by […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology, UNESCO and the destruction of World Heritage: Controlling the Conversation Dr Charlotte Joy, Goldsmiths Monday 1 June at 5.30 pm In this paper, I will be looking at the recent destructions of cultural heritage in Mali from the point of view of UNESCO’s long-term work […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE What did Ted Hughes learn from anthropology? Professor Bob Layton, Durham University Wednesday 10 June at 5.30 pm During the second year of his undergraduate career in Cambridge, Ted Hughes found that study in the English Department was stifling his creativity, and he transferred to Anthropology. […]
