THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE

will be given by

Professor Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen

How Anthropologists Think: Refiguring the Exotic

Friday 16 December 2011, 5.30pm, in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.

This event is now fully booked

The event is free, but places must be booked. Please email Amanda Vinson on admin@therai.org.uk to book your place.

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Abstract:

A discussion of the history and contemporary place of the exotic in anthropology. The lecture addresses the question of the centrality of the exotic in anthropological analysis and its role in the distinctive contributions of the discipline.