The Anthropology of Health in Africa Location: SOAS, Brunei Building Date: 10 November 2015 Time: 14:00 - 17:00 Through two interactive workshops focused on interdisciplinary health projects in Africa, Anthropology A Level / International Baccalaureate students will engage with ethnographic examples from the field and researchers working on these projects. Dr Shelley Lees’ workshop will […]
RAI EthnomusicologyRAI Blacking Lecture 10 November 2015 Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast Music and Citizenship Professor Martin Stokes, King's College London Citizenship debates - traditionally focused on questions about property, liberty of the person, and representation - shifted radically in the 1990s. Globalization pushed questions about ‘flexible citizenship’, about problems of inclusion and exclusion in […]
Workshop on Anthropology and Humanitarian Crisis: A thought experiment Location: Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT Date: 11th November 2015 Time: 10:00 - 16:00 Convenor: Professor Raymond Apthorpe Contact: Gemma Aellah, RAI Research Officer, gaellah@therai.org.uk This workshop is part of an on-going project on Anthropology and Humanitarian Crisis convened by Professor Raymond […]
RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Koryak Ethnopoetics: Stories from Herders and Maritime Villagers Dr Alexander King, University of Aberdeen Thursday 12 November at 5.30 pm I present an initial analysis of a documentation project that is 20 years in the making. Funded by a large project grant from the […]
The 'Dunbar Number', Evolution and CognitionFriday 13 November 2015 Archaeology G6 LT, Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://dunbarnumber.eventbrite.co.uk Chair: Professor Rob Foley (Cambridge) 10.00am - Welcome and opening remarks Paper One 10.10-10.50am “Primate social evolution and the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Why Music Matters. Social Aesthetics and Cultural Transmission. Dr Jerome Lewis, UCL Wednesday 18 November at 5.30 pm All social groups have their own music. Why should this be? This talk will argue that attending to musical activity provides great insight into a group’s core values […]
RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Naming and other veiled speaking among the Bwa People of Mali: A contribution to pragmatic anthropology Professor Cecile Leguy, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Thursday 19 November at 5.00 pm In France, linguistics and anthropology have developed independently of each other. First-generation ethnographers […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 20 November, 4.30 pm Catalan young migrants in London Clara Rubico, Universitat de Lleida This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://clararubico.eventbrite.co.uk The high rate of unemployment in Catalonia and the persistent precariousness of the labour market […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Musical Instruments and Material Culture Professor Kevin Dawe, University of Kent Wednesday 25 November at 5.30 pm The seminal Handbook of Material Culture (2006) provides a broad introduction to its field of study and demonstrates how well material culture studies is embedded and established within anthropology. […]
RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Are some experiences impossible to put into words? Professor Asifa Majid, Radboud Universiteit Thursday 26 November at 5.00 pm Language seems to be better at expressing some notions (e.g., geometric shapes), but poor at others (e.g., describing an individuals’ face). But are there ineffable […]
Life in a Turkish provincial town in 2015: Elections and New Social Directions?David Barchard Friday 27 November at 3.30 pm David Barchard looks at the structures and patterns underlying life in a small central Anatolian community and tries to relate them to broader questions about the direction of Turkish society and its political system.. A […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Sibirr and Close to Home – Film Screening ‘Sibirr’ (1989/2000) // Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes // 40min, 16mm, colour, sound; transferred to digital video. ‘Close to Home’ (1982/1987) // Nina Danino // 28min, 16mm, black and white, sound; transferred to digital video. 4pm, Saturday 28th November All Hallows […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Bx46 – Film Screening Directed by Jeremie Brugidou and Fabien Clouette FRANCE, USA / 2013 / 78 min Tuesday 1st December 18:00 – 20:00 Bx46 is an documentary film essay, an exploration of trajectories and routes between three and a half spaces in contemporary New York: the legendary fish market that […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Soundscapes and Ethnomusicology Dr Rachel Harris, SOAS Wednesday 2 December at 5.30 pm This seminar considers the burgeoning interest in soundscapes within the discipline of ethnomusicology. Drawing on diverse strands from urban geography to sound art and acoustic ecology, Rachel Harris asks what fresh insights a […]
RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The cultural evolution of linguistic structure Dr Kenny Smith, University of Edinburgh Thursday 3 December at 5.00 pm No other species has a communication system which provides the expressive power of human language: at least at a first approximation, anything you can think, you […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Robin Dunbar, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Dunbar’s Number: How Constrained Is Your Social World? Friday 4 December 2015 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The Social Brain Hypothesis, first proposed in […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Morality or Moralising? Ethical tourism’s critique of the masses on holiday Dr Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University Monday 7 December at 5.30 pm In recent decades ‘ethical tourism’ has become a popular theme amongst […]
History of the Royal Anthropological InstituteWorkshop in preparation for Volume 2: 1871 to 1918 8th & 9th December 2015 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://raihistory2.eventbrite.co.uk 8th December 2015 DAY 1 10.30 TEA AND COFFEE 11.00 […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 11 December, 4.30 pm A Feeling for Water: Rethinking the role of affective geographies in lessening the emotional burden of research participation Dr Natalie Djohari, Visiting Research Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please […]
BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Photography in the Age of Snapchat Prof Daniel Miller, University College London Monday 14 December at 5.30pm With well over two billion photographs posted daily on social media this is now the dominant form of contemporary photography. It also means the photograph takes its place with text and voice […]
