To mark the conferment of the RAI Photography Studies AwardAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Australian Aboriginal Transformations of the Colonial Archive Professor Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia) Monday 22 February at 5.30 pm Many European photographic archives contain images of Australian Aboriginal people, produced from the mid-nineteenth century for scientific and popular purposes – […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 24 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Queens of Syria, Yasmin Fedda, 2014, 70 mins Boya Boya (Shine Shine), Karen Boswall, Ruba Al Akash, 2014, 18 mins The first film tells the story […]
An evening with Edith DurhamIn association with the Anglo-Albanian Association Dr Robert Elsie Wednesday 24 February 2016, 5.30pm-7.30pm Edith Durham was at once one of the most distinguished Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a well-known war-correspondent, lecturer, writer, photographer and artist of Albania and the Balkans. A former Member of Council and Vice-President, […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Gaining access to tourist markets: female craft producers in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Dr Dorothea Meyer, Sheffield Hallam University Monday 29 February at 5.30 pm Abstract Tourism accounts for 40% of all international arrivals into less economically […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 2 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Ainu: Paths to Memory, Marcos Centano, 2014, 82 mins The film sets out to discover the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan. The film shows a […]
Royal Anthropological Institute 14th International Ethnographic Film Festival 4th-6th March 2016 at USCLOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Screenings Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 4-6th, 2016. All screenings at Seeley G. Mudd Hall [SGM}on USC campus. Vermont Avenue Entrance at 36th Place (Gate #6). The prize winning films at The 14th RAI International […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 March, 4.30 pm Erasure of the individual: Interruptions, egalitarianism, and equality in the context of deaf people in the UK Kelly Fagan Robinson, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://kellyrobinson.eventbrite.co.uk This paper will address […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 9 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Mr Coperthwaite: Spring in Dickinson's Reach, Anna Grimshaw, 2014, 82 min. In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the […]
RAI SEMINARSEMINAR AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE A publisher's perspective Marion Berghahn, Berghahn Books Wednesday 9 March at 5.30 pm Drawing on her many years in publishing, Marion Berghahn, an anthropologist by training, will present an overview of the industry and where, in particular, the monograph fits into the spectrum. As a major publisher in […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 16 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS The Halfmoon Files- A Ghost Story, Philip Scheffner, 2008. 87 min. This experimental film follows the history of a brief sound recording of the voice of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE “Play Music Without Dancers and It’s a Waste of Music”: Sounding Movements, Changing Contexts, and the Sean Nós Dancer Dr Catherine Foley, University of Limerick Wednesday 16 March at 5.30 pm This seminar ethnochoreologically examines sean nós dancing, a solo, vernacular semi-improvisatory percussive dance practice performed […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Anthropology and Anthropologists: the Modern British School Thursday 17 March at 10.00 am (tea & coffee served from 9.30 am) Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic (EVDE) and its Unexpected Effects on Tourism in The Gambia and Sierra Leone Dr Marina Novelli, University of Brighton Monday 21 March at 5.30 pm Abstract Over the past 20 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Listening to the ‘voice of the body’: revisiting the concept of embodied ethnography in the anthropology of dance Dr Ann R David, Head of Dance, Reader in Dance Studies, University of Roehampton Wednesday 23 March at 5.30 pm Whilst Radcliffe-Brown, Malinowski, Mead and other early eminent […]
"Love Terrestrial and Love Divine": Women and Dutar in UzbekistanDr Razia Sultanova, University of Cambridge Wednesday 6 April at 11.00am Playing the Uzbek Dutar (plucked lute) and doira (frame drum), Dr Razia Sultanova will give a rendition of Uzbek female music. This feminine repertoire was performed exclusively indoors, far from the eyes and ears of […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Scale, Cohesion and Complexity: Understanding Fali community chiefdoms of the Mandara Mountains James H. Wade Wednesday 20 April at 5.30 pm A combination of dispersed powers and ego-centred networks generated within the trajectory of the Fali of the southern Mandaras is shown to achieve a high […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The House of Commons: an Anthropology of MPs at Work Thursday 21 April at 10.00 am (tea & coffee served from 9.30 am) Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 April 2016, 4.30pm Auditing Muslim Audition Adeel Khan, University of Cambridge This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://adeelkhan.eventbrite.co.uk Discussing the place of propriety of speech and act in Euro-America has from George Minois to J. M. […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE International volunteer tourism: decommodified moral encounters or a search for moral meaning? Peter Smith, St Mary's University Monday 25 April at 5.30 pm In recent decades there has been a boom in international volunteer tourism, […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The complex origins and evolution of our species Professor Robert Foley, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge Wednesday 27 April at 5.30 pm Nearly thirty years ago the idea that Homo sapiens evolved recently in Africa and dispersed rapidly from there took hold, […]
