BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology at the Crossroads: The View from France Volume One of the RAI Country Series edited by Sophie Chevalier Monday 19 October at 5.30pm The influence of French intellectual thought on anthropology worldwide has been immense. This set of outstanding essays examines the influence of Lévi-Strauss, internal debates concerning […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Musical Bodies: Orchestrating personhood, self and place among shamanic nomadic peoples of the Altai-Sayan Mountains of southern Siberia Dr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge Wednesday 21 October at 5.30 pm In the face of recent aggressive Russification policies, the shamanic semi-nomadic peoples of the republics of […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 23 October, 4.30 pm Lampedusa caught between shipwreck and tourism Dr Anna Arnone, SOAS Research Associate This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://annaarnone.eventbrite.co.uk October 2013, la spiaggia dei conigli is Tripadvisor-rated most beautiful beach in the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Touching and being touched – how we shape the world Professor Christina Toren, University of St Andrews Wednesday 28 October at 5.30 pm Skin, hands, and touch – we cannot separate them from one another, neither does it make sense (at least, from an ethnographic perspective) […]
Norwegian Anthropology Day Friday 30 October 2015 Venue: Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://norwegiananthropology.eventbrite.co.uk 09:00-10:00 Registration 10:00 Opening remarks by Prof. Edvard Hviding, Univ. of Bergen 10:15 – 13:00 PRESENTATIONS (25 minutes each including short […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Fürer-Haimendorf's early academic career: A case study in exploring methodologies for the history of anthropology Professor Andre Gingrich, University of Vienna Wednesday 4 November at 5.30 pm This seminar will discuss various methods in elaborating the history of anthropology, such as genealogies of ideas, network analysis, […]
RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Linguistic ethnography in Britain and Europe: Origins, organisation and perspective Professor Ben Rampton, King's College London Professor Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University Thursday 5 November at 5.00 pm Drawing on US linguistic anthropology but infusing it with interdisciplinary and applied concerns of its own, linguistic […]
'A tale of two women: Recreating Sattriya Dance Theatre from a 15th century Indian monastic performance tradition of male monks from Assam'A spoken word and dance performance By Dr. Menaka PP Bora (University of Oxford) and Indira PP Bora (Co-founder-Kalabhumi India). Friday 6 November at 11.00am This event is free, but tickets must be booked. […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 6 November, 4.30 pm ‘We were ready to leave’: Imagination, Migration & Cosmopolitanism between Uttar Pradesh (India) & the Gulf Tom Chambers, Sussex University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://tomchambers.eventbrite.co.uk This article examines migration and imagination […]
Behind the Screen–World: Visualizing Markets & Hacking Finance7th November 2015 10.00-17.00 Open University Campus, Camden http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact//maps.aspx?contactid=1 (Room 2). Building on the Royal Anthropological Institute and London School of Financial Arts’ 25th April 2015 symposium on Mapping High Finance, this one–day design workshop will begin with by introducing participants to academic work produced by sociologists, geographers and […]
Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Magaluf, Mamading and Moral Panic Dr Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University Monday 9 November at 5.30 pm At the start of July 2014 The Sunday Mirror newspaper published a story under the headline: 'Magaluf […]
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. […]
