Whose Anthropology is it Anyway? Connections in the modern world4th Royal Anthropological Institute Postgraduate Conference Brunel University 3 - 4 September 2014 Registration closed on 30 July 2014. The final programme can be found here. When delivering the 1967 Reith lectures, Edmund Leach recalled a phrase from novelist E.M. Forster, Only connect..., drawing attention to […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2014 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture The 2014 AGM will take place on Friday 12 September at 3.00 pm in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2014 Henry Myers Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may […]
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2014will be given by Professor David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London Farewell to the “Childhood of Man”: Ritual, Seasonality, and the Origins of Inequality Friday 12 September 2014, at 5pm (approximately) in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B […]
BABAO Conference 201416th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology The Department of Archaeology at Durham University will be holding the BABAO conference in 2014. Place: Durham University, Mountjoy Science Site Date: Friday 12th to Sunday 14th September 2014 Organisers: Prof. Charlotte Roberts, Dr. Janet Montgomery, Dr. Andrew Millard, Dr. Becky […]
Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK: promoting and safeguarding our diverse living cultures Saturday 20 September 2014 09.30 - 16.30 The Museum of London Docklands, No. 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL Storytelling, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, and traditional crafts knowledge […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Mari Lwyd in Wales: Celebration as National Identity. Dr Juliette Wood, Cardiff University and The Folklore Society Wednesday 24 September at 5.30 pm The Mari Lwyd has been associated with New Year celebrations in Wales since the end of the nineteenth century. The custom involving […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Evolutionary life history theory and the demographic consequences of rural development intervention in Ethiopia. Dr Mhairi Gibson, Bristol University Wednesday 1 October at 5.30 pm Across the developing world labour-saving technologies are designed and introduced specifically to improve community health and well-being; however long-term anthropological fieldwork […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Archaeology on the track of earliest fire: the consequences for human life, and recent researches in Africa Professor John Gowlett, Liverpool University Wednesday 8 October at 5.30 pm Fire plays a major part in human life, with both social and technological significance, but it also poses […]
Sulphur, Sugar, Scholars and SecretsA photographic exhibition about the life of James Arthur Harley, the first Black Anthropology Diploma student at Oxford, 1909. James Arthur Harley, Antiguan born, outstanding scholar, educated at Howard, Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and the first Black student to take the Anthropology Diploma in 1909 at Oxford. This exhibition, through a […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The emergence of ethnomusicology and the RAI Professor John Baily, Goldsmiths Wednesday 15 October at 5.30 pm In 1953, when the newly denominated discipline of ethnomusicology was emerging, the RAI Council proposed ‘to appoint a committee to consider what action should be taken for the encouragement […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE RAI War and embodied memory: becoming disabled in Sierra Leone Thursday 16 October at 10.30 am (tea & coffee served from 10.00 am) Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Tuesday 21st October, 2014, 6pm The Persistence of the ‘Observational Method’ in Ethnographic Film Film extracts and discussion with Gary Kildea Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Referring to excerpts from his own films (Trobriand Cricket, Celso & Cora, Koriam’s Law) and some from the Visual […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Curating sound: views from the galleries, streets and rainforests Dr Noel Lobley, Pitt Rivers Museum Wednesday 22 October at 5.30 pm Sound curation can link the most beautiful music in the world with cultural renewal projects and also with the senseless and violent destruction of militias. […]
The Inaugural Mary Douglas Memorial LectureThursday 23rd October 2014 at 6pm Harrie Massie Lecture Theatre, UCL, 25 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AY Irreconcilable Conflicts? Civil Wars from the Perspective of an Institutional Theory of Culture Professor Paul Richards, Njala University (Sierra Leone) The annual lecture, in memory of Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007), is sponsored by […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Dance, ethnomusicology, anthropology: Same difference? Professor Andrée Grau, University of Roehampton Wednesday 29 October at 5.30 pm The seminar will look at the relation between dance and ethnomusicology, and dance and anthropology. The anthropologist and ethnomusicologist John Blacking (1928-1990) saw ethnomusicology and the anthropology of dance as […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday 31 October, 2014, 5pmMemorialising and Commemorating the Dead in Mexico City: A critical look at the Mexican Day of the Dead Research Seminar followed by some tasters with Dr Marcel Reyes-Cortez, Goldsmiths, University of London In Mexico City, the dead are very present in popular culture and are manifested in […]
Cinematic cartographies –Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. SHE-RIVER (la Fiuma) Rosella Schillaci, 2008, 67 mins She-River is an anthropological documentary exploring the River Po (Northern Italy) and its surrounding and people. A journey with […]
Cinematic cartographies –Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. THE LAST NAVIGATOR Colour, 50 minutes, 1989 Q&A with filmmaker and anthropologist: André Singer This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator […]
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 […]
Cinematic cartographies – Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. FILM, MOBILITY AND URBAN SPACE. A cinematic ethnography of London A selection of short archive films from the London Screen Archives collection. discussant tbc This event […]
