RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and business – reflections on a long-term relationship Dr Simon Roberts, RED Associates Wednesday 20 March at 5.30 pm Contrary to the repeated ‘discovery’ by journalists of anthropologists operating in the business world there is, in fact, a long history of interaction between anthropology and […]
King's India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute cordially invite you to The Second MN Srinivas Annual Lecture Finding an Address: Reflections on an Urban Neighborhood Speaker: Professor Veena Das (Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University) 21 March 2013, 6:15pm Room S-2.08, Strand Campus, King's College London. Please note that Room S-2.08 is in Basement […]
Anthropology A-level Conference Date and Times: Friday 22nd March 2013 10:00-14:30 at Brunel University This day-long conference, jointly organised by the Department of Anthropology at Brunel University, and the Humanities Department at Heston Community School, and supported by the Royal Anthropological Institute, will revolve around a series of workshops modelled on actual university lectures. These […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From the Atlantic Rainforest to the Chaco: can conservationists work with anthropologists, and with indigenous communities? John Burton, World Land Trust Wednesday 3 April at 5.30 pm John Burton, will describe his personal experiences and the problems of working with indigenous communities from the perspective of […]
Close Encounters: Bringing Anthropology Home The University of St Andrews will be host to the 2013 student-led Royal Anthropological Institute Conference, <a target="_blank" href="http://rai-close-encounters.org/#&panel1-1">Close Encounters: Bringing Anthropology Home. The theme of this year’s Conference arose from the basic but compelling notion that anthropology is informed by and reliant upon close encounters. To bring anthropology home […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Ecological Context for Early Human Evolution in East Africa Dr Sarah Elton, University of Durham Wednesday 17 April at 5.30 pm East Africa is the source of much valuable information about early human evolution. In this seminar, I will consider how knowledge of the animals […]
A Papuan Photographic Encounter: Lord Moyne’s and Lady Broughton’s visit to Asmat 1929-1936Professor Nick Stanley Thursday, 18 April 5:30pm - 7:00pm HJ Braunholtz at the British Museum suggested to Lord Moyne in the late 1920s that a good place to visit on his Pacific adventures would be a blank spot on the ethnographic map, the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Rider Haggard, RLS, Hardy, Kipling, and other movers of the late nineteenth-century anthropological avant-garde Professor Jeremy MacClancy, Oxford Brookes Wednesday 24 April at 5.30 pm Our conceptions of the boundaries of anthropology are too narrow. We arbitrarily restrict our vision of what anthropology could be by […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Fusions: Masquerades and Thought-Style East of the Niger-Benue Confluence, West Africa Thursday 25 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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Seligman Error: mental illness and social anthropology Professor Roland Littlewood, University College London Wednesday 15 May at 5.30 pm The anthropologist and physician C.G.Seligman, a member of the Torres Straits Expedition and later Evans-Pritchard's teacher, is remembered in psychiatry for the 'Seligman error'- the assumption […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Archaeology and Anthropology: Past, Present and Future Thursday 16 May 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 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology, sociology and the ethnography of British India, c. 1870-1947 Professor Chris Fuller, London School of Economics Wednesday 22 May at 5.30 pm Bernard Cohn and other scholars have shown that ethnography was a vital part of British colonial knowledge about India, but they have paid […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Artefacts and bodies among Kuna people from Panamá Dr Paolo Fortis, Durham University Wednesday 29 May at 5.30 pm This paper draws on current debates on Amerindian theories of materiality and personhood to reflect on what Kuna people from Panamá think when they make particular artefacts. […]
Research seminar: Student anthropologists on fieldwork reflections Place: Royal Anthropological InstituteDate: May 31, 2013 Time: 17:00 hours to 18.30 hours This event is open and free to attend, but places are limited. Please contact Penny Searson and Narmala Halstead to book (email: pennysearson@googlemail.com; n.halstead@uel.ac.uk) Penny Searson, UEL Title: "Finding my Feet in Fieldwork: An […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology after the Crisis Professor James Carrier, Max Planck Halle / University of Indiana Wednesday 12 June at 5.30 pm Recently anthropology has experienced an intellectual crisis of confidence, a sense that the discipline has lost its way, and an institutional crisis, a loss of resources […]
Registration Open Registration is now open for the 13th RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2013, held from Thursday 13th June to Sunday 16th June 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Please register online: http://raifilmfest.org.uk/film/festival/2013/registration The festival is jointly hosted by the National Museums of Scotland and STAR (Scottish Training in Anthropological Research, a collaboration between the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Fraternising With the Africans: Godfrey Wilson and 'Good Company' in 1930s Bunyakyusa Dr Rebecca Marsland, University of Edinburgh Wednesday 19 June at 5.30 pm The story of Godfrey Wilson is a tragic one in the history of anthropology. One of Malinowski’s favourite students, and the husband […]
Description The London Anthropology Day is an annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. The event is held at the British Museum's Education Clore Centre. On the day, participants get to learn what anthropology is about, the types of careers anthropologists do, as well as gain hands-on experience […]
Are you interested in what makes us human? Are you keen to find out about our past? Durham University Anthropology and Archaeology Departments invite you and your students to the Northern Anthropology and Archaeology Day Supported by the Royal Anthropological Institute 11th July 2013, 12.00 – 16.00 Dawson Building, Durham University Science Site, South Road, […]
Gaalli Haddha - A Camel is Like a Mother (10 mins, 2013) A film about young Karrayyu boys as they embark on their annual 200 mile journey through Ethiopia with their camels. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Adanech Admassu, Beth Cullen and Tracy Pallant, the producers and researchers of this participatory […]
