Future Remembrance Director Tobias Wendl, Nancy du PlessisCountry/Production Germany Release 1998 Length 54 mins Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region Location Ghana / Africa Language English (English sub) While glancing through the history of B&W photography in Ghana, the film focuses on present-day social practices of studio photographers and the impact of […]
Temporary Sanity: Jamaican Dancehall Culture Temporary Sanity: the Skerrit Bwoy Story is a film produced by Dan Brun in 2006 as part of his Visual Anthropology Masters at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. The film explores the cultures, gendered performances and political expressions that form part of Jamaican Dance Hall in […]
LEARNING BY EXAMPLE: BUILDING ARGUMENTS ETHNOGRAPHICALLY One-day workshop organized in conjunction with Teaching Anthropology, a journal ofthe Royal Anthropological Institute. www.teachinganthropology.org 16th April 2012 Magdalen College, High Street, Oxford OX1 4AU Keynote speakers: Professor Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) Professor Carole McGranahan (University of Colorado Boulder) Professor Kim Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Confirmed speakers: Dr […]
Dancing Gender: Gesture and Identity among Native American Two Spirits This presentation explores how Native American gay, lesbian, and transgender people (Two-Spirits or GLBT) find culturally acceptable ways of conveying their gender and sexual identity through dance and performance. Using photographs, clips and over 10 years of research, the presentation shows how ethnicity, gender and […]
Speeding Bodies and the City: From Skateboarding to Car Driving This presentation explores some of the various ways in which bodies in motion – from skateboarding to walking to automobile driving – produce different experiences of cities and landscapes. Photographs, film clips and music are used to explore the transitory nature of our mobile interaction […]
Vjesh / Singing Rossella Schillaci (Italy) 2007, 57 mins With sharp voices, the women of St. Costantino and St. Paul Albanese sing the most heart-rending songs. These are the ancient vjeshet, handed down from mother to daughter. They tell of the Albanian escape to seek shelter in southern Italy, five centuries ago. But they are […]
Invisible and Visible Bodies in Ceremonial and Ritual Dance in Java This presentation will explore dancing in the royal courts and remote highland villages of Java. What are the different layers of meaning behind these dances? And how do Javanese people explain what is going on? Illustrated with film clips and photographs the presentation will […]
The Creation of a Ciné Parkour This presentation explores the transformative aspects of Parkour through film-how one experiences, moves, connects and participates in the environment, challenging notions of normative behaviour, socialisation, identity and self-determining actions through explorations of the self. The films range from quiet observational pieces to montages and first person POV, reflecting Parkour […]
Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Thursday, 3rd May, 13.15pm Nuba Wrestling Colour, 43 minutes, 1991 Rolf Hussmann and Werner Sperschneider The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum take usually place between the northern and southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity in a hostile urban […]
Thursday, 17 May, 7pm These events are free, no booking required. MANENBERG Filmmaker/ Anthropologists: Karen Waltorp and Christian Vium 58 minutes, 2010 (distributed by the RAI) A beautifully shot documentary set on the outskirts of Cape Town in South Africa. The brilliance of it, is that the whole film revolves around the days leading up […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain Thursday 17th May 2012 at 10.00 am (tea & coffee served from 9.30am) Centre for Anthropology, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological […]
Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Thursday, 17 May, 13.15pm TROBRIAND CRICKET: AN INGENIOUS RESPONSE TO COLONIALISM Colour, 50 minutes,1974 Jerry Leach, Gary Kildea The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974, shortly before […]
The Royal Anthropological Institute and the British Museum Press present the launch of : Warriors of the Plains: The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare by Max Carocci Friday 18 May 2012 at 6pm To accompany the book launch there will be an exhibition of Imagi/Nations: Native North American Photographs from the Royal Anthropological Institute, curated […]
Thursday, 24 May, 7pm These events are free, no booking required. Drugs and Prayers Filmmaker: Helene Basu, India/Germany, 2010
The Rise of Child Science and Psy-Expertise The Centre for Research in International Medical Anthropology, together with the Royal Anthropological Institute, will be holding a workshop entitled ‘The rise of child science and psy-expertise' on May 29 and 30. Keynote speakers include Professors Allan Young from McGill University, Rayna Rapp from New York University, and […]
Thursday, 31 May, 7pm These events are free, no booking required. Pink Saris Filmmaker: Kim Longinotto, India/UK, 2010 (distributed by the RAI)
Royal Anthropological Institute / British museum Centre for Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE WORLD BRITISH MUSEUM, CLORE CENTRE, 8th to 10th JUNE 2012 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference ‘Anthropology in the World’ will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the BM Centre for Anthropology. The […]
Tracing Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in: Poetics, Land, Memory, and Well-Being in the Circumpolar North Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, MSc, MRes, PhD The Royal Anthropological Institute Goldsmiths University of London University of Aberdeen & Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute Thursday 21 June at 5pm ABSTRACT Tracing Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in discusses the lives of the Teetł’it […]
We are screening two films as part of the Open City Festival at SOAS on Sat 23 June. 14.00 Other Europe By Rossella Schillaci, 2011, Italy, 75 minutes Somali, Arabic, English Italian (Engl.Sub) (Winner of the RAI Film Prize 2011) And 19.00 Hanoi Eclipse. The Music of Dai Lam Linh By Barley Norton, 2010, UK, […]
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 of […]
