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 […]
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Howard Morphy, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University Extended Lives in Global Spaces: the anthropology of Yolngu pre burial ceremonies Thursday 8 August 2013 The 2013 RAI Huxley Lecture will be presented at the 17th World Congress […]
RAI Research SeminarSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Agency, the gift, and the corporation: Conceptualising Corporate Community Development in Melanesian mining Dr Glenn Banks, Massey University With the increasing focus on the private sector as a critical development actor, there is a need to develop a better empirical and theoretical understanding of the development […]
Teaching Amidst Change 5-6 September 2013, 15 Norham Gardens, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK Joint <a target="_blank" href="http://www.teachinganthropology.org/">Teaching Anthropology (TA), a journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.easaonline.org/networks/teaching/index.shtml">EASA Teaching Anthropology Network (TAN) Conference Public sector reforms on a national scale are being forced on European states struggling to sustain their […]
The Presidential Address 2013 Professor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute The anthropology of deep-history Friday 20 September 2013, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. All are […]
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2013 followed by the Presidential Address The 2013 AGM will take place on Friday 20 September at 3.00 pm in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2013 Presidential Address. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote at the AGM. […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropological String Games Studies - The Early Years: Dr A.C. and Kathleen Haddon, Diamond Jenness, Caroline Furnace-Jayne, Honor Maude and their legacies Philip Noble At the turn of last century Dr A.C. Haddon with the help of Dr W.H. Rivers developed a nomenclature for recording string […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Bull-fights and their changing social context in Spain: thoughts based on recent fieldwork Professor Garry Marvin, Roehampton University Wednesday 2 October at 5.30 pm From Pasture to Plaza: Wild Bulls in Spain and City Discontents. The toro de lidia (the Spanish fighting bull) is a wild […]
