By kind permission of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Sean Kingston Publishing would like to invite you to the launch of: The Making of Asmat Art: Indigenous Art in a World Perspective by Nick Stanley at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT on Wednesday 16 January between 6.30 and 8.00 pm There […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Life of Property: House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France Thursday 17th January 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 […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices' Gods, Moneylenders and Anthropologists: Three Raj Gond Worlds in the Twentieth Century Dr Kriti Kapila, King's College London Monday, 11 February 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - S2 Conveners: Dr […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From the unknown to the unknown: languages and cognition in the cradle of civilisation Dr John MacGinnis Wednesday 13 February at 5.30 pm The process by which the cuneiform writing system emerged in ancient Mesopotamia is still not fully understood, nevertheless it rose to be the […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Believing in Belonging: Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World Thursday 14 February 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 […]
Making Educational Ethnography Matter – Lessons from Work with Indigenous Youth Friday 15 February at 10.00 am Teresa L. McCarty George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles, USA Anthropologists of education have long struggled to find ways to make our ethnographies useful to policymakers and practitioners. Can ethnographic research, […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'Visual Narratives of 'Fierce' Goddesses and 'Brave' Historical Women Akanksha Mehta, SOAS Monday, 18 February 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - S2 Conveners: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge) Susanne Hammacher […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Researching multilingualism as social practice and pedagogy: a linguistic ethnographic approach Professor Angela Creese, MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, School of Education, University of Birmingham Wednesday 20 February at 5.30 pm In recent times scholars in sociolinguistics have found that language use in late modern […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'Eyes of the Ancestor: ‘returning’ photographs to an Indian village Dr Mark Elliott, MAA, University of Cambridge Monday, 25 February 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - S2 Conveners: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'History, memory and stigma: Filming India's 'criminal'/denotified tribes in western India Dr William Gould (University of Leeds) and Mr Dakxinkumar Bajrange (Budhan Theatre, Ahmedabad) Tuesday, 5 March 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The vast ethnographic record, massive supercomputers, and 100 basic words: How language histories reveal the processes of cultural change Dr Fiona Jordan, University of Bristol Wednesday 6 March at 5.30 pm This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'Delhi at Eleven: David MacDougall, children filmmakers and urban India Dr Stephen Hughes, SOAS Monday, 11 March 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - S2 Conveners: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge) […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ways of Speaking, Ways of Knowing: the ethnolinguistic Identity of the Inugguit Dr Stephen Leonard, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Wednesday 13 March at 5.30 pm Through examining ways of speaking and ways of knowing, it is possible to gain insights into a group's […]
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 […]
