CONFLICTING INTERESTS? Exploring conservation and human-animal relationships 2 November 2013 10.30 to 17.00 Horniman Museum Garden Pavillion How do different cultural understandings and relationships with animals affect conservation practices? In this interdisciplinary event, anthropologists, biologists and conservationists will demonstrate the interconnections between the lives of people and animals in relation to conservation and ecosystem management. […]
Arctic Hunters – The Netsilik Inuit Monday 4 November at 6pm. Royal Anthropological Institute This classic ethnographic series reveals the lived reality of traditional Inuit life before European acculturation. The ‘Netsilik Eskimos’ of the Pelly Bay region in the Canadian Arctic, had long lived apart from other people and had depended entirely on animals, land […]
A Kalahari Family Tuesday 5 November at 6pm. Royal Anthropological Institute What do animals mean to the changing realities of former hunter-gatherer communities? Certain challenges faced by these communities in relation to National Park politics, conservation and tourism projects will be discussed using John Marshall’s, classical ethnographic film series ‘A Kalahari Family’ that documents 50 […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Bolivian Quechua Politics and Ontology Dr Margarita Huayhua, RAI Urgent Anthropology Fellow, Goldsmiths Wednesday 6 November at 5.30 pm Quechua social and linguistic practices reveal the way they conceptualize the world; that is, what things exist and constitute the world and the interactions among them. For […]
VISITING LECTURE BY THE 2013 HUXLEY LECTURER will be given by Professor Howard Morphy, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University The Displaced Local: multiple agency in the building of ethnographic collections Friday 8 November 2013, 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the […]
RAI History Day AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The aim of this event is to explore the history of the RAI since the Second World War, in particular concentrating on its Bedford Square days. Chair: Professor Howard Morphy, Australian National University Friday 8 November 11:00 to 16:00 Refreshments provided. This event is free, but places […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 13 November Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song Christy Garland, 71 mins, Guyana The Bastard, using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana where […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The evolution and cognition of social bonding (Provisional title) Dr Emma Cohen, University of Oxford Wednesday 13 November at 5.30 pm This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://emmacohen.eventbrite.co.uk/">http://emmacohen.eventbrite.co.uk/#
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Hunter-gatherer behaviour: human response during the Younger Dryas Thursday 14 November at 11.00 am (tea & coffee served from 10.30 am) Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 20 November Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Delhi at Eleven Ravi Shivhare, Anshu Singh, Aniket Kumar Kashyap, Shikha Kumar Dalsus, David MacDougall, 82 mins, 2013, India/Australia This film presents the work of four young […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 27 November Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh Barley Norton, 56 mins, 2010, Vietnam This film follows the challenges faced by the controversial Vietnamese band Lam Linh, while […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 4 December Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Himself He Cooks Valérie Berteau, Phillipe Witjes, 65 mins, 2011, India/Belgium In the Golden Temple in Amritsar hundreds of volunteers prepare 100,000 free meals every day. The spontaneous […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Revisiting: Cultural concepts through cycles of keywords and phrases. OR: What happened to linguistic anthropology in the UK? Opportunity or obsolescence in an age of superdiversity. Chair: Professor David Parkin, University of Oxford Wednesday 4 December at 5.30 pm Abstract: We are rightly reluctant to use […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The English Breakfast / The King’s Christmas Pudding Thursday 5 December at 10.00 am (tea & coffee served from 9.30 am) Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT In a departure from the normal format, the British […]
ROUNDTABLE ANTHROPOLOGY IN PROCESS: FIELDWORK CONVERSATIONS Roundtable Speakers: Nancy Lindisfarne, SOAS, University of London Title: Taking Sides: The Politics of Fieldwork and Writing Up Andrew Sanchez, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Title: Trust and the Ethics Of Ethnography Narmala Halstead, UEL Title: Interrupting the conventional Judith Okely, University of Oxford Title: Against hypotheses: […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 11 December Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Tracks Across Sand – Overture & Aftermath Hugh Brody, 30/52 mins, 2013, South Africa For the San living within South Africa, the apartheid regime meant a final eviction […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE We are Playing Football: Sport and Postcolonial Subjectivity Thursday 16 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 and Research Centre, in […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Defining 'a sense of place': working with local communities to explore the social meaning of language variation Dr Emma Moore, University of Sheffield Wednesday 29 January at 5.30 pm Research in the field of sociolinguistics has explored the many ways in which language correlates with different […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINAR SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Gordon Childe, Neolithic Diffusion: a new model Maxime Brami, University of Liverpool Wednesday 5 February at 5.30 pm Vere Gordon Childe, a founding father of modern archaeology, defined the Neolithic 'revolution' as the shift from food- gathering to food-producing. Central to this theory is the […]
RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Biology, Genetics and Blood Groups at the Royal Anthropological Institute 1930-1956. Dr Jenny Bangham, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Wednesday 12 February at 5.30 pm In 1951, Herbert Fleure—geographer, anthropologist and recent president of the Royal Anthropological Institute—chaired a meeting of “anthropologists, […]
