Filming Intangible Heritage: Questions of rights, publication, and archiving Presentation with excerpts from a film in progress, followed by Q&A with Dr. Beate Engelbrecht Wednesday 15 February, 6pm Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French Theatre Book shop) Free for RAI […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY State Practices and Zionist Images Reviewed: Dr David Wesley, University of Tel-Aviv Reviewer: Prof Tom Selwyn, SOAS Thursday 16th February 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 […]
Diversity Month 2012 Pink Saris A film by Kim Longinotto. Screening organised in partnership with the Royal Anthropological Institute. Type of event: evening film screening Overview: "A girl’s life is cruel...A woman’s life is very cruel," notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto’s latest foray […]
Temporary Sanity Dan Brunn, NYC, 2006 The film tells about Jamaica's dance music culture in New York and the life of the versatile disc jockey Skerrit Bwoy. Originally from St Johns, Antigua, the youngster migrated to the Bronx in the mid 1990's, hanging around local clubs to emerge as a star of the international dance […]
Breaking Bubbles: Anthropology for our Future 1st National Anthropology Undergraduates Symposium 3rd to 4th March 2012 University of Kent, Canterbury Encouraging & giving the opportunity to students, who are active within their community, to share with others what they have been doing to make anthropology more then just a discipline. This event is specifically open […]
Violence past and present: researching conflict in northern Mozambique Seminar by the RAI/Leach Fellow, Dr Ana Margarida Sousa Santos (Brunel) Thursday 8 March, 5pm - 7pm Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French Theatre Book shop) Free for RAI members and […]
Other Europe Rossella Schillaci, Italy, 2011 In Turin, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees. The film follows the life of its tenants, until its evacuation by the city authorities a year later. An emblematic tale of all European countries today and their respective immigration policies. Free entrance.
Shooting the Mursi Olisarali Olibui, Ben Young, Ethiopia / UK, 2009 This unique film tells the story of one of Africa's most isolated tribes through the eyes of one of its members, Olisarali Olibui, who carries in one hand a Kalashnikov and in the other a camera. It provides a compelling and at times disturbing […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropologist or Colonial Nuisance?: R. H. Mathews and the race to document the ‘disappearing’ world of Aboriginal Australia Thursday 15th March 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 […]
Je ne suis pas moi-même Director Alba Mora, Anna SantamariaCountry/Production Spain Release 2009 Length 50 mins Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region Location Cameroon / Africa & Brussels, Belgium / Europe Language English, French (English subtitles) Prizes/Commendations Material Culture Film Prize 2009 Where do the Afican masks come from and who determines […]
REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind Thursday 22nd March 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 […]
King’s India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute cordially invite you to the First M. N. Srinivas Memorial Lecture 'An Anthropologist's View of India after Liberalisation' Speaker: Professor Akhil Gupta (Department of Anthropology, UCLA) 26 March 2012, 18.00 Room S-3.20, King's College London, Strand Campus Please note that Room S-3.20 is in Basement 3 of […]
Insider Ethnographies – West African Visual Anthropologists from the Tromsø masters programme Film extracts and discussion with by Gary Kildea, Film Supervisor, Visual Cultural Studies, University of Tromsø University, Norway DJENEBA: A Minyanka woman of southern Mali, by Bata Diallo, 2011 REHE: The Blacksmiths of Mogode, Gamache, by Thomas Kodji, 2009 JUARKE: Boys made men […]
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 […]
