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# Royal Anthropological Institute

The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, a scholarly association dedicated to anthropology in all its many fields and applications

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- [List of Certified FAIIIs](https://therai.org.uk/forensic-anthropology/certified-faiii/) - The practitioners at this level have evidenced that they have some experience and knowledge in the field of forensic anthropology. They may not have yet had real field experience but they will be mentored by either an FAI or an FAII practitioner.
- [Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 2, 1953-1960 (MS 498)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/fagg-manuscripts-2-1953-1960-ms-498/) - Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 2, 1953-1960 (MS 498) For abbreviations, see MS 497 Contents: /1 1953 Correspondence /2 1953 Miscellaneous /3 1954 Correspondence /4 1954 Miscellaneous /5 1955 Correspondence /6 1955 Miscellaneous /7 1956 Correspondence /8 1956 Miscellaneous /9 1957 Correspondence /10 1957 Miscellaneous /11 1958 Correspondence /12 1958 Miscellaneous /13 1959 Correspondence /14 1959
- [Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 7, Margaret Plass papers 1946-1990 (MS 503)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/fagg-william-buller-manuscripts-7-margaret-plass-papers-1946-1990-ms-503/) - Papers of Margaret Plass in the William Buller Fagg collection, 1946-1990 (MS 503) Contents: /1 1946-54 Margaret Plass Papers /2 1955-57 Margaret Plass Papers /3 1958-59 Margaret Plass Papers /4 1960-61 Margaret Plass Papers /5 1962-63 Margaret Plass Papers /6 1964 Margaret Plass Papers /7 1965 Margaret Plass Papers /8 1966 Margaret Plass Papers /9
- [Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 6, undated and Ethel John Lindgren papers 1938-1988 (MS 502)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/fagg-william-buller-manuscripts-6-undated-and-ethel-john-lindgren-papers-1938-1988-ms-502/) - Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 6, undated and Ethel John Lindgren papers 1938-1988 (MS 502) For abbreviations, see MS 497 Contents: /1 Mostly Undated Miscellaneous Documents /2 Fieldwork Material & Miscellaneous Items /3 Business Cards etc. /4 1937-58 Ethel John Lindgren Papers /5 1959-88 Ethel John Lindgren Papers /6 Undated Ethel John Lindgren Papers /1
- [Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 5, 1975-1992 (MS 501)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/fagg-william-buller-manuscripts-5-1975-1992-ms-501/) - Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 5, 1975-1992 (MS 501) For abbreviations, see MS 497 Contents: /1 1975 Correspondence /2 1975 Miscellaneous /3 1976 Correspondence /4 1976 Miscellaneous /5 1977 Correspondence /6 1977 Miscellaneous /7 1978 Correspondence /8 1978 Miscellaneous /9 1979 Correspondence /10 1979 Miscellaneous /11 1980 Correspondence /12 1980 Miscellaneous /13 1981 Correspondence /14 1981
- [Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 4, 1968-1974 (MS 500)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/fagg-william-buller-manuscripts-4-1968-1974-ms-500/) - Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 4, 1968-1974 (MS 500) For abbreviations, see MS 497 Contents: /1 1968 Correspondence /2 1968 Miscellaneous /3 1969 Correspondence /4 1969 Miscellaneous /5 1970 Correspondence /6 1970 Miscellaneous /7 1971 Correspondence /8 1971 Miscellaneous /9 1972 Correspondence /10 1972 Miscellaneous /11 International Congress of Africanists, 1973 /12 1973 Correspondence /13 1973
- [Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 1, 1864-1952 (MS 497)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/fagg-manuscripts-1-1864-1952-ms-497/) - Fagg, William Buller Manuscripts 1 1864-1952 All of William Fagg’s anthropology books and pamphlets were catalogued as he requested, and now form the William Buller Fagg Library housed at the RAI. Various items connected with William Fagg have been deposited in other archives and institutions, as follows: in 1992, all his non-anthropological publications were sold
- [Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 3, 1961-1967 (MS 499)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/fagg-william-buller-manuscripts-3-1961-1967-ms-499/) - Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 3, 1961-1967 (MS 499) For abbreviations, see MS 497 Contents: /1 1961 Correspondence /2 1961 Miscellaneous /3 1962 Correspondence /4 1962 Miscellaneous /5 1963 Correspondence /6 1963 Miscellaneous /7 ‘Nigerian Images’, 1963 /8 ‘African Sculpture’, 1964 /9 Zambian Independence, Oct. 1964 /10 1964 Correspondence /11 1964 Miscellaneous /12 1965 Correspondence /13
- [Emslie Horniman Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-past-recipients/) - 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2007 2009 2008 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 2017Jennifer CearnsCharles RadclyffeFahad Rahman 2016Chioma Vivian NgonadiPatrick Charles JolicoeurAnna Sarkissian 2015Bronwyn Alison IsaacsPhill WilcoxMargaret-Ashley Veall 2014Emily Levitt 2013Luiseach Nic EoinNejm BenessaiahConstance Ruth Smith 2012Ian Michael CookEleanor Scerri 2011Brian CampbellMartin Tsang 2010Vita PeacockAntonia KniftonJames BlinkhornBryn
- [Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship Fund](https://therai.org.uk/awards/research-grants/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund/) - The major aim of the Fund is to encourage postgraduates to pursue fieldwork, and so to develop their careers as anthropologists/archaeologists. The awards are made to those who have the potential to be outstanding anthropologists/archaeologists and whose projects will make a contribution to the disciplines of anthropology and archaeology.The closing date for applications is 31
- [Amaury Talbot Winner 2025](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/amaury-talbot-winner-2026/) - Weaving Political Time in Morocco: The Imaginary of The State in The Neoliberal Age. By Béatrice Hibou and Mohamed Tozy The book explores how neoliberal ideology and historic traditions of government come together in contemporary Morocco Béatrice Hibou is CNRS Director of Research at CERI Sciences Po, Paris. Her books include The Force of Obedience
- [Anthropology and Environmental Justice: Law, Policy and Activism](https://therai.org.uk/education/online-courses/anthropology-and-environmental-justice-law-policy-and-activism/) - Start date: 10th September 2026 | Price: £245
- [Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship Fund Guidance & Application](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/__trashed/) - Thank you for your interest in the above Fund; we look forward to receiving your application. It will be in your interests to submit your application adhering closely to the guidelines. Please note that no application will be considered unless we have all the information required including two full references. References Click the button below
- [Honours and Awards 2026](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/honours-and-awards-2026/) - Huxley Medal: Professor Veena Das (John Hopkins) Professor Das is a preeminent anthropologist of India and one of the world’s leading anthropologists. Her wide-ranging theoretical concerns have been concentrated at the intersections of anthropology with philosophy, medicine, economics and politics. Rivers Medal: Professor Chris Fowler (Newcastle) Professor Fowler specialises in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
- [Hatty Frances Bell, MA](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/hatty-frances-bell/) - Film Officer & Programmes Curator
- [Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha, PhD](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/natalia-christofoletti-barrenha/) - Film Officer & Programmes Curator
- [Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology Past Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/amaury-talbot-prize-for-african-anthropology-past-recipients/) - 2022JointCooper, ElizabethBurning Ambition: Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya (University of Wisconsin Press 2022) JointFalola, ToyinDecolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies (Cambridge University Press 2022) Special CommendationDe Jong, FerdinandDecolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal (Cambridge University Press 2022) Special CommendationWendland, Claire L.Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles (University of Chicago Press 2022) 2021JointIyam, David UruShaping
- [List of Chartered FAIs](https://therai.org.uk/forensic-anthropology/chartered-fai-list/) - The highest level of certification and is chartered status. These are highly experienced practitioners who have court room experience.
- [Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture Prior Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/huxley-memorial-medal-and-lecture-prior-recipients/) - 2025Professor Didier Fassin 2024Professor Alex de Waal‘Anthropology and the Humanitarian Encounter: Famine, Societal Trauma and the Academy’ 2023Professor Chris Stringer‘Mostly Out of Africa: how, when and where’ 2022Professor Marcia Langton(no lecture) 2021Professor Stephen Shennan‘Population and the dynamics of culture change’ 2020Professor Stephen Levinson‘The ‘interaction engine’: the evolution of the infrastructure for language’ 2019Professor Chris Hann‘Economy and Ethics in the Cosmic Process’ 2018Professor
- [The Worlds of Irish Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-country-series/the-worlds-of-irish-anthropology/) - The Worlds of Irish AnthropologyEdited by Hana Cervinkova & Mark MaguireVol. 6 of the RAI Country Series.The worlds of Irish Anthropology presents a selection of Irish abnthropological essays on themes ranging from migration and memory of social class and religious conflict. Every chapter addresses contemporary disciplinary concerns.As a collection, this bok offers a portrait of
- [Emslie Horniman Application](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/emslie-horniman-application/) - Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. - Step 1 of 6A. PERSONAL INFORMATIONName *FirstLastTitle of your research project *Name(s) of your Supervisor(s) 1 *FirstLastName(s) of your Supervisor(s) 2 *FirstLastName(s) of your Supervisor(s) 3 *FirstLastYour nationalityplease also give country of residence if different
- [Anthropology and Art: an Introduction](https://therai.org.uk/education/online-courses/anthropology-and-art-an-introduction/) - Start date: TBC | Price: £245
- [New exhibition: The Piruzai – Afghanistan 1971](https://therai.org.uk/photographs/grid-anthropometric-photographs-and-potential-history-copy/) - Exhibition at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St., London W1T 5BT3 June – December 2026Viewing of the physical exhibition is by appointment. Please contact us on info@therai.org.uk You can view the online exhibition here.The Piruzai – Afghanistan 1971An exhibition of photographs by Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Richard TapperIn 1971-2, Nancy and Richard lived for nearly a year with
- [Application Form & Notes](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/notes-for-applicants/) - RADCLIFFE-BROWN FUND FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH NOTES FOR APPLICANTS The aim of the Funds is to assist social anthropologists who are in the final stages of completing a doctorate who are facing financial hardship. The resources of the Funds are limited, and awards are necessarily small. In making awards, the panel will consider the relevance of
- [Letter to Applicants](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/rb_letter-to-applicants/) - RADCLIFFE-BROWN FUND FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH Given the number of applications for this fund, it is very important that the instructions for the submission of applications are followed carefully. The application must be submitted electronically as a PDF to admin@therai.org.uk, with the reference sent separately as a PDF by your referee, direct to the Assistant
- [Radcliffe-Brown and Firth Trust Funds for Social Anthropological Research](https://therai.org.uk/awards/research-grants/radcliffe-brown-and-firth-trust-funds-for-social-anthropological-research/) - The aim of the awards, which are jointly funded by the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) and the RAI, is to help young scholars in social anthropology who are handicapped by lack of funds to work towards the completion of research upon which they have already embarked.Only students associated with British or Commonwealth universities are
- [Referee Documents](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/referees-documents/) - RADCLIFFE-BROWN FUND FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH REFEREE DOCUMENTATION Your application requires one referee. Please find below a link to the standard letter you need to send to your referee and the standard form they will need to fill in and sign as part of your application. The reference will need to be sent to us
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 17](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-amp-photography-volume-17/) - Stefano Galeazzi, A CARNIVALESQUE ANALYSIS OF A SOCIAL SITUATION IN GLOBAL SENEGAL
- [Shruti Muruganandan](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/shruti-muruganandan/) - Social Media Officer (Internship)
- [RAI Council](https://therai.org.uk/about/governance/council/) - Council as of January 2026 President: Professor Jonathan Spencer (2025)Hon Vice Presidents: Professor Emma Crewe (2025)Professor Lucina Hackman (2025)Professor Ann MacLarnon (2020)Hon Secretary: Professor Simon Underdown (2021)Hon Librarian: Professor John Gowlett (2018)Hon Treasurer: Professor Julian Thomas (2025)Ordinary members of Council:Professor Hazel Andrews (2022)Dr Judith Aston (2024)Professor Paul Basu (2024)Professor Ann R. David (2021)Professor Richard Fardon (2021)Professor Haidy Geismar (2024)Professor Bruce Gibson (2025)Professor Rachael
- [Emslie Horniman Award: Anubhav Preet Kaur](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-anubhav-preet-kaur/) - Award Holder: Anubhav Preet KaurUniversity: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research MohaliTitle of Research: Understanding signatures of hominin occupation the Pinjore Formation (2.6-1.0 Ma) of the Siwalik Hills of northern India using Palaeolithic archaeology, vertebrate Palaeontology and remote sensingThe role of environmental stimuli in hominin evolution, expansion, speciation, adaptation and extinction has been highlighted
- [Emslie Horniman Application Format](https://therai.org.uk/awards/awards-forms/emslie-horniman-application-format/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 50 Fitzroy Street London W1T 5BT United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)20 7387 0455 Fax +44 (0)20 7388 8817 Application for the Emslie Horniman Fund Notes The information requested below is required for applications to the above Fund. Read the relevant notes for applicants prior to completing this
- [Volunteers, Interns and Student Placements](https://therai.org.uk/jobs-opportunities/volunteers-and-interns/) - If you are interested in getting involved with the Royal Anthropological Institute’s activities, we would like to hear from you. There are different ways to be involved. We offer internships, student placements, and volunteering placements.Interns, students, and volunteers can get involved with our archive and photograph collections, our film department, education and outreach projects, and bigger events, such as our conferences or London
- [Volunteer and Intern Policy](https://therai.org.uk/about/governance/volunteer-and-intern-policy/) - Internship, Student Placement, and Volunteering PolicyThe RAI welcomes volunteers, interns, and those on student placements. This policy outlines the distinctions between these three ways of getting involved with the RAI and sets out the principles, aims, and expectations of each.The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world’s longest-established scholarly association
- [Maxine Hertlein ACMA CGMA](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/maxine-hertlein-acma-cgma/) - Assistant Director of Finance
- [Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship Fund Letter to Applicants](https://therai.org.uk/awards/awards-forms/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-letter-to-applicants/) - THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 50 Fitzroy Street London W1T 5BT United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)20 7387 0455 Fax +44 (0)20 7388 8817 Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship Fund Letter to applicants Dear, EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Thank you for applying to the above Fund; we look forward to receiving your
- [List of Certified FAIIs](https://therai.org.uk/forensic-anthropology/certified-faii/) - This level includes practitioners who have evidenced competence in both their practical and theoretical knowledge of forensic anthropology. They may not yet have given evidence in a courtroom but they will be mentored by an FAI to assist them in this regard.
- [Mike Thompson](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/mike-thompson/) - All publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m7EmH-IAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
- [Advertising](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-today/advertising/) - This bimonthly periodical is aimed at public and topical issues and at bringing anthropology to a wider public. Vacancies, fellowships, scholarships, prizes, courses and events are specialties. To order your advertising space please click to email here. Please note that we do not offer discounts to advertising agencies. We will always do our best to
- [VacancyLink](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/vacancylink/) - VacancyLink – Vacancies advertised under Anthropology Today Vacancies advertised in Anthropology Today are included here after the issue in which they appear has gone to press. See our rates for further information. Are you in a hurry? If you cannot wait for the print issue, we can still feature you in this column. In our
- [Roland Littlewood](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/roland-littlewood/) - Prof. Roland Littlewood (1947–2025) Photo: Roland Littlewood helped lead the Centre for Medical Anthropology at University College London. My husband, Roland Littlewood, who has died aged 78, was professor of psychiatry and anthropology at University College London from 1994 until 2012, and for more than 20 years the joint director of UCL’s Centre for Medical Anthropology,
- [Photo Salon](https://therai.org.uk/photographs/photo-salon/) - Call for Presentations!The Royal Anthropological Institute will be holding another of its popular Photo Salons on Monday 11th May 2026 at 5pm, at 50 Fitzroy Street, London. This is a chance for students and academic staff to present their current work on photography and to socialise with like-minded scholars. We are looking for short, snappy presentations (5
- [Ros Little, BSocSc](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/ros-little/) - Publications, Forensic Anthropology and Fundraising Officer
- [Max Carocci](https://therai.org.uk/about/committees/max-carocci/) - Max Carocci is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Art History at Richmond the American University in London. He writes and researches a number of topics at the intersection of art and anthropology. Max has served as consultant and curator for the British Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, and for numerous museums, learned institutions,
- [Prof Florentina Badalanova Geller, MA, PhD](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/florentina-badalanova-geller/) - Senior Researcher & Slavonic Database Editor,
- [Hanine Habig, MA](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/hanine-habig/) - Office Manager & Events Coordinator
- [Fiona Asokacitta](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/fiona-asokacitta/) - Editorial Assistant (JRAI)
- [Iside Carbone, MA, MPhil, PhD](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/iside-carbone/) - Assistant Editor, Anthropological Index Online
- [From Collecting to Curating: a Practical Course on Museum Exhibitions](https://therai.org.uk/education/online-courses/from-collecting-to-curating-a-practical-course-on-museum-exhibitions/) - Start date: February 10th 2026 | Price: £245
- [Jason Webber, MInstAM](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/jason-webber/) - Assistant Director of Administration
- [Forensic Anthropologist II (FAII)](https://therai.org.uk/forensic-anthropology/forensic-anthropologist-ii/) - This level includes practitioners who have evidenced competence in both their practical and theoretical knowledge of forensic anthropology. They may not yet have given evidence in a courtroom but they will be mentored by an FAI to assist them in this regard.
- [Adrian Mayer](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/adrian-mayer/) - Adrian Mayer (1922–2024) My friend and former work colleague Adrian Mayer, who has died aged 102, was a social anthropologist renowned for a 1950s study of an Indian village that showed how the caste system, while based on ancient religious beliefs and linked to the system of kinship, was quite separate from divisions based on
- [Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems](https://therai.org.uk/awards/prizes/wellcome-medal-for-anthropology-as-applied-to-medical-problems/) - Biennial – Deadline 30 November 2026The Medal is awarded biennially by the Council of the RAI, on the recommendation of judges appointed by Council, for a body of published work which makes, as a whole, a significant contribution to research in anthropology as applied to medical problems.Individuals may apply to be considered for the award,
- [Orlando Swan, MA](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/orlando-swan/) - Membership & Outreach Officer
- [David Shankland, MA, PhD](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/david-shankland/) - Director
- [Anthropology in the World 2012](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-in-the-world-2012/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / British Museum Centre for Anthropology 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 aim of this conference
- [Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change 2016](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-weather-and-climate-change-2016/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AFRICA, OCEANIA AND THE AMERICAS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM The RAI is delighted to announce a major conference entitled “Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change” which will take place at the British Museum, 27-29 May 2016, organized in conjunction with the BM Department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
- [Art, Materiality and Representation 2018](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/art-materiality-and-representation-2018/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, THE DEPARTMENT OF AFRICA, OCEANIA AND THE AMERICAS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT SOAS BRITISH MUSEUM/SOAS 1st-3rd JUNE 2018 The conference was jointly organised by the RAI, the BM’s Department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas, and the Department of Anthropology at SOAS and held in the
- [Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology 2022](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/mobilising-methods-in-medical-anthropology-2022/) - The conference is over, but registered delegates can still catch up on sessions they missed until mid-April. Enter the conference platform, navigate the agenda and instead of live zooms, you’ll find embedded recordings. We have 47 such recordings, with only a handful of panels/labs opting out from being recorded. Delegates are also encouraged to view the film
- [Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society 2022](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-ai-and-the-future/) - Virtual Conference 6 -10 June 2022 Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. AI has come to represent multiple causal drivers of change: amongst them artificial intelligence itself, space exploration, bio-tech and other emerging technologies. The implications for human society could hardly be more significant, and feed into a host of already contemporary concerns,
- [Anthropology and Geography 2014](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography-2/) - British Museum, Clore Centre, 29-31 May 2014 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference ‘Anthropology and Photography’ will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the museum’s Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. The aim of the Conference is to stimulate an international discussion on the
- [Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future 2020](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography/) - 14 – 18 September 2020 The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference is jointly organised by the RAI, the RGS, the British Academy, the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, and the BM’s Department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas. The conference took place online from 14-18 September 2020. The RAI believes
- [Anthropology and Conservation 2021](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-conservation/) - Virtual Conference 25-29 October 2021 We are very pleased to announce a major interdisciplinary conference on Anthropology and Conservation. The aim of the conference is simple: it is increasingly recognised that conservation can only be properly achieved with Indigenous Peoples, in full recognition of their rights. It is therefore urgent that we develop cross-disciplinary understanding
- [Notes to contributors](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-today/notes-to-contributors/) - Anthropology Today (AT) is a full-colour bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology.It is also committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education,
- [Legacies](https://therai.org.uk/about/support-us/legacies/) - Find out more about how your legacy can support the future of anthropology and anthropological research.
- [Dr Ezinne Michaela](https://therai.org.uk/about/honorary-staff/dr-ezinne-michaela/) - Visiting Researcher: African Folktales and their contemporary application (2023)
- [Hilary Callan](https://therai.org.uk/about/honorary-staff/hilary-callan/) - Hilary Callan was the Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland from 2000 up until xxxx. From 1993 to 2000 she was Director of the European Association for International Education, based in Amsterdam. An anthropologist by training and graduate of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Oxford), she has held
- [Jonathan Benthall](https://therai.org.uk/about/honorary-staff/jonathan-benthall/) - Author of: “Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times” (Manchester University Press, 2016). Principal field of research interest:The comparative study of humanitarian and charitable traditions, with special reference to IslamAlso:The international aid system, especially its relationship with modern media and marketingIslam in the Greater Middle East and in IndonesiaQuasi-religious movements and their interactions with
- [Livia Holden](https://therai.org.uk/about/honorary-staff/livia-holden/) - Livia Holden
- [Otto Pipatti](https://therai.org.uk/about/honorary-staff/otto-pipatti/) - Dr Otto Pipatti is a researcher in sociology and social anthropology at the University of Helsinki, with both historical and contemporary interests in evolutionary and biosocial approaches to human behaviour. His doctoral thesis, Edward Westermarck’s Moral and Social Theory, was completed in 2017 and published by Routledge in 2019. Pipatti was a visiting researcher at the
- [FAQs](https://therai.org.uk/forensic-expert-social-anthropology/faqs/) - Frequently Asked Questions about the RAI FESA certification programme.
- [Gluckman, Max (MS 450)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/gluckman-max-ms-450/) - Papers 1947-1975. Typewritten, handwritten, printed Abbreviations CDF C. Daryll FordeDSIR Dept. of Scientific and Industrial ResearchELP Dr E.L. PetersIAI International African InstituteMF Meyer FortesMG Max GluckmanRJF Ronald J. FrankenbergContents /1 EARLY YEARS. 1940s /2 AFRICA /1 Rhodes Livingstone Institute /2 International African Institute /3 WORK AND STUDENTS IN ISRAEL /4 FILMS AND RECORDINGS /1 Broadcasts /2 African films and recordings /3 A.M. Jones’ recordings /4 H.A.
- [Massimiliano Carocci, MA, PhD](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/massimiliano-carocci/) - Managing Editor, Anthropological Index
- [Kirsty Kernohan](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/kirsty-kernohan/) - Archivist & Photographic Curator
- [Sophie Cowling, MA](https://therai.org.uk/about/staff/sophie-cowling/) - Education & Communications Officer
- [Annual Report 2023](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2023/) - PDF The 2023 Annual Report of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
- [Robin Fox](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/robin-fox/) - Robin Fox (1934–2024), a personal recollection by Lionel Tiger Several months before completing my doctorate at the London School of Economics I attended the late physical and evolutionary anthropologist Robin Fox's Malinowski Memorial Lecture, ‘In the Beginning: Aspects of Behavioural Evolution,’ there in 1967. In it he made some responsibly volatile, but brilliantly novel excursions
- [Emslie Horniman Award: Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-stanley-jachike-onyemechalu/) - Award Holder: Stanley Jachike OnyemechaluUniversity: University of CambridgeTitle of Research: Heritage and the legacies of violent conflict: The Biafra war (1967-1970) and present-day Igboland, Nigeria Introduction My Ph.D. research set out to explore the complex relationship between cultural heritage and the legacies of violent conflicts with focus on the Igbo people in the context of
- [RAI Award and Medal Winners for 2024](https://therai.org.uk/about/rai-announcements/rai-award-and-medal-winners-for-2024/) - The RAI is pleased to announce that K-Peritia, a project funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology programme (COST), will be based at the institute for the next four years.
- [RAI Biological Anthropology Award - Corinne Feuillatre](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/rai-biological-anthropology-award-corinne-feuillatre/) - Award Holder: Corinne FeuillatreUniversity: University of BradfordTitle of Research: Bringing up Baby: in search of novel biomarkers of nutrition using stable isotope ratios in incremental tissues in mother/infant pairs. Nutrition during the first 1000 days of life from conception is crucial for the optimal health and development and eventually survival of babies. Poor nutrition during
- [Jean Malaurie](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/jean-malaurie/) - An anthropologist and philosopher, Bruno Latour was one of the most prominent and prolific French intellectuals in recent times.
- [Bruno Latour](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/bruno-latour/) - An anthropologist and philosopher, Bruno Latour was one of the most prominent and prolific French intellectuals in recent times.
- [John D. Kesby](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/john-d-kesby/) - John D. Kesby, 1938-2023 John Kesby was born on 14 April 1938 in Ilford, then in Essex, where he early developed an interest in natural history. He won a scholarship to Bancroft's School in Woodford Green (1949–57) and subsequently took a First Class Honours Degree in Geography at the University of Oxford (1957–60), gained a
- [Duty of Care](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/duty-of-care/) - Convening a panel is a great opportunity, but also a serious responsibility - to presenting colleagues, the conference, the field. We have tried to itemise below the various aspects of convenors’ work we’d like you to keep in mind over the conference process. Please get in touch if you have questions or need further clarification
- [Anthropology & Art Volume 9](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-art/anthropology-art-volume-9/) - "Plastic attunements: ambiguity, creativity, and performing materiality in environmental dance in the UK" by Anjana Bala (October 2024)
- [Benno Glauser](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/benno-glauser/) - Winner of the 2025 Awarding of Honorary Fellowship of The RAI Benno Glauser has spent more than fifty years devoted to protecting and helping the indigenous peoples of Latin America, particularly those of Paraguay, and the few remaining ‘first-contact’ peoples. During the course of this he has defied regimes, police, businesses and state-sanctioned oppression at
- [Professor Robert Foley, FBA](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/professor-robert-foley-fba/) - Winner of the 2025 Huxley Memorial Medal & Lecture Emeritus Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution and a Fellow of the Turing Institute Robert is an evolutionary and biological anthropologist, with a focus on the hominin lineage and the development of novel methods and models for analysing patterns and processes in human evolution. His research integrates
- [Professor Laurajane Smith](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/professor-laurajane-smith/) - Winner of the 2025 RAI Public Anthropology Award Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University Laurajane Smith is Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies at ANU, and a fellow of the Society for the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She has had a career long interest in the politics of heritage
- [Aparecida Vilaça](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/aparecida-vilaca/) - Winner of the 2025 Henry Myers Lecture Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Vilaça has carried out ethnographic research among the Wari’ people in Southwestern Amazonia for over three decades and has published extensively in multiple languages on Indigenous agency, embodiment, kinship, cannibalism, conversion to Christianity, and ecologies of knowledges. She is the author
- [Professor Richard Bradley](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/richard-bradley/) - Professor Emeritus, University of Reading Winner of the 2025 President's Lifetime Achievement Award Richard John Bradley is a British archaeologist and academic. He specialises in the study of European prehistory, and in particular Prehistoric Britain. From 1987 to 2013, he was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading; he is now emeritus professor. He
- [Hon. Ralph John Regenvanu](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/ralph-john-regenvanu/) - Winner of The 2025 Marsh Award for Anthropology In The World Ralph John Regenvanu is a leading public figure in Vanuatu. He has been a Member of Parliament since September 2008, was a member of Cabinet for most of the period from December 2010 to January 2012 and then from March 2013 to June 2015,
- [Professor Nayanika Mookherjee](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/nayanika-mookherjee/) - Winner of The 2025 Rivers Memorial Medal Professor of Political Anthropology, Durham University Ethnographic exploration of public memories of violent pasts and aesthetic practices of reparative futures – the state, violence, memory, aesthetics, memorialisation, visual practices, ethics, irreconciliation, adoption and South Asia. Ethnographic research engages with (i) public memories of wartime sexual violence; (ii) the role of graphic ethnography in translating difficult stories; (iii) war
- [Professor Caroline Sturdy-Colls](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/caroline-sturdy-colls/) - Winner of The 2025 Lucy Mair Medal and Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology Professor of Holocaust Archaeology and Genocide Investigation, University of Huddersfield Caroline Sturdy Colls is Professor of Holocaust Archaeology and Genocide Investigation and Director of the Centre of Archaeology at the University of Huddersfield. She received a PhD from the University of Birmingham
- [RAI Award and Medal Winners for 2025](https://therai.org.uk/about/rai-announcements/the-royal-anthropological-institute-awards-2025/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute wishes to congratulate all our winners that were awarded at our AGM. Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture Professor Rob Foley Rivers Memorial Medal Professor Nayanika Mookherjee Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology Professor Caroline Sturdy-Colls Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World Hon. Ralph John Reganvanu RAI President’s
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- [Curl Lectureship Prior Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/curl-lectureship-prior-recipients/) - 2025Isabelle WinderHuman Evolution: Hierarchy and Heterarchy2023Maxime Brami 2021Rachel Crellin 2019Oliver Harris 2017Andrea Migliano 2015Noel Lobley 2013Liana Chua 2011Graeme Were 2009Joost Fontein 2007Daniel Nettle 2005Miguel Alexiades 2003Ruth Mace 2001Steven Mithen 1999Julian Thomas 1997Peter Gow 1995Martin Stokes 1993Robert Foley 1991Rebecca Cann 1989Tim Ingold 1987Roy Ellen 1985Norman Hammond 1983R.D. Martin 1981John Baines 1979David Parkin 1977Richard Leakey 1975Anthony Boyce 1973Caroline Humphrey 1971Warwick Bray 1969Peter Ucko 1967G. Ainsworth Harrison 1965Anthony Forge 1963D.F.B. Roberts
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- [RAI Award and Medal Winners for 2023](https://therai.org.uk/about/rai-announcements/2023-awards/) - Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture: Professor Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and one of the world’s most consistently original and productive anthropologists in international humanitarian and development studies. His DPhil involved long term ethnographic fieldwork on famine in
- [Marsh Award for Anthropology in The World Past Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/marsh-award-for-anthropology-in-the-world-past-recipients/) - 2025 Ralph John Regenvanu 2024 David Cleary and Dr Will Norman 2023 Richard Osgood 2022 Dr Juliet Bedford 2021 John Lord 2020 Sandi Toksvig 2019 Dr Johnny Clegg 2018 Dr David Lan 2017 Dr Julienne Anoko 2016 Dr Peter Bennett 2015 Dr Sheila Kitzinger 2014 Dr Gillian Tett
- [RAI President's Lifetime Achievement Award Prior Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/rai-president-s-lifetime-achievement-award-prior-recipients/) - 2025Professor Richard BradleyProfessor Emeritus, University of Reading 2024Professor Ian Hodder 2023Professor Bernard Wood & Professor James Scott 2022Professor Marilyn Strathern 2021Professor Ruth Tringham 2020Professor Caroline Humphrey 2019Professor Karin Barber 2018Professor David Parkin
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- [Rivers Memorial Medal Prior Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/rivers-memorial-medal-prior-recipients/) - —2025Professor Nayanika MookherjeeProfessor of Political Anthropology, Durham University 2024Professor Marta Mirazón Lahr 2023Professor Tracy Kivell 2022 Professor Gavin Murray Lucas 2021Professor Fiona M. Jordan 2020Professor Judith Okely 2019Dr María Martínon-Torres 2018Dr Madeleine Reeves 2017Dr Dan Hicks 2016Professor Ruth Finnegan 2015Professor Chris Hann 2014Professor Trevor Marchand 2013Professor Phyllis Lee 2012Professor Nigel Rapport 2011Professor Robert Foley 2010Professor Stephen Shennan 2009Professor Wendy James 2008Professor Daniel Miller Professor Brian Morris 2007Professor Andrew Whiten 2006Professor Paul Sillitoe 2005Professor Clive Gamble 2004Professor Chris Stringer 2003Dr
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- [Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize Prior Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/lucy-mair-medal-prior-recipients/) - 2025Professor Caroline Sturdy-CollsProfessor of Holocaust Archaeology and Genocide Investigation, University of Huddersfield2024Professor David Mosse 2023Professor Sushrut Jadhav 2022Professor Raymond Apthorpe 2021Professor Larry J. Zimmerman 2020Dr Sébastien P. Boret 2019Professor Melissa Leach 2018Professor Claire Smith 2017Professor Richard Leakey 2016Professor Ralph Grillo Dr Paul Richards 2015Professor Margaret Cox 2014Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond 2013Professor Michael Banton 2012Professor Scarlett Epstein Dr Roger Ballard 2011Professor Catherine Panter-Brick 2010Professor Anthony Good 2009Professor C. Thomas Selwyn Dr John Palmer 2008Professor Sue Black 2007No
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- [Signe Howell](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/signe-howell/) - Professor Signe Howell, Department of Anthropology, University of Oslo, was a distinguished anthropologist of hunter-gatherer societies, moralities and kinship. She was integral to the development of the Oslo department as outstanding within European anthropology. In 1943, when Signe was an infant, she and her mother were separated from her father, who, as a medical student,
- [Bicker, Alan](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/bicker-alan/) - Alan Bicker (4 December 1945–18 July 2023) Alan Bicker was a distinguished anthropologist and long-serving member of the University of Kent in Canterbury, remembered for his dedication to ethnographic research, teaching, and the mentoring of students. His career spanned work in both Europe and South Asia, and his scholarship was shaped by resilience in the
- [Sally (S. C.) Humphreys](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/sally-s-c-humphreys/) - Sally (S. C.) Humphreys (1934–2024) Perhaps the most remarkable achievements of Sally Humphreys’ extraordinary career came at the beginning and the end. In 1955, at 20 years old, she and a friend bought a second-hand lifeboat, converted it, and with minimal funds and resources spent four summers sailing 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean. The published
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- [Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize Past Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/material-culture-and-archaeology-film-prize-past-recipients/) - 2019 The Book of the Sea (Aleksei Vakhrushev, Russia, 2018) Winner 2017 Ever the Land (Sarah Grohnert, New Zealand, 2015) Winner Tracing Roots: A Weaver’s Journey (Ellen Frankenstein, USA, 2015) Special Mention 2015 Tyres (Kyaw Myo Lwin, Myanmar, 2013) Winner Cast in India (Natasha Raheja, USA, 2014) Special Mention Ringtone (Jennifer
- [Intangible Culture Film Prize (Music - Dance - Performance)  Past Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/intangible-culture-film-prize-music-dance-performance-past-recipients/) - 2019 Ballad on the Shore (Chi-hang Ma, China, 2017) Winner A Delicate Weave (Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar, India, 2017) Special Mention 2017 My Name is Eeooow (Oinam Doren, India, 2016) Winner 2015 Body Games (Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção & Christine Dettmann, South Africa/ UK/ Brazil, 2014) Winner 2013 Gods and
- [Audience Prize](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/audience-prize/) - 2025 The Other Profile (Armel Hostiou, Democratic Republic of Congo/ France, 2024) Winner Sama in the Forest (Carlos Gómez & Coralynn V. Davies, India/ USA, 2023) Special Mention 2023 Once Upon a Village (Srishti Lakhera, India, 2021) [sponsored by SAPIENS Magazine] Winner 2021 The Two Lives of Li Ermao (Jia Yuchuan, China/ UK, 2019) Winner
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- [Royal Anthropological Institute & Marsh Short Film Prize](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/royal-anthropological-institute-marsh-short-film-prize/) - 2025 The Memo (Badlands Film Group | Chen Sisi & Yangi Xiao, China, 2023) Winner Reception Room, Wing D (Ikuno Naka & Garima Jaju, India/ UK, 2024) Special Mention 2023 Gambote (Sofía Bensadon, Argentina, 2021) Winner You Can’t Show My Face (Knutte Wester, Sweden/ Iran, 2021) Special Mention When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest
- [Basil Wright Film Prize Past Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/basil-wright-film-prize-past-recipients/) - 2025 Marching in the Dark (Kinshuk Surjan, India/ Belgium, 2024) Winner 2023 Rebel Objects (Carolina Arias Ortiz, Costa Rica, 2020) Winner The Prison Promise (Joseph Dégramon Ndjom, Cameroon, 2021) Special Mention 2021 The Body Won’t Close (Mattijs van de Port, Netherlands, 2020) Winner In Search… (Beryl Magoko, Kenya/ Germany, 2018) Special Mention 2019 Thank
- [Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize Past Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/royal-anthropological-institute-film-prize-past-recipients/) - 2025 Al Djanat – The Original Paradise (Chloé Aïcha Boro, Burkina Faso, 2023) Winner 2023 How to Save a Dead Friend (Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Sweden/ Norway/ France/ Germany, 2022) Winner Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege (Abdallah Al-Khatib, Lebanon/ France/ Qatar, 2021) Special Mention 2021 A Colombian Family (Tanja Wol Sørensen, Colombia, 2020) Winner Ayouni (Yasmin
- [President's Award](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/president-s-award/) - 2025 God Is a Woman (Andrés Peyrot, Panama/ France/ Switzerland, 2023) 2023 What about China? (Trinh T. Minh-ha, China, 2022) 2021 One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada, 2019) 2019 Edge of the Knife | Sgaawaay K’uuna (Gwaai Edenshaw & Helen Haig-Brown, Canada, 2018) 2017 The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell, UK/
- [Film Committee Lifetime Achievement Award](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/film-committee-lifetime-achievement-award/) - 2025 Melissa Llewelyn-Davies 2023 Alanis Obomsawin 2021 André Singer 2019 Kim Longinotto 2017 Hugh Brody 2015 Jean Lydall 2013 David MacDougall 2011 Dai Vaughan 2009 Asen Balikci 2007 Colin Young 2004 John Marshall 1992 Brian Moser 1992 Timothy Ash 1990 Ian Dunlop
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- [Anthropology & Art Volume 8](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-art/anthropology-art-volume-8/) - “Catalogue of Correspondence: a collection of rocks found in the Gothenburg Museum of World Culture” by Alyssa Grossman and Selena Kimball (October 2023)
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- [RAI Biological Anthropology Small Grant Scheme Final Reports](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/rai-biological-anthropology-small-grant-scheme-final-reports/) - 2023Feuillatre, CorinneBringing up Baby: in search of novel biomarkers of nutrition using stable isotope ratios in incremental tissues in mother/infant pairs. 2020Lubeek, Juliën KavishImplications for diet and extinction of Gigantopithecus blacki from Pleistocene China based on Dental Microwear Texture Analysis (DMTA) 2019Gaffney, DylanFirst footsteps across Lydekker’s Line: behavioural plasticity in the insular and continental rainforests of western
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Vita Peacock](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-vita-peacock/) - Award Holder: Vita PeacockUniversity: University College LondonTitle of Research: The last big-man standing: hierarchy and personhood in Germany’s Max Planck SocietyBildung or ‘personal culture’: reflections on fieldwork in GermanyI would like to distil my own experience of fieldwork in Germany by using the cultural apparatus of the region itself: the notion of Bildung or, as
- [Emslie Horniman Final Reports](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-final-reports/) - 2022Onyemechalu, Stanley JachikeHeritage and the legacies of violent conflict: The Biafra war (1967-1970) and present-day Igboland, Nigeria 2021Kaur, Anubhav PreetUnderstanding signatures of hominin occupation the Pinjore Formation (2.6-1.0 Ma) of the Siwalik Hills of northern India using Palaeolithic archaeology, vertebrate Palaeontology and remote sensing 2021Loh, Timothy Y.Assistive Technologies for Deaf People in Jordan: Entanglements of Language, Religion,
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Lauren Doughton](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-lauren-doughton/) - Award Holder: Lauren DoughtonUniversity: University of ManchesterTitle of Research: The Social Archaeology of Early Prehistoric ShetlandHot Stuff! Embodied engagements at a burnt mound site in Shetland.BackgroundBurnt mounds are prehistoric monuments found commonly throughout Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and much of Europe. They consist of mounds of discarded stone that have been heated and placed into water.
- [Emslie Horniman Award: Jonathan S. Lim](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-jonathan-s-lim/) - Award Holder: Jonathan S. LimUniversity: University of OxfordTitle of Research: Finding the “Old Villages “: Developing a new protocol for understanding the cultural landscapes of Southwest Alaska using ethnography, public engagement, and spatial technologyIntroductionMy name is Jonathan Lim, and I am a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. My project takes place in Alaska’s
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Farah Qureshi](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-farah-qureshi/) - Award Holder: Farah QureshiUniversity: University of California, IrvineTitle of Research: Financial Inclusion, Political Inclusion, and Social Belonging in Kenya.This investigation examines the logic and application of ‘inclusion’ projects in Kenya, which aim to repatriate wealth or attract investment to the country. By studying circuits of capital and payment flows in the context of Kenya’s colonial,
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Lauren Reid](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-lauren-reid/) - Award Holder: Lauren ReidUniversity: Freie Universität, BerlinTitle of Research: Thinking Beyond the Final Frontier: Cosmic Futures in ThailandINTRODUCTION AND AIMSMy doctoral research focuses on how futures beyond Earth are envisioned and planned for in Thailand today. In light of the devastating effects of climate change, rapid technological development and the discovery of potentially habitable planets,
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Jennifer Cearns](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-jennifer-cearns/) - Award Holder: Jennifer CearnsUniversity: University College LondonTitle of Research: “The Mula Ring”: Networks of Material Flow Through the Cuban WorldResearch TopicMy research was conducted primarily in Miami (U.S.A) and Havana (Cuba), but also in Mexico, Guyana and Panama, and focuses upon the material and digital flows that connect Cubans on the island with diasporic communities
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Anna Sarkissian](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-anna-sarkissian/) - Award Holder: Anna SarkissianUniversity: University of OxfordTitle of Research: Structural gender inequality in Hollywood: an ethnography of film and television productionIntroduction to the topicMy project focuses on the experiences of women filmmakers as they attempt to break into the Hollywood industry and sustain their careers. Research has shown that 95.7% of Hollywood films are directed
- [Emslie Horniman Award: Genevieve Sekumbo](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-genevieve-sekumbo/) - Award Holder: Genevieve SekumboUniversity: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)Title of Research: Anticipating a Future with Natural Gas: The aspirations, imagined futures and experiences of young people in the emerging energy frontier in Mtwara, TanzaniaResearch SummaryThe 2010 discoveries of offshore natural gas in Tanzania invited a series of imagined futures at a national
- [Emslie Horniman Award: Timothy Y. Loh](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-timothy-y-loh/) - Award Holder: Timothy Y. LohUniversity: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of AmericaTitle of Research: Assistive Technologies for Deaf People in Jordan: Entanglements of Language, Religion, and DisabilityResearch summaryMy dissertation project ethnographically examines deaf Jordanians’ engagements with new assistive technologies* that have emerged in the last two decades, including medical-rehabilitative devices like cochlear implants (medical
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 1](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-1/) - #Daniel Miller, Photography in the Age of Snapchat (published December 2015) Volume 1 Daniel Miller, Photography in the Age of Snapchat (published December 2015)
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- [The Patron's Medal](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours/patrons-medal/) - The Patron’s Medal is awarded from time to time for distinguished services to Anthropology and to the Institute.A recommendation shall be made to the Patron by the Council on the recommendation of the Committee on Honours and Awards.Design of the MedalThe design of the Medal by the late Christopher Ironside incorporates the following: Representing (a) Adam and EveHumankind (b)
- [Horniman Day Award 2013](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/horniman-day/) - Royal Anthropological InstituteHorniman Day25 October 2013 Dear Fellows and Delegates, Welcome to the Horniman Day! This is the first such event that we have held to mark the work of the Horniman Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Yet, as the principal means that the RAI has had to support the work of anthropologists in
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- [Emslie Horniman Scholarship Fund A66](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-scholarship-fund-a66/) - EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 01 of 17) EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 02 of 17) EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 03 of 17) EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 04 of 17) EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 05 of 17) EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
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- [Manuscript Contents](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/) - 1 – Hollis, Sir Alfred Claud. Genealogical notes on the history of Vumba, East Africa, with an account of the descendants of its Diwans, 1899 2 – Lewis, A.L. Stone circles and monuments: a collection of lectures, 19- 3 – Caillié, Réné. Mandingo vocabulary 4 – Clarke, John. A vocabulary or dictionary of the Fernandian
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- [RAI Biological Anthropology Small Grant Scheme](https://therai.org.uk/awards/research-grants/rai-biological-anthropology-small-grant-scheme/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute administers a fund which provides grants for research in biological anthropology. Preference will be given to those applications which lie within human population biology, human genetics, human ethology and palaeoanthropology. The closing date for applications is 31 March each year. Eligibility There are no restrictions on age, sex, religion, ethnic origin
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- [Leach/RAI Fellowship in Public Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/awards/fellowships/leach-rai-fellowship-in-public-anthropology/) - Exciting Opportunity to Increase Public Awareness of AnthropologyThe Royal Anthropological Institute, supported by the Esperanza Trust, is seeking to appoint a colleague or colleagues to a Leach/RAI Fellowship in Public Anthropology. The Fellowship is named after Sir Edmund Leach, who was particularly talented in communicating with a wide range of publics. Applicants are invited to
- [Leach/RAI Fellowship in Public Anthropology Past Fellows](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/leach-rai-fellowship-in-public-anthropology-past-fellows/) - - - - 2022 Elena Liber & Yathukulan Yogarajah 2020 Jennifer Cearns & Laura Haapio-Kirk
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- [Thomas Athol Joyce](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/thomas-athol-joyce/) - Mr. T. A. Joyce, O.B.E. The approaching retirement, to take effect early in August, is announced of Thomas Athol Joyce, deputy keeper in charge of the Sub-Department of Ethnography of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). Mr. Joyce was educated at Dulwich and Hertford College, Oxford. He was appointed in 1902 to the staff of the British
- [John Linton Myres](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/john-linton-myres/) - No one stands in such a need of humility before Myres’s noble shade as his successor in the Honorary Editorship of MAN. There may well be other criteria by which its Editors can be measured, but the most obvious, and surely the most unflattering to them, is that of comparison with its founder. To know,
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- [Charles Gabriel Seligman](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/charles-gabriel-seligman/) - CHARLES GABRIEL SELIGMAN 1873-1940 Charles Gabriel Seligman died from infective endocarditis in a nursing home at Oxford on 19 September 1940. He was born in London on 24 December 1873, the only child of Hermann and Olivia (née Mendez da Costa) Seligmann. (He dropped the last letter of his surname after 1914.) His interests in
- [William Halse Rivers Rivers](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/william-halse-rivers-rivers/) - William Halse Rivers Rivers, M.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, born 1864, died June 4th, 1922. By Alfred C. Haddon, Sc.D., F.R.S., and F. G. Bartlett, M.A., with a bibliography compiled by Ethel S. Fegan, Girton College, Cambridge. By the death of our President, the Royal Anthropological Institute and the science of anthropology
- [Everard im Thurn](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/everard-im-thurn/) - Sir Everard im Thurn : born 1852 : died 7 October, 1932. Sir Everard im Thurn, who, to the regret of his many friends, died at his residence, Cockenzie House, Prestonpans, on 7 October, combined scientific attainments and marked administrative ability. He had had a remarkable and romantic career as botanist, explorer, anthropologist, and Colonial
- [KEITH, Sir Arthur (A54)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/keith-sir-arthur-a54/) - Correspondence on the publication of his paper, 'A Pygmy child born in this century about 40 years ago'. July - Nov. 1949. Sir Arthur Keith, FRS, FRCS (AK) (1866-1955) was RAI President from 1913-16 and Master of Buckstone Browne Research Farm, Royal College of Surgeons. 1 Prof. (Sir) W.E. Le Gros Clark, FRS (1895-1971), RAI Vice-President,
- [Alfred Percival Maudslay](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/alfred-percival-maudslay/) - Alfred Percival Maudslay. Born 18 March, 1850, died 22 January, 1931. Maudslay was born at Lower Norwood Lodge, of forbears distinguished in the history of British engineering. He was educated at Tunbridge Wells, Harrow and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and, after taking his degree in 1872, he embarked upon a life of travel, first as a
- [Herbert Risley](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/herbert-risley/) - Sir Herbert Risley, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. By J. D. Anderson. Sir Herbert Hope Risley, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., secretary of the Judicial and Public Department of the India Office, and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, died at Wimbledon on September 30th. During a painful illness extending over many months, he displayed remarkable
- [Sir William Ridgeway](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/sir-william-ridgeway/) - Sir William Ridgeway. By A. C. Haddon, Sc.D., F.R.S. By the death of Professor Sir William Ridgeway the University of Cambridge loses one of its most prominent and illustrious men. His was a striking personality, both physically and mentally, and though for many years increasing imperfection of eyesight rendered his gait halting, his mental energy
- [Daniel John Cunningham](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/daniel-john-cunningham/) - Daniel John Cunningham. Born April 15th, 1850; died June 23rd, 1909. By Professor Arthur Thomson By the death of Professor D. J. Cunningham of the University of Edinburgh, at the age of fifty-nine, not only has the world of science lost a distinguished ornament, but many of us a valued friend. A son of the
- [William Gowland](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/william-gowland/) - William Gowland, F.R.S., F.S.A., born 1842, died June 10th, 1922. By Sir C. Hercules Read, P.S.A. Professor William Gowland died on June 10th at the age of 80 years. As a chemist and metallurgist he had had a long and distinguished career, and his contributions to the proceedings of the numerous societies of which he
- [Henry Balfour](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/henry-balfour/) - Henry Balfour, F.R.S.: 1863—9th February, 1939. Many forms of learning and skill are the poorer for the death of Henry Balfour, best known as the curator of the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford for forty-six years, and one of the foremost exponents of evolutionary technology. Educated at Charter- house and Trinity College, Oxford, he graduated in
- [Alfred Cort Haddon](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/alfred-cort-haddon/) - ALFRED CORT HADDON 1855-1940 Haddon’s large strong frame showed intense vitality in every movement and gesture, and that vitality of body and mind maintained itself remarkably almost to the end of his long life. An infusion of irrepressible gaiety and quick-witted sallies added zest to his work and especially to discussions in scientific circles, in
- [Frederick William Rudler](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/frederick-william-rudler/) - Frederick William Rudler, I.S.O.; b. July 8th, 1840, d. January 40 23rd, 1915; aet. 75. I esteem it a sad privilege to be invited and permitted to contribute to MAN a brief obituary notice of a friend and colleague of long standing, Mr. Frederick William Rudler, whose association with the literary and executive work of
- [Alexander Macalister](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/alexander-macalister/) - Professor Alexander Macalister. By W. L. H. Duckwrowth, M.A., M.D., Sc.D. News of the death of Professor Alexander Macalister must have fallen as a sudden blow on many of his world-wide acquaintances. Until a year or two ago time had scarcely touched his characteristic energy, nor had it sapped his powers. The magnitude and variety
- [John Henry Hutton](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/john-henry-hutton/) - John Henry Hutton 1885-1968With the death of Professor John Henry Hutton in May, 1968, ended a chapter in the history of British anthropology. He was the last of the distinguished class of civil servants who in their time contributed so greatly to the knowledge of the indigenous peoples of Britain’s far-flung empire and in a
- [Herbert John Fleure](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/herbert-john-fleure/) - Professor H. J. Fleure, D.Sc., Ll.D., M.A., F.S.A., F.R.S. 1877-1969Professor Fleure died at his home in Surrey at the advanced age of 92 on 1 July 1969. He was a former President and life-long friend and supporter of the Institute. He came from his native Guernsey to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1897,
- [Lord Avebury](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/lord-avebury/) - Lord Avebury, P.C., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.R.S. Born April 30, 1834; Died May 28, 1913. By Sir C.Hercules Read. One of the commonest phrases in the obituary notices of distinguished men is that the gaps caused by their death will be hard to fill. No doubt this is often true of many of our public characters,
- [George Busk](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/george-busk-2/) - Obituary Notice of the late Professor Busk. By the death on the 10th of August last of Mr. George Busk the Institute has lost one of its oldest and most valued members. He was born on the 12th of August, 1807, at St. Petersburg, being the second son of Mr. Robert Busk, an English merchant
- [John Evans](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/john-evans/) - Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. Born November 17th, 1823; died May 31st, 1908. By the Right Hon. Lord Avebury, D.C.L., F.R.S. In Sir John Evans the country has lost one of its greatest citizens, and some of us one of our dearest friends. He was born on November 17th, 1823, and was the son
- [Edward Burnett Tylor](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/edward-burnett-tylor/) - Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. Born October 2nd, 1832, died January 2nd, 1917. By Sir C. Hercules Read, F.B.A. The death of Sir Edward Burnett Tylor has deprived the scientific world of a distinguished and rare personality, and the inspiration of his presence will long be missed in the special field that he
- [William Flower](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/william-flower/) - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 30th January, 1900. By C. H. Read, F.S.A. The first duty of the President of the Institute at the Annual Meeting is to give so much of a review of the work of the past year as may at
- [Francis Galton](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/francis-galton-2/) - Sir Francis Galton, D.C.L., F.R.S. By Dr. J. Beddoe, LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P. My acquaintance with Mr. Galton—one hardly can think of him as Sir Francis, for our most accomplished biologist was not recognised by the British Government until he was nearing his end—began more than fifty years ago, and speedily ripened into friendship. But though
- [John Beddoe](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/john-beddoe/) - John Beddoe, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., Foreign Assoc. Anthrop. Soc., Paris; Corr. Member Anthrop. Soc., Berlin; Hon. Member Anthrop. Soc., Brussels and Washington, Soc. Friends of Science, Moscow. By John Gray, B.Sc. In this year, 1911, Anthropology has lost two of its greatest pioneers. Sir Francis Galton died on January 17th, and now we have
- [Charles Hercules Read](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/charles-hercules-read/) - Sir Charles Hercules Read, July 6, 1857-February 11, 1929. By H. Balfour, M.A., F.R.S. The news of the death of Sir Charles Hercules Read on the 11th February at Rapallo was, perhaps, not entirely unexpected by those who realised how his health had been steadily deteriorating ever since his retirement from active service. But the
- [Ernest Gellner](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/ernest-gellner/) - ERNEST GELLNER: 1925-1995 Ernest Andre Gellner was born in Paris on 9th December 1925, the son of a Jewish lawyer from Czechoslovakia. The family lived in Prague until the German occupation in 1939, when they moved to England. Gellner was sent to St. Alban's County Grammar School, from which he won a scholarship to Balliol
- [Edmund Leach](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/edmund-leach/) - Professor Sir Edmund Leach, FBA In 1947, at the request of Sir Charles Arden Clark, the then Governor of Sarawak, the British Colonial Social Science Research Council invited Edmund Leach to undertake a social economic reconnaissance survey of the country. The objective of this survey was to identify specific long term field studies to be
- [Joseph S. Weiner](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/joseph-s-weiner/) - JOSEPH S. WEINER The death of Joe Weiner (President of the Institute, 1963-64, and Huxley Memorial Medallist for 1978) on 13 June 1982 was a great loss for physical anthropology as well as a personal loss to us all. Born in 1915, he had already established what was to be a lifelong interest in the
- [Audrey Richards](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/audrey-richards/) - AUDREY RICHARDS Audrey Isabel Richards, CBE, FBA, died on 29 June 1984 at the age of 85 (see London Times, 3 July). Her first degree was in Natural Science (Cambridge 1922), and she would later refer back to her biological training; anthropology appealed to her as a ‘young science’. The phrase comes from a review
- [Lord Raglan](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/lord-raglan/) - Lord Raglan: 1885-1964. With the death of Lord Raglan in his eightieth year on 14 September, the Institute has lost the services and support of one of its best-known Fellows. He had been closely connected with many of its activities for over 40 years and was President from 1955 to 1957. Fitzroy Richard Somerset, fourth
- [Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/edward-evan-evans-pritchard/) - Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard: 1902-1973With the death of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard in September last, in his seventy-third year, social anthropology lost its most distinguished practitioner of this century. The main facts of his life and career will be sufficiently familiar to readers of these Proceedings, and need only be briefly recapitulated here. Born in 1902,
- [Daryll Forde](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/daryll-forde/) - Professor Daryll Forde, FBAProfessor Daryll Forde, who died on 3 May 1973, at the age of seventy-one, was President of the Institute from 1947-49. His death is a tragic loss to his family and friends, to anthropology, and to African Studies in which he played a dominant international role for nearly thirty years. Daryll Forde
- [Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/alfred-reginald-radcliffe-brown/) - ALFRED REGINALD RADCLIFFE-BROWN, F.B.A., 1881-1955: A MEMOIR by MEYER FORTES, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Cambridge Professor A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford and formerly Fellow of All Souls College, died in London on 24 October, 1955, in his seventy-fifth year. He was
- [James Philip Mills](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/james-philip-mills/) - James Philip Mills: 1890-1960. James Philip Mills had barely passed the span of three score years and ten allotted us by the psalmist when he died on 12 May. Felix opportunitate mortis, perhaps, for the world is changing uncomfortably fast. At any rate the hill men of Assam, whom he knew and loved, must live
- [Professor Meyer Fortes](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/professor-meyer-fortes/) - We record with great regret the death of Professor Meyer Fortes on 27 January, at the age of 76. He was President of the Institute, 1965-66. An Obituary appeared in The Times for 29 January, and we will carry another in our next issue. This obituary first appeared as: RAI News. 1983. 'Obituary'. RAIN, No. 55,
- [Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/christoph-von-fuerer-haimendorf/) - Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf 1909-1995 Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, who died on 11 June 1995 at the age of 85, was Professor of Asian Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where he built up the largest department of anthropology in the country by the time of his retirement in 1976. He was
- [Maurice Freedman](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/maurice-freedman/) - On July 15, 1975, Maurice Freedman, only 54 years of age, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in London. He was Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College. He was also one of the most widely respected anthropologists of his generation and the acknowledged leader
- [John Fraser Roberts](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/john-fraser-roberts/) - Dr John Fraser Roberts, CBE, MD, FRS, President of the RAI 1957-59, died on 15 January at the age of 87. He was Director of the Medical Research Council’s Clinical Genetical Research Unit, Institute of Child Health, 1957-64. He was a notable pioneer in using methods of genetic analysis to study hereditary factors in disease.Fraser
- [Michael Banton](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/michael-banton/) - Michael Banton, 1926-2018 An AppreciationAlthough probably best known for his theoretical work on the concept of ‘race’, and on ethnic relations in Britain, it should be recalled that Michael Banton’s doctorate, awarded by Edinburgh in the 1950s, was an empirical study of migrant workers of African origin living in London. Published in 1955 as The
- [John Davis](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/john-davis/) - John (Horsley Russell) Davis, 1938 - 2017 John Davis died on 15 January 2017. John was on the anthropology staff of the University of Kent from 1966 to 1990, his longest continuous period at any UK university. Although anthropology at Kent had been established by Paul Stirling, Stirling had been appointed as Professor of Sociology.
- [Glyn Daniel](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/glyn-daniel/) - Glyn Daniel, RAI President 1977-79, died in Cambridge on 13 December at the age of 72. He was Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge from 1974 to 1981 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1982.Daniel was well-known to the television public, especially in the 1950s, for his appearances with Sir Mortimer
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 07 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-07-of-17/) - 7/ Awards made in 1949. Chair Prof. Daryll Forde1/ Trustees’ Business 1 FS to Trustees, nd – Rotation of Trustees for 1949 (tpc.)2 FS to EEP, 22 Feb. – asks for reports on Audrey Butt and E.L. Peters (tpc.)3 FS to Prof. Meyer Fortes, 22
- [Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours/marsh-award-for-anthropology-in-the-world/) - Annual – Deadline 31 March – Prize £1000This Award recognises an outstanding individual based outside academia, one who has shown how to apply anthropology or anthropological ideas to the better understanding of the world’s problems. The award is run in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust.Nominations and judgingAll Fellows of the RAI will be able
- [The Curl Lectureship](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours/curl-lectureship/) - The Curl Lectureship is awarded biennially by the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The lecture is delivered in alternation with the Henry Myers Lecture.Preference is given to a topic from the fields of biological anthropology, archaeology, material culture, ethnomusicology and linguistics; and to a person in the early stage of their career.Prior Recipients
- [Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours/lucy-mair-medal-for-applied-anthropology/) - The Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology is awarded annually by the Royal Anthropological Institute. First awarded in 1998, the Medal is intended to honour excellence in the application of anthropology to the relief of poverty and distress, and to the active recognition of human dignity.Individuals should not apply on their own
- [Rivers Memorial Medal](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours/rivers-memorial-medal/) - The Medal was founded in 1923 by the Council of the Institute in memory of its late President, William Halse Rivers, originally for `for anthropological work in the field’. However, in the 1960s the rules were amended to reflect anthropological work in a broader sense.The Medal shall be awarded for a recent body of work
- [Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours/huxley-memorial-medal-and-lecture/) - This distinction was instituted in 1900 in memory of Thomas Henry Huxley and is the highest honour at the disposal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. It is awarded annually, by ballot of the Council, to a scientist, British or foreign, distinguished in any field of anthropological research in the widest sense.The lecture is normally delivered
- [J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art](https://therai.org.uk/awards/prizes/jb-donne-essay-prize-on-the-anthropology-of-art/) - Biennial – Deadline 15 December 2025 – Prize £700Entries are invited for the J.B. Donne Essay Prize, offered biennially in memory of the late J.B. Donne. Essays should address some aspect of the anthropology of art, including the visual and performing arts. Word limit: 10,000 words exclusive of footnotes and references. Entrants may be of
- [J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art Past Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/jb-donne-essay-prize-on-the-anthropology-of-art-past-recipients/) - 2023Prof Jeremy MacClancyMorris Maoriesque? Western appreciation of non-Western arts, in New Zealand 2021 no award made 2019Dr Konstantinos KalantzisAthens and the Indigenous Sublime: Rethinking Orientalism and Desire from Documenta 14 to the Cretan Highlands Dr Myriam LamraniImages on the Move. Migrant Saints ‘Beyond’ the Mexico-US Border 2017Dr Paolo FortisThe aesthetics of ‘time-reckoning’: a Guna chromatic history 2015Prof Lawrence RosenChaos and Choice:
- [Wendy James](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/wendy-james/) - Wendy James CBE: a personal recollectionThose of us who were around at the time, will remember September 11th 2001. Wendy James was in the early months of her presidency of the RAI. One of her first moves had been to convene an exploration of ways to improve coordination of effort across the RAI and Association
- [The Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/awards/prizes/the-amaury-talbot-prize-for-african-anthropology/) - Annual – Deadline 31 March – Prize £750The Amaury Talbot Prize of £750 will be awarded to the author or authors of the work which, in the opinion of the judges, is the most valuable work of African anthropology submitted.Only works published during the calendar year previous to the submission date of 31 March are
- [post-loop-white-with-image](https://therai.org.uk/post-loops/post-loop-white-with-image/) - For posts with landscape images.No excerpts.
- [Online Events 2024](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/online-events-2024/) - In the run up to the conference we will have a series of online events. These have been organised with our co-organisers; RAI Education Committee, IUAES Commission on Anthropology and Education, EASA Teaching Anthropology Network, Council on Anthropology and Education, A section of the American Anthropoloical Association. These events are: “New normalities? Rethinking educational practices
- [Curl Essay Prize Past Awards](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/curl-essay-prize-past-awards/) - 2023Zeitlyn, DavidOn anthropological trading zones and thin description 2022Webb, Matthew RajThe Flow of Craft-Marked Expertise: “Skill Regimes” in Global Fashion Production in Mumbai 2021Mautner, OriThe Self in Self-Formation: Embodiment, Religious Mediation, and the Subject’s Interrelated Parts among Orthodox-Jewish Meditators 2020Andrews, Kyrstin MallonThe Color of Seawater: Color Perception and Environmental Change in Dominican Seascapes 2019 no award made 2018 no award made 2017Myhre, Knut
- [Curl Essay Prize](https://therai.org.uk/awards/prizes/curl-essay-prize/) - Annual – Deadline 31 October – Prize £1,100The Curl Essay Prize of £1,100 will be awarded to the author of the best essay, of not more than 10,000 words excluding notes and references, relating to the results or analysis of anthropological work, submitted to the Institute by 31 October. Dissertations cannot be submitted unless they
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 15](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-15/) - Heangjin Park, Reading from Cutouts: The Aesthetics of Alienation in Photographs of Chinese Factory Workers (published April 2022)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 14](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-14/) - PhotoDemos Collective, University College London, Citizens of Photography (published November 2021)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 13](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-13/) - Michael, Aird, Joanna Sassoon and David Trigger, From Illustration to Evidence: Historical Photographs and Aboriginal Native Title Claims in South-east Queensland, Australia (published February 2020)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 12](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-12/) - Duncan Shields, Alfred Maudslay’s Causality Dilemma: Archaeology, Photography and the influence of Nineteenth-CenturyTravel Literature (published June 2019)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 11](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-11/) - Odira Morewabone, MATATUism: Styling a Rebel (published January 2019)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 10](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-10/) - Christopher Morton, The graphicalization of description: Drawing and photography in the fieldwork journals and museum work of Henry Balfour (published July 2018)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 9](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-9/) - Francisco Martínez, Analogue photo booths in Berlin: A stage, a trap, a condenser and four shots for kissing the person you love (published May 2018)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 8](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-8/) - Heather Shirey, Pierre Verger, Roger Bastide and A Cigarra: Candomblé, photography, and anthropology in the popular press (published November 2017)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 7](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-7/) - Paolo Favero, ‘The Transparent Photograph’: Reflections on the Ontology of Photographs in a Changing Digital Landscape (published January 2017)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 6](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-6/) - Sabra Thorner, Visual Economies and Digital Materialities of Koorie Kinship and Community (published November 2016)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 5](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-5/) - Carol Payne, Culture, Memory and Community through Photographs: Developing an Inuit-based Research Methodology (published September 2016)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 4](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-4/) - Shireen Walton, Photographic Truth in Motion: The Case of Iranian Photoblogs (published May 2016)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 3](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-3/) - Catherine de Lorenzo and Juno Gemes, From Resistance Towards Invisibility (published May 2016)
- [Anthropology & Photography Volume 2](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-photography/anthropology-photography-volume-2/) - Emilie Le Febvre, A Shaykh’s Portrait: Images and Tribal History amongst Bedouin in the Negev (published March 2016)
- [Henry Myers Lecturship Prior Recipients](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/henry-myers-lecture-prior-recipients/) - 2024Professor Chris Gosden‘Make Believe: a processual and material approach to the deep history of magic and religion’ 2022Professor Harvey Whitehouse‘Rethinking Ritual: How rituals made our world…and how they could save it’ 2020Professor David Gellner‘The Spaces of Religion: A View from South Asia’ 2018Professor Simon Coleman‘Laterality: A Sideways Look at Ritual’ 2016Dr Ken Dark‘Returning to the Caves of Mystery: archaeology
- [The Henry Myers Lecturship](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours/henry-myers-lecturship/) - The Henry Myers Lecturship on the Role of Religion in Society was founded by Henry Myers, a Fellow of the Institute, in 1945 “to further the study of man’s mental and spiritual development”.The Henry Myers Lecturer is elected every two years by the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute. In making the election, the terms
- [Other Specialist Vacancy Pages](https://therai.org.uk/jobs-opportunities/other-specialist-vacancy-pages/) - University of New Mexico Anthropologists in demand by the World Bank Anthropologists for the United Nations Development Programme Science Careers
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- [Specialist Anthropology Vacancy Pages](https://therai.org.uk/jobs-opportunities/specialist-anthropology-vacancy-pages/) - American Anthropological Association Career Center Reliefweb American Association of Physical Anthropologists Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology Human Biology Association Job Announcements Society for American Archaeology Job Announcements Northern Kentucky University Advice on finding employment
- [Country Specific Vacancy Pages](https://therai.org.uk/jobs-opportunities/country-specific-vacancy-pages/) - Australia SEEK Communications Ltd: jobs classified website. Canada Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada Job Opportunities USA http://jobsearch.monster.com
- [EZproxy Access](https://therai.org.uk/anthropology-library/ezproxy-access/) - EZproxy is an access management system that provides remote access to the online databases and journals subscribed to by the RAI and the British Museum. This service is available for RAI Fellows.
- [The Collection](https://therai.org.uk/anthropology-library/the-collection/) - The Library’s holdings comprise more than 120,000 books and pamphlets and 4,000 journal titles, of which around 1,500 are current. The journal collection, which is indexed by the Anthropological Index Online, is particularly strong for Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. The Library also contains maps, newsletters, reports and a significant pictorial collection.
- [Imaging the Field](https://therai.org.uk/uncategorized/imaging-the-field/) - Sketches and Drawings from the RAI Archives
- [Information for Conference Participants 2024](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/information-for-conference-participants-2024/) - Conference modeThe Anthropology and Education Conference is a Face to Face event held at Senate House, University of London. There will be no online participation and the sessions will not be recorded. Rules on participationPlease note that an individual cannot present more than one paper at the conference.Panel convenors and paper presenters do not need to
- [Hotels and Hostels](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/hotels-and-hostels/) - HotelsThe Senate House building is located in central London in the historic Bloomsbury district. Within walking distance are leafy parks, local restaurants, cafes and colleges from the University of London.The following hotels are located within walking distance from Senate House. This list is for information purposes only. Inclusion of a listing does not constitute a
- [Travel Information](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/travel-information/) - Senate House is located in central London in the historic district of Bloomsbury close to Russell Square, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. Senate House’s address is Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.Tube & TrainThe following tube stations are within walking distance of Senate House:Holborn (Picadilly and Central line)Russell Square (Piccadilly Line)Goodge Street (Northern Line)Tottenham Court Road
- [Food and Drink](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/food-and-drink-5/) - There are many food and drink options in the Bloomsbury district and neighbouring areas of Fitzrovia and Soho. Clusters of restaurants can be found on Charlotte St., Store St. and in the Brunswick Centre both of which are within walking distance of Senate House.A Café exist within the Senate House building itself and serves both
- [Information for Exhibitors](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/info-for-exhibitors/) - If you are interested in exhibiting at the Anthropology and Education conference please contact info@therai.org.uk. About the conferenceThe Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a face to face conference ‘Anthropology and Education’ will take place at Senate House, University of London.Dates: 25-28 June 2024AudienceExhibitors will meet a truly interdisciplinary mix of 600 international
- [The Wellcome Medal for Research in Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems Past Awards](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/the-wellcome-medal-fornresearch-in-anthropology-asnapplied-to-medical-problems-past-awards/) - 2022Bharat Jayram Venkat 2020Amy Moran-Thomas (Highly commended Janet Carsten) 2018Lesley Sharp 2016Elizabeth Hallam 2014Adriana Petryna 2012Julie Livingston 2010Mark Nichter 2008Ron Barrett & Joao Biehl 2006Sophie Day 2004Luigi Capasso 2002Christopher Davis 2000No Award 1998Allan Young 1996Margaret Lock 1994Nancy Scheper-Hughes 1992Paul Farmer & Roland Littlewood 1990Zachary Gussow 1988No Award 1986Francis Zimmermann 1984Janice Reid 1982Alan Harwood 1980Arthur Kleinman(Highly commended Shirley Lindenbaum) 1978John Janzen & Gilbert Lewis 1977No Award 1976No Award 1975No Award 1974No Award 1973No Award 1972No Award 1971No Award 1970No Award 1969No Award 1968No Award 1967No Award 1966No Award 1965Donald Patrick Moody 1964No Award 1963No
- [Exhibitors](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/exhibitors/) - Exhibitors confirmed so far.Combined Academic PublishersHuman Relations Area FilesRoyal Anthropological Institute
- [Ian Herbertson](https://therai.org.uk/about/committees/ian-herbertson/) - Ian Herbertson FRSA, FRAS, FSAScot, has a Diploma in Art Appreciation and an MA in History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia (SOAS). He works independently researching prints and is Honorary Assistant Curator (for Prints and Drawings) at the Oriental Club; his Prints at the Oriental Club was published in 2024. He reviewed the artwork
- [Marking Up](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/marking-up/) - Please have a careful read through of the following information and bookmark this page for future refrence if you need to refer to it again. All papers must be marked up by 9 February.HOW TO REVIEW THE PROPOSALSIf you need detailed instructions including screenshots, please see the duty of care page on our website for
- [Volunteers](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/volunteers-7/) - Volunteer at the Anthropology and Education Conference 2024The Royal Anthropological Institute is recruiting a team of 50 volunteers to help at the Anthropology and Education Major Conference 2024 (25 to 28 June 2024) at Senate House, University of London.This is a great opportunity for students to be involved with a major international conference and attend
- [Order from us](https://therai.org.uk/about/order-from-us/order-from-us/) - If you are interested in joining the Royal Anthropological Institute and receiving the journals please go to the Joining section.If you are interested in hiring or purchasing a film please go to the Film section.If you are interested in finding a photograph for publication or exhibition please contact the Archivist.If you are interested in buying
- [Anthropology & Art Volume 4](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-art/anthropology-art-volume-4/) - “‘Such intimate relations’: on the process of collecting string figures and the paradigm of participant observation fieldwork” by Robyn McKenzie (March 2022)
- [Anthropology & Art Volume 1](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-art/anthropology-art-volume-1/) - “Understanding through drawing and making: exploring alternative modes of attention at an academic conference” by Gemma Aellah and Angela Brew (November 2020)
- [Anthropology & Art Volume 2](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-art/anthropology-art-volume-2/) - “Moulding quilombola identities and ethnic politics: understandings and practices around ‘quilombo heritage’ in Brazil” by Katerina Hatzikidi (March 2021)
- [Anthropology & Art Volume 3](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-art/anthropology-art-volume-3/) - “Animism and the Mbya-Guarani Cinema” by Rodrigo Lacerda (October 2021)
- [Anthropology & Art Volume 5](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-art/anthropology-art-volume-5/) - “Some ethical implications of re-materializing taonga pūoro” by Jennifer Cattermole, Michael Findlay, Rachel Wesley & Matthew Paris (July 2022)
- [Anthropology & Art Volume 6](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-art/anthropology-art-volume-6/) - “Socio-Creativity and the Neolithic” by Eloise Govier (November 2022)
- [Anthropology & Art Volume 7](https://therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-art/anthropology-art-volume-7/) - “Redefining curatorship as skilled practice” by Carine Ayélé Durand (May 2023)
- [New Normalities? Rethinking educational practices in times of crisis and challenge](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/new-normalities-rethinking-educational-practices-in-times-of-crisis-and-challenge/) - TAN INTERIM ONLINE MEETING, 21 – 22 SEPTEMBER 2023 First of a series of online events preceding the Royal Anthropological Institute conference on Anthropology and Education in 25-28 June 2024 Programme Thursday, 21st September 2023, 13.00-16.00 (UTC) 13:00 – 13:25 Introduction by TAN Co-Convenors: Annika Strauss, Giovanna Guslini, Lorenzo Cañas Bottos, Shukti Chaudhuri-Brill13:30 – 14:50
- [RAI. Leases, Tenants and Maintenance (A44 04 of 04)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-leases-tenants-and-maintenance-a44-04-04/) - Leases for 50 Great. Russell Street, 52 Upper Bedford Place, and 21 Bedford Square. 1909-47. Leases for 50 Great Russell Street, 52 Upper Bedford Place, and 21 Bedford Square. 1909-47. Includes much other material on tenants and maintenance, relating to 21 Bedford Square.The RAI’s offices and Library moved from 3 Hanover Square in 1908 to
- [RAI. Leases, Tenants and Maintenance (A44 03 of 04)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-leases-tenants-and-maintenance-a44-03-04/) - Leases for 50 Great. Russell Street, 52 Upper Bedford Place, and 21 Bedford Square. 1909-47. Leases for 50 Great Russell Street, 52 Upper Bedford Place, and 21 Bedford Square. 1909-47. Includes much other material on tenants and maintenance, relating to 21 Bedford Square.The RAI’s offices and Library moved from 3 Hanover Square in 1908 to
- [RAI. Leases, Tenants and Maintenance (A44 02 of 04)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-leases-tenants-and-maintenance-a44-02-04/) - Leases for 50 Great. Russell Street, 52 Upper Bedford Place, and 21 Bedford Square. 1909-47. Leases for 50 Great Russell Street, 52 Upper Bedford Place, and 21 Bedford Square. 1909-47. Includes much other material on tenants and maintenance, relating to 21 Bedford Square.The RAI’s offices and Library moved from 3 Hanover Square in 1908 to
- [RAI. Leases, Tenants and Maintenance (A44 01 of 04)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-leases-a44/) - Leases for 50 Great. Russell Street, 52 Upper Bedford Place, and 21 Bedford Square. 1909-47. Leases for 50 Great Russell Street, 52 Upper Bedford Place, and 21 Bedford Square. 1909-47. Includes much other material on tenants and maintenance, relating to 21 Bedford Square.The RAI’s offices and Library moved from 3 Hanover Square in 1908 to
- [RAI MEMBERSHIP CORRESPONDENCE (A94 – 06 of 06)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-membership-correspondence-a94-06-of-06/) - /21 T 1 Tamagnini, Prof. M.E. [1959] 2 Tambiah, Dr S.J. 2 Mar. 1969; 10 July 1972; 11 Feb. 1973 3 Tamplin, Morgan. 6 Jan. 1972; 7 June 1973 4 Tanner, Adrian. 18 Aug. 1972 5 Tanner, C.R. 23 Oct. 1974 6 Tanner, Dr J.M. 22 July 1960 7 Tansley, Richard C. 10 Feb. 1960
- [RAI MEMBERSHIP CORRESPONDENCE (A94 – 05 of 06)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-membership-correspondence-a94-05-of-06/) - /16 O 1 Oakenfold, Miss Joan. 17 May, 14 June 1957 2 Oakley, Kenneth P. 4 May 1965; 7 Sep. 1970 3 Oates, Alan D.G. 24, 26 Aug., 23 Sep., 14 Oct. 1959 4 Obeyesekera, Dr G. 6 Jan. 1965 5 d’Obrenovic, Dr Michel. 3 Jan., 23 Nov. 1965; 28 June 1973 6 O’Brian, Denise
- [RAI MEMBERSHIP CORRESPONDENCE (A94 – 04 of 06)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-membership-correspondence-a94-04-of-06/) - /12 L 1 Lacan, Dr Jacques. 6 Oct. 1958 2 Lacey, A. Travers. 27 Nov. 1933 3 Lackner, Helen. 9 Aug. 1969 4 La Fontaine, Jean. 8 June 1971 5 Lamb, Rev. Alfred C. 28 June 1947; 20 Apr. 1948 6 Lambert, Bernd. 28 Nov. 1974 7 Lambert, Eric D.T. 15 Mar. 1971; 15, 31
- [RAI MEMBERSHIP CORRESPONDENCE (A94 – 03 of 06)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-membership-correspondence-a94-03-of-06/) - /7 G 1 Gabow, Steve. 9 July 1974 2 Gabriel, T.M.G. 9 Feb. 1973 3 Gaherty, Geofrey. 15 June 1970; 1 Oct. 1971 4 Gale, Mrs Luiza Santos. 7 Sep. 1971; 24 Jan., 21, 29 Mar. 1972; 21 Feb., 16 Mar., 3 Sep. 1973 5 Gallagher, Prof. P. 8 Jan. 1965 6 Galloway, John C.
- [RAI MEMBERSHIP CORRESPONDENCE (A94 – 02 of 06)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-membership-correspondence-a94-02-of-06/) - /4 D 1 Daglish, Marlene C. 30 Jan. 1970 2 Dahya, Badr U.-D. 30 May 1972; 27 Nov. 1974 3 Dalby, Elliot J. 28 Nov. 1969; 29 Sep. 1970 4 Dalley, Gillian. 25 Aug. 1969; 8 Oct. 1974 4a Dalton, O.M. Obit. 1945 5 Daly, John Lawrence. nd; 5 Apr. 1973 6 Daly, Richard. 10
- [RAI MEMBERSHIP CORRESPONDENCE (A94 – 01 of 06)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-membership-correspondence-a94-01-of-06/) - Membership Correspondence. 1923-1975 There are a few between 1923-1960; the bulk is between 1965-1975. This archive covers Fellows, Institutional members and Hon. Fellows letters received and sent from the RAI Office; it includes such personal items as recollections, correspondence on special occasions, and obituaries. Most of it is routine but day to day correspondence about
- [RAI FINANCE – MISCELLANEOUS (A142 02 of 02)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-finance-miscellaneous-a142-02-of-02/) - A142/5 General Correspondence and papers, 1939-57 1 11 July 1939 – notes on Finance. 2 leaves (tp. and autogr.) 2 Treasurer’s Report for 1939; budget for 1940. 4 leaves (tp. draft with autogr. corrections) 3 Lord Raglan to Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, RAI President 1939-41, 18 Jan. 1940 – on investments; on proposed circular to fellows
- [RAI FINANCE – MISCELLANEOUS (A142 01 of 02)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-finance-miscellaneous-a142/) - /1 Cash books relating to Special Funds, 1928-59 [on shelf; inserts in box] 1 Huxley Dinner/Lunch Book, 1928-40; Desert Fayum accounts; Notes & Queries on Anthropology, Gratis copies; Journal of the Anthropological Institute accounts (account book)Items previously inserted between pages of A142/1/1: .1 nd, list of periodicals (autogr.) .2 14 May 1935 – bill to Dr C.T.
- [LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION (A51 – 05 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/library-administration-a51-05-of-05/) - 31/ Library Committee memoranda and papers. 1949-76 1949 1 Memo by ERL, Library matters, on disposal of duplicates, books outside the scope of the Library, and Man reviews, 9 June 1949 (mimeo.) 2 Memo by BJK on lists of books considered outside the scope of the Library and their consideration by the Committee, 11
- [LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION (A51 – 04 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/library-administration-a51-04-of-05/) - 18/ Films: L’Aures, M. Haeseler’s Algerian expedition Shawyia Berbers, Algeria, 4 reels; presented by Mrs M.W. Hilton-Simpson, 28 July 1938 – list of shots. 9 leaves (tp.) 19/ Films: Lindgren expedition to NW Manchuria, 1931-2 The Reindeer Tungus, 4 reels; The Numinchens, 2 ½ reels; Festivals of Nomad Barga, 4
- [LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION (A51 – 03 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/library-administration-a51-03-of-05/) - 8/ Classification schemes. 1945-6 1945 1 ERL to RAI, 18 Aug. 1945 – has free time until Oct.; Library unusable due to war and evacuation; asks permission to reorganize it; encloses his suggested arrangement. 6 leaves (tp.) 2 Miss F. Stallman [FS], Assistant Secretary to ERL, 6 Sep.
- [LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION (A51 – 02 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/library-administration-a51-02-of-05/) - 11/ Mrs Brenda Z. Seligman (1883-1965), Vice-President, 1946-59 passim, Donations .1 Library accessions, Mar. 1943, purchased under Mrs Seligman’s donation. 4 leaves (tpc., annotated). It was announced at the Council meeting of 27 Oct. 1942 that Mrs Seligman had made a donation of £200 in memory of Prof. C.G. Seligman (1873-1940) and that she wished
- [LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION (A51 – 01 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/library-administration-a51-01-of-05/) - Correspondence and papers. 1914-76. This archive covering Library administration until 27 Sep. 1976 when the Library was given in trust to the Dep. of Ethnography, British Museum (approved by the Extraordinary General meeting on 24 June) contains correspondence and papers from 1914 though material before 1947 is sparse. Material has been selectively retained while correspondence
- [INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PREHISTORIC AND PROTOHISTORIC SCIENCES (A65 – 03 of 03)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/international-congress-of-prehistoric-and-protohistoric-sciences-a65-03-of-03/) - 6/ USA representation 1 Prof. Franz Boas’s secretary, Columbia University, New York to JLM, 5 Jan. 1932 – Prof. Boas is ill; he will write as soon as possible (tp.) 2 Prof. George Grant MacCurdy (GGMacC), Yale University (Conseil member) to JLM, 14 Oct. 1931 – announcement of Congress received; he and Mrs MacCurdy intend
- [INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PREHISTORIC AND PROTOHISTORIC SCIENCES (A65 – 02 of 03)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/international-congress-of-prehistoric-and-protohistoric-sciences-a65-02-of-03/) - 5/ Correspondence with individual scholars; see /6 below for USA representation 1 JLM to Prof. Dr Walter Andrae, Berlin Lichterfelde, 13 Apr. 1932 – invitation to attend; hopes he will be able to give a paper on his research on prehistoric deposits in Mesopotamia (autogr. carbon) 2 Ibid to Prof. Dr Andersson, Stockholm, 29 Mar.
- [INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PREHISTORIC AND PROTOHISTORIC SCIENCES (A65 – 01 of 03)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/international-congress-of-prehistoric-and-protohistoric-sciences-a65-01-of-03/) - Correspondence, papers and minutes relating to the establishment of the International Congress, 1931-3. The last pre-war meeting of the Congrès international, d’Anthropologie et d’Archeologie préhistoriques was held in Geneva in 1912. In Oct. 1928 the Institut international d’Anthropologie, Paris, with the consent of the surviving members of the Permanent Committee of the old Congrès, agreed
- [HONORARY OFFICERS’ CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS (A95 – 05 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/honorary-officers-correspondence-and-papers-a95-05-of-05/) - 44/ 1960. General 1 Librarian, BBC to Miss Joan Edwards, Administrative Secretary, 11 Mar. 1960 – consults the RAI on the terminology to be used be a professional anthropologist in a television script (tp.) 2 MWS to Librarian, BBC, 16 Mar. – suggests terminology to be used (tpc.) 3 Loyal address to HM the Queen
- [HONORARY OFFICERS’ CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS (A95 – 04 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/honorary-officers-correspondence-and-papers-a95-04-of-05/) - 30/ 1951. General 1 WBF to Dr R.E. Mortimer Wheeler, 9 Jan. 1951 – Council grateful for his offer of assistance with paper supplies and welcomes opportunity of collaboration with the British Academy; RAI has in the past fallen within the scope of the Royal Society; Council feels it would be desirable to leave present
- [HONORARY OFFICERS’ CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS (A95 – 03 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/honorary-officers-correspondence-and-papers-a95-03-of-05/) - 17/ 1942-3. Possible amalgamation of the RAI with the Institute of Sociology and other correspondence 1942 1 EJL to Dr Cecil H. Desch, FRS, Chairman, Institute of Sociology Council, 28 July 1942 – understands that the Institute of Sociology is considering its present and future role; sends copy of suggestions (/2 below) (tpc.) 2 Notes
- [HONORARY OFFICERS’ CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS (A95 – 02 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/honorary-officers-correspondence-and-papers-a95-02-of-05/) - 8/ 1940. June-Dec. WBF and JLM 1 WBF to JLM, 2 June 1940 – wishes to discuss developments at last Council; on house list, common seal, colonial draft, Joint Committee and book reviews. 4 pp. (autogr.); see Council Minutes, 28 May, f. 273, 2 July 1940, f. 376 2 Ibid., 9 June – informs him
- [HONORARY OFFICERS’ CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS (A95 – 01 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/honorary-officers-correspondence-and-papers-a95-01-of-05/) - Correspondence and papers. 1934-67, 1970, 1973. This archive is the surviving correspondence at the RAI of the Hon. Officers: the President, the Hon. Secretary, and the Hon. Treasurer. Abbreviations: AHC A.H. Christie (d. 1994), RAI Hon. Secretary, 1961-70 AIR Dr Audrey I. Richards, RAI President, 1959-61 ARR-B Prof. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (1881-1955), University of Sydney,
- [ETHNOMUSICOLOGY COMMITTEE (A79 - 05 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ethnomusicology-committee-a79-05-of-05/) - Minutes, correspondence and papers. 1953-76. 12/ 1957-60 The Collecting of Folk Music and other Ethnomusicological Material – correspondence and papers Manual for Folk Music Collectors was published in 1951 by the IFMC, prepared by MK and A.A. Baké, with a supplement on Ciné-filming by Doris Plaister. At a meeting of Council, 7 Nov. 1957,
- [ETHNOMUSICOLOGY COMMITTEE (A79 - 04 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ethnomusicology-committee-a79-04-of-05/) - Minutes, correspondence and papers. 1953-76. 47 R.M. Bradfield to JM, 8 Mar. – Ken Walters at the Pitt-Rivers Museum has told him that some of the tapes still need to be transcribed; this cannot be done until May so could his visit to RAI be in June; suggests meeting at the Museum in Mar.; Mr
- [ETHNOMUSICOLOGY COMMITTEE (A79 - 03 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ethnomusicology-committee-a79-03-of-05/) - Minutes, correspondence and papers. 1953-76. 2 Symposium programme and papers presented 1 Draft programme. 3 leaves (mimeo with corrections) 2 Circular from AHC, 1 Mar. 1962 – sends programme (tp.) 3 Programme for ‘Music and History in Asia and Africa’, 19-21 Mar. 1962. 4 leaves (tp.)Papers presented 4 [Prof. Mantle Hood], ‘The Effect of Medieval
- [ETHNOMUSICOLOGY COMMITTEE (A79 - 02 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ethnomusicology-committee-a79-02-of-05/) - Minutes, correspondence and papers. 1953-76. 29 Hugh Tracey to MWS, 25 Nov. – will be in touch about recordings (tp.) 30 Minutes of AGM of BIRS, 16 Dec. 1959 (tp.) 31 DKR to Members of Committee, 12 Oct. 1960 – asks them to indicate preference for date of next meeting, 11 or 18 Nov. (tp.) 32 List of
- [ETHNOMUSICOLOGY COMMITTEE (A79 - 01 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ethnomusicology-committee-a79-01-of-05/) - Minutes, correspondence and papers. 1953-76. On 11 June 1953 Council appointed a committee ‘to consider what action [should] be taken for the encouragement of this branch of anthropology’. Dr A.A. Baké, John Blacking, H.J. Braunholtz, Raymond Clausen, Revd A.M. Jones, Dr John Layard, Dr Otto Samson, and Prof. A.N. Tucker were appointed ‘to examine ways
- [BRITISH JOINT COMMITTEE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH (A58 05 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-joint-committee-for-anthropological-teaching-and-research-a58-05-of-05/) - Letters, minutes and papers. 1914-63. There were discussions at the British Association meeting at Birmingham on 12 Sept. 1913 on suggestions for a school of applied anthropology. At its meeting in 1914, the British Association appointed a committee to ‘devise practical measures for the organisation of anthropological teaching at the universities.’ The RAI Committee was
- [BRITISH JOINT COMMITTEE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH (A58 04 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-joint-committee-for-anthropological-teaching-and-research-a58-04-of-05/) - Letters, minutes and papers. 1914-63. There were discussions at the British Association meeting at Birmingham on 12 Sept. 1913 on suggestions for a school of applied anthropology. At its meeting in 1914, the British Association appointed a committee to ‘devise practical measures for the organisation of anthropological teaching at the universities.’ The RAI Committee was
- [BRITISH JOINT COMMITTEE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH (A58 03 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-joint-committee-for-anthropological-teaching-and-research-a58-03-of-05/) - Letters, minutes and papers. 1914-63. There were discussions at the British Association meeting at Birmingham on 12 Sept. 1913 on suggestions for a school of applied anthropology. At its meeting in 1914, the British Association appointed a committee to ‘devise practical measures for the organisation of anthropological teaching at the universities.’ The RAI Committee was
- [BRITISH JOINT COMMITTEE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH (A58 02 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-joint-committee-for-anthropological-teaching-and-research-a58-02-of-05/) - Letters, minutes and papers. 1914-63. There were discussions at the British Association meeting at Birmingham on 12 Sept. 1913 on suggestions for a school of applied anthropology. At its meeting in 1914, the British Association appointed a committee to ‘devise practical measures for the organisation of anthropological teaching at the universities.’ The RAI Committee was
- [BRITISH JOINT COMMITTEE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH (A58 01 of 05)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-joint-committee-for-anthropological-teaching-and-research-a58/) - Letters, minutes and papers. 1914-63. There were discussions at the British Association meeting at Birmingham on 12 Sept. 1913 on suggestions for a school of applied anthropology. At its meeting in 1914, the British Association appointed a committee to ‘devise practical measures for the organisation of anthropological teaching at the universities.’ The RAI Committee was
- [BRITISH ETHNOGRAPHY COMMITTEE (A59 - 07 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-ethnography-committee-a59-07-of-07/) - Minutes, correspondence, papers, and publications. 1929-34, 1948-62, 1969-70. 11 VGS to members of the sub-committee, 30 Sept. – attaches news sheet of social research activity in the field of British community life (tp.) .1 News sheet referred to in A59/15/11 (tp.) .2 Newspaper report on research of the Institute of Community Studies [referred to in A59/15/11.1] (newspaper
- [BRITISH ETHNOGRAPHY COMMITTEE (A59 - 06 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-ethnography-committee-a59-06-of-07/) - Minutes, correspondence, papers, and publications. 1929-34, 1948-62, 1969-70. 118 D. Dilwyn John to JGJ, 5 Mar. – sorry that he cannot accommodate the exhibition; apart from lack of space, the proper place would be St Fagans; unfortunately there is no space there either; very sorry (tp.)119 BMB to JGJ, 16 Mar. – apologises for not
- [BRITISH ETHNOGRAPHY COMMITTEE (A59 - 05 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-ethnography-committee-a59-05-of-07/) - Minutes, correspondence, papers, and publications. 1929-34, 1948-62, 1969-70. 18 WBF to Dr A.E. Mourant, Blood Group Reference Laboratories, 27 Jan. – asks if he might give second lecture of series described in enclosed copy letter [perhaps A59/10/15]; if not he will ask Fraser Roberts; sends notes of Blood Group Committee Meeting of 15 Oct. which
- [BRITISH ETHNOGRAPHY COMMITTEE (A59 - 04 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-ethnography-committee-a59-04-of-07/) - Minutes, correspondence, papers, and publications. 1929-34, 1948-62, 1969-70. 16 TWB to Duncan Clark, 22 Feb. – on date and time of visit to Layer Marney Hall (tpc.) 17 Duncan Clark to TWB, 24 Feb. – will join him on visit if at all possible (tp.) 18 F.A. Cadman to TWB, 3 Mar. – following visit to Layer
- [BRITISH ETHNOGRAPHY COMMITTEE (A59 - 03 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-ethnography-committee-a59-03-of-07/) - Minutes, correspondence, papers, and publications. 1929-34, 1948-62, 1969-70. 196 TWB to John W. Waterer, 22 Nov. – glad to hear opinions on the subject of the museum; gives reasons for imposing a limiting date; does not intend to adhere to it rigidly (tpc.)197 RAS to FS, 24 Nov. – encloses copy of letter to TWB
- [BRITISH ETHNOGRAPHY COMMITTEE (A59 - 02 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-ethnography-committee-a59-02-of-07/) - Minutes, correspondence, papers, and publications. 1929-34, 1948-62, 1969-70. 60 BMB to TWB, 23 May – on a collection of Victorian children’s books; if TWB were interested, she would buy a selection and keep them for the Museum of English Life and Traditions; asks about reprints of article in Man (autogr.) 61 TWB to BMB, 24 May
- [BRITISH ETHNOGRAPHY COMMITTEE (A59 - 01 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-ethnography-committee-a59-01-of-07/) - Minutes, correspondence, papers, and publications. 1929-34, 1948-62, 1969-70. Council appointed an Exploratory Committee ‘to consider means of promoting the ethnological study of Great Britain’ in June 1948 which was replaced in Dec. 1948 by a joint standing committee with representatives from other interested bodies. The following year in Apr. 1949, the Committee was formally named
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX (A141 07 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-index-a141-07-of-07/) - See also A114/16 An Index to Current Periodicals, a quarterly index to articles appearing in journals received in the RAI Library, was first proposed at a Library Committee meeting on 24 Nov. 1961 (see LC/1/1, f.2.) A specimen issue, covering periodicals received between Jan. and Mar. 1962, was distributed in the summer of 1962. The
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX (A141 06 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-index-a141-06-of-07/) - See also A114/16 An Index to Current Periodicals, a quarterly index to articles appearing in journals received in the RAI Library, was first proposed at a Library Committee meeting on 24 Nov. 1961 (see LC/1/1, f.2.) A specimen issue, covering periodicals received between Jan. and Mar. 1962, was distributed in the summer of 1962. The
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX (A141 05 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-index-a141-05-of-07/) - See also A114/16 An Index to Current Periodicals, a quarterly index to articles appearing in journals received in the RAI Library, was first proposed at a Library Committee meeting on 24 Nov. 1961 (see LC/1/1, f.2.) A specimen issue, covering periodicals received between Jan. and Mar. 1962, was distributed in the summer of 1962. The
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX (A141 04 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-index-a141-04-of-07/) - See also A114/16 An Index to Current Periodicals, a quarterly index to articles appearing in journals received in the RAI Library, was first proposed at a Library Committee meeting on 24 Nov. 1961 (see LC/1/1, f.2.) A specimen issue, covering periodicals received between Jan. and Mar. 1962, was distributed in the summer of 1962. The
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX (A141 03 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-index-a141-03-of-07/) - See also A114/16 An Index to Current Periodicals, a quarterly index to articles appearing in journals received in the RAI Library, was first proposed at a Library Committee meeting on 24 Nov. 1961 (see LC/1/1, f.2.) A specimen issue, covering periodicals received between Jan. and Mar. 1962, was distributed in the summer of 1962. The
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX (A141 02 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-index-a141-02-of-07/) - See also A114/16 An Index to Current Periodicals, a quarterly index to articles appearing in journals received in the RAI Library, was first proposed at a Library Committee meeting on 24 Nov. 1961 (see LC/1/1, f.2.) A specimen issue, covering periodicals received between Jan. and Mar. 1962, was distributed in the summer of 1962. The
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX (A141 01 of 07)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-index-a141-01-of-07/) - See also A114/16 An Index to Current Periodicals, a quarterly index to articles appearing in journals received in the RAI Library, was first proposed at a Library Committee meeting on 24 Nov. 1961 (see LC/1/1, f.2.) A specimen issue, covering periodicals received between Jan. and Mar. 1962, was distributed in the summer of 1962. The
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 17 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-17-of-17/) - 28/ Awards made in 1970. Chair Dr G. Ainsworth Harrison1/ Trustees’ Business 1 Mrs Barbara Bentley to Barbara Ward, 15 Apr. – a need is felt for continuity of Trustees; if Council re-elects present Trustees en bloc asks if she would be willing to act for a further year
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 16 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-16-of-17/) - 26/ Awards made in 1968. Chair Prof. Maurice Freedman1/ Trustees’ Business 1 Horniman awards from 1 Jan. 1968 onwards –Marianne V. Cardale, D.J. Chivers, J.D.H. Collinson, Louise H.M. Hogg, D.P. Lumsden, P.F. Wilkinson (tpc., Mrs Caroline Humphrey added autogr.)2 AHC to Prof. Maurice Freedman and Dr I.M.
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 15 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-15-of-17/) - 24/ Awards made in 1966. Chair Prof. Meyer Fortes1/ Requests for Information19661 W.J.H. Baillie to Hon. Secretary, 3 May 1966 – Dr A. Joan Metge has told him about the Horniman scholarships; he wishes to work as a museum conservator; asks about his suitability for the award (tp.)2
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 14 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-14-of-17/) - 22/ Awards made in 1964. Chair Dr J.S. Weiner1/ Trustees’ Business1 Prof. Daryll Forde to AHC, 14 June – confirms his recommendations of R. Brain and J.E. Lavers (tpc.)Application from Mr Land rejected see Horniman Minutes, 26 June 1964, f. 1102/ Andrew Baring. The development of the
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 13 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-13-of-17/) - 19/ Awards made in 1961. Chair Dr Audrey Richards1/ Trustees’ Business 1 WBF, Acting Hon. Secretary to EEP, 9 May – informed Council members that he had said he did not wish to be re-elected as a Trustee; Dr John Beattie has been appointed (tpc.)S.W.B. Fernando (Wickremasekara), Mrs Josephine
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 12 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-12-of-17/) - 17/ Awards made in 1959. Chair Prof. E.E. Evans-Pritchard1/ Trustees’ Business 1 Report on Horniman students 1945-59 prepared at the request of the Trustees; lists names, dates, universities, amount of grant and subject of study. 2 pp. (tp.)2 Dr J.A. Fraser Roberts to Prof. Daryll Forde, 18
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 11 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-11-of-17/) - 16/ Awards made in 1958. Chair Dr J.A. Fraser Roberts1/ Trustees’ Business1 List for Horniman advertisement, [May]. 4 leaves (tp.)2 Invitation for applications for Horniman Studentships for 1958 (printed)3 DHFW to MWS, 24 Mar. – wishes to retire as a Trustee and not be put
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 10 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-10-of-17/) - 4/ Colin Macmillan Turnbull. Bambuti Pygmies of the Ituri forest region.1956-7. Supervisor EEP. Grant £1000. Publications Legends of the HaMbuti in JRAI VOL. 89, i; Fieldwork among the HaMbuti Pygmies, Belgian Congo in Man, 51, 196019561 CMT to WBF, 8 Mar. 1956 – has been advised by the Institute of Social
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 09 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-09-of-17/) - 13/ Awards made in 1955. Chair Lord Raglan‘The Trustees considered a number of applications for Studentships during 1954, but although one award was agreed upon, the candidate concerned withdrew his candidature for personal reasons, and no award was made. Some candidates were recommended to apply again in 1955, and the Trustees will shortly
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 08 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-08-of-17/) - 8/ Awards made in 1950. Chair Prof. E.E. Evans-Pritchard‘The Trustees have to report a change in procedure this year. Hitherto they have made awards at their meeting in Apr. or Mar. and have been able to include them in the Report. It was, however, felt desirable that confirming awards should await the result
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 06 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-06-of-17/) - 5/ Emrys Lloyd Peters. The Bedouin peoples of Cyrenaica.Two year award, 1947-9. Supervisor EEP. Grant £1000. Lecture at RAI, 1 June 1949 ‘Marriage and divorce among the Bedouin of Cyrenaica’19471 E.G. Bowen, 26 Feb. 1947 – gives reference for ELP (tpc.)2 Glyn E. Daniel, 27 Feb. – ibid. (tp.)3
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 05 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-05-of-17/) - 3/ Unsuccessful Applications 1 Frederick Emmanuel Benjamin Amofah, 1 Feb. 1946 – application form. 4 pp. (autogr.).1 FEBA, [1 Feb.] – reasons for his choice of subject (tp.)References from: .2, A.L. Adu, 15 Aug. 1945 (tpc.); .3, W.R. Gosling, 29 Aug. 1945 (tpc.); .4, Sam Yarney, 1 Sep. 1945
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 04 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-04-of-17/) - 51 IK to FS, 5 Aug. – describes the various tasks she has to do now that summer term has begun; encloses a list of instruments urgently needed for her work on prehistoric skeletons; hopes to return to her work on the tribes when she is free to (tp.)52 Ibid., [5
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 03 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-03-of-17/) - 101 FS to J.F. Danielli, 29 Apr. – is sorry not to be able to help with the typewriter; the arrangements are too complicated; suggests he try his own bank (tpc.)102 MD to FS, 18 May – sends thanks for arrival of money; the necessity to pay for travel in sterling
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 02 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-02-of-17/) - 2/ Requests for InformationIn alphabetical order:19441 P.B. Barnes, 12 Aug. (autogr.)2 Mollie Baxter, 19 Aug. (autogr.)3 I.S. Bince, 9 Aug. (autogr.)4 Eila M.J. Campbell, 21 Aug. (autogr.)5 S.E. Crisp, 22 Aug. (autogr.)6 Ralph Glasser, 12 Aug. (autogr.)7 Charles E.
- [EMSLIE HORNIMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (A66 – 01 of 17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/emslie-horniman-anthropological-scholarship-fund-a66-01-of-17/) - The archive is divided into sections, centring on the awards for each year. The material relating to each candidate is located in the section corresponding to the year the award was first made, even if it subsequently covers other years. Where relevant, each section also covers correspondence to Trustees and, for the earlier years only,
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- [Exhibitors 2022](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-ai-and-the-future-of-human-society/exhibitors-2022/) - Berghahn Books British Science Fiction Association Combined Academic Publishers Human Relations Area Files Royal Anthropological Institute Wiley
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- [Film Library 2020](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography/film-library-2020/) - A selection of films from the Royal Anthropological Institute's film catalogue, available for free viewing to conference delegates, 14-20 September 2020. For information about the RAI Film catalogue and about accessing the film after the conference visit www.raifilm.org.uk or email Caterina film@therai.org.uk The Film Library is available here. Title: Abraham and Sarah II - Hosting the
- [Images 2020](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography/images-2020/) - This chart of the Red Sea, probably dating from the seventeenth century, was used by a Gujarati pilot engaged in trade and the transport of Muslim pilgrims to Jeddah during Hajj. Acquired by Alexander Burnes, an officer in the East India Company, it was presented in 1835 to the Royal Geographical Society. The chart
- [The Anticipation of Place 2020](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography/the-anticipation-of-place-2020/) - This exhibition is part of panel MV17 which will be on 15 September at 15.00. Name: Orly Orbach Title: Rehearsed Futures: Supplementary school performances in and beyond the Museum of London These drawings are of London-based Supplementary Schools children from transnational backgrounds, preparing to perform on a museum stage. Performance is conceptualized as a practice
- [Photos 2018](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/art-materiality-and-representation/photos/) - © Max Carocci: Tukano Gathering basket (split cane, natural pigments, Brazil) © Jimmy Midjawmidjaw, Kunwinjku/Kuninjku. Natural pigments on bark. RM & CH Berndt Collection, Berndt Museum [Acc. No. 0466] Courtesy of the Berndt Museum © Paolo Fortis: Kuna woman working on embroidery, San Blas Archipelago, Panama © RAI Collection, William Buller Fagg: Ifon figure, Nigeria
- [Exhibitors 2016](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-weather-and-climate-change/exhibitors-2016/) - Please find below a list of exhibitors for the conference with links. Alexander Street Press Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK) Beginning Berghahn Books Beta Analytic Limited Centre for Biocultural Diversity, University of Kent Combined Academic Publishers InsightShare Sea Research Society Siberian Herders Walker Institute for Climate Resilient Society Wiley World Land Trust –
- [Travel Information 2014](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-photography/travel-information-2014/) - The British Museum is located in central London in the historic district of Bloomsbury close to Russell Square, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. The BM’s address is Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG. Tube & Train The following tube stations are within walking distance of the British Museum: Holborn (Picadilly and Central line) Russell
- [Hotels and Hostels 2014](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-photography/hotels-and-hostels-2014/) - Hotels near the British Museum The British Museum is located in central London in the historic Bloomsbury district. Within walking distance are leafy parks, local restaurants, cafes and colleges from the University of London. The following hotels are located within walking distance from the British Museum. This list is for information purposes only. Inclusion of
- [Exhibitors 2014](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-photography/exhibitors-2014/) - Please find below a list of exhibitors for the conference with links. Alexander Street Press Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography (AHFAP) Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Berghahn Books Bloomsbury British Library British Institute of Professional Photography Calumet Photographic Combined Academic Publishers Click Academy Donatella Davanzo Europeana Photography Pitt Rivers
- [Portfolios 2014](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-photography/portfolios-2014/) - As part of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropology and Photography Conference held on 29-31 May 2014 at the British Museum’s Clore Centre, the RAI invited fully registered delegates to submit a portfolio their best photographic work. The portfolios displayed illustrate how photography is advancing the practice and understanding of anthropology and related disciplines. These are
- [Exhibitors 2012](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-in-the-world/exhibitors-2012-2/) - Please find below a list of exhibitors for the conference with links. Berg Berghahn Books British Museum Friends Combined Academic Publishers Latitude: Platform for Urban Research and Design Massimedia Museum Ethnographers Group Waterstones University of Massachusetts Boston Worldwise Development
- [Conservation Clips 2021](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-conservation/conservation-clips-2021/) - Please find on these pages clips provided by delegates on the subject of our conference. We hope that they are of interest, and will leave this page available after the event’s conclusion. The film clips have been divided by region. Please click on the region to see all the clips in that category. Africa Please
- [Information for Conference Participants 2021](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-conservation/information-for-conference-participants-2021/) - Rules on participation Please note that an individual cannot present more than one paper at the conference. Panel convenors and paper presenters do not need to be Fellows of the RAI. However, the RAI welcomes new Fellows (see joining page). Fellows and Members of the RAI can register for the conference at a discounted fee.
- [Programme 2021](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-conservation/programme-2021/) - news ... Loading panels . . .
- [Europe](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-conservation/europe/) - Welcome to Yakutia By 2016 many people across the world were surprised and disappointed that Leonardo DiCaprio had not yet been awarded an Oscar. In Sakha (Yakutia), the north Siberian homeland of the indigenous Siberian Sakha community, an effort was made to redress this injustice. Following the inspiration of Tat’iana Egorova and Gela Krasil’nikova, Sakha
- [Film Programme 2021](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-conservation/film-programme-2021/) - As part of the Anthropology and Conservation Conference we will have a selection of films available for conference delegates to watch on demand for two weeks from 20 October - 5 November 2021. OPHIR 2020 / 90 mins. This is a collaborative story of the civil war and ongoing struggle for sovereignty in Bougainville Island
- [Exhibitors 2021](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-conservation/exhibitors-2021/) - Please find below a list of exhibitors for the conference with links. Berghahn Books Founded in 1994, Berghahn Books is an independent publisher of distinguished scholarly books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.https://www.berghahnbooks.com/ Combined Academic Publishers Combined Academic Publishers represent North American university presses including Duke, Stanford, Indiana and Cornell University
- [Call for panels 2024](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education/call-for-panels-2024/) - The Call for Panels is now open. It will close on 13 October 2023. All proposals must be made via the online form. Proposals should consist of a panel title, a (very) short abstract of less than 300 characters, and a long abstract of 250 words. The proposal may also include the names of any
- [RAI Student Essay Prize Past Awards](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/rai-student-essay-prize-past-awards/) - 2023 Morgane Taillefesse Dismantling and Rebuilding Ise-Jingū 伊勢神宮: a Material Study for Rethinking the Religious and the Secular in Japan 2022 Tomas Crean Tracing Levantine-Argentine Migration: The Social World of Yerba Mate and Trans-Atlantic Conviviality 2021 Natalie Campbell Identifying Mothering Experience in Prehistory: A multi-disciplinary approach 2020 Rebecca Langella The Youtube ‘Alt-right Pipeline’: exploring
- [Arthur Maurice Hocart Prize Past Awards](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/arthur-maurice-hocart-prize-past-awards/) - 2023 no award 2022Jeanne CoppensOn Shaken Terrains – Practices of attention at an urban day shelter 2021Konrad SiekierskiScripts, Saints, and Scientists: the Social Life of Gospel Books in an Armenian Museum 2020Antonio Montañés Jiménez‘Evangelical Gitanos are a good catch’: masculinity, love and Christianity in Spain 2019Jennifer CairnsBack to the Future Megnaa MehttaConserving Life: Everyday Ethics as Alternative Forest Governance 2018Sarah BestThe Cognitive
- [Annual Report 2022](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2022/) - PDFThe 2022 Annual Report of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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- [Haddon and the Aran Islands: the beginning of visual anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/photographs/haddon-and-the-aran-islands-the-beginning-of-visual-anthropology/) - Alfred Cort Haddon and Andrew Francis Dixon spent a week in the Aran Islands in 1890. They documented the glacio-karst landscape, the people, their mode of life, beliefs, customs, folklore and numerous archaeological sites. Haddon summarised the work as follows:I can’t tell you all the excursions we made in Aran. it wd be as tedious
- [Gluckman, Max (MS 496)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/gluckman-max-ms-496/) - GLUCKMAN, Max (1911-75) [MG], Various Papers Handwritten and typewritten. The material has been arranged into the following sections:- /1 Personal and University Papers /1 Personal Papers /2 University material /3 Poetry by MG, 1928-32 /2 Notebooks and Field Notes /1 Exercise books /2 Notebooks /3 Field Notes /3 Barotse, Lozi and Zulu Material /1 Barotse Material /2 Lozi Material /3
- [Gluckman, Max (MS 495)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/gluckman-max-ms-495/) - GLUCKMAN, Max (1911-75), Correspondence 1918-99Handwritten and typewritten. References to associated photographs, in the RAI Photographic Collection, are included, with the prefix ‘phot.’ The material has been arranged into the following sections:- /1 Alphabetical Correspondence /2 General Correspondence /3 Correspondence concerning house purchases /4 Private Correspondence /5 Undated Correspondence /1 Alphabetical CorrespondenceThis section contains a catalogue of the correspondence between Max Gluckman [MG] and
- [GRID – anthropometric photographs and potential history](https://therai.org.uk/photographs/grid-anthropometric-photographs-and-potential-history/) - Exhibition at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St., London W1T 5BT11 September – 14 October 2023In the mid-nineteenth century, the emerging field of study of anthropology eagerly embraced the equally new practice of photography as a tool for a total survey of its subjects. The individuals captured in these photographs were profoundly entangled within
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- [A Touch of Genius](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-book-series/a_touch_of_genius/) - A Touch of Genius: The Life, Work and Influence of Sir Edward Evans-PritchardEdited by André Singer Vol. 4 of the RAI Series.Evans-Pritchard was perhaps the most influential anthropological scholar of the twentieth century. His extraordinary work in Africa has formed a central foundation to anthropological thought since the 1930s, with generations of anthropologists having read
- [Made in Niugini](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-book-series/made_in_niugini/) - Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Paul SillitoeVol. 2 of the RAI Book Series.This impressive and inspiring volume has as its modest origins the documentation of a contemporary collecting project for the British Museum. Informed by curators’ critiques of uneven collections accompanied by highly variable information, Sillitoe set out
- [The Anthropology of Displaced Communities](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-book-series/the_anthropology_of_displaced_communities/) - The Anthropology of Displaced CommunitiesEdited by Robert LaytonThis collection highlights the work of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Urgent Anthropology Fellowships fund, which supports research into communities whose culture and social life are under immediate threat. Created by George Appell in response to the distress he experienced working with a traumatized community of swidden cultivators in
- [The Nuaulu World of Plants](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-book-series/the_nuaulu_world_of_plants/) - The Nuaulu World of PlantsEthnobotanical cognition, knowledge and practice among a people of Seram, eastern IndonesiaRoy EllenRoy Ellen’s The Nuaulu World of Plants is the culmination of anthropological fieldwork on the eastern Indonesian island of Seram, and of comparative enquiries into the bases of human classificatory activity through the study of ethnobiological knowledge over a
- [Built in Niugini](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-book-series/built-in-niugini/) - Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Paul SillitoeVol. 1 of the RAI Book Series.The sequel to the acclaimed Made in Niugini, which explored in unparalleled depth the material world of the Wola comprising moveable artefacts, Built in Niugini continues Paul Sillitoe’s project in exemplary fashion, documenting the built environment,
- [Anthropology in Motion](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-country-series/anthropology_in_motion/) - Anthropology in MotionEncounters with Current Trajectories of Scholarship from AustriaEdited by Andre GingrichAnthropology in Austria has come a long way, in terms of achieving diversity, growth and international visibility, since first emerging in Vienna, the capital of the former Habsburg Empire, and now of one of its main successor countries. This volume combines elements of
- [Anthropology at the Crossroads](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-country-series/anthropology_at_the_crossroads/) - Anthropology at the Crossroads The View from FranceEdited by Sophie ChevalierVol. 1 of the RAI Country Series.The influence of French intellectual thought on anthropology worldwide has been immense. This set of outstanding essays examines the influence of Lévi-Strauss, internal debates concerning anthropology’s place within French culture, the way that anthropologists in France approach the dilemmas
- [Anthropology in Norway](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-country-series/anthropology_in_norway/) - Anthropology in NorwayDirections, Locations, RelationsEdited by Synnøve K.N. Bendixsen and Edvard HvidingThis book traces the history, growth and wide-ranging public engagements of social anthropology in Norway. An outcome of the Norwegian Anthropology Day at the Royal Anthropological Institute, the book explores diverse developments of theory and fieldwork near and far, and provides an overview of
- [Social Anthropologies of the Welsh](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-country-series/social_anthropologies_of_the_welsh/) - Social Anthropologies of the WelshPast and PresentEdited by W. John Morgan and Fiona BowieAsking the perennial question, ‘Who are the Welsh?’, this collection illustrates the history of anthropology in Wales and its distinctive contributions to this debate. Its essays range from the ethnographic insights of Gerald of Wales in the twelfth century, to analyses of
- [Twilight Zone Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-country-series/twilight_zone_anthropology/) - Twilight Zone Anthropology Voices from PolandEdited by Michal BuchowskiVol. 2 of the RAI Country Series.Twilight Zone Anthropology provides an engaging and multifaceted picture of anthropology in Poland, Bronislaw Malinowski’s motherland, with a comprehensive introduction describing the discipline’s history thus far, and thematic contributions detailing diverse and innovative contemporary practices that foreshadow rich possibilities for its
- [Dunbar's Number](https://therai.org.uk/publications/occasional-papers/dunbars_number/) - Dunbar’s Number Edited by David ShanklandOccasional Paper No. 45 of the Royal Anthropological Institute.Dunbar’s Number, as the limit on the size of both social groups and personal social networks, has achieved something close to iconic status and is one of the most influential concepts to have emerged out of anthropology in the last quarter century.
- [Music, Dance, Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/publications/occasional-papers/music_dance_anthropology/) - Music, Dance, AnthropologyEdited by Stephen CottrellThis volume celebrates the significant resurgence of interest in the anthropology of music and dance in recent decades. Traversing a range of fascinating topics, from the reassessment of historical figures such as Katherine Dunham and John Blacking, to the contemporary salience of sonic conflict between Islamic Uyghur and the Han
- [Rigzin, Padma](https://therai.org.uk/about/committees/anthropologists-and-the-environment/rigzin-padma/) - Name: Padma Rigzin Affiliation: Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India (SNOiE)iaContact details: pr917@snu.edu.inStatement of interest: I am a social anthropology PhD candidate at the SNOiE. My project explores the emerging relationship of humans with snow leopards. The project brings Anthropocene to provide an enabling lens to make sense of the pronounced impact of anthropogenic climate change in
- [Exhibitions](https://therai.org.uk/photographs/exhibitions/) - Photographic Exhibitions at the Royal Anthropological Institute The RAI has occasional photographic exhibitions in its meeting room on the 1st floor at 50 Fitzroy Street. If you are interested in proposing an exhibition please see the guidelines for exhibitors. Past exhibitions Imagi/Nations: Native North American Photographs from the Royal Anthropological Institute Bodies in Motion The
- [Imagi/Nations](https://therai.org.uk/photographs/imaginations/) - Imagi/Nations: Native North American Photographs from the Royal Anthropological Institute Curated by Max Carocci Images of Native North Americans part of a little known collections such as the ones of the RAI, offer a rare glimpse into the visual history of indigenous North American nations (Canadian First Nations, Native Americans, Inuit). The exhibition presents a
- [Guidelines for Exhibitors](https://therai.org.uk/photographs/guidelines-for-exhibitors/) - Guidelines for Exhibitors of Photographs at the Royal Anthropological Institute The RAI welcomes occasional photographic exhibitions in its meeting room on the first floor at 50 Fitzroy Street. The room is well lit, and with the frames available (suitable for images up to 50 x 40 cm), can accommodate up to 35 images, with
- [[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times](https://therai.org.uk/photographs/reentanglements-colonial-collections-in-decolonial-times/) - Over the last few years, the [Re:]Entanglements project has been re-engaging with a remarkable ethnographic archive – including objects, photographs, sound recordings, botanical specimens, published work and fieldnotes – assembled by the colonial anthropologist, Northcote W. Thomas, in Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 1909 and 1915. As well as better understanding the historical context
- [Contact Anthropological Index Online](https://therai.org.uk/aio/anthropological-index-online-contact/) - Anthropological Index Online Anthropology Library and Research Centre The British Museum Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8010 Map
- [Pokrant, Bob](https://therai.org.uk/about/committees/anthropologists-and-the-environment/pokrant-bob-2/) - Name: Dr Bob Pokrant Affiliation: Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Curtin University, Australia Contact details: B.Pokrant@curtin.edu.au Statement of interest: Main interests are climate change adaptation, sustainable development, fisheries and aquaculture. Geographical/topical area of interest: South Asia, especially Bangladesh.
- [Honorary Fellows](https://therai.org.uk/awards/honours/honorary-fellows/) - Honorary FellowsHonorary Fellows, elected by the RAI Council, are persons eminent in anthropology not normally resident in the United Kingdom.ARGENTINAJose Luis LanataAUSTRIAGertrud HauserGerhard KubikAndre GingrichCANADATania LiFRANCEHenry de LumleyPhilippe DescolaMaurice GodelierGUATEMALARicardo Falla S.J.ICELANDGísli PálssonINDIAT.N. MadanAndré BéteilleJAPANHirochika NakamakiKENYAMaeve LeakeyFreda NkiroteMEXICOLourdes ArizpeMOROCCOAbdeljalil BouzouggarNEPALDor Bahadur BistaNETHERLANDSJohannes FabianNEW ZEALANDDame Joan MetgeNORWAYThomas Hylland EriksenSigne HowellPERUJuan OssioPOLANDMichal BuchowskiRUSSIAMikhail KryukovSOUTH AFRICADavid Lewis-WilliamsSOUTH SUDANLeben
- [RAI Fourth Annual Postgraduate Conference](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/rai-fourth-annual-postgraduate-conference/) - Royal Anthropological Institute Postgraduate Conference Whose Anthropology is it Anyway? Connections in the modern world 4th Royal Anthropological Institute Postgraduate Conference Brunel University 3 – 4 September 2014 When delivering the 1967 Reith lectures, Edmund Leach recalled a phrase from novelist E.M. Forster, Only connect…, drawing attention to the anthropological engagement in terms of the
- [Durham, Mary Edith "collection" (MS 50)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0050-durham-mary-edith-qcollectionq-ms-50/) - Flowered cloth easel on legs. 80 x 76 cm Contents: water-colours, drawings and photographs from the Balkans. [1900-12] Most of the pictures are annotated, the paintings and drawings signed: M.E. Durham, 1900 [-12]. 17 water-colours, 4 black and white drawings and 2 photographs are mounted. /1 25 photographs and 1 plan /2 Monastery church. De?ani
- [Durham, Mary Edith “collection” (MS 51)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0051-durham-mary-edith-collection-ms-51/) - Political manuscripts, by M.E. Durham. Various sizes. 6 parts. Typewritten and handwritten. Contents: /1 The background of the Sarajevo crime /2 Jugoslavia – relief work in Albania and Montenegro between April 1911 and October 1913 /3 Of the Turkish constitution /4 Resolution on Albanian independence. Also: ‘In centuries Balkan people have been used by the
- [Durham, Mary Edith “collection” (MS 52)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0052-durham-mary-edith-collection-ms-52/) - Notes bearing on the Sarajevo crime. Vienna, 1926. 2 copy-books. 23.5 x 19 cm; 20.5 x 16 cm. Handwritten.
- [Durham, Mary Edith “collection” (MS 53)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0053-durham-mary-edith-collection-ms-53/) - Newspaper cuttings: reviews of M.E. Durham’s works. 1905, 1909. 2 vols. 29.5 x 24 cm Brown paper boards; cuttings pasted in and inserted. Contents: /1 Reviews of Burden of the Balkans /2 Six articles by M.E. Durham – reviews of High Albania
- [Durham, Mary Edith “collection” (MS 54)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0054-durham-mary-edith-collection-ms-54/) - Newspaper articles and notes from The Nation, etc. on different subjects, mainly by W.H. Nevinson – Letters to the editor of The Nation, etc. by M.E. Durham. xii, 72 leaves. 31 x 25 cm Blue cloth boards; lettered in black on upper cover: Newspaper cuttings.
- [Durham, Mary Edith “collection” (MS 56)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0056-durham-mary-edith-collection-ms-56/) - Letters by various people and press cuttings, relating to the Sarajevo crime, war guilt, Balkan history. [London], May 1944 2 vols. inserts in pocket (vol. 1). 30 x 24.5 cm; 33 x 23.5 cm /1 Light brown cloth boards; lettered on upper cover: Cuttings /2 Dark grey paper boards, cloth spine. 1, Handwritten preface ‘Notes
- [Durham, Mary Edith “collection” (MS 57)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0057-durham-mary-edith-collection-ms-57/) - Political correspondence. Various sizes. 6 parts. Various papers. Various sizes. Contents: /1 ‘Sundry correspondence Albania, 1920’; contains letters to Miss Durham, all dated c. 1920, amongst others from Lord Teignmouth, E.D. Morel (Union of Democratic Control), C.T. Erickson (Albanian delegation); copy of letter sent by Committee of the National Defence of Kosovo to His Excellency,
- [Durham, Mary Edith “collection” (MS 58)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0058-durham-mary-edith-collection-ms-58/) - Minutes of the Anglo-Albanian Society, list of members, etc. 1918-23 Copy-book. 22.5 x 17.5 cm Handwritten Marbled paper covers, black cloth spine Inserted: various papers
- [Durham, Mary Edith “collection” (MS 59)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0059-durham-mary-edith-collection-ms-59/) - Personal documents. 1905 3 documents, one print and The Times 7 Nov. 1805 (Report on the Battle of Trafalgar) In white envelope with royal cipher N.I., surmounted by crown.
- [Earthy, E. Dora (MS 60)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0060-earthy-e-dora-ms-60/) - Children of the Liberian hinterland. Truro, 1939 [iv], 211 leaves, phots., maps. 26.5 x 22 cm Typescript; handwritten corrections and notes Light brown paper boards; inscribed on upper cover: Children of the Liberian hinterland, by E. Dora Earthy; woodcut on label, lettered: Three Wise Children of the Liberian Hinterland, drawn by a Sister of the
- [Earthy, E. Dora (MS 61)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0061-earthy-e-dora-ms-61/) - The social structure of a Gbande town, Liberia. [London, 193-] 17 leaves. 25 x 20 cm Typescript; handwritten corrections Leaf [1], Note: Paper may be published as an alternative chapter [to Children of the Liberian hinterland]. British Association paper; abstract only published. Presented by the author, September 1939
- [Earthy, E. Dora (MS 62)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0062-earthy-e-dora-ms-62/) - The Kisi tribe of Liberia. [London, 193-] 28 leaves. 25 x 20 cm Typescript; handwritten corrections and notes British Association paper; abstract only published. Presented by the author, September 1939
- [Earthy, E. Dora (MS 63)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0063-earthy-e-dora-ms-63/) - Krepoh Kru: a short grammatical sketch by E. Dora Earthy; presented to the Royal Anthropological Institute, September 1939. [Truro, 1939] [i], 30 leaves. 25 x 20 cm Typescript; handwritten title-page.
- [Greenough, George Bellas (MS 64)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0064-greenough-george-bellas-ms-64/) - Ethnological dictionary … 11 vols. 31.5 x 20.5 cm Handwritten. Green cloth boards, spines lettered in gold on dark red leather labels: Ethnological dictionary – vol. 1 [2-11], A-AZ [etc.] G.B. Greenough’s bookplate on each upper paste-down end-paper, Numerous inserts. Contents: /1 A-AZ /2 B-Cas /3 Cat-Del /4 Dem-Gru /5 Gua-Juw /6 Kab-Lix /7 Lla-Mog
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 65)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0065-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-65/) - Journal of the Congo expedition: containing narrative of the journey … [1907-9]. 7 vols. (in 3), fronts., phots. 26 x 20 cm Red-brown cloth boards, leather spines and corners; lettered in gold on spine: Journal … Interleaved, photographs pasted in; each front free-end-paper imperfect. Members of expedition – E. Torday, M.W. Hilton-Simpson, N.H. Hardy, E.O.
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 66)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0066-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-66/) - Among the hill-folk of Algeria. [London], 1921 3 pts. 17 phots., map. Various sizes Handwritten, typescript and printed. Contents: /1 Handwritten MS /2 MS in typescript with handwritten notes to the printer /3 Chapters 1-4, [typescript with handwritten corrections] /4 Another version of introduction [ 4 leaves, handwritten] /5 Duplicate proofs, pp. 1-224, corrected Photographs
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 66A)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0066a-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-66a/) - Algiers and beyond: [page proofs] … London, 1906 x, 295 pp., illus. 22.5 cm Printed, handwritten corrections. In envelope inscribed: Page proofs of Algiers and beyond. 1906, sold to Hutchinson & Co. at half profits & brought in about £25 (?) Published by Hutchinson, 1906
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 67)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0067-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-67/) - Algerian and other notes, 1913-25 Paper slips (in 13 envelopes). 16 x 12 cm Contents: /1 Arts & crafts, 1920 /2 Arts & crafts, 1923 /3 Magic /4 Magic, 1922-3 /5 Medical magic /6 Geography & villages /7 Villages, buildings, country /8 Notes 1925-6 /9 Miscellaneous /10 Miscellaneous notes /11 Textiles /12 Natural history /13
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 68)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0068-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-68/) - [Algerian ethnographical and bibliographical notes, arranged by subject. c. 1914-26] 2 pts. (box and loose cards). 16 x 12 x 31 cm (1); 16 x 12 cm (2) Handwritten /1 Red paper box, containing cards /2 Loose cards, in parcel inscribed ‘Hilton-Simpson, Remainder of Algerian notes’ Inserted: notes
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 69)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0069-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-69/) - Arab and Shawia medical notes. [192-] 3 pts. 32.5 x 20 cm; 26.5 x 20.5 cm Handwritten and typewritten Contents: /1 Arab and Shawia medical notes /2 Trepanning /3 Arab and Shawia remedies
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 70)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0070-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-70/) - MS of a paper on Berber and Arab surgery; for Royal Anthropological Institute.Soc.of Med. Oct. 1919. D.V. (Inshallah) 31, A-L leaves. 27 x 21 cm; 32.5 x 20 cm 2 copies (one handwritten, one typewritten)
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 71)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0071-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-71/) - The wandering Arabs of the Sahara: a sketch of life among the Nomads of the great African desert. [102-] 5 pts. Various sizes Handwritten and typewritten 2, Grey paper wrappers Contents: /1 MS (handwritten) /2 Typescript /3 MS (handwritten) of another version /4-/5 Chapter XI: The Nomad’s place in Algerian life … (2 copies)
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 72)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0072-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-72/) - Papers on material culture in Algeria. [192-] 4 pts., illus. Various sizes Handwritten and typewritten Contents: /1 Modern use of the ‘water-clock’ in Algerian irrigation (2 copies) /2 Water clock in Algeria /3 The pole-lathe in Algeria and England /4 Oil mills (draft copy) 1, Read by Miss B.M. Blackwood at the British Association MG,
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 73)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0073-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-73/) - Papers on the Congo. [191-] 8 pts. Various sizes Handwritten, typescript and printed. Contents: /1 At the court of an African King (2 copies) /2 Sport at a Congo mission station (2 copies) /3 Two years among strange tribes /4 Buffalo shooting in the Belgian Congo /5 Loango to Kasai /6 Corrected proofs of introduction
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 74)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0074-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-74/) - Papers and notes on North Africa. [1906-192-] 21 pts., illus., map. Various sizes Handwritten and typewritten Contents: /1 The cave dwellers of Southern Tunisia /2 A sandstorm in the Sahara /3 Wide World, Aures article /4 Algerian children’s games and toys /5 Some Algerian superstitions noted among the Shawia Berbers of the Aures Mts and
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 75)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0075-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-75/) - Notes on Shawia and Arabs. [nd] Copy-book, sketches. 23 x 16 cm Handwritten Dark blue paper boards
- [Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 76)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0076-hilton-simpson-melville-william-ms-76/) - [Material culture of the Shawia. 192-] 12 pts. 33 x 20 cm Handwritten and typescript 1, notes and papers in paper wrapper – 2-12, one handwritten, two typed copies of each Contents: /1 Villages and habitations /2 Dwellings and villages /3 Textiles /4 Pottery /5 Wood-work /6 Basketry /7 Leather work /8 Agriculture /9 Irrigation
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 77)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0077-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-77/) - Notes extracted from various periodicals and books 48 series (2316 pp.). Various sizes Handwritten and typewritten Folded down the centre and gathered into series, with content notes on top paper
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 78)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0078-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-78/) - Scrap paper notes … Paper slips. Various sizes Handwritten
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 79)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0079-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-79/) - Correspondence with S.G. Morley Letters. Various sizes Handwritten and typewritten
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 80)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0080-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-80/) - Notebooks, containing various abstracts. [Kilcavan, Geashill, 1885-96] 3 vols. 19.5 x 13 cm (1); 23 x 19.5 cm (2-3) Handwritten Prayers etc., written in another hand, interspersed /1 Black paper wrappers lettered in black on white label on upper cover: Note book no. 1, Woodfield, Kilcavan, Geashill /2 Dark green paper boards, brown leather spine;
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 81)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0081-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-81/) - Researches of Maya astronomy: translated 1-6, [by] Hans Ludendorff, Berlin, 1930-3 [191] leaves, tables. 27.5 x 21.5 cm Typescript Blue paper boards, dark green spine
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 82)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0082-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-82/) - Proofs of Maya hieroglyphic writing, by J.E. Thompson, Washington, 1950 3 folders. 30.5 x 22.5 cm Inserted: notes by R.E.C. Long
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 83)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0083-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-83/) - Notes and abstracts from papers by various authors 8 pts. 32.5 x 20.5 cm Typewritten and handwritten. Contents: /1 Notes … The calendar of ancient Egypt, by R.A. Parker /2 ‘Copies of two Satterthwaite [sic] reviews of Makemson’ /3 Notes from ‘Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin’, translated by R. Roys – ‘Notes from Kingsborough
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 84)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0084-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-84/) - The new and the old in Guatemala and The calendar of Soloma and of other Indian towns, by Robert Burkitt. 1929-30 12 pp., typewritten and 4 pp. of proofs. Various sizes Proofs of The calendar of Soloma … published in Man, 1929. Attached: letters from R. Burkitt to E.N. Fallaize and Miss Martindale respectively, also
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 85)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0085-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-85/) - Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimen – Tun prophecies, with comparisons from the Mani version; translated by Ralph Roys. [11 June 1948] 38 + [2] leaves. 28 x 21.5 cm Typewritten Leaves 21 and 29 in two versions, of which one is marked ‘revised’ in R.E.C. Long’s handwriting
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 86)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0086-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-86/) - Collection of reprints and photostat copies of papers by Robert H. Merrill, [1941-7] 2 pts. Various sizes /1 Folder, inscribed ‘Merrill 1’, followed by contents note /2 Envelope, inscribed ‘Merrill 2’, followed by contents note
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 87)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0087-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-87/) - Collection of reprints by various people, including correspondence and notes. [1924-49] 9 pts. Various sizes Contents: /1 The Maya lunar count, by C.E. Guthe; correspondence inserted /2 The Maya eclipse table … by R.H. Merrill – The Hispanicized Haab of Yucatan, by R.R. Weitzel; copies of letters to Merrill inserted /3 The Maya correlation problem
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 88)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0088-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-88/) - Further implications of Thompson’s readings of Maya inscriptions at Copan. 2.4.48 39, [5] leaves. 26.5 x 21 cm Typewritten
- [Long, Richard E.C. “collection” (MS 89)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0089-long-richard-ec-collection-ms-89/) - Thomas Wentworth [Earl of Strafford 1593-1641] a biography [nd] 560 pp. 32.5 x 20 cm Dark green cloth boards, brown leather spine Author not ascertained
- [Deacon, Arthur Bernard "collection" (MS 90)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0090-deacon-arthur-bernard-collection-ms-90/) - Notebooks, with an index by Camilla H. Wedgwood. 1926-7. 16 volumes., and slips of paper, various sizes. Handwritten. 1-5 are paper blocks, lettered A, B, C, D, E; 6-16 are note-books lettered F, H, K, M, R, S, T, Y, Z, I, II ? Presented by Camilla H. Wedgwood? /1 A. Odd Notes. Leaves 488-9,
- [Deacon, Arthur Bernard “collection” (MS 91)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0091-deacon-arthur-bernard-collection-ms-91/) - Correspondence and letter extracts concerning Deacon’s journey to and work in Malekula. 1925-6 and 1982. Various papers, various sizes. photograph. Handwritten and typewritten. ? Presented by Camilla A. Wedgwood /1 Letter to Armstrong from Deacon, dated 4 Nov. 192[5?] written aboard the SS Orimonds near Colombo. 16 pp. 18 x 11 cm. Handwritten /2 Photocopied
- [Deacon, Arthur Bernard “collection” (MS 92)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0092-deacon-arthur-bernard-collection-ms-92/) - Glossaries of native terms, compiled from A.B. Deacon’s notes by Camilla H. Wedgwood, 193?- 12 gatherings. 8 x 18 cm. Handwritten. Each gathering consists of loose leaves tied together in blue paper wrappers, except MS 92/12 which has been provided with new wrappers. Some leaves have text on verso. ? Presented by Camilla H. Wedgwood
- [Deacon, Arthur Bernard “collection” (MS 93)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0093-deacon-arthur-bernard-collection-ms-93/) - Genealogies of Lagalag villages, compiled from A.B. Deacon’s notes by Camilla H. Wedgwood. [193-] 51 paper folders, inscribed on upper leaves and containing genealogies of various sizes and numbering. Some of the folders have been reduced without loss of information due to paper disintegration. Originally 28 x 21. 5 cm., now various sizes and 5
- [Deacon, Arthur Bernard “collection” (MS 94)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0094-deacon-arthur-bernard-collection-ms-94/) - Geometrical drawings from Malekula, and other islands of the New Hebrides, edited by Camilla H. Wedgwood with notes and appendix by A.C. Haddon. 1926-34. Various papers, drawings, photographs. Various sizes Handwritten and typewritten Published in JRAI LXIV, pt. 1, 1934, pp. 129-75 and plate XIII. See also MS 98/1 ? Presented by Camilla H. Wedgwood
- [Deacon, Arthur Bernard “collection” (MS 95)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0095-deacon-arthur-bernard-collection-ms-95/) - Figures, drawings and description from Malekula, by A.B. Deacon. 1926-7. 2 pp., 8 coloured drawings, 4 wax rubbings, 1 genealogical table. Various sizes ? Presented by Camilla H. Wedgwood /1 Description of figures [see MS 95/2]. 2 pp. 33 x 20.5 cm. Handwritten /2 Mummies from S. Malekula in the Melbourne Museum. Figures I and
- [Deacon, Arthur Bernard “collection” (MS 96)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0096-deacon-arthur-bernard-collection-ms-96/) - Place name index with bibliographical references, by Camilla H. Wedgwood. 193-. 233 cards. 7.5 x 12.5 cm. Handwritten. ? Presented by Camilla H. Wedgwood /1 Place name index in alphabetical order, of Mewun, Seniam, Wilemp, Hurtes, and Tomman Island, with notes on clans, totems, map references, survivors and naarew. 138 cards. Bibliographical references to Pacific
- [Deacon, Arthur Bernard “collection” (MS 97)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0097-deacon-arthur-bernard-collection-ms-97/) - Linguistic notes and folktales, by A.B. Deacon. 1926-7. Various papers, various sizes Handwritten and typewritten. Some of the folktales have been published in Deacon, A. Bernard, Malekula: a vanishing people in the New Hebrides, edited by Camilla H. Wedgwood (London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1934) see also MS 98/12/8, MS 98/13/22 ? Presented by
- [Deacon, Arthur Bernard “collection” (MS 98)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0098-deacon-arthur-bernard-collection-ms-98/) - Notes, geometrical drawings, diagrams, plans and maps. 1925-? Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten and typewritten. Most of this material was used for the publication of Malekula: a vanising people in the New Hebrides; edited by Camilla H. Wedgwood, London, George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1934. Some geometrical drawings published in JRAI LXIV, pt. 1, 1934,
- [Marillier, L. (MS 99)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0099-marillier-l-ms-99/) - Notes and extracts 8 pts. 31 x 24.5 cm Handwritten Paper folders, beige cloth spines, inscribed on upper cover Contents: /1 Origine de la mort – Séjour des morts – Conditions des âmes dans l’autre vie /2 Folk-lore – Survivance – Völkerpsychologie E. Torday psychologie religieuse /3 Totemism [with regional subdivisions] /4 Anthropologie rituale –
- [Myers, Charles Samuel (MS 100)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0100-myers-charles-samuel-ms-100/) - Anthropometric measurements [of Egyptians. 1901-2] 2 pts. 1, 20.5 x 25 cm; 2, various sizes Printed and handwritten /1 Index cards, numbered 1-1005, printed and completed by hand; five bundles and loose cards, not in numerical order /2 16 handwritten tables, pasted to carton Material published in ‘Contributions to Egyptian anthropology’, J.A.I. 1903, 33, 82-9;
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland, “collection” (MS 101)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0101-rattray-robert-sutherland-collection-ms-101/) - Adonten stool; Nkoranza; Banda; Konfo Anotchi: papers to be dealt with. [c. 1919-25] 8 papers in 1 folder. 33 x 20 cm. Handwritten and typewritten. The folder has been discarded. The title only has been retained. 18 x 14 cm. Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection. Presented from the estate of the late Dr
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland, “collection” (MS 102)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0102-rattray-robert-sutherland-collection-ms-102/) - Abene: Kwawu. [nd] 11 papers in 1 folder. 33 x 20 cm. Handwritten and typewritten. The folder has been discarded. The title only has been retained. 6.5 x 14 cm. Handwritten. Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection. Presented from the estate of the late Dr Rattray, 1938. /1 Notes on Kwahu; by Eugene Addow.
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland (MS 103)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0103-rattray-robert-sutherland-ms-103/) - Transliteration of MS of Hausa laws [from Arabic to Hausa]. 1910 [v] pp., 95 leaves. 32 x 20 cm; leaves 88-90, 11 x 20 cm. Another transliteration and notes. 32 x 20 cm. Handwritten Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection. Presented from the estate of the late Dr Rattray, 1938. Contents: Introduction by the
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland (MS 104)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0104-rattray-robert-sutherland-ms-104/) - Nankani customs, 1-3. 1928-9 3 notebooks. 21 x 14.5 cm. Handwritten. Beige paper covers with white labels on upper cover, inscribed: Department of Anthropology, Northern Territories. Marked in blue pencil: ‘No.I, II, III [respectively], (translated into English)’. Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection. Presented from the estate of the late Dr Rattray, 1938. /1
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland (MS 105)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0105-rattray-robert-sutherland-ms-105/) - [Language, grammar and vocabulary]. 1928-9. 6 notebooks. 21 x 14.5 cm. Handwritten. Beige covers, inscribed on white labels: Department of Anthropology, Northern Territories … [and as contents]. /1 Mole vocabulary and notes, commenced 22/1/28, [pp.1-31], [pp.4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 31 to end, blank] /2 The Isala: Isal vocabulary, 23/2/28 - revised:
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland (MS 106)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0106-rattray-robert-sutherland-ms-106/) - Field notes. 1921-7. 25 noteblocks, leaves numbered 1-1600, 2001-2900, drawings, illus., rubbings, tables. Contents list inside back board of each block. 20.5 x 12 cm Handwritten. Note-blocks 1601-2000 see MS 107. Table of contents on inside back cover of each noteblock. Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection. Presented from the estate of the late
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland (MS 107)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0107-rattray-robert-sutherland-ms-107/) - Ashanti law and constitution: field notes and genealogies. 1925. Books I-X and 6 papers. Various sizes. Handwritten. Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection. Presented from the estate of the late Dr Rattray, 1938. /1 Mampon stool … 1 note-block. 1601-1700 leaves, diagr., genealogy, index. Notes verso leaves 1601-2, 1610, 1621, 1623, 1633-4, 1639, 1642,
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland (MS 108)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0108-rattray-robert-sutherland-ms-108/) - Kwawu etc.: field notes. 1927. 4 note-blocks. 20.5 x 12 cm and 1 genealogy. 23 x 17.5 cm Handwritten. Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection. Presented from the estate of the late Dr Rattray, 1938. /1 Notes on Kwawu etc., 1927: Book II. 3001-3100 leaves. Notes verso 1eaves 3020-7, 3029-30, 3035-7, 3039, 3042, 3044,
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland (MS 109)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0109-rattray-robert-sutherland-ms-109/) - N[orthern] T[erritories]: field notes, books 1-34. 1928-30 34 note-blocks. 21.5 x 12 cm Handwritten. Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection. Presented from the estate of the late Dr Rattray, 1938. /1 Isala … 3401-3500 leaves, illus., drawings, leaf 3417 blank. Notes verso leaves 3407, 3411, 3415, 3420-3,3426-7, 3431, 3435-7, 3440-4, 3446-8, 3450-3, 3463-4, 3467,
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland, “collection” (MS 109A)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0109a-rattray-robert-sutherland-collection-ms-109a/) - Microfilm copies of MS 101-109 12 boxed reels of positive and negative film Microfilm purchased with funds from Northwestern University /1 RAI Rattray papers MS 101/1-106/8. Reel 1 of positive film /2 RAI Rattray papers MS 106/9-106/25. Reel 2 of positive film /3 RAI Rattray papers MS 107/1-107/16. Reel 3 of positive film /4 RAI
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 110)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0110-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-110/) - Andaman vocabulary. 1, English-Andamanese; 2, Andamanese-English. 18--. 2 parts. (in 25). 32 x 20 cm. Handwritten. /1 Consists of 3 numbered parts (338 leaves) /2 Consists of 22 numbered parts (508 leaves) Grey or buff paper covers; inscribed on white labels: Andaman vocabulary, part 1 … and Andaman vocabulary, part 2. Subtitles of part 1:
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 111)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0111-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-111/) - Andamanese grammar, annotated by Sir R.C. Temple. Port Blair, 1878. 40 parts and envelope. 28 x 11 cm. Gatherings of loose leaves, folded down the centre, numbered 1-9, 9a, 10a, 11-39; inscribed … ‘Fair copy. Corrected text. March, [May, June, August] 1878 … Important parts in red, points of grammar in black, grammatical notes in
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 112)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0112-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-112/) - Various notes. Port Blair, 1878. Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten. Contents Miscellanous notes on Nicobar Old Andamanese notes Old notes for comparative vocabulary
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 113)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0113-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-113/) - … A grammar of the Bôjingîjîda or South Andaman language, by E.H. Man and R.C. Temple. Calcutta, Thacker, Spink and Co., 1878. 17 pp. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. Printed. At head of title: Specimen printed for private circulation Inserted: numerous handwritten notes
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 114)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0114-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-114/) - Notes on the Nicobarese, by E.H. Man, CIE. No. 6. Despatched to Bombay 4.1.99. Port Blair, 1899. 2 parts. Various sizes. /1 Typewritten; handwritten title and letter attached /2 Proofs; numerous handwritten corrections and notes
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 115)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0115-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-115/) - Andaman vocabulary notes, by Amy F. Man, with notes in the margin, by E.H. Man. 1885-86. 100 perforated leaves. 13 x 21 cm. Handwritten. Light brown paper cover, lettered: The reporter’s marginal note book … perforated. Note tipped-in upper cover: ‘I would suggest that your replies should be inserted on the blank perforated part. That
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 116)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0116-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-116/) - Personal papers. Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten, typewritten, printed. Contents: Letters from parents, etc. The school magazine, Uppingham, Oct. 1872, containing memorial to Arthur C. Man (inserted photograph) ‘Memo of periods during which I have officiated in higher grades,’ etc. Copies of correspondence dated 1863 between the Superintendent of Convicts, P.W. Island, and Resident Councillor
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 117)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0117-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-117/) - Notes, botanical and others. [c. 1877-] Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten and typewritten.
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 118)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0118-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-118/) - Various reprints and cutting from The Times, 25 May 1920. Various pamphlets. Various sizes. Annotated by E.H. Man in margins. Inserted: loose notes. Contents: Word list by Major Tickell and others Observations on the Andamanese, by F. Day (Proc.Asiat.Soc.Bengal, 6, 1870) The Malays, by W. Napier. London, 1876 The Andaman Islands, by W.B. Birch (Calcutta
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 119)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0119-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-119/) - Vocabulary of the languages spoken by the aborigines of South Andaman. 1875 5 parts, phots., maps. 50 x 32 cm. Handwritten. /1 Brown paper wrappers inscribed on white oval label: 1875. Vocabulary of the languages spoken by the aborigines of South Andaman /2-/5 White paper wrappers, inscribed: A to D, E to L, M to
- [Man, Edward Horace “collection” (MS 119 A)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0119a-man-edward-horace-collection-ms-119-a/) - Vocabulary of dialects spoken in the Nicobar and Andaman Isles, by Fr. Ad. De Röepstorff, Candidate of Philosophy, U.C., Fellow, Royal Society Northern Antiquaries, &c., Extra Assistant Superintendent Andaman and Nicobars, late in charge of the Nicobars. Port Blair, Chief Commissioner’s Printing Press, 1874. [ii], xv, 50 pp. 50 x 32 cm. Printed and handwritten.
- [Stefansson, V. (MS 120)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0120-stefansson-v-ms-120/) - Some Eskimo words of possible historical significance. Langton Bay, 1911. 21 pp., 3 maps (drawings). 25 x 20 cm; 28 x 22 cm. Handwritten. Letters to the Editor, American Anthropologist (10 Aug. 1911) and to Dr Clark Wissler, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 7 Aug. 1911, attached.
- [Schebester, Paul (MS 121)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0121-schebester-paul-ms-121/) - The Zimbabwe – Kultur in Africa. Mödling nr. Vienna, 1923. 2 parts. 33 x 21 cm; 22 x 13 cm. /1 MS, 53 leaves, typewritten; handwritten corrections /2 Paper of reference and review, by D.R. McIver. 4 pp., printed and handwritten
- [Werner, Edward Theodore Chalmers (MS 122)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0122-werner-edward-theodore-chalmers-ms-122/) - Report on a journey N. and E. of Peking made in Oct., Nov. and Dec. 1886. [c. 1887] 61, [i] pp. 33 x 20.5 cm. Handwritten. Inserted: printed list of works by E.T.C. Werner
- [Crooke, William (MS 123)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0123-crooke-william-ms-123/) - Collection of 27 Greek stories. [189-]. 132 leaves. Various sizes Handwritten. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 Mar. 1955. /1 The accused schoolmaster. Lesbos. 4 leaves. 26.5 x 20.5 cm /2 Anna – Sultana Kai Agelastos Kore. Lesbos. 11 leaves. 26.5 x 21 cm /3 The Bad Bishop. Casaba. 3 leaves. 26 x 20.5 cm
- [Crooke, William (MS 124)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0124-crooke-william-ms-124/) - Collection of 118 Indian stories, told by various people; recorded and translated by W. Crooke and others. [189-]. Various papers. Various sizes. 34 x 21 cm unless stated otherwise. Handwritten, printed and typewritten. Handwritten unless stated otherwise. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 Mar. 1955. /1 ‘In the court of Ugrasen, Rájá of Mathurá, chanbeys?
- [Crooke, William (MS 125)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0125-crooke-william-ms-125/) - Miscellaneous notes on religion, magic, rites, customs, prehistory, etc. with particular reference to India, [and] part MS of new edition of Popular religion and folklore in northern India. [c. 1890-1921?] Various papers. Various sizes. 25 x 20 cm unless stated otherwise. Handwritten, printed and typewritten. Handwritten unless stated otherwise. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11
- [Crooke, William (MS 126)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0126-crooke-william-ms-126/) - Papers, notes and correspondence on death, funeral, soul, etc. including material used in Religion and folklore of Northern India, and draft chapters and articles. Various papers. Various sizes. 25.5 x 20 cm unless stated otherwise. Handwritten and typewritten. Handwritten unless stated otherwise. The numbering has followed papers originally pinned or attached together, and loose. Presented
- [Crooke, William (MS 127)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0127-crooke-william-ms-127/) - Material for a glossary of Indian terms arranged in alphabetical order and supported by notes, references and correspondence. 1029 terms on various papers. Various sizes. [Each leaf size is different]. Handwritten. Some of the material appears in Hobson-Jobson: a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian terms and phrases and of kindred terms; new edition; by Sir Henry
- [Crooke, William (MS 128)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0128-crooke-william-ms-128/) - Things Indian: correspondence and accounts with John Murray, publishers. London, 1906-23. Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten, printed and typewritten. Things Indian: being discursive notes on various subjects connected with India by William Crooke. London, John Murray, 1906. xii, 546 pp. This is the book reference to this manuscript. The papers of John Murray are held
- [Crooke, William (MS 129)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0129-crooke-william-ms-129/) - [Notes and references on all aspects worldwide of the interests of William Crooke. Nd] Various slips, notes and papers. Various sizes. Handwritten. Originally the slips and notes were loosely stored in 9 used envelopes bearing the titles: 1, Miscellaneous notes; 2, Finger folklore; 3, Hair; 4, Swinging rites; 5, Slips; 6-9, [untitled]. Presented by Mr
- [Crooke, William (MS 130)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0130-crooke-william-ms-130/) - [Miscellaneous bibliographies, notes, papers, references and cuttings on all aspects of the studies of William Crooke, nd] Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten unless stated otherwise. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 March 1955 /1 [References with notes]. 5 leaves. Various sizes /2 Wine grapes. 1 leaf. 23 x 18.5 cm /3 ‘Neolithic man had no
- [Crooke, William (MS 131)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0131-crooke-william-ms-131/) - Miscellaneous notes on folklore, magic, rites and customs, including prehistory, mainly India. Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten, printed and typewritten. Handwritten unless stated otherwise Abbreviations: PRC Pandit Ramgharib Chaube WC William Crooke MHR M. Harbilás Ráé Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 March 1955. /1 Western Districts, N.W.P.: worship of Bansapti Mái, the Jungh goddess;
- [Crooke, William (MS 132)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0132-crooke-william-ms-132/) - [Lectures and papers on various topics]. 1915-23? Various papers, 1 notebook. Various sizes. Handwritten and typewritten. Handwritten unless stated otherwise. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 March 1955. /1 [Hair] - ‘The customs and superstitions connected with the wearing of the hair…’. 76 pp., numbered leaves 1-36, [pp. 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20,
- [Crooke, William (MS 133)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0133-crooke-william-ms-133/) - Draft of a history of Rajput society or of Rajputanas. [c.1908-15?]. Various papers, 1 scrapbook. Various sizes. Handwritten and printed. Handwritten unless stated otherwise. MS 133/14, 16, 18-25 closed as too fragile to consult - refer to photocopies at MS 133/14.1, MS 133/16.1, MS 133/18.1, MS133/27 Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 March 1955. /1
- [Crooke, William (MS 134)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0134-crooke-william-ms-134/) - [Notes, quotes and references on all aspects of the interests of William Crooke, mainly India. nd] 3 note books, 4 note blocks and various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 March 1955. /1 [Slips and notes pasted into a catalogue] ‘Value in furs’, 1921-22 by Bradleys Ltd. 1 slip inside front
- [Crooke, William (MS 135)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0135-crooke-william-ms-135/) - Cults of Mother Goddess: [notes for a lecture] [and] Correspondence concerning cow worship and cattle veneration. Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 March 1955. /1 The cults of the Mother Goddesses in India: [lecture]; W. Crooke. 15 leaves. 1 slip attached to leaf 1, 1 slip attached to leaf 3.
- [Crooke, William (MS 136)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0136-crooke-william-ms-136/) - The folk-beliefs of the Homeric poems. vii, 370 leaves. 32 x 21 cm Typewritten with handwritten corrections, annotations and references. References on reverse of leaves. Cataloguer’s note: Originally leaves stitched together with string and bound between paper covers, now broken, torn and discarded. Badly fragmented leaves have been reduced to make handling possible without loss
- [Crooke, William (MS 137)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0137-crooke-william-ms-137/) - Notes and correspondence pertaining to edition ‘The Diary of John Fryer’s voyage’ in the Hakluyt Society series [and] Notes and correspondence pertaining to Fanny Parkes ‘Wanderings of a Pilgrim’. 1908-1916. Various papers, 1 note book, 1 genealogical table. Various sizes. Handwritten and typewritten. Handwritten unless stated otherwise. ‘The Diary of John Fryer’s voyage’ was originally
- [Crooke, William (MS 138)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0138-crooke-william-ms-138/) - Saints and martyrs (Indian) [nd] 1 published article, 1 p. and glossary of 39 saints and martyrs. Various sizes. Printed and handwritten. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke. /1 Saints and martyrs (Indian); W. Crooke. London, Encyclopaedia Britannica, pp. 59-60. 25 x 15.5 cm. Printed /2 ‘One main characteristic of Musalman saints...’. 1 p. 20.5 x
- [Crooke, William (MS 139)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0139-crooke-william-ms-139/) - Correspondence, including detailed description of native cloths and wooden and stone vessels. 8 letters. Various sizes. Handwritten and typewritten. Handwritten unless stated otherwise 2005 addition: Bibliography of the works of William Crooke 1848-1923, held in the Anthropology Library, British Museum, formerly the Library of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 March
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 140)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0140-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-140/) - Note-books, containing notes on medicine, archaeology, books read, etc. 2-6. 1845-60 5 vols. 8.5 x 15 cm Handwritten (pencil) 2, 4, 5, Dark green leather boards; 2, upper cover damaged; 3, 6, Dark brown leather boards; locks damaged, partly wanting; 4, photograph inserted Wanting: note-book 1 Contents: /2 1845-9 /3 1850-4 /4 4 Sep. 1854-May
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 141)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0141-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-141/) - Notes of Dr Armstrong’s lectures on the principles & practice of physic. 2, 1823. 217, [3] pp. invert book: 3 pp. 18 x 11.5 cm Handwritten Grey marbled boards, dark red leather spine and corners
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 142)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0142-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-142/) - Extracts, memorandum, etc. From Lucas’s Candid inquiry into the education, qualifications and offices of a surgeon-apothecary … 1800. York, 1817-19 134 pp. 19 x 16 cm Handwritten Copy-book; grey-brown paper covers
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 143)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0143-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-143/) - Asculapius and the Asclepiadae: a treatise read before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin on the 22nd of May and the 19th of June, 1845, by Dr Theodore Panofka, Professor of archaeology to the Royal Frederick William’s University, etc., etc. … Berlin, 1846: a literal and rough translation, done in haste. Ap. 15, 1870
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 144)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0144-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-144/) - Notes from Pearson’s life of Hey. 1822 [28] leaves. 15 x 9.5 cm Handwritten Dark brown leather boards; boards loose and damaged
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 145)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0145-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-145/) - Various notes, observations, references etc. medical and archaeological, partly under alphabetical heads. Halifax, c. 1821-68 Unpaginated. 25.5 x 20.5 cm Handwritten Green marbled paper boards; light brown leather corners and spine; lettered on red label on spine: Medical journal Medical histories, (8 pp.), preceding Notes Inserted: letters, plan, etc.
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 146)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0146-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-146/) - ‘A verbal translation of Blumenbach’s Decades craniorum diversarum gentium (which is scarcely of any use, as it is done with the utmost carelessness – I never even read it over – and full of the grossest inaccuracies. J.B.D.)’ [nd] [141] pp. 18 x 11.5 cm Handwritten Note-book; dark green cloth boards
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 147)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0147-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-147/) - Notae ethnographicae. 1859-65 [24] pp., followed by blank pages. 18 x 11 cm Handwritten Note-book; dark brown cloth boards Invert book (in middle): List of ethnological objects collected by the late Geo. Augustus Robinson and purchased of his widow, 19 March 1867, [12] pp.
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 148)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0148-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-148/) - Dactyliotheca Aesculapiana: [description of a collection of signet rings, nd] Unpaginated. Numerous blank pages. 17.5 x 11 cm Handwritten Red cloth boards
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 149)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0149-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-149/) - Notes on history of Britain [nd] Unpaginated, followed by blank pages. 18 x 11 cm Handwritten Light brown leather boards
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 150)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0150-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-150/) - Crania Britannica … [various notes, nd] 2 vols. 18 x 11 cm Handwritten Black leather boards Contents : /1 Guide to crania /2 Subscribers’ names
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 151)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0151-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-151/) - ‘York affairs’: private cash book. 1837-75 20 x 16 cm Marbled paper boards; spine wanting Inserted: numerous letters
- [Davis, Joseph Barnard (MS 152)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0152-davis-joseph-barnard-ms-152/) - Reprints sent out. 1854-64 Unpaginated. 15.5 x 10 cm Handwritten Brown leather boards
- [Corpus of Indian Pottery (MS 153)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0153-corpus-of-indian-pottery-ms-153/) - A card index of Indian cairn and urn-burial pottery forms. London, c. 1929 175 cards. 26.5 x 20.5 cm Scale drawings on verson of cards, description on recto Compilation undertaken by the Indian section of the Royal Anthropological Institute See ‘Indian pottery and beads’, Man, 1929, No. 98; ‘A corpus of Indian pottery: summary of
- [Anonymous (MS 154)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0154-anonymous-ms-154/) - Jujus and Jujuism. 1913 23 leaves. 28 x 20.5 cm Handwritten Notes on preliminary leaf: Author unknown; red. 4/3/13
- [Godden, Gertrude M. (MS 155)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0155-godden-gertrude-m-ms-155/) - Naga & other frontier tribes of eastern India. [189-] [ii], 241, 13 leaves. 28 x 21 cm (3 gatherings); 25.5 x 20.5 cm (1 gathering and insert) Typewritten Numerous handwritten notes and corrections Inserted: Kuki race (13 leaves) Handwritten note on title-page, Section II
- [Godden, Gertrude M. (MS 156)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0156-godden-gertrude-m-ms-156/) - The Nágá tribes [lecture read to Anthropological Institute 23 Feb. 1897] 38 pp. 27 x 20.5 cm Typewritten; handwritten corrections Handwritten notes on title-page: ‘Corrected copy’ – ‘References to Col. Woodthorpe are lined out as he read the paper – with some marginalia of his personal knowledge of the people – for me – His
- [Unwin, Joseph Daniel (MS 157)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0157-unwin-joseph-daniel-ms-157/) - Culture, classical studies, economics, family welfare and sexual matters in various societies: notes, drafts and papers. c. 1913-34 177 folders numbered 1-112, 151-215. 29 x 22 cm Folder no. 1 inscribed ‘Sex and culture, 5 packets’, title only retained, 10 x 11.5 cm. The condition of the folders was poor and provided only the information
- [Ogilvie, John (MS 158)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0158-ogilvie-john-ms-158/) - Notes and myths of aboriginal Indians of British Guiana 696 pp., drawings. 28 x 21 cm Typewritten Presented by Mrs Ogilvie, 31 Oct. 1955, with handwritten note: ‘Notes & myths … by the late John Ogilvie. These are as they were when returned from the late Dr John Myres. [Signed] L. Ogilivie’
- [Bennett, J.W. Ogilvie (MS 159)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0159-bennett-jw-ogilvie-ms-159/) - English native vocabulary of the Woolner dialect, Adelaide River, North Australia. [Adelaide, 1869] [54] pp. 16 x 10 cm Handwritten Loose leaves clipped together; p. 1 inscribed with title and pencil note in different hand: ‘See Curr, vol. 1, 269’ Published anonymously, Adelaide, Government Printer, 1869; reprinted in The Australian race, by E.M. Curr. London,
- [Turville-Petre, Francis (MS 160)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0160-turville-petre-francis-ms-160/) - The stone age in Palestine, Syria and Transjordania: classification of sites and bibliography. August 1927 17, 5, 2 leaves. 25.5 x 20 cm Typescript Brownish folder inscribed by hand: F. Turville-Petre, The stone age … August 1927
- [Ponape Notes (MS 161)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0161-onape-notes-ms-161/) - Ponape notes … book [5] D [and G; nd]. 2 vols. 21 x 16 cm Handwritten [mostly in pencil]. Copy-books. /1 Black-green marbled paper cover, inscribed on orange and white labels: Ponape Notes upon Ponian I. /1 Vocabl. suppl., - Names of Sea animals etc. Story of Chatapo or Obadiah of Aru. Notes on Acts
- [Dawson, J.M.A.J. (MS 162)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0162-dawson-jmaj-ms-162/) - Aborigines of Malaya and the problem of their administration, by J.M.A.J. Dawson. [London, 1956] [iv], 329, xviii leaves. 3 maps (in pocket), bibliog. 25 x 20 cm Typescript Blue cloth boards Inserted in pocket as Appendices B and C: State of Perak: enactment No. 3 of 1939, reprinted from Govt.Fed.Malay States, 31: 22, Notif. 4967
- [Gloyne, G.B. (MS 163)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0163-gloyne-gb-ms-163/) - The batik art of Java, by G.B. Gloyne. [1933] [i], 52, 15 leaves. 4 drawings (loose). 32.5 x 20 cm Typescript In envelope with handwritten note: ‘This manuscript was among my papers which I am clearing up as I move house. It was written in 1933 after 21 years of work among the battick workers
- [Lee, S. Gillmore (MS 164)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0164-lee-s-gillmore-ms-164/) - A study of crying hysteria and dreaming in Zulu women: a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London, by S.G. Lee. [London], 1954 [ii], iv, 254, 7 leaves. 15 phots., diagrs., bibliog. 25 x 20 cm Typescript; diagrams drawn by hand; holograph dedication on front end-paper: Schap., with
- [Voyages (MS 165)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0165-voyages-ms-165/) - Extracts from voyages of exploration [nd] [iv], 318 pp., (followed by blanks). 19.5 x 15.5 cm Handwritten Marbled paper cover, light brown leather corners and spine; the latter badly worn Holograph note by another hand on upper endpaper: Presented to the Anthropological Society, 4th April 1874 The text appears to be copied from published sources
- [Williamson, Robert Wood and Campbell, M. (MS 166)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0166-williamson-robert-wood-and-campbell-m-ms-166/) - Bibiliographical material in classified form and List of headings on [folder] covers in drawers, [by Miss Campbell]. 76 drawers (of folders); 52 leaves, 44 leaves. Wanting: drawers 73 and 76. List of headings in drawer 1; two versions (44 and 52 leaves). A1, Strangers & guests (16 files) A2, Character: old people, women (5 files)
- [Pigmentation Survey of Scotland (MS 167)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0167-pigmentation-survey-of-scotland-ms-167/) - Statistical material [probably by John Gray and J.F. Tocher or an assistant]. 1906 54, [16] pp., followed by blank pages. 21 x 16 cm Handwritten Copy-book, marbled paper boards, red spine (torn) Memoir on the pigmentation survey of Scotland, by J. Gray JRAI, 37, pp. 375-401 ‘Lambeth Police Court Cases’, 8 pp. by a different
- [Great Britain. Colonial Office. Committee of Civil Research (MS 168)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0168-great-britain-colonial-office-committee-of-civil-research-ms-168/) - Kenya Native Welfare Subcommittee: [E.W. Fallaize’s copies of minutes, memoranda and other documents referring to the meetings (1-10) of the Kenya Native Welfare Committee. London, 1926-7] Various papers and pamphlets. Various sizes Typewritten and printed Inserted: letters to E.W. Fallaize Containing, amongst others Proposals of the Governor of Kenya for the establishment of a native
- [[Australia] (MS 169)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0169-australia-ms-169/) - Aboriginals: Commonwealth Governments policy in respect of North and Central Australia. [1930] 24 leaves. 33.5 cm Typescript Copy-book, marbled paper boards, red spine (torn) Inscribed on upper cover: ‘Aboriginals … memorandum sent by Mr Scullin, Premier of the Australian Commonwealth, at the time of the Imperial Conference, 1930, in reply to representations from the Royal
- [Mookerjee, Ajit (MS 170)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0170-mookerjee-ajit-ms-170/) - Bengal folk art. [c. 1949] 14 leaves. 10 phots. 25 x 20 cm Typescript; leaves 13-14 (bibliog..) and annotations on photographs handwritten Note on envelope ‘Mookerjee – a paper & photos (for undelivered lecture)
- [Gardener, Father (MS 171)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0171-gardener-father-ms-171/) - Drawings to ‘Excavations in a Wilton industry at Gokomere, Fort Victoria, S. Rhodesia’. [1928] 20 leaves (of drawings). Various sizes Paper published in JRAI 1928, 58, pp. 497-510 Note on envelope: ‘Author’s original drawings to be kept for reference’
- [Folklore Institute of America (MS 172)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0172-folklore-institute-of-america-ms-172/) - Second session, Indiana University, June 19-August 16 1946: Informal notes on transactions and lectures. [Indiana, 1946] [184] leaves, (various pagination). 28 x 21 cm Mimeographed Inserted: handwritten note by Stith Thompson: ‘Sent at suggestion of Dr Edith [sic] Lindgren. [Signed] Stith Thompson’ At head of title – For restricted circulation – not for publication
- [Carline, G.R. (MS 173)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0173-carline-gr-ms-173/) - Newspaper and periodical cuttings arranged according to subject. 1931 15 pts. 36 x 28 cm, (1-14); 42.5 x 34 cm, (15) Printed 1-14, brown paper folders, inscribed by hand on upper cover: ‘G.R. Carline FRAI. Cuttings’, followed by title as contents; 15, black leather folder, badly damaged Presented by Mrs Carline, 8 Aug. 1931 Contents
- [Hawes, C.H. (MS 174)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0174-hawes-ch-ms-174/) - Individual measurements and observations of about 2700 Cretan men, collected by Dr C.H. Hawes in 1905 and 1909 50 folders; one copy-book. 24 x 16 cm (folders; 30.5 x 21 cm (copy-book) Printed and handwritten The folders are inscribed and dated on upper cover. They contain printed forms, filled in by hand. The forms dated
- [British Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on Human (MS 175)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0175-british-association-for-the-advancement-of-science-committee-on-human-ms-175/) - Geography of Intertropical Africa Human geography file. London, 1934-5 6 pts. 2 maps. Various sizes, (1-2); 42 x 31 cm, (3); 32.5 x 20 cm, (4-6) Printed (1-2); 102 photostat sheets (3); typescript (4-6) In black box; contents note pasted on inner lid Inserted: letters from A.G. Ogilvie dated 15 and 30 Sep. 1953 Contents
- [International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. (MS 176)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0176-nternational-congress-of-anthropological-and-ethnological-sciences-ms-176/) - London, 1934 Papers, abstracts of papers and press-cuttings. London, 1934 2 pts. Various sizes Typewritten, handwritten and printed /1 Papers clipped into blue folder; inserted: letters /2 Press-cuttings
- [Hunt, R.J. (MS 177)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0177-hunt-rj-ms-177/) - Lengua dictionary, copied from the original dictionary prepared by the Rev. R.J. Hunt. [c. 193-] 288 pp. 29 x 20.5 cm Handwritten (in two columns) Black paper boards, buff silk corners and spine, lettered on red label Some leaves loose and damaged Inserted: letter from the Rev. Cecil C. Gibbon, containing information, dated 8 July
- [Great Britain. Colonial Office (MS 178)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0178-great-britain-colonial-office-ms-178/) - Extracts from a despatch from the administrator of Dominica to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, [and] Carib vocabulary, 14th May 1918 6 leaves. 24 x 19 cm; 32 x 20 cm Attached: two letters addressed to the Royal Anthropological Institute, from the Under Secretary of State, dated 15 July 1918 presenting the paper,
- [Smith, Michael Garfield (MS 179)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0179-smith-michael-garfield-ms-179/) - The social structure of the northern Kadara, [195-] [i], 62 pp., tables, diagrs. 32 x 20 cm Mimeographed Unpublished and provisional document Presented by the author 8 July 1954
- [Smith, Michael Garfield (MS 180)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0180-smith-michael-garfield-ms-180/) - Social organisation and economy of Kagoro. [c. 1952] [i], 92, xv pp., tables, diagrs. 32 x 20 cm Mimeographed Unpublished and provisional document Presented by the author 8 July 1954
- [Stannus, Hugh Stannus (MS 181)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0181-stannus-hugh-stannus-ms-181/) - Some anthropometrical observations among the natives of Nyasaland. [nd] 6 leaves, phots., 10 tables. 26 x 20 cm (text); 32 x 20 cm (tables and leaves of phots.) Typescript Grey folder
- [Allen, Francis A. (MS 182)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0182-allen-francis-a-ms-182/) - The Easter Island monuments & tablets, [1904] 9 leaves. 26.5 x 21 cm Attached visiting card: Rev. Francis A. Allen, MA. The Gables, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury. Added in handwriting ‘formerly a fellow of your excellent Society’ Addressed to the Editor of Man Not published
- [Wynstone-Waters, E. (MS 183)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0183-wynstone-waters-e-ms-183/) - The arches of the human foot and how they are maintained, by E. Wynstone-Waters, late Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy, Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh. Lamu, British East Africa, 1904 18 leaves, 4 diagrs. 27.5 x 21 cm Handwritten
- [Purcell, Brab I. (MS 184)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0184-purcell-brab-i-ms-184/) - Rites and customs of Australian aborigines. [Melbourne, 1893] 7 leaves. 25 x 20 cm Read before Royal Geographical Society, Sydney, Jan. 1893 Letter of presentation, dated 2 May 1893
- [Macalister, R.A. Stewart and Masterman, E.W.G. (MS 185)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0185-macalister-ra-stewart-and-masterman-ewg-ms-185/) - Occasional papers on the modern inhabitants of Palestine. 19-- 2 pts., tables, charts. 28.5 x 22.5 cm; 27 x 21 cm Handwritten and typewritten 2 copies
- [Menen, E.S. (MS 186)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0186-menen-es-ms-186/) - Marriage customs among the Nayars of Malabar. [nd] 26 leaves. 26 x 19.5 cm Typescript Brown paper cover
- [Brockman, F.S. (MS 187)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0187-brockman-fs-ms-187/) - Notes on aboriginal paintings discovered by F.S. Brockman while leading the North West Kimberley Exploring Expedition, Western Australia, 1901. [c. 1901] 6 leaves. 32 x 20.5 cm Typescript
- [Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (MS 188)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0188-oyal-anthropological-institute-of-great-britain-and-ireland-ms-188/) - Curl Bequest Prize essays submitted 1951-98. Various sizes. Unbound. Typewritten. Papers on the implementation and administration of the Curl Bequest see A139 /1 Leach, Edmund Ronald. The structural implications of matrilateral cross-cousin marriage [1951]. (Curl Bequest Prize awarded 1951), [i], 102 leaves, figs., diagrs., bibl. 26 x 20 cm. Handwritten annotations and corrections. Published in
- [Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Wellcome medal (MS 189)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0189-anthropological-institute-of-great-britain-and-ireland-wellcome-medal-ms-189/) - Essays awarded medal. 1931 to date In progress Printed and typewritten. Various sizes 1931 Driberg, J.H. The East African problem. London, Williams and Norgate, 1930. Wanting 96 pp. 18 cm 1932 No award 1933 Williams, F.E. Education and culture contact. Wanting Reprinted as The blending of cultures. (Anthrop.Rep.Papua 16) 1934 No award 1935 Mair, L.P.
- [Chicago. University. Dept. of Anthropology (MS 190)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0190-chicago-university-dept-of-anthropology-ms-190/) - Papers, reports and symposiums. [Chicago], 1955-7 12 pts., tables, diagrs., map. 28 x 21.5 cm Mimeo. 6, inserted: map; 9, marked ‘Preliminary and confidential’ Presented by Professor Sol Tax, 8 Oct. 1957 Contents : /1 The Schwarzhaupt Foundation Tama Indian program: report of activities, 1955-6, by Sol Tax /2 Symposium: The Fox Indian project, a
- [Lewis, Ioan Myrddin (MS 191)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0191-lewis-ioan-myrddin-ms-191/) - The Somali lineage system and the total genealogy: a general introduction to basic principles of Somali political institutions. (Report on C.D. and W. Scheme R. 632 Anthropological research), by I.M. Lewis, Colonial Social Science Research Council Fellow. [Department of African Studies, University College of Rhodesia & Nyasaland, Feb. 1958] [ii], 139 leaves (mimeo.). 133 x
- [Torday, Emil (MS 192)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0192-torday-emil-ms-192/) - Notes, etc. to ‘African races’. [London, 1930]. 3 pts. 24½ cm. x 20 cm. Typescript, handwritten corrections. /1 Loose leaves; inserts: clippings from proofs /2 15 bundles, five with title leaves: Aesthetic sentiments – Batwa moral sentiments – Fulani, regulation of labour – Husband and wife – Bantu under alien rule /3 18 gatherings, entitled:
- [Torday, Emil (MS 193)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0193-torday-emil-ms-193/) - Notes on Loango, Angola, etc. in numbered loose leaf files. 5 vols. 30.5 cm x 28 cm Typescript. Contents: 1, 1-23 – 2, 24-47 – 3, 48-70 – 4, 71-91 – 5, 92-112.
- [Torday, Emil "collection" (MS 194)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0194-torday-emil-qcollectionq-ms-194/) - Questionnaires, various papers and letters in connection with the Union Internationale de Secours aux Enfants. 1930-1. Various papers. 2 maps. Various sizes. Handwritten, typewritten and printed. In green folder, inscribed by hand: Question II. Afrique Centrale. E. Torday. Inserts: /1 ‘ … some notes on the growth of school children’, by F.C. Shrubsall, Hon. Treasurer
- [Torday, Emil (MS 195)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0195-torday-emil-ms-195/) - Bacongo incantations and prayers, by J. van Wing, S.J.; translated by E. Torday. [London, 1930]. 2 pts. 25 cm x 20 cm Typescript; Handwritten corrections. /1 translation [35 leaves] /2 original MS (incomplete; leaves 1-5, 7-23). Inserts: Letter from J. van Wing to E. Torday, dated 29 Apr. 1930 3 letters from E. Torday to
- [Torday, Emil (MS 196)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0196-torday-emil-ms-196/) - Yarns from the West coast: being the diary of Mr Hilary Jones, edited by F.R.G.S. [c. 1908]. 3 pts. Various sizes. Typescript; Handwritten corrections. Contents : /1 complete MS, chapters 1-19 /2 heavily corrected MS of chapters 3-13, 15-19 /3 another version of chapter 4 and chapter 20.
- [Torday, Emil (MS 197)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0197-torday-emil-ms-197/) - Various papers and lectures. [19- to 31]. 8 pts. 3 photos. 25.5 cm x 20.5 cm Typescript; partly corrected by hand. 4, in yellow box inscribed by hand: Lecture on West Africa. Contents : /1-/2 Lectures on Hungary to Rotarians /3 On some oddities of the Congo people [lecture] /4 Lecture on West Africa [1931]
- [Torday, Emil (MS 198)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0198-torday-emil-ms-198/) - Various articles and stories. [192-]. 34 pts. 25 cm x 20 cm Typescript; partly corrected and annotated by hand, mostly in Hungarian. Contents : /1 Afrikai Eml?kek: preface /2 A few words on African folk-lore /3 The jackal and the hippopotamus /4 How the giraffe got his long neck /5 Why the hyena laughs /6
- [Nigeria, Southern (MS 200)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0200-nigeria-southern-ms-200/) - [Reports to Colonial Office]. 1906-7 2 pts., drawings, 1 table. 32.5 x 19 cm Typescript 1-2, leaf 1 stamped: ‘C.O. 29414 … Recd. 16 Aug. 07’ Appendix attached to pt. 2: Notes on tribal marks in the Central Province Contents : /1 Report on the native laws and customs of the Eastern Province, Southern Nigeria,
- [Nigeria, Northern (MS 201)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0201-nigeria-northern-ms-201/) - Enclosure[s] in despatch no. 459 of 9th Sep. 1907. [1906-7] 5 pts. 32.5 x 20 cm Typescript 1, leaf 1 marked in blue pencil 36346/07 – 1 and 4, leaf 1, stamped: ‘C.O. 4401 … Recd 7 Feb. 08’ Contents : /1 From the Resident, Borgu Province [H.D. Larrymore] to the Political Assistant, Bussa, October
- [Nigeria, Northern (MS 202)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0202-nigeria-northern-ms-202/) - [Reports to Colonial Office]. 1907-8 5 pts., map (in pocket). 32.5 x 20 cm Contents : /1 Notes on the Munshi tribe [by Assistant Resident Gordon]; [sent by] the Resident, Muri Province [F.H. Ruxton] to His Excellency the High Commissioner, S.W. ‘Sarota’ (on the river Benue, September 4th 1907 /2 Report on native customs, by
- [Gold Coast (MS 203)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0203-gold-coast-ms-203/) - Native law and customs: [reports from District Commissioners to the Colonial Office]. 1906-8 7 pts. 33 x 19.5 cm Typescript 1-4 stamped on leaf 1: C.O. 18807 … Recd 25 May 08 – 6-7 inscribed on leaf 1: Enclosure 1[-2] in Gold Coast No. 314 of 24th June 1908 and stamped: C.O. 24770 … Recd
- [Sykes, Sir Percy (MS 204)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0204-sykes-sir-percy-ms-204/) - Persian notes. [c. 1914] Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten (by different hands) The notes are collected under headings; e.g. Persian games – Journey – Camel – Superstitions, magic, etc. Inserted: parts of various letters
- [Edge-Partington, James (MS 205)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0205-edge-partington-james-ms-205/) - [Register of objects from the Pacific, in geographical order. 1896] [xxvi], 338 pp. (incl. numerous blanks). 23 x 15.5 cm Handwritten Dark brown paper boards, lighter leather corners and spine, lettered on red label: Ledger; pasted to upper endpaper James Edge-Partington’s book plate. Register preceded by alphabetically arranged contents; note in left upper corner of
- [Belshaw, Cyril Shirley (MS 206)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0206-belshaw-cyril-shirley-ms-206/) - Economic aspects of culture contact in eastern Melanesia, with special reference to the influence of a monetary economy: thesis presented for the degree of Ph.D. (Faculty of Arts) in the University of London, 1949; by Cyril S. Belshaw, MA (N.Z.) [London, 1949] [x], 523, [1], liv leaves. 2 plates (incl. map), tables, bibliog. 25.5 x
- [Samoan Affairs Office, Pago Pago (MS 207)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0207-samoan-affairs-office-pago-pago-ms-207/) - Genealogies … Pago Pago, 1956 142 leaves, tables. 33 x 20 cm Typescript (copy) Brown cardboard folder Note attached: ‘These genealogies were found in longhand script in the files of the Department of Education in Pago Pago, American Samoa, during 1955. It is believed that they may have formed part of a manuscript draft by
- [Cliffe, T.B. (MS 208)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0208-cliffe-tb-ms-208/) - Anthropological notes on the Afo pagans [from observations during field work, 1957-8] 7 leaves. 33 x 20 cm Typescript (carbon). Presented by the author 13 March 1959
- [Kaberry, Phyllis Mary (MS 209)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0209-kaberry-phyllis-mary-ms-209/) - Report on farmer-grazier relations and the changing pattern of agriculture in Nsaw (South Eastern Federation, Bamenda, Southern Cameroons). [London, 17 April 1959] 21 leaves. 33 x 20 cm Mimeographed Presented by the author August 1959
- [Dayrell, Elphinstone (MS 210)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0210-dayrell-elphinstone-ms-210/) - Africa West: further notes on ‘Nsibidi signs with their meanings from the Ikom district, Southern Nigeria. [vi, 142] pp. (followed by blank leaves), drawings. 36.5 x 24 cm Handwritten Marbled paper boards, red cloth spine. Inserted: /1 Copy-book: Nsibidi-Efik. Handwritten, drawings /2 Ink drawings with handwritten caption: The above ‘Nsibidi signs were carved on a
- [Lee, Dorothy D. (MS 211)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0211-lee-dorothy-d-ms-211/) - … Values and mental health. 1958 12 leaves (incomplete). 28 x 21.5 cm Mimeographed At head of title: The Institute fro Religious and Social Studies. Faculty Seminar [Merrill-Palmer School]. For discussion, October 20, 1958 Not for publication or distribution
- [Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference, Cambridge, 1958 (MS 212)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0212-association-of-social-anthropologists-conference-cambridge-1958-ms-212/) - The teaching of social anthropology: report on a Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists held at Kings College, Cambridge from September22nd to 25th 1958 18 pp. 32.5 x 21 cm Mimeographed
- [Pearce, Susannah Vibert (MS 213)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0213-pearce-susannah-vibert-ms-213/) - The appearance of iron and its use in protohistoric Africa 207 pp., illus., maps, bibliog.. 25 x 20 cm Mimeographed Based on a thesis awarded a Master of Arts Degree, 1960. Institute of Archaeology, University of London Presented by the author 15 Sep. 1960
- [Giorgetti, Filiberto (MS 214)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0214-giorgetti-filiberto-ms-214/) - La superstizione Zande, [by] Gero. Yubu Mission, 1958-60 [ii], 228 pp., diagrs. 33 x 20 cm Mimeographed Presented by the Rev. Fr. F. Giorgetti through Professor E.E. Evans-Pritchard, 1960
- [Longmore, Laura (MS 215)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0215-longmore-laura-ms-215/) - [The dispossessed]: a study of changes in African marriage and family systems under the impact of urbanisation (with specific reference to Eastern Native Township – and to conditions in and around the city of Johannesburg). Johannesburg, Oct. 1957 [ii], viii, 769 leaves, tables, plans, diagrs., maps, bibliog.. 33 x 21.5 cm Mimeographed Published London, Cape,
- [Rosenstiel, Annette (MS 216)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0216-rosenstiel-annette-ms-216/) - The Motu of Papua New Guinea: a study of successful acculturation. [New York], 1953 [ii], 207 leaves (typescript), tables, bibliog. 28 x 21.5 cm Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University, 1953 Unsuccessful entry for the Wellcome Essay Medal 1959
- [Rivers, William Halse Rivers and others (MS 217)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0217-rivers-william-halse-rivers-and-others-ms-217/) - Simbo-English vocabulary; compiled by W.H.R. Rivers, G.C. Wheeler [and] A.M. Hocart [100] pp. (some blank). 33 x 20 cm Handwritten
- [Benedict, Ruth Fulton (MS 218)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0218-benedict-ruth-fulton-ms-218/) - Miscellaneous notes. [c. 1930-5] Various papers. Various sizes Holograph and typewritten Presented by Dr M.W. Smith 1/11/1959
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS 219)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0219-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-219/) - Diary Sep. 1904-1910 5 vols. 34 x 20 cm Typewritten; holograph and printed inserts Contents : /1 Sep. 1904-31 Dec. 1905; holograph and printed inserts /2 1906; holograph and typewritten inserts /3 1907; holograph, typewritten and printed inserts /4 1908; holograph and printed inserts; partly holograph /5 1909-10 Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS 220)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0220-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-220/) - Correspondence with and from A.B. Brewster and related papers on Fiji, etc. Various papers (in folder). 35 x 27 cm Typewritten and holograph Contents : /1 The origin of the Qali Yalatina, translated by Ratu Sukuna; The Yalatina annual festival, translated by Ratu Sukuna; The annual yam festival, translated by A.B. Brewster and B. Glanvill
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS 221)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0221-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-collection-ms-221/) - Correspondence with and from B. Glanvill Corney 1916, 1919-22 Various papers. 33 x 20 cm Typewritten and holograph Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960 Microfilm (negative) held of MSS 219, 220, 221; placed with "collection"
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS 222)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0222-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-222/) - Glanvill Corney’s notebooks 2 boxes. 35.5 x 22.5 cm Holograph Contents : /1 4 notebooks containing holograph extracts from newspapers, journals etc.; holograph inserts /2 8 notebooks containing holograph extracts from newspapers, journals etc.; holograph inserts and clipping Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS 223)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0223-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-223/) - Fiji: miscellaneous papers Various papers. Various sizes Typewritten and holograph Contents : /1 Bau genealogy, 2 pts /2 Fiji and the Fijians. 18 leaves, probably a lecture /3 Typewritten letter signed: A.B. Brewster, and dated, Bath, 4 Feb. 1914 on the shell ‘Sauwaqa’ /4 Buli Dama, 5 papers /5 Tanoa, Ratu Visawaqa /6 Luve ni
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  224)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0224-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-224/) - European influence in Pacific etc. Various papers. Various sizes Typewritten and holograph Contents : /1 European influence in Pacific, synopsis, dated 26 Jan. 1914 /2 British and Spanish rivalry in southern seas, 1770-1776 (a lecture) /3 An exploit of HMS Jason in 1766 /4 Tasman /5 Early European trade in the Pacific, correspondence on and
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  225)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0225-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-225/) - Journal of a voyage [in the ‘Industry’?] to Charleston in S. Carolina from Cockenzie in North Britain, 1759 – Journal of a voyage from Port Seaton to Amsterdam, Riga, 1760 Foolscap notebook. 32 x 21 cm Contemporary holograph Box labelled: Voyages Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  226)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0226-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-226/) - Miscellaneous papers Various papers. Various sizes Typewritten, holograph and printed Folder labelled: Voyages 1517-1577 Contents : /1 Notes on some events in the history of the Fiji Islands /2 Dates of voyages 1517-1687 /3 Odd notes: Life history of a savage; Bismark Archipelago, Eastern Polynesia; New Hebrides; Norfolk Island; Pacific Times article; Bishops of Melanesia;
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  227)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0227-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-227/) - Parliamentary and other papers Various papers. Various sizes Printed and holograph Contents : /1 Correspondence relating to the removal of Mr Pritchard from Tahiti, 1844 /2 Papers relating to Tahiti and to the Leeward, or Society Islands in the Pacific, 1847 /3 Convention between Her Majesty and the King of the Sandwich Islands, 1847 /4
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  228)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0228-0im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-228/) - Miscellaneous papers Various papers. Various sizes Holograph Contents : /1 The Stanmore papers: Legends and fables of Fiji, etc. 19 pp.; autograph letter signed: J. Stanley Gardner, dated 4 April 1912; Fables and legends (summaries), 74 pp.; with contents, arranged by Arthur G. Hayward, with two autograph letters signed: Arthur G. Hayward, dated 8 Aug.
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  229)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0229-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-229/) - Miscellaneous papers Various papers. 26.5 x 20 cm Typewritten and holograph Contents : /1 Missions: American, 4 leaves /2 With the British Association to Australia, 1914, 32 leaves /3 Autograph letter signed: A.W. Seymour, dated 6 Sep. 1926, with Sir Everard’s reply /4 Correspondence on: Jackson of ‘Jackson’s narrative’ /5 The making of trade in
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  230)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0230-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-230/) - Extracts from the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 1803-1829 308 leaves. 26 cm Typewritten and holograph Inserted: Further extracts from the Sydney Gazette received from R.A. Todd and B. Glanvill Corney with autographed letters Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  231)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0231-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-231/) - Pamphlets Various sizes Contents : /1 Fiji as a Crown Colony /2 The islands and the people of Fiji, by M.I. Finucane /3 Dendrobium Imthurnii /4 On the development of the female Strobilus in Podocarpus, by L.S. Gibbs /5 Notes on the phytogeography and flora of the mountain summit plateaux of Tasmania, by L.S. Gibbs
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  232)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0232-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-232/) - Official report on central Polynesia, by Charles St Julian … with a gazetteer … by Edward Reeve … Sydney, 1857 75 pp. 32 cm Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  233)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0233-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-233/) - Miscellaneous papers Various papers. Various sizes Typewritten, holograph, printed Contents : /1 Norfolk Island /2 Pitcairn Island /3 Mortelmans, pirate /4 How we were kidnapped, as told by the survivors of the Solomon Islanders captured by the brig ‘Carl’ and brought to Fiji in 1871. 36 holograph leaves /5 Jacky Barbour Presented by the Scottish
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  234)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0234-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-234/) - Miscellaneous papers Various papers. Various sizes Holograph Contents : /1 List of ships known to have visited Pitcairn before 1823, and index /2 Argo wreck, 2 parts Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  235)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0235-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-235/) - Papers on Bellingshausen Various papers. 28 cm Typewritten and holograph Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  236)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0236-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-236/) - Captain David Porter of the frigate ‘Essex’ and related papers 145 leaves. 27 cm Typescript and holograph Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  237)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0237-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-237/) - Parliamentary papers 5 vols. 4 leaves. 33 cm Contents : /1 Correspondence relating to proposals for an international agreement regulating the supply of arms … to natives of the western Pacific, 1887 /2 Convention between the United Kingdom and France confirming the protocol signed … 1906 respecting the New Hebrides /3 Correspondence relating to the
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  238)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0238-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-238/) - Diary of a Scottish planter in British Guiana 1 Jan. 1841-22 Jan. 1844 285 pp. 23 cm Contemporary holograph Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  239)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0239-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-239/) - Ceylon address on his appointment as Lieutenant Governor of Ceylon, 1902 16 addresses in green folder. 53 cm Inserted: newspaper cuttings entitled ‘Ceylon farewell’, dated 1904 Presented by the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, 8 March 1960
- [Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand (President 1919-20) "collection" (MS  240)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0240-im-thurn-sir-everard-ferdinand-president-1919-20-qcollectionq-ms-240/) - Warrant, K.B.E. and other documents 4 documents Contents : /1 Warrant, K.B.E. signed George R.I. and Edward P., dated 1 Jan. 1918 /2 Address from the Municipal Council of Suva on his retirement as Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Fiji /3 Invitation from the University of Edinburgh to accept Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, 1911 /4
- [Fry, H.K. ed. (MS 241)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0241-fry-hk-ed-ms-241/) - Dieri legends [South Australia]; collected and edited by H.K. Fry 35 leaves. 25.5 x 20.5 cm Typescript; handwritten corrections, annotations and sketches
- [Hall, J. Gibson (MS 242)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0242-hall-j-gibson-ms-242/) - The Alungu chiefs, their families and genealogical tree; compiled by J. Gibson Hall … Native Commissioner and J.P. during 1902-1907 [Nothern Rhodesia] 33 pp., charts. 32 x 20.5 cm Handwritten Inserted: three letters from Dr Lindgren, Sir John Myres and Dr Margaret Read, dated 1941, concerning publication Submitted for publication in JRAI, not published
- [Lakemba (Fiji) (MS 243)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0243-lakemba-fiji-ms-243/) - Drawings by school boys, 1911 Sketchbook, 20 leaves (3 blank). 24.5 x 30 cm Pencil sketches of animals and plants
- [Scroggie, H.M. Mcl. (MS 244)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0244-scroggie-hm-mcl-ms-244/) - The sociology of Ngwaketse diet; thesis presented for the degree of MA, University of South Africa. [Grahamstown], Rhodes University College, 1946 xvi, 287 leaves, text, 91 leaves appendices, tables, chart (hand drawn), bibliog.. 26 x 19.5 cm Presented by Professor I. Schapera. 30.5.61
- [Fleure, Herbert John (President 1945-7) (MS 245)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0245-fleure-herbert-john-president-1945-7-ms-245/) - Anthropometric survey of Wales. Carried out from 1906 to 1936 5 drawers containing 15 x 10 cm cards Entries arranged by districts marked out by tradition and not by administrative districts and classified under districts according to residence of grandparents
- [Finnegan, Ruth H. (MS 246)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0246-finnegan-ruth-h-ms-246/) - Survey of the Limba people of northern Sierra Leone. Oxford, Nuffield College, 1962 305 leaves, tables, map. Bibliog.. 25.5 x 20 cm Navy blue cloth boards Presented by the author 8 Nov. 1962
- [Murdock, George P. and others (MS 247)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0247-murdock-george-p-and-others-ms-247/) - Outline of cultural materials. New Haven, Yale University, Institute of Human Relations, Cross-Cultural Survey, 1938 59 pp. 28 x 21.5 cm From the library of Prof. B. Malinowski and annotated by him Presented by the British Library of Political and Economic Science, February 1963
- [Wayland, E.J. (MS 248)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0248-wayland-ej-ms-248/) - The age of the Oldoway human skeleton. [Kampala, Geological Survey of Uganda, 1932] 13 leaves Mimeographed Report of microscopic and chemical examination of the Oldoway deposits, by W.C. Simmons, 3 leaves, attached Unpublished Presented by the author to Prof. H.J. Fleure, 10 March 1953
- [Munro, Neil Gordon, "collection" (MS  249)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0249-munro-neil-gordon-qcollectionq-ms-249/) - [Ainu material]. [nd] Various papers, notes and photographs filed in 10 folders and 1 box of lantern slides. Various sizes. Manuscript, printed and typescript. All photographs filed in separate sequence. Entries marked A refer to The Ainu: creed and cult; marked PJ refer to Prehistoric Japan; marked AMC refer to Ainu material culture. Presented by
- [Dyson-Hudson, N. (MS 250)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0250-dyson-hudson-n-ms-250/) - The present position of the Karimojong: a preliminary general survey, with recommendations, produced for the Government of Uganda. Oxford University, Institute of Social Anthropology, 1958 [iii, 185] pp., illus., maps, tables, diagr. 33.5 x 20.5 cm Mimeographed Presented by the Prof. I. Schapera. 9 Oct. 1963
- [Du Plessis, H. (MS 251)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0251-du-plessis-h-ms-251/) - Die politieke organisasie van die Venda. Siloam, Zooutpansberg, 1941 iv, 238 leaves, diagr. 33 x 19.5 cm Corrected typescript Presented by Prof. I. Schapera, 9 Oct. 1962
- [Meyerowitz, Eva Leonie Lewin-Richter (MS 252)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0252-meyerowitz-eva-leonie-lewin-richter-ms-252/) - Akan traditions of origin Unpaged, diagr., bibliog.. 33 x 20.5 cm Corrected typescript Published London, Faber & Faber, 1952 [16147]
- [Cambridge Expedition (MS 253)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0253-cambridge-expedition-ms-253/) - [Report of the] Cambridge expedition to northern Africa; members: R.A.P. Scott, P.N.S. Moss, T.J.M. Horsfall. [Cambridge, 1964] - Parts, photographs, tables. 28.5 x 21.5 cm Mimeographed Unpublished Contents : /1 1962-
- [Metge, Alice Joan (MS 254)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0254-metge-alice-joan-ms-254/) - Some modern Maoris: a review discussion; (summary of a paper communicated to the Maori Research Conference – May, 1953). [Aukland], Auckland University College, Dept. of Anthropology 6 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed
- [Metge, Alice Joan (MS 255)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0255-metge-alice-joan-ms-255/) - Urbanisation and the pattern of Maori life: text of a paper delivered at the eighth New Zealand Science Congress held in Aukland in May 1954 5 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed
- [Metge, Alice Joan (MS 256)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0256-metge-alice-joan-ms-256/) - The urban Maori: (an address delivered to the Anthropology and Maori Race Section of the Auckland Institute and Museum, Oct. 1953). [Auckland], Auckland University College, Dept. of Anthropolgy 7 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed
- [London University. London School of Economics and Political Science (MS 257)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0257-london-university-london-school-of-economics-and-political-science-ms-257/) - Report on a conference on applied anthropology held at the London School of Economics and Political Science, July 1st to 3rd 1963 9 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed
- [British Museum. Dept. of Ethnography (MS 258)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0258-british-museum-dept-of-ethnography-ms-258/) - Excavations at Las Cuevas: (paper to be read to Royal Anthropological Institute 13th February 1958) [by Adrian Digby]; advance copy 21 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed
- [Kenna, Margaret E. and Kenna, John C. (MS 259)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0259-kenna-margaret-e-and-kenna-john-c-ms-259/) - List of portraits of anthropologists and archaeologists and workers in allied fields. 1966 44 leaves. 25 x 20 cm Presented by Miss M.E. Kenna, April 1966
- [Naik, T.B. (MS 260)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0260-naik-tb-ms-260/) - Anavils, the unspoilt Brahmins: a social structural study of a Brahmin community of Guharat, India. Bombay, Gujarat Research Society, 1954 571 leaves, illus. 32 x 20 cm Typescript
- [Seligman, Brenda Zara "collection" (MS  261)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0261-seligman-brenda-zara-qcollectionq-ms-261/) - Genealogies 6 vols. 32.5 x 20 cm Holograph Contents : /1 British New Guinea, Keita and Lambeth genealogies /2 Massim and Mekeo /3 Vedda genealogies /4 Nubia and Hameg, Langs /5 Shilluk and others; letter from Verrier Elwin, dated London, 19 Nov. 1936 inserted /6 Dinka, Baris and others Mrs B.Z. Seligman Bequest August 1965
- [Seligman, Charles Gabriel "collection" (MS  262)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0262-seligman-charles-gabriel-qcollectionq-ms-262/) - [Psychology and anthropology]. c. 1920-40 Letters, notes, papers, publications. 1 set of 20 photographs. Various sizes Handwritten, printed and typewritten The material was presented in 9 filing cases. The filing cases had disintegrated; only the titled spines are retained Abbreviation: CGS Charles Gabriel Seligman Much of this material was used in the CGS Presidential Address ‘Anthropology
- [Willoughby, William Charles (MS 263)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0263-willoughby-william-charles-ms-263/) - Index to the Willoughby papers in Selly Oak Colleges, Library, Birmingham 26 leaves. 38 cm Photocopy presented by Prof. I. Schapera, May 1966
- [Webb, R. (MS 264)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0264-webb-r-ms-264/) - Genealogy of the Lihoja. Paarl, 1964 2 leaves. 38 cm Based on information received by Captain R. Webb while amending the gazetteer of Basutoland, and presented by him 1 Sep. 1964
- [[Morse, Eric Wilton] (MS 265)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0265-morse-eric-wilton-ms-265/) - [Immigration and status of British East Indians in Canada: a problem in imperial relations. Washington, Library of Congress, 1944] iv, 268 leaves, tables, diagrs., bibliog.. 28 cm Studies of migration and settlement, report series, No. R-101 Dr Marian W. Smith Bequest July 1965
- [Walker, G.D. (MS 266)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0266-walker-gd-ms-266/) - Garo customs and folk-lore. [London, 1967] 3 vols., illus., map, tables, bibliog. 26 x 20 cm and map of the Garo hills Typescript Presented by the author 22 Feb. 1967
- [Somerville, Henry Boyle Townshend CMG, Vice-Admiral (MS 267)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0267-somerville-henry-boyle-townshend-cmg-vice-admiral-ms-267/) - Orientation in megalithic monuments and associated papers, anthropological notes on Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji and Samoa, and maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu. 1892-1936 Various papers. Various sizes. Bequeathed to the RAI by Vice-Admiral Somerville in 1936, and delivered by H. Hudson in 1937. The Somerville Manuscript Committee was set up by Council of the
- [Smith, Marian Wesley "collection" (MS 268)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0268-smith-marian-wesley-qcollectionq-ms-268/) - [Salish, Coast Salish, North West Coast American Indians, British Columbian Sikhs, Indian subcontinent, Punjab and Bengal material]. 1845-1988. Miscellaneous notes and papers, charts, maps, photographs and references, originally filed in 19 boxes containing folders which have been discarded, and other loose papers. Various sizes. Handwritten, mimeographed, printed, typewritten and word processed. All photographs filed in
- [British Solomon Islands Protectorate (MS 269)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0269-british-solomon-islands-protectorate-ms-269/) - [Notes on ‘native custom, tradition, organization, and culture’. Suva, Fiji, Western Pacific High Commission, 1938] 3 pts., illus., maps, and covering letter. 33 x 20.5 cm Typescripts (carbon copies) Contents : /1-/2 (27 leaves, 3 illus. leaves, map; [i], 12 leaves) Notes, by E.N. Turner, Superintendent of Police in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and
- [Language, F.J. (MS 270)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0270-language-fj-ms-270/) - Kapteinskap onder die Tlhaping [Chieftainship among the Tlhaping]. Stellenbosch, [1941] xxv, 495 leaves, 2 maps. 25.5 x 20.5 cm Typescript (carbon copy); green cloth boards Proefskrif ingehandig ter verkryging van die D. Phil – graad aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch Presented by Prof. I. Schapera 9 July 1969
- [Raum, Otto Friedrich (MS 271)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0271-raum-otto-friedrich-ms-271/) - The social functions of avoidance and taboos among the Zulu. [Pretoria, University of South Africa, 1960] 558 leaves, tables, diagrs., bibliog.. 32.5 x 20 cm Mimeographed; green paper boards Presented by Prof. I. Schapera 9 July 1969 May only be consulted with the consent of the author; please refer to Librarian
- [Kuper, Adam (MS 272)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0272-kuper-adam-ms-272/) - Kinship, marriage, and local groupings among the Ngologa. Cambridge, King’s College, 1965 [iv, 138] leaves, map (2 leaves, inserted), tables, diagrs., bibliog. 25 x 20 cm Typescript (carbon copy); black cloth boards A dissertation submitted to King’s College, Cambridge, December 1965 Presented by Prof. I. Schapera 9 July 1969
- [Brincker, P.H. (MS 273)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0273-brincker-ph-ms-273/) - /1 Brief v. 28.6.1876, Otyikaugo [1029] 4 leaves. 21 x 14.5 cm and typed copy. 3 leaves /2 Brief an SW-Afrika. Abs. unbek. [1030]. 5 leaves (incl. illus.) /3 Die Ovaherero [Ms. 1876; 1029-30] 28 leaves. 21 x 14.5 cm and typed copy. 25 leaves /4 Die Ovaherero – duplicate of pp. 3-28, enlarged Photocopies
- [Antropologický Kongres K 100. Výro?í Narozenin Aleše Hrdli?y (MS 274)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0274-ntropologicky-kongres-k-100-vyroi-narozenin-alee-hrdliy-ms-274/) - Anthropological congress held on the occasion of the 100th birthday anniversary of Ales Hrdlicka, 30.8-5.9.1969, Praha-Humpolec Contents : /1 Letters to Prof. J.S. Weiner from Prof. V.V. Novotný dated 1 and 3 July; from Prof. Mirsaid M. Mirrakhimov dated 11 March 1969; from Prof. V. Fetter dated 5 April 1969; from Prof. Novotny dated 8
- [Schapera, Isaac (MS 275)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0275-schapera-isaac-ms-275/) - Notes on some Herero genealogies. Cape Town, 1945 39 pp. (mimeo.). 32.5 cm (Commun.Sch.Afr.Stud.Univ.Cape Town, 14) 9 sheets inserted, some annotated by author Presented by Prof. I. Schapera July 1969
- [Lestrade, G.P. (MS 276)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0276-lestrade-gp-ms-276/) - Miscellaneous notes on laws and customs of the Bahuruthse 39 leaves (typescript, photocopy). 37.5 cm Presented by Prof. I. Schapera July 1969
- [[Lestrade, G.P.] (MS 277)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0277-lestrade-gp-ms-277/) - Preliminary summary of main heads of information obtained at Maahoana (Gopane) with regard to laws and customs, Bahurutsche tribe under Chief Jairus Copane – Preliminary summary of the main heads of information obtained at Motsoedi, Moiloa reserve, Marice district, with regard to the laws and customs of the BooManyane Bahurutsche under Petty Chief Lucas Manyane
- [Mayer, Philip and Iona Mayer (MS 278)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0278-mayer-philip-and-iona-mayer-ms-278/) - Sexual and fighting behaviour among Red Xhosa youth 45 leaves (typescript, photocopy). 25 cm Holograph corrections Presented by Prof. I. Schapera July 1969
- [Grimble, Sir Arthur (MS 279)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0279-grimble-sir-arthur-ms-279/) - Gilbertese myths, legends and oral traditions collected by (Sir) Arthur Grimble between c. 1916 and 1930; copied from the Grimble papers in the Department of Pacific History, Australian National University. Canberra, 1964 xi leaves (typescript, photocopy) At head of title: Microfilm No. 1, Grimble papers List of contents only Presented by Mr Simon Seligman, August
- [Luce, J.P. Captain RN 1827-69 (MS 280)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0280-luce-jp-captain-rn-1827-69-ms-280/) - Private journal. September 1852-April 1867 and Correspondence 6 vols. and 19 leaves. Various sizes Manuscript. Correspondence typescript Contents : /1 Volume 1 Private Journal 1852, 1853 & 1854. Portsmouth, Sep. 1852 – Karatch Bay, Dec. 3rd 1854, iv, 179 pp. Black boards. Marbled endpapers. 22 x 19 cm 2 insertions filed in separate sleeve: /1
- [Whitehead, G.O. (MS 281)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0281-whitehead-go-ms-281/) - Spagnolo’s Bari grammar, translation & comments by G.O. Whitehead (16.4.33) 12 leaves (typescript). 26 cm Originally inserted in Bari grammar, by L.M. Spagnolo which was presented by Mrs B.Z. Seligman from Prof. C.G. Seligman’s library (shelved at KYD [Anthropology Library, British Museum])
- [Bartle, Philip F.W. (MS 282)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0282-bartle-philip-fw-ms-282/) - African rural urban migration: a decision making perspective. Vancouver, University of British Columbia, January 1971 ix, 174 leaves (mimeo.), tables, maps. 28 cm A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia Presented by the author 30
- [Clifford, G.M. (MS 283)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0283-clifford-gm-ms-283/) - The Igala chiefdom. [1934] 76 pp. (mimeo.), plate, table. 32.5 cm The author was District Officer, Igala Division, Nigeria Inserted leaf: Revised copy sent to printers 28-i-37
- [Llopis Martin, José (MS 284)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0284-llopis-martin-jose-ms-284/) - /1 De genealogia medica. [Valdepoñas de la Sierra (Gualajara), 1970]. 238 leaves (mimeo.), illus. 31 x 21 cm /2 Droga, violencia e inestabilidad familiar. [Valdepoñas de la Sierra (Gualajara), 1971]. 57 pp. 31 x 21 cm Presented by the author March 1971
- [Arantes, Antonio A. (MS 285)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0285-arantes-antonio-a-ms-285/) - Compadrio in rural Brazil: structural analysis of a ritual institution. Campinas, Brazil, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 1971 53 leaves, table, bibliog. 32 cm Presented by the author 13 Jan. 1972
- [Kipengele, Nicas (MS 286)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0286-kipengele-nicas-ms-286/) - Marriage celebration among the Wamatumbi and Wapogoro and its relation to canon law. Rome, Collegio S. Pietro, June 1961 xxix, 66 pp., diagrs. 27.5 cm At head of title: Pontifical Urbanian University ‘de Propaganda Fide’ A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of cannon law Presented by Mr
- [Allen, M.R. (MS 287)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0287-allen-mr-ms-287/) - Report on Aoba: incidental papers on Ndui Ndui district, Aoba island, New Hebrides, written for the British Residency in the New Hebrides; edited by Caroline Leaney. Vila, New Hebrides, 1969 xi, 246 pp. (mimeo.), tables, map, diagrs. 30 cm Presented by the author 9 Feb. 1973
- [Ganguly, Pranab and Pal, Anadi (MS 288)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0288-ganguly-pranab-and-pal-anadi-ms-288/) - The Onge of Little Andaman: a vanishing tribe. [Calcutta, 1964] 63 leaves. (Typescript). 4 plates and map (inserted)
- [Kalmal, James Bol (MS 289)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0289-kalmal-james-bol-ms-289/) - Marriage rights and duties among the Shilluk. [Malakal, 1973] [ii], 14 leaves, illus. Received through Mr B.H. MacDermot, July 1973
- [Bellamy, Hans Schindler (MS 290)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0290-bellamy-hans-schindler-ms-290/) - Problems of Tiahuanaco: chapters ten and eleven of the manuscript The world that was. [London, 1938] [I, 69] leaves numbered 117-185 Corrected typescript. Letter from the author inserted, and dated 7 Dec. 1938
- [Malcolm, Dugald (MS 291)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0291-malcolm-dugald-ms-291/) - The Kuna Indians. [London, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1974] [ii], 18 leaves Deposited by the Latin American Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 5 Dec. 1974. The author was HM Ambassador in Panama. The paper ‘has no pretensions to scholarship but rather is a collection of random jottings and recollections resulting from visits over
- [Howard, Barrington J. (MS 292)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0292-howard-barrington-j-ms-292/) - Social organisation in Eskimo communities. [London, 1976] [iii], 14 leaves Deposited by the author May 1976
- [Foulkes-Roberts, P.R. (MS 293)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0293-foulkes-roberts-pr-ms-293/) - Letters home from an administrative officer in Nigeria, 1924-1944. [St Asaph, Clwyd, 1975] 44 leaves. 2 photographs. Typescript Note at foot of title-page: The writer of these letters was P.R. Foulkes-Roberts, and the extracting was done after his death by his brother, also an ex-member of the Nigerian Civil Service Presented by Mr D.S. Foulkes-Roberts
- [Tildesley, Miriam L. (MS 294)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0294-tildesley-miriam-l-ms-294/) - Miscellaneous notes, papers, letters, calculations, tables and graphs. Various papers. Various sizes. Typewritten, mimeographs, holographs, manuscripts. Presented by Miss E. Godding 1/9/1076. /1 Folder entitled in manuscript: Scarboro’ & King’s College. Papers 1-24 /1 K.C. & Scar. papers, alterations and additions /2 [Letter to Miss Tildesley from G.M. Mourant, dated 30th August]. /3 Correlation of
- [Lorimer, Douglas A. (MS 295)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0295-lorimer-douglas-a-ms-295/) - Racist theory in British anthropology, 1870-1900 [i], 30 leaves, [9] leaves endnotes. Typescript Note at head of title page: International Conference on the history and ideology of Anglo-Saxon racial attitudes, c. 1870-1970. [Handwritten note]: RUER, University of Aston, Birmingham, Sep. 1982 Presented by Dr D.A. Lorimer, History Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L
- [Chaplin, James H. (MS 296)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0296-chaplin-james-h-ms-296/) - [Tribal art and painting, with particular reference to rock art] 2 box files containing drawers of cards – Box 1, 13 x 7.5 cm cards; box 2, 20 x 13 cm cards Handwritten descriptions with contact tracings or photographs on reverse Presented by Prof. R. Apthorpe, 23 July 1984 Believed to be copies from published
- [Wake, Charles Staniland (MS 297)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0297-wake-charles-staniland-ms-297/) - Correspondence with A.L. Lewis, J. Kaines, Prof. P. Geddes, and the Rt Hon. A.J. Balfour, MP, 14 Feb 1892-7 Feb. 1909 [28] pp. 28 x 21.5 cm Photocopies of handwritten and typewritten correspondence Contents : /1 Letter from A.L. Lewis to Wake, 14 Feb. 1892 /2 Letter from A.L. Lewis to Wake, 22 May 1892
- [Beemer, Hilda afterwards Mrs Hilda Kuper (MS 299)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0299-beemer-hilda-afterwards-mrs-hilda-kuper-ms-299/) - First report on field work during second tour July-October: confidential [Swaziland]. Received January 11th 1937 6 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented by John Beattie see correspondence MS 298/3-/5
- [Read, Margaret (MS 300)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0300-read-margaret-ms-300/) - Second report on field work during second tour, August-November 1936: confidential [Nyasaland]. December 1936 4 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented by John Beattie see correspondence MS 298/3-/5
- [Tillion, G. and Riviere, T. (MS 301)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0301-tillion-g-and-riviere-t-ms-301/) - Sixth report on field work: confidential [Algeria]. June 1936 2 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented by John Beattie see correspondence MS 298/3-/5
- [Wilson, Godfrey B. (MS 302)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0302-wilson-godfrey-b-ms-302/) - First report on field work: confidential [Tanganyika]. November 1936 2 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented by John Beattie. See correspondence MS 298/3-/5
- [Hunter, Monica "afterwards" Mrs Godfrey Wilson (MS 303)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0303-hunter-monica-qafterwardsq-mrs-godfrey-wilson-ms-303/) - Methods of field work: confidential [South Africa]. 1st May 1933 6 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented by John Beattie. See correspondence MS 298/3-/5
- [Brown, G. Gordon (MS 304)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0304-brown-g-gordon-ms-304/) - Notes on the progress of field work: confidential [Tanganyika]. 14th January 1933 4 leaves. 33 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented by John Beattie. See correspondence MS 298/3-/5
- [Hofstra, S. (MS 305)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0305-hofstra-s-ms-305/) - /1 First report on field work among the Mendi: confidential [Sierra Leone]. July 1934. 6 leaves. 33 x 21 cm. Mimeographed /2 Second brief report on fieldwork among the Mendi: confidential [Sierra Leone]. 20th October 1934. 1 leaf. 33 x 21 cm. Mimeographed Presented by John Beattie. See correspondence MS 298/3-/5
- [Scott, Walter (MS 306)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0306-scott-walter-ms-306/) - Economic condition of Sind: state of road, canals and forests in 1846 [ii], 56 pp., 1 plate Reprinted from Selections from the records of the Commissioners in Sind, vol. 7, 1844/7 Appendix: BURTON, Sir Richard. [Canal irrigation in Scinde] pp. 44-56. Signed R. Burton see also pp. 9-16. Not in Penzer [Formerly catalogued for Burton
- [Bott, Elizabeth, [afterwards] Mrs James Spillius "collection" (MS  307)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0307-bott-elizabeth-afterwards-mrs-james-spillius-qcollectionq-ms-307/) - Miscellaneous papers in 7 boxes Various papers. Various sizes. Typewritten, printed, mimeographes, holographs Contents : /1 Box 1. Tonga /1 Mortuary facilities and societal ranking in Vava’u, Tonga; by P.V. Kirch /2 37 cards of bibliographic references /3 Summaries of Korn, Kaeppler, Marcus, Martin and Mariner, Rogers, Rutherford /4 Alternative social structures and the limits
- [Rogers, Garth A. (MS 308)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0308-rogers-garth-a-ms-308/) - Kai and Kava in Niuatoputapu: social relations, idealogies and contexts in a rural Tongan community. Aukland, 1975 Xiii, 454 pp., tables, diagrs., maps. 32 x 21 cm Xerox copy of printed and typewritten Loose leaves Thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology in the University of
- [Spillius, James (MS 309)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0309-spillius-james-ms-309/) - Conscience: a critique of the Freudian id, ego and superego in society, religion and the death instinct. Edmonton, 1947 [iii], 4, 156, [3] pp. Typewritten carbon copy Loose leaves Thesis submitted to the University of Alberta in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Philosophy Presented by Mrs J.
- [Blake, Yvonne (MS 310)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0310-blake-yvonne-ms-310/) - Infantile development with special reference to the mother-child relationship. Johannesburg, [nd] [i], 33 pp., tables. 25 x 20 cm 2 copies. Typewritten and carbon copy Loose leaves Thesis presented in support of candidature for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Presented by Mrs J. Spillius, 1987
- [Young, Leslie M. (MS 311)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0311-young-leslie-m-ms-311/) - [notes on various published papers. 1914-87] 2 folders; card index. Leaves 26.5 x 20 cm (folders); 7.5x 13 cm (cards) Manuscript and typewritten Loose leaves Presented by Mrs J.E. Marshall, 16 Nov. 1987 Contents : /1 Folder 1 /1 Hebrew /1 [8 pp.] on History of Maya; by Thorndike, V.1., pp. 340-7 /2 [12 pp.]
- [Swede, M.S. "collection" (MS  312)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0312-swede-ms-qcollectionq-ms-312/) - Scrapbook folders containing miscellaneous newspaper and journal cuttings. 1926-82 63 folders. 42 x 29 cm Looseleaf sheets. Inserts Purchased from the author, Oct. 1987 Contents : /1-/2 Physical anthropology, 1926-69 /3-/22 Art [fine, classical, oriental, tribal, architecture, photography, costume, ornament, furnishings], 1934-81 /23-/63 British anthropology and archaeology, 1926-June 1982
- [Swede, M.S. "collection" (MS  313)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0313-swede-ms-qcollectionq-ms-313/) - Miscellaneous articles and pamphlets. 1945-83 Various papers. Various sizes Printed Purchased from the author, Oct. 1987 Contents : /1 Unofficial history of the twentieth century in 8 parts [from] The Sunday Times magazine, 30 Apr. – 18 June 1972 /2 The making of the British in 10 parts with an introduction from The Observer Colour
- [Mann, Stewart E. (MS 314)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0314-mann-stewart-e-ms-314/) - /1 Albanian literature: an outline of prose, poetry, and drama; by Stuart E. Mann, MA. [viii], 121, [ii] pp. Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 11 Grafton Street, London, W1, 1955. Rough proof W/1699. Corrections and annotations throughout, particularly the pink wrapper. Presented by the author, 1988 /2 Start, Laura E. The Durham collection of garments and embroideries
- [Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman (MS 315)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0315-evans-ivor-hugh-norman-ms-315/) - Bornean diaries 1938-42, The years behind me one more river to cross, [vocabulary], Some less known dishes, Return to Tambatuon, Dusun sentences, Tenses of some Dusun verbs, Vocabulary of the Dusun language as spoken at Kuang Serqiyoh 2 reels of microfilm. Rome, Servizio Microfilmature, Agosto 1990 [and] photocopy of Book V. 110 leaves Originals typewritten
- [Longmore, Laura (MS 316)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0316-longmore-laura-ms-316/) - Multi-racial dilemma: representative government in a plural society: in this instance for the period 1652-1962 in South Africa, being a study of the interaction of different races attempting to come to terms with multi-cultural tensions to find a solution. Johannesburg, 1959. London, 1964 Manuscript title: Political dilemma in a multi-racial society. 2 parts [x], 698
- [Stocking, George W. Jr (MS 322)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0322-stocking-george-w-jr-ms-322/) - Reading the palimpsest of inquiry: Notes and Queries and the history of British social anthropology 2 copies, 2 letters. 28 x 21.5 cm Typescript Huxley Memorial Lecture, Royal Anthropological Institute, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, July 29, 1993 Note: While I don’t object to the citation of this material in a general way, I would prefer
- [Houlberg, Marilyn Hammersley (MS 324)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0324-houlberg-marilyn-hammersley-ms-324/) - Yoruba twin sculpture and ritual 404 leaves, 94 plates, maps, tables, graphs, bibl. 30 x 21 cm Mimeographed Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Philosophy in the University of London, Aug. 1973 Presented by the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Tambiah, Shanthi (MS 325)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0325-tambiah-shanthi-ms-325/) - Culture as adaptation: change among the Bhuket of Sarawak, Malaysia [i], v, 220 leaves, diagrs., maps, tables, glossary, bibl. 5 genealogical tables in pocket in inside back cover. 30 x 21 cm Typescript. Black cloth boards Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Philosophy in the University of Hull, July 1995 Presented by the
- [[Lindgren, Ethel John] (MS 328)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0328-lindgren-ethel-john-ms-328/) - Anthropological film of the Reindeer Tungus of Manchuria (4 reels): list of titles, with description and date of scenes following each Photographed by O. Mamen [i], 20, 6 leaves. 26 x 20 cm Typescript. Orange folder Folder title: Lindgren expedition to N.W. Manchuria (1931-32): anthropological film record Presented from the estate of the late William
- [Koblenzer, Peter Johann (MS 330)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0330-koblenzer-peter-johann-ms-330/) - /1 The state of health and the environment of the Rungus Dusun of Kampong Maksangkong-Dampirit of the Kudat Peninsula in the west coast residency of the Colony of British North Borneo. [iii], 74 leaves, diagrs., maps, tables, bibl. 26.5 x 21 cm. Typescript with annotations and corrections. Blue cloth boards. Thesis [1959?] /2 The health
- [Greig, Bennett (MS 331)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0331-greig-bennett-ms-331/) - Memorandum on the Indians of the Peruvian Sierra; by Mr Bennett Greig, Honorary Attaché at His Majesty’s Legation at Lima (received in Foreign Office, 26 Feb. 1936) 15 pp. 22.5 x 21 cm Printed Reference [A 1580/1580/35] [And] Letter to the Secretary, RAI from Foreign Office, [signed I.M. Troutbeck?], 6 June 1936 Presented from the
- [Ethnological Survey of Canada (MS 332)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0332-ethnological-survey-of-canada-ms-332/) - Copies of circular and of schedules. [1899] Various papers. Various sizes Contents : /1 [Title page] /2 Circular No. 1; D.P. Penhallow /3 Schedule I: physical types, A. Directions for measurement /4 Schedule I: physical types, B. Measurements /5 Schedule I: physical types, C. Photographic portraits /6 Drawing of stone figure found in Indian burial
- [Read, Margaret (MS 333)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0333-read-margaret-ms-333/) - The value of social anthropology for nurses overseas 3 leaves. 31.5 x 14 cm Uncorrected proof Ninth Imperial Social Hygiene Congress, conference on Overseas nursing, morning session, Friday 14 July 1939 Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Benthall, Jonathan (MS 334)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0334-benthall-jonathan-ms-334/) - ‘And what should they know of England who only England know?’ London, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1974 3 leaves. 30 x 21 cm Typescript Talk to be delivered, in Section X of the British Association’s Annual Meeting at Stirling, 14.00h. on Friday 6 Sep. 1974, as part of a session on ‘coping with nonconformity in Society’
- [Cansdale, George Soper (MS 335)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0335-cansdale-george-soper-ms-335/) - /1 String figures. Gold Coast, [1937]. 51 pp., diagrs. 20 x 16 cm. Handwritten. Notebook with black covers /2 [Miscellaneous notes on vocabulary, zoology, botany and string figures]. 17 pp. Various sizes. Handwritten /3 String figures. 31 pp., diagrs. 22.5 x 16.5 cm. Handwritten /4 Some string figures. Notes by T. Shaw Achiata? 4 leaves,
- [[Felhoen-KRAAL, Johanna] (MS 336)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0336-felhoen-kraal-johanna-ms-336/) - Die Herkunft der sogenannten Portugiesischen Juden. [Den Haag], 1942 34 pp. Mimeographed Insertions: /2 Note on ‘Die herfunkt’, presented to the RAI by the late Prof. Bertram Schrieke, 1945 /3 Ueber die rasse der sob. Portugiesischen Juden; brief des Prof. Jhr. Dr. D.G. Rengers Hora Siccama, Utrecht, Juli 1942 /4 Biespiele von adligen Iberischen familien
- [Edge-Partington, James (MS 339)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0339-edge-partington-james-ms-339/) - An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress etc. of the natives of the Pacific Islands, drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in England. Manchester, Lithographed by J.C. Norbury, 1890 [xvii], 391 leaves, frontis. [tapa cloth], 9 maps. 20.5 x 400.5 cm Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington
- [Stansfield, Ronald G. (MS 372)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0372-stansfield-ronald-g-ms-372/) - The origins of the International Ergonomics Association. 1979 Various papers. 30 x 21 cm Mimeographed /1 Ibid. 3 pp. Presentation of paper on 27 Aug. 1979, in Warsaw to the 7th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association /2 Ibid. 10 pp. Paper presented to the 7th Congress, held in Warsaw, of the International Ergonomics Association,
- [Horton, William Robin Gray (MS 345)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0345-horton-william-robin-gray-ms-345/) - Ijo ritual sculpture; with photographs by Robin Horton and Noah Onwuka [iv], 68, 14 leaves, drawings. 33 x 20.5 cm Typescript carbon copy. Loose leaves Holograph corrections leaves ii-iv, 9-12, 18, 23-4, 29, 40, 50, 67 WBF annotations leaves 2, 5-7, 55, 3, 5-6, 8 Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg,
- [White, Gavin D. "collection" (MS  348)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0348-white-gavin-d-qcollectionq-ms-348/) - Material on Eskimos Various papers. 25.5 x 20.5 cm Typescript carbon copies Contents : /1 Letter to GDW from R.A. Gibson, Deputy Commissioner, Administration of the Northwest Territories, Canada. 15 June 1950. 3 leaves /2 The Eskimos of Canada. At head of page: Canada, Dept. of Resources and Development, Editorial and Information Division. 13 Mar.
- [Horton, William Robin Gray (MS 349)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0349-horton-william-robin-gray-ms-349/) - [Untitled about the Ijo of the Rivers Province] 103 leaves. 33 x 20 cm Typescript carbon copy Contents : /1 Introduction, leaves 1-4 /2 Within the firelight, leaves 5-31 /3 Mermaids, leaves 32-5 /4 Masks and plays of the Owu, leaves 36-54 /5 The python Gods, leaves 55-65 /6 Inspiration, material and style, leaves 66-75
- [Pughe, S. Brodribb (MS 350)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0350-pughe-s-brodribb-ms-350/) - A preliminary report concerning problems on the origins and ages of certain of the man-made structures in the Northern frontier district of Kenya, and certain regions of the Eastern Horn of Africa. [ii], 27 pp., frontis., illus., 5 maps, 11 plates + 7 leaf addendum. 34 x 21 cm Mimeograph. Staples into card cover Presented
- [Skinner, Jonathan (MS 351)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0351-skinner-jonathan-ms-351/) - Impressions of Montserrat: a partial account of contesting realities on a British Dependent Territory Liv, 358 leaves, bibl. 30 x 21 cm Typescript. Bound in maroon cloth Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 1 Oct. 1977 Presented by the author June
- [Simensen, Jarle (MS 355)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0355-simensen-jarle-ms-355/) - The Asafo of Kwahu, Ghana: a mass movement for local democratic reform under colonial rule 23 leaves + 8 leaves notes. 30 x 21 cm Mimeographed Paper presented at 1974 Canadian Association of African Studies conference, Halifax, 27 Feb.-2 Mar. Paper date stamped 14 Jan. 1974 and retrieved from the RAI Library administration files
- [Richards, Audrey Isabel (MS 357)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0357-richards-audrey-isabel-ms-357/) - /1 Some aspects of clan structure among the Baganda. 8 leaves. 30 x 21 cm. Typescript. A paper read at the RAI in Oct. 1956 – dictated from the very scrappy notes, but unchanged /2 Problem of Buganda clans. Oxford, 1961. 4 leaves. 30 x 21 cm. Typescript Presented by Prof. Jean La Fontaine, 4
- [Dmochowski, Z.R. (MS 358)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0358-dmochowski-zr-ms-358/) - Gidan Makama in Kano: report on the partial reconstruction and adaptation of the building as the Kano Museum. 15 Mar. 1963 29 leaves. 25.5 x 20 cm Typescript and manuscript with annotations and corrections. Lilac folder Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Fleure, H.J. (MS 359)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0359-fleure-hj-ms-359/) - [Bibliography of his writings], 1898-1954 81 leaves [missing leaves 1-14]. 25.5 21 cm Mimeographed Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG /1 Additional bibliography 1954-65. 1 leaf. Handwritten. 30 x 21 cm Presented by Mr John Campbell, Mar. 2002
- [Seligman, Charles Gabriel (MS 360)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0360-seligman-charles-gabriel-ms-360/) - /1 Shilluk. F.N. 1902 to 1907, 1908, 1909. 4 leaves. 26 x 15 cm. Typescript /2 [Review of] Die Schilluk: Geschichte, Religion und Leben eines Niloten-Stammes – Nach P. Banholzers, F.S.C., und eigenen Aufzeichnungen dargestellt von Wilhelm Hofmayr. Verlag der Administration des Anthropos, St Gabriel, Mödling bei Wien. 1925. pp. 304-6. 25 x 16 cm.
- [Lindgren, Ethel John (MS 361)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0361-lindgren-ethel-john-ms-361/) - /1 Notes for the proposed handbook on methods and problems of social psychology and sociology: third draft plan, embodying the results of the social psychological group in London, 2 Jan. 1937. [i], 17 leaves. 26 x 20.5 cm. Typescript. Manuscript note from author to WBF on title page /2 Letter to Ethel John Lindgren from
- [Foss, W. Perkins (MS 362)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0362-foss-w-perkins-ms-362/) - /1 The arts of the Urhobo people. Yale University, Apr. 1971. 16 leaves, map, bibl. 28 x 21.5 cm. Mimeographed. Prospectus for a dissertation /2 Urhobo wood sculpture. Apr. 1971. 74 leaves, bibl. 28 x 21.5 cm. Mimeographed. List of illustrations leaves 70-4. Illustrations not included Departmental paper submitted to the Dept. of the History
- [Fullard, Harold (MS 363)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0363-fullard-harold-ms-363/) - /1 Anthropometric cards for an anthropometric survey in Lancashire, mid 1930’s. 1269 cards. 15.5 x 10 cm. Manuscript. Includes 8 cards with measurements of Cairo subjects, 1936-7, and 2 blank specimen cards. Manuscript note: Measurements taken in Summer 1935 & Jan. 1936 in Dalton, Upholland, Orrell, Billinge & Latham parishes mainly (Central W. Lancs.) /2
- [Seligman, Charles Gabriel "collection" (MS  364)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0364-seligman-charles-gabriel-qcollectionq-ms-364/) - Notes and papers on the art and anthropology of the Massim. 1917-42. Various papers, drawings, photographs and sketches. Various sizes. Handwritten, typewritten and printed. Presented by Dr T. Elder Dickson, 19 July 1969, see A 105/1/23. In 1927 Camilla Wedgwood wrote notes to many of the photographs and was probably instrumental in identifying and collating
- [Berndt, Ronald M. and Berndt, Catherine H. (MS 365)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0365-berndt-ronald-m-and-berndt-catherine-h-ms-365/) - /1 Native labour and welfare in the Northern Territory. First phase: From Aug. 1944 to June 1945, the North-Western central part of the Northern Territory. 1946. [ii], iv, 1-215 pp. Carbon typescript. 25 x 20 cm. Addendum insertions of 1 p. each, pp. 34, 37-8, 40-1, 45, 50, 52, 54, 57, 63, 66, 68, 71,
- [Werner, O. and Willett, Frank (MS 366)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0366-werner-o-and-willett-frank-ms-366/) - The compostion of brasses from Ife and Benin. [1974?] 42, [3] leaves. 3 graphs, tables, bibl. 28 x 22 cm Typescript Manuscript message to WBF from FW on p. 1 Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Rubin, Arnold (MS 367)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0367-rubin-arnold-ms-367/) - Notes on regalia in Biu division, Northeast State, Nigeria 17, [12] leaves, figs., bibl. 28 x 22 cm Mimeographed Manuscript amendments, annotations and corrections throughout Accepted for publication, West African journal of archaeology, Vol. 4, 1974, pp. 161-75 Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Tunis, Angelika (MS 368)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0368-tunis-angelika-ms-368/) - Neue untersuchungen zur Berliner Beninsammlung. [nd] Leaves 99-114, bibl. 30 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Ajayi, Jacob Festus Ade (MS 369)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0369-ajayi-jacob-festus-ade-ms-369/) - The impact of Europe on African cultures and values. University of Lagos, Sep. 1974 17, [3] leaves, bibl. 30 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (MS 370)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0370-african-studies-association-of-the-united-kingdom-ms-370/) - Meetings, membership, papers, reports. 1973-4 Various papers. 30 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG /1 Membership: 30 June 1973. 10 pp. /2 Tenth Annual General Meeting, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Tuesday, 18 Sep. 1973. Agenda. 2 leaves /3 Statutes, Sep.
- [Vandyke-Lee, David J. (MS 373)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0373-vandyke-lee-david-j-ms-373/) - The conservation of wooden specimens: precautions and treatments under expedition conditions. 1974 3 leaves, bibl. 30 x 21 cm Mimeographed photocopy From the IIC/UK group meeting, 28 Feb. 1974 ‘Ethnography and folk-life.’ Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Vandyke-Lee, David J. (MS 374)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0374-vandyke-lee-david-j-ms-374/) - Ethnographical conservation: some examples of the conservation of skin and hide specimens in ethnographical collections. 1974 6 leaves, bibl. 30 x 21 cm Mimeographed photocopy From the Seminar in conservation 1974, British Museum and the Institute of Archaeology Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Woodburn, James (MS 376)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0376-woodburn-james-ms-376/) - Exhibition of material equipment of the Hadza, hunters and food-gatherers of Northern Tanganyika. 10 Feb. 1965 10 pp. 33 x 20.5 cm Mimeographed The objects displayed are from Dr James Woodburn’s collection. The photographs were taken by Dr John Bennett, Mr Sean Hudson and Dr James Woodburn Presented from the estate of the late William
- [Bluebond-Langner, Myra (MS 377)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0377-bluebond-langner-myra-ms-377/) - The dying child speaks, but do we hear him?: awareness and communication in terminally ill children. 1975 [i], 19 leaves. 28 x 22 cm Mimeographed Paper presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, thirty-fourth annual meeting, Amsterdam, Holland, 10 Mar. 1975 with Handout, [i], 3 leaves Not to be quoted or reproduced in any form
- [Bluebond-Langner, Myra (MS 378)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0378-bluebond-langner-myra-ms-378/) - Death, self and society. 1976 [i], 17, [i] leaves. 28 x 22 cm Mimeographed Paper presented at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, Dec., 19 Nov. 1976 with Handout, 2 leaves Not to be quoted or reproduced in any form without written permission from the author
- [Dos Santos, Juana Elbein (MS 379)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0379-dos-santos-juana-elbein-ms-379/) - Les Nàgó et la mort: Pàdé, Àsèsè et le culte Égun à Bahia. Paris, 1972 [iv], 24-91 leaves, figs. 29.5 x 21 cm Typescript photocopy Thèse du 3ème cycle, Université de Paris V, dirigée par M. le Professeur Roger Bastide Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Oldman, William O. (MS 380)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0380-oldman-william-o-ms-380/) - Index to tribes, rivers, etc. of Africa shown on map. 1919-23 [52] pp. 38 x 25 cm Manuscript Title on front cover: Index to tribes of Africa. Contents arranged in alphabetical sequence Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Farina, P.F. (MS 381)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0381-farina-pf-ms-381/) - Il popolo Karimojong: rassegna etnografica [ii], 106 leaves, figs., illus., music notation. 34 x 21.5 cm Typescript. Blue boards covered in brown parcel paper, spine missing Insertions ls 57-8, 72, 87, 103 Letter attached from B.H. MacDermot to J. Benthall, Director, RAI, presenting this thesis given to him by a Catholic Priest who lived in
- [Jolly, A.T.H. and Rose, Frederick George Godfrey (MS 382)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0382-jolly-ath-and-rose-frederick-george-godfrey-ms-382/) - The place of the Australian Aboriginal in the evolution of society: a vindication of Lewis Morgan. 1941 [ii], v, 103 leaves, diagrs., map. 33.5 x 20.5 cm Carbon copy typescript Letter attached from Frederick Rose to the Secretary, RAI, dated 1 Apr. 1941, requesting comment on the work
- [Bluebond-Langner, Myra (MS 383)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0383-bluebond-langner-myra-ms-383/) - The meanings of death in American society and its implications for health education. 1976 [ii], 12 leaves, bibl. 28 x 21.5 cm Mimeographed Paper presented at the IXth International Conference on Health Education, Ottawa, Canada, 30 Aug. 1976 Not to be quoted or reproduced in any form without written permission from the author Presented from
- [Montagu, Jeremy (MS 384)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0384-montagu-jeremy-ms-384/) - Musical instruments of the world. Second edition. Iowa, Grinnell College, 1970 [iv], 58 pp., musical notation, bibl. 28 x 21.5 cm Mimeographed. 2 copies Catalogue to accompany an exhibition of musical instruments for the Sheffield Festival Exhibition, 1967 held at the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg,
- [Kyerematen, A.A.Y., Editor (MS 385)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0385-kyerematen-aay-editor-ms-385/) - Asante Cultural Centre. [Kumasi, 1958] [ii], 41 leaves. 26.5 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG
- [Centre d’analyse Documentaire pour L’afrique Noire, Paris (MS 386)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0386-centre-danalyse-documentaire-pour-lafrique-noire-paris-ms-386/) - [later] Centre d’Analyse et de Recherche Documentaires pour l’Afrique Noire, Paris Various papers providing researchers specialised in the human and social sciences interested in Sub-Sahara Africa, with certain pieces of documented information. Paris, CADAN, 1965-6 Various sizes Mimeographed and printed Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG /1 Statement of the
- [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (MS 387)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0387-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-ms-387/) - Various papers, 1946-76 Various sizes Mimeographed Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG /1 The UNESCO programme no. 9. 6 Nov. 1946. 3 pp. 31 x 20.5 cm /2 Draft report of the Language Commission of UNESCO, 1955. 5 pp. 30 x 20 cm /3 UNESCO report: Influence of the documentary
- [Teilhet, Jehanne H. (MS 388)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0388-teilhet-jehanne-h-ms-388/) - [Paper to determine precisely who, among the French artists, were the first to feel the impact of, and to find inspiration in, the tribal arts of Oceania and the tribal arts in Africa]. Los Altos Hills, California, [post 1966] 82 leaves, bibl. 28 x 21.5 cm Mimeographed Presented from the estate of the late William
- [Stanner, William Edward Hanley (MS 389)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0389-stanner-william-edward-hanley-ms-389/) - Papers concerning New Hebrides administration. 1935-7 Various papers. Various sizes Manuscript, printed and typescript Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG /1 Letter to Dr Raymond Firth referring to the attached memorandum from W.E.H. Stanner. 31 May 1937. 1 p. 20.5 x 13 cm /2 Memorandum on the New Hebrides discussion
- [Maginnis (Nelson), Craig, "collection" (MS  390)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0390-maginnis-nelson-craig-qcollectionq-ms-390maginnis-nelson-craig-qcollectionq-ms-390/) - Notes and papers on the South Seas, particularly Tonga, nd Various papers. Various sizes Manuscript items 2-46, mimeographed item 1 From the signatures on diverse papers, it appears that the author signed his work under the name of both Maginnis and Nelson Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG /1 Blackbirding,
- [Maginnis (Nelson), Craig, "collection" (MS  391)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0391-maginnis-nelson-craig-qcollectionq-ms-391/) - Notebooks and pamphlets on the South Seas, particularly Tonga, nd Various sizes. Bound Manuscript items 1-9, printed items 10-12 Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG /1 [History of events concerning the Friendly Islands and nearby Pacific Islands], 1527-1899. Text on odd numbered pp. 1-3, 7, 11-37, 41-5, 49-63, 67-95, 99-107,
- [Horsfall, William (MS 392)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0392-horsfall-william-ms-392/) - Papers on Tonga [nd] Various sizes Manuscript These papers were received with the Craig Maginnis MS 390-1 Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG /1 An unrecorded chapter in the history of missions. 20 pp. 20.5 x 16.5 cm /2 ‘easily led by unscrupulous whites who look to their own interests’
- [Johnston, Thomas (MS 401)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0401-johnston-thomas-ms-401/) - 2 essays. [Sep. 1969] Mimeographed Presented by the author [see Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship Fund A66/27/3/4.9] /1 Xizambi friction-bow music of the Shangana-Tsonga. 1-11, 11½, 12-23 leaves, figs., music notation. 29 x 21 cm /2 The vocal and instrumental music of the Shangana-Tsonga. 26 leaves, figs., music notation, 1 phot. 29 x 21 cm
- [Bascom, William (MS 407)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0407-bascom-william-ms-407/) - African folklore and literature. [1962?] 48 leaves. 28 x 21.5 cm Mimeograph Manuscript version of sub-chapter for Robert A. Lystad, editor: Social research in Africa, to be published in 1963. Reproduced by permission: For seminar use only, not to be quoted. Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG.
- [Merriam, Alan P. (MS 408)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0408-merriam-alan-p-ms-408/) - Music and the dance. [1962?] 40 leaves., bibl. 28 x 21.5 cm Mimeograph Manuscript version of sub-chapter for Robert A. Lysted, editor: Social research in Africa, to be published in 1963. Reproduced by permission. For seminar use only: not to be quoted. Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG.
- [Sieber, Roy (MS 409)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0409-sieber-roy-ms-409/) - The visual arts. [1962?] 26 leaves., bibl. 28 x 21.5 cm Mimeograph Manuscript version of sub-chapter for Robert A. Lystad, editor: Social research in Africa, to be published in 1963. Reproduced by permission. For seminar use only: not to be quoted. Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG.
- [Reading Lists (MS 410)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0410-reading-lists-ms-410/) - Various bibliographies. [nd] 28 x 21.5 cm Mimeographs Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG. /1 Reading list for graduate students. Department of Anthropology, [no University], Fall, 1963. 4 leaves. /2 History of anthropological thought. 13 leaves /3 Technology. 6 leaves /4 Primitive art and technology. 22 leaves. /5 Primitive art
- [Pankhurst, Richard, editor and translator (MS 411)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0411-pankhurst-richard-editor-and-translator-ms-411/) - Tax records and inventories of Emperor Tewodros of Ethiopia (1855-1868), edited and translated by Richard Pankhurst in collaboration with Germa-Selassie Asfan. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1978. [vii], 173 leaves, bibl. 33.5 x 21 cm [Plates missing leaves 25-6, 29-30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 47-8, 50, 53-4,
- [Pan-African Cultural Festival, First (MS 412)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0412-pan-african-cultural-festival-first-ms-412/) - [Addresses and papers]. Algiers, The Organization of African Unity, 21 July – 1 Aug. 1969 Various papers. 27 x 21 cm Mimeographed Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG. /1 Addresses from various delegations /1 Address by Mr Diallo Telli, Administrative Secretary-General of The Organization of African Unity at the inauguration
- [Thompson, Michael (MS 414)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0414-thompson-michael-ms-414/) - Some problems in the study of exchange structures. 1968 [iii], 1-58, 58a, 59-60, 60a, 61-115, 115a-b, 116-17, 117a-b, 118-19, 119a, 120-1, 121a, 122-3, 123a, 124-31, 131a, 132-4, 134a, 135-7, 137a, 138-40, 140a-e, 141-8 leaves. 30 x 21 cm Printed Thesis for degree of B.Litt., Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, University of Oxford, August 1968 Presented
- [Conference on Manding Studies, London, 1972 (MS 415)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0415-conference-on-manding-studies-london-1972-ms-415/) - Invitation, programmes, letters, papers and reports Various papers. Various sizes Mimeographed, photocopied and printed Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG. /1 Invitation to the opening address by H.E. Léopold Sédar Senghor, on Friday 30 June 1972. 1 card. 12.5 x 18 cm /2 Manding: focus on an African civilisation. London,
- [Bartlett, Sir Frederic Charles (MS 416)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0416-bartlett-sir-frederic-charles-ms-416/) - The papers of Frederic Charles Bartlett. November, 1966 1 diskette using Microsoft Word 7 on Windows 95 Paper copy held in the Anthropology Library, Department of Ethnography, British Museum see S25398 Presented by Hugh Frederic Bartlett, 28 November 1996 /1 Letter from Hugh Frederic Bartlett to the Librarian, RAI, with short description of his work
- [Murray, Keith C. (MS 417)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0417-murray-keith-c-ms-417/) - Masks and headdresses of Nigeria: [exhibition] 21 June - 23 July 1949. London, The Zwemmer Gallery, [1949]. [2 copies] 8 Pp. 23.5 x 18 cm Printed. Bound in blue card Presented from the estate of the late William Buller Fagg, CMG. /1 Diagram for arrangement of objects at the exhibition – 61, 25, 62, 110,
- [Stow, George William (MS 418)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0418-stow-george-william-ms-418/) - Photographs of Stow’s copies [cartoons] of Bushman paintings not included in Rock-Paintings in South Africa [i], 50 leaves. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. 50 black and white photographs, 12 x 16.5 cm, each mounted on one sheet with location and colour description Typewritten Stow’s other 74 cartoons were published in Rock-Paintings in South Africa from parts
- [Schultz, Bruno K. (MS 419)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0419-schultz-bruno-k-ms-419/) - Table of racial estimation for the colour of the eyes, hair and skin and for the design of the iris 7 leaves, tables. 27 x 20 cm Typewritten Presented by Jack Trevor, 17 May 1940 /1 Letter from J. Trevor to Miss Martindell, Secretary of the RAI, discussing standardization of skin tints. 17 May 1940
- [Mullen, A.W. (MS 420)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0420-mullen-aw-ms-420/) - Notes on the Aborigenes’ customs etc., as remembered by Mr & Mrs John Mackay who have resided on the Darling River at Gunderbooka on Clover Creek, about 46 miles from Bourke since April 1863 4 pp., illus. 32 x 20 cm. Handwritten /1 Letter to [A.W.Mullen?] from Charles E. Lang of Bourke, N.S.W. concerning burial
- [[?Lawrence, Edward?] (MS 422)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0422-lawrence-edward-ms-422/) - Lectures, descriptions of slides and American Indian photographs. [nd] 4 papers, various sizes; 3 photographs Handwritten and typewritten The papers are anonymous, but there is some circumstantial evidence to suggest that they are by Edward Lawrence, a Fellow of the RAI elected 1886. From the available records, it seems that these lectures were not delivered
- [Abbie, Andrew Arthur "collection" (MS  423)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0423-abbie-andrew-arthur-qcollectionq-ms-423/) - Letters and papers concerning the life and work of Professor Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (1871-1937), with additional material on the work of Professor A.A. Abbie and Dr Una Fielding. 1895-1969. Various materials. Various sizes. Handwritten, typewritten, printed, microfilm and photographs. The British Library Manuscript collection and others hold correspondence and papers by/on GES. Presented by
- [Torday, Emil and Thomas Athol Joyce (MS 424)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0424-torday-emil-and-thomas-athol-joyce-ms-424/) - Notes éthnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba, ainsi que sur les peuplades apparentées: Les Bushongo. (Annales du Musée du Congo Belge, Ethnographie, Anthropologie Série III: Documents Ethnographiques tome II, fasc.I). Bruxelles, Ministère des Colonies, 1910. [Title page: Février 1911] [iv], 292 pp., figs., illus., 2 maps, 29 plates. Index pp. 285-90, listes des planches
- [Torday, Emil (MS 425)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0425-torday-emil-ms-425/) - [Torday’s library catalogue]. nd 207 cards with alphabetical guide cards. 7.5 x 12.5 cm Typewritten Contents: cards 1-193 catalogue of library holdings cards 194-207 catalogue of photographs ?Presented by Mrs Hilton-Simpson?
- [Potekhin, Ivan Izosimovich (MS 426)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0426-potekhin-ivan-izosimovich-ms-426/) - Papers concerning peoples of Asia and Africa. 1962 Various papers. 33 x 20.5 cm Mimeographed Presented by A. H. Christie, 1962 /1 Some problems of African studies in the light of the decisions of the XXII Congress of the CPSU; by I.I. Potekhim. (Narodi Azii i Afrika - Peoples of Asia and Africa 1, 1962).
- [Peake, Harold John Edward "collection" (MS  427)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0427-peake-harold-john-edward-qcollectionq-ms-427/) - Index of references to weapons and implements published in archaeological journals, and associated papers. 1843 - 1923 Various papers. Various sizes Handwritten /1 Index of references to weapons published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 1843-1921, arranged in order of England by county leaves 1-48 Scotland leaf 49 Wales leaves 50-2 Ireland leaves
- [Downie, R. Angus, "collection" (MS  428)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0428-downie-r-angus-qcollectionq-ms-428/) - Sir James George Frazer letters, papers, correspondence with R.A. Downie concerning his attempt to obtain the letters of Sir J.G. Frazer with the intention of publishing a volume of the collected letters, and associated material. 1902-1942 Various papers. Various sizes Handwritten and typewritten Presented by the British Records Association, 25 July 1963 No evidence has
- [Gibson-Hill, Carl Alexander (MS 429)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0429-gibson-hill-carl-alexander-ms-429/) - Photographs and figures to illustrate the article Boats and fishing on the Cocos-Keeling Islands, 1946 [and] A note on the Christmas Island Canoe, 1941 1 offprint, 2 figures, 1 map and 7 photographs. Various sizes Printed Some of the figures and photographs published in J.R.anth.Inst. 76:1, 1946, Pp .13-23 Presented by the author, 1945 /1
- [Burton, Sir Richard collection (MS430)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0430-burton-sir-richard-collection-ms430/) - Miscellaneous papers withdrawn from the library of Sir Richard Burton. 1863-89 Various papers. Various sizes Handwritten, printed and typewritten. The library of Sir Richard Burton was offered to the Royal Anthropological Institute by the Royal Borough of Kensington in 1954 and accepted by the Royal Anthropological Institute 10 March 1955. The library was sold to
- [Freire-Marreco, Barbara Whitchurch "afterwards" Mrs Robert Aitken, "collection" (MS 431)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0431-freire-marreco-barbara-whitchurch-qafterwardsq-mrs-robert-aitken-qcollectionq-ms-431/) - Notes and papers on Indians in New Mexico and Arizona with particular reference to Pueblo Indians [and] papers on cancer in Spain [and] a story for children. 1899 - 1963 Various papers. Various sizes Handwritten, printed and typewritten Presented by the Aitken Bequest, October 1968 /1 Field notes on Arizona and New Mexico Indians. 1909-12.
- [Powell, Samuel (MS 432)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0432-powell-samuel-ms-432/) - Notes from letters written about his journeys in Central Africa commencing 1936 and notes on events prior to them. 1925-37 4 notebooks. Various sizes Handwritten Presented by an unrecorded source, with a note ‘Samuel Powell’s home was in Stony Stratford, Beds’, [nd] /1 Notes written from 7 June 1925 to 25 July 1936. 1 notebook,
- [Hinde, Sidney Langford (MS 433)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0433-hinde-sidney-langford-ms-433/) - Newspaper and journal cuttings on his life and work. 1881-1900 1 scrapbook. [xxv], 200 pp., illus., maps. 29.5 x 22 cm [and] 3 loose cuttings and index. Various sizes Printed and handwritten. Bound in black cloth Presented by ?Dr S.L. Hinde? [nd] Contents : pp.[i-xxv] Blank pp. 1-9 University career, 1881-89 pp.10-28 Congo Medical Service
- [Fleure, Herbert John, "collection" (MS  434)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0434-fleure-herbert-john-qcollectionq-ms-434/) - Oddments by various authors and creators from papers collected by H.J. Fleure Various papers. Various sizes Handwritten, printed and typewritten Presented by Professor H.J. Fleure, 1956 /1 Tschepourkovsky, E. From the imaginary types to the study of reality: the projected international critic of the methods of anthropological analysis, 1936. [v], 33 leaves. diagr., phots., tables.
- [Freeman, John Derek (MS 435)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0435-freeman-john-derek-ms-435/) - Mr Tom Harrisson and research in Sarawak by the Australian National University – a revised version of a report to Sir John Crawford, Director, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University [and] associated appendix and correspondence. September 1961. 21 leaves, table [and] appendix, 2 letters. 25.5 x 20.5 cm Mimeographed Presented by Professor William
- [Davis, Joseph Bernard, "collection" (MS 436)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0436-davis-joseph-bernard-qcollectionq-ms-436/) - Notebooks, letters and papers mostly dealing with Crania Britannica, and a report on Australian Aborigines. 1853-1900 Various papers. Various sizes Handwritten and printed. Handwritten unless stated otherwise These papers belonging to J.B. Davis were presented to the RAI subsequent to MS 140-52, which see, and may contain complementary and overlapping information. Additionally papers MS 437
- [Ware, Samuel Hibbert (MS 437)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0437-ware-samuel-hibbert-ms-437/) - Papers on the early inhabitants of the British Isles and neighbouring Europe. [nd] 4 folders. Various sizes. Handwritten and printed. Handwritten unless stated otherwise The upper covers of the folders with titles have been retained. The lower covers bearing no information and in poor condition have been discarded Presented to the RAI with papers belonging
- [Peters, Emrys Lloyd and Stella M. Peters, "collection" (MS  438)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0438-peters-emrys-lloyd-and-stella-m-peters-qcollectionq-ms-438/) - Diaries, notebooks and papers on the Bedouin of Cyrenaica and other miscellaneous papers. 1948-87 14 volumes, various papers, maps and photographs. Various sizes. Handwritten, printed and typewritten The collection of photographs is held in the RAI Photographic "collection" A copy of the B.Litt. thesis submitted by Stella M. Peters, entitled A study of the Bedouin
- [Keith, Sir Arthur, collection. (MS 439)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0439-keith-sir-arthur-collection-ms-439/) - Sir Arthur Keith’s research into ancient types of man and their evolution into present societies, worldwide. 1880-1949. Papers, photographs and publications. Various sizes. Handwritten, typewritten and printed. The material was presented in wrapped bundles or in magazines with pages interleaved with loose notes and references arranged by subject. The wrappings were degraded and the magazine
- [Keith, Sir Arthur, "collection" (MS  440)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0440-keith-sir-arthur-qcollectionq-ms-440/) - [Human nature: research notes on the mental and moral qualities of man]. 1827-1952. Notes and jottings, papers, publications. Various sizes. Handwritten, printed and typewritten. The material in sections MS 440/1-/10, /12-/13, /15-/32 was presented in magazines used as loose scrapbooks with pages interleaved with notes and references arranged by subject and each bearing a title
- [Peters, Emrys Lloyd (MS 441)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0441-peters-emrys-lloyd-ms-441/) - Papers prepared for publication on Middle East communities. [nd] 5 papers, 1 letter and 1 card. Various sizes Typewritten and printed Presented by Professor Emanuel Marx, 13 March 2007 /1 Arranging affinity in four Middle East communities; [by] E.L. Peters. [i], 33 leaves, bibl. Not for quotation. 29.5 x 21 cm. Typewritten and mimeographed /2
- [Woodthorpe, Robert Gosset, "collection" (MS  442)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0442-woodthorpe-robert-gosset-qcollectionq-ms-442/) - Photographs, plates and paper on Assam and the Nagas. 1873-97 Various materials. Various sizes Printed Photographs MS 442/9 - /12 were found in a paper wrapping entitled "Duplicate prints of which I have negatives 9/97". The published works of all the subjects named in photograph MS 442/1 have been checked for drawings, plates and photographs.
- [Epstein, Trude Scarlett (MS 443)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0443-epstein-trude-scarlett-ms-443/) - Mysore villages, 1954-70 Various papers. Various sizes Handwritten, printed and typewritten. Handwritten unless stated otherwise Kalenahalli and Mangala were the principal villages studied and for reasons of confidentiality these are often referred to as Dalena and Wangala respectively The papers were presented in 9 filing cases. The cases have been catalogued in no particular order.
- [Rattray, Robert Sutherland (MS 445)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0445-rattray-robert-sutherland-ms-445/) - Photographs and illustrations taken in Ashanti and the Northern Territories, Ghana, letters and record books. Various papers. Various sizes All the entries are photographs unless stated otherwise. The dimensions are of the photographs Some photographs have running numbers on verso which can be matched to the records of the photographs MS 445/55-57. The records are
- [Annual Report 2006](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2006/) - PDF Photo Caption: 6th Form students have a chance to experience participant observation for themselves during the “BaLi ethnographic experience,” one of the workshops at the London Anthropology Day 2006 held at the British Museum. The workshop was originally developed by Dr Luke Freeman (member of the RAI Committee on Anthropology in Secondary and Further
- [Durham, Mary Edith “collection” (MS 55)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0055-durham-mary-edith-qcollectionq-ms-55/) - Balkan politics: articles by various people, memoranda, abstracts, newspapers, letters. Loose papers. 31 x 24 cm Black cloth board folder
- [ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Council (A1)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ethnological-society-of-london-council-a1/) - Minutes. 2 Jan. 1844 – 26 Jan. 1869. In July 1842 Dr Richard King (1811-76) issued a prospectus for the Ethnological Society setting out its aims (see J. Ethnol. Soc., vol. 2, 1850, pp. 15-16) and on 7 Feb. 1843 (date recorded by J.B. Davis, Anthrop. Rev., vol. 6, 1868, p. 395) the first meeting
- [Epstein, Trude Scarlett (MS 444)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0444-epstein-trude-scarlett-ms-444/) - New Britain. 1949-68 Various papers. Various sizes Handwritten, printed and typewritten TPNG = Territory of Papua and New Guinea Presented by Professor T.S. Epstein, September 1992 Native Land Registration Ordinances, 1951-68. MS444/1-27. Printed /1 TPNG no.13 of 1951: an ordinance to provide for the ascertainment and registration of the ownership of native land. Canberra, Govt. Printer,
- [ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (A2)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ethnological-society-of-london-a2/) - List of members elected. 1844, 1846, 1868-71. 1 Jan.–Dec. 1844; 7 Nov. 1846 Ff. 1-8: remainder blank. Name, date of election, and signature (in a few cases) recorded. 2/ Jan. 1868-71 Book printed to record elections to 1874. Name and address, date of admission, and date of last payment recorded. Inserts (in pocket) 1 Note on new member,
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Council (A3)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-society-of-london-council-a3/) - Minutes. 18 Jan. 1863-30 Jan. 1871. At the meeting of 30 Jan. 1871 (A3:2, f. 52) the Director read a ‘Report of the Delegates appointed by the General Meeting to act with Prof. J.H. Huxley for the Amalgamation of this Society with the Ethnological Society’ which met on 21 Jan. 1871. Resolutions, officers and others
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Ordinary Meetings (A4)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-society-of-london-ordinary-meetings-a4/) - Minutes. 24 Feb. 1863 – 31 ha 1871. Includes titles of papers read followed by names of those taking part in the discussion, names of new members announced, list of ‘presents’ received, and specimens exhibited (infrequent). Followed by (invert book) 1 Minutes of Annual General meeting 6 Jan. 1864 – 14 Feb. 1871 (Special General meeting)
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Office (A5)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-society-of-london-office-a5/) - Letters to the ASL. 1865-6; and [1 Jan. 1867], A-D, G-S (incomplete). Abbreviations HJCB Hugh J.C. Beavan, FRGS, Joint Hon. Secretary and Hon. Foreign Secretary CCB Charles Carter Blake, Curator and Librarian, and Hon. Secretary RSC Richard Stephen Charnock, FSA, FRGS, Treasurer, later Vice President JFC J. Fred. Collingwood, FGS, Assistant Secretary, later Secretary and Librarian DIH Rev. Dunbar I.
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Finance (A6)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-society-of-london-finance-a6/) - Membership subscription ledgers. 1863-72. Includes name (arranged alphabetically) and address, date of admission, and date of receipt of subscription. 1 1863-9 2 1868-71 [sic] Names out of sequence, ff. 55-61; no entries for 1872. 3 1866-72 [sic] Inserts 1-14 (all holograph) now in pocket: 1 List of names, inside upper cover 2 Ibid., ibid. 3 Ibid., ibid. 4 Ibid., 4 pp., ibid.
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Finance (A7)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-society-of-london-finance-a7/) - Receipted accounts, Jan. 1863-Dec. 1866; and inserted letter, 30 Apr. 1866 from D. Sydenham to C.C. Blake (f. 174) 174 folios; original leather boards laid-in. Including bills for: 1 Engraving, lithography, plates, 30 Jan. 1863 (f. 8); 2 Jan. 1866 (f. 120); 1864-5 (f. 122) 2 Library and office furniture, 7 July 1864 (ff. 1-7); 16 Nov.
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (A8)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-society-of-london-a8/) - Reports on papers submitted to the Anthropological Review, 1866-7. The arrangement in the original is neither alphabetical nor chronological. 1/ Reports submitted (in alphabetical order) by: 1 Hugh J.C. Beavan, Joint Hon. Secretary, ff. 280a-b 2 Thomas Bendyshe, Vice-President, ff. 63-4, 249-50 3 Charles Carter Blake, Curator and Librarian, ff. 139-40, 180-1, 331-2, 358 4 William Bollaert, Joint Hon. Secretary,
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (A8 Supplements)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-society-of-london-a8-supplements/) - Miscellaneous addresses, lists, circulars, etc. published by the ASL. 1863-8. 1/1 Introductory address on the study of anthropology delivered before the ASL, 24 Feb. 1863 by James Hunt. London, Trübner, 1863. 20 pp. 2 Circular on the aims of the ASL and on the first issue of the quarterly to be entitled the Anthropological Review and Journal,
- [ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Journal (A9)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/royal-anthropological-institute-of-great-britain-and-ireland-journal-a9/) - Record of papers submitted to the Journal, date of receipt etc., 1871-1952. Details noted in columns: When received; When read; Author; Subject; Referees’ name; When referred; Sent; Received; Submitted to Council; Publication Committee; Remarks; Disposal; Number. See also A25 for referees’ reports. The Anthropological Institute assumed the prefix ‘Royal’ in Feb. 1907; see Council minutes,
- [RAI. Council (A10)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-council-a10/) - Minutes. 1871 in progress. 1/ 31 Jan. 1871-27 June 1882 including Special Council minutes Inserts 1-4 (tipped in) 1 Letter, 1 Mar. 1877, from John Evans, President to Mr Vann, Royal Society of Literature on rent due and renewal of tenancy (holograph), f. 268; see Minutes, 13 Mar. 1877 2 ‘Duties of Assistant Secretary’ (printed), f. 338; see
- [RAI. Executive Committee (A11)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-executive-committee-a11/) - Minutes. 17 Apr. 1900 – 31 May 1961. The last Executive Committee meeting was held on 31 May 1961. It was superseded by the Library Committee, Publications Committee, and the Standing Committee (see Officers’ Meeting, 18 May 1961, A11/5, f. 79). 1/ 17 Apr. 1900 – 28 May 1912 Minutes of 17 Apr. 1900 (variant version)
- [RAI. Ordinary Meetings (A12)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-ordinary-meetings-a12/) - Minutes. 1871-1935. Includes announcements made, specimens exhibited, and titles of papers read followed by discussion. 1/ 14 Feb. 1871 - 11 July 1882 1/ Followed by (invert book) 1 Special General Meeting, 3 Apr. 1871 on the adoption of the draft regulations (f. 205) 2 Ibid., 9 Mar. 1875 to consider: (a) application to the Board of Trade for
- [RAI. Council (A13)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-council-a13/) - Meeting attendance books. 6 Mar. 1871 in progress Signatures of Council members are recorded. 1 6 Mar. 1871 – 23 Nov. 1880 Signatures of those attending Anniversary and Special Meetings are also included. 2 14 Dec. 1880 – 8 Feb. 1892 3/ 23 Feb. 1892 – 10 July 1900 Signatures of those attending the following Committees are also
- [RAI. Annual General Meetings, Ordinary Meetings and Miscellaneous Meetings (A14)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-annual-general-meetings-ordinary-meetings-and-miscellaneous-meetings-a14/) - Attendance books. 1892- Signatures of members and visitors attending Annual General Meetings are as follows: 1892-1900 see 14:1/1 1904-11 see 14:2/1 1912-15, 1918-24, 1927-30 see 14:3/1 1931-45 see 14:4/1 1946-54 see 14:5/1 1955-65, 1981-7 see 14:6/1 1995 (incomplete)- see 14:7/1 Signatures for those attending Ordinary Meetings are recorded, 1892-1987 (see below) except for 28 Oct.
- [RAI. Finance (A15)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-finance-a15/) - Receipts and payments. Receipts: Fellowship subscriptions (current, arrears, advance, life) etc. Payments: Journal, Man and other publications’ expenses, salaries, housekeeping etc. 1880-1958. Later details have not been retained. 1/ 1880-1905; also includes Journal and Man expenses, 1908-9 1 Receipts for 12 Apr. – 31 Dec. 1900, 7 Jan. – 14 Feb. 1901 inserted f. 44 (now in
- [RAI. Finance (A16)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-finance-a16/) - Petty cash expenses. 15 Aug. 1879 – 4 Aug. 1900.
- [RAI. Library Committee (A17)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-library-committee-a17/) - Minutes. 23 June 1891 – 19 Nov. 1981. Prior to 1891 Council considered Library affairs until the appointment of a committee set up to do so. On 11 Apr. 1876 the Museum Committee was asked to act as the Library Committee; on 13 Feb. 1877 appointments to the Museum and Library committee are recorded, and
- [RAI. Daily Attendance (A19)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-daily-attendance-a19/) - Daily attendance of members and visitors at the Rooms of the Institute. 1 Nov. 1881 - 20 Oct. 1908. Most of the signatures are those of members and visitors with a few in the hand of the Assistant Secretary of the time. 1 1 Nov. 1881 - 10 Dec. 1901, ff.1-133,135 Also includes attendance at the
- [RAI. Finance (A20)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-finance-a20/) - Fellowship subscriptions 1881-5; 1910-58. 1 1881-5, name, address, date of election, and date of receipt recorded; arranged alphabetically by name Insert (now in pocket): 1 John Casement to George W. Bloxham, Assistant Secretary, 9 Feb. 1882 – on his son’s departure for Australia and payment of his subscription 2 1910-58; see A15:2-9
- [RAI. Predynastic Research Committee (A21)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-predynastic-research-committee-a21/) - Papers and correspondence on the Fayum and Kharga Oasis Expeditions, 1927-76. See also A10/4/2/2 for the application to the Egyptian Department of Antiquities for permission to excavate in the Fayum. 1/ Fayum Expedition 1927-8 (Third season) 1 Receipts from all sources – list of names of personal contributors and public bodies and sums contributed. 6
- [RAI. Anthropological Survey Committee (A22)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-anthropological-survey-committee-a22/) - Report of the Committee appointed at the request of the Colonial Office to examine the results of the experimental Anthropological Survey carried out by Northcote W. Thomas in the Central Provinces of Southern Nigeria and presented to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. London, 1910. Members of the Committee: Sir Herbert Risley, KCIE, CSI,
- [RAI. Human Biology Research Committee (A23)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-human-biology-research-committee-a23/) - Minutes, 8 Jan. 1932 – 24 Apr. 1934. The Committee, convener Miss M.L. Tildesley, is one of several research committees set up by Council on 24 Nov. 1931; see Council Minutes, A10:4, f. 187 and Man, vol. 32, Jan. 1932, Item 18 (2/2 below). The Committee continued to organize meetings until 1935, when it lapsed.
- [RIVERS MEMORIAL FUND (A24)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rivers-memorial-fund-a24/) - History, minutes, correspondence, and papers. 1922-78. The fund was established by friends as a memorial to Dr W.H.R. Rivers, FRC, FRCP, MD (1884-1922), Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, RAI President 1921-2 (died in office) and to promote studies in which he had been interested. On 25 Mar. 1924 a Committee of Management was set
- [RAI. India Research Committee (A26)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-india-research-committee-a26/) - In 1924, Council appointed an India Research Committee ‘of which the function will be to afford a meeting-place for discussion among those in this country who are interested in the study of Indian ethnology, archaeology, folk-lore, and religions, to co-operate with workers resident in India....’. Publication of the Indian Antiquary was taken over from the
- [RAI. Finance (A27)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-finance-a27/) - Nominal ledgers of expenditure and receipts. 1915-70. Later details have-not been retained. 1 1915-28; index included 2/ 1929-34; index included Inserts (now in sleeve): 1 Research and Appeal Fund balance, 31 Dec. 1928, f. 85 2 Draft balance sheet and accounts, 31 Dec. 1934 3 Treasurer's report, 1934 (tp.) 4 Rivers Memorial Fund balance, 1 Jan. 1934 (autogr.) 5 Note on grant
- [RAI. Man (A28)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-man-a28/) - Subscribers to Man. 1901-53. 1/ 1901-4 Names, addresses, and amount received recorded; exchanges also included. Inserts (in pocket) 1 Note from E. Marlborough & Co. on possible debit, f. 34 2 Subscription renewal from John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd, London, 15 Dec. 1903, ff. 36-7 3 Ibid from G.E. Stechert, London, 16 June 1904, ff. 100-1 4 Change of
- [RAI. Man. Finance (A29)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-man-finance-a29/) - Man accounts: income and expenditure. 1906-16. See also A15.
- [RAI. Journal (A30)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-journal-a30/) - Register of the despatch of the Journal, Vols. 23-7; Vol. 28, New Series, Vol. 1, 1894-9. Names of Hon. Fellows, Ordinary Fellows, exchange institutions, and date of despatch recorded.
- [ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY, AND RAI MEMBERSHIP (FELLOWSHIP) LISTS (A31)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ethnological-society-anthropological-society-and-rai-membership-fellowship-lists-a31/) - Lists of Members (Fellows) of the Ethnological Society, Anthropological Society, and the RAI, includes the Honorary Fellows, Corresponding members, Local secretaries, etc. 1869- 1955 (printed); 1995 to date (computer print-out) 1/ Ethnological Society 1 List of Fellows, [1869] including Officers and Council, 1869-70, Honorary Fellows and Corresponding Members. 12 pp., autograph corrections, pp.10-11 2/ Anthropological Society 1 Fourteenth list of
- [RAI. Library (A32)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-library-a32/) - Register of books presented. 1880-5; 1919-41; 1950-72. 1/ 1 Jan. 1880 - 23 June 1885 1 Date of receipt, title, author, and name of donor recorded 2 The following are also recorded: Record of Journal papers received by author, date sent: to printer, proofs, revises and corrections, illustrations, including a few for Man, 1901-7 3 Note on Journal, Vol.
- [JAMES COWLES PRICHARD CENTENARY (A33)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/james-cowles-prichard-centenary-a33/) - The centenary of the death of James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) was celebrated by the RAI on 22 Dec. 1948 where papers were read by Dr J.C. Trevor and Prof. W.C. Osman Hill, and by Prof. H.J. Fleure read in his absence by J.C. Trevor. The Revd T.I. Pocock, the only surviving grandson, and the Revd
- [LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS (A34)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/local-correspondents-a34/) - Papers. 1933-42. Both the Ethnological Society and the Anthropological Society had categories they termed Corresponding Members (i.e. Fellows); additionally the Anthropological Society had a category of Local Secretaries both to the UK and abroad. In 1871 the Anthropological Institute, successor to the two societies, took over both these categories by electing Corresponding Members (Fellows) and
- [EXHIBITION OF COLONIAL ART, 1949 (A35)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/exhibition-of-colonial-art-1949-a35/) - In 1948 the Colonial Office started a campaign to arouse greater interest in British Territories by means of lectures, films, etc. As part of the campaign the Secretary of State for the Colonies invited the RAI in Feb. 1949 to take part in a ‘Colonial Month’ during June and July. It was decided to mount
- [BRITISH ASSOCIATION. Committee to Organise Anthropometric Investigation in the British Isles (A36)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-association-committee-to-organise-anthropometric-investigation-in-the-british-isles-a36/) - Minutes and diary of the Committee appointed by the British Association 12 Sept. 1902 - 7 Sept. 1908. See also A10:4/2/10; 11:1/1/5/15; 11:1/5/20; 13/3/1. Present at the first meeting at Queen's College, Belfast: Prof. Cleland (Chairman); J. Gray (Secretary; RAI Council member); Prof. D.J. Cunningham (later Chairman, 1903-9); J.L. Myres (Hon. Secretary, RAI; resigned 1903);
- [RAI. Ways and Means Committee (A37)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-ways-and-means-committee-a37/) - Minutes. 23 July 1945 - 4 Mar. 1953. The Committee was appointed to assist the Hon. Treasurer; see his ‘Report for the year 1944’, JRAI, vol. 75, 1945, p. 107. The following meetings took place: 23 July, 4 Sep., 27 Nov. 1945; 25 Feb., 18 and 28 Nov. 1947; 13 Feb., 2 Nov. 1948; 8
- [RAI. Finance (A38)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-finance-a38/) - Pass books for current and deposit accounts with Coutts & Co. 1920-41. 6 vols. 1 Deposit account, 2 June 1920 - 21 July 1938Special deposit, 13 May 1927 - 31 Oct. 1929 2 Capital fund account, 13 Apr. 1938 - 22 Sept. 1941 3 General account, 13 July 1939 - 22 Sept. 1941 4 Coote
- [NOTES AND QUERIES ON ANTHROPOLOGY (A39)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/notes-and-queries-on-anthropology-a39/) - Working copy and related papers for the preparation of the sixth edition, 1951. The sixth edition was revised and rewritten by a Committee of the RAI, edited by Brenda Z. Seligman, and published in 1951 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., see the 5th edition, 1929, pp. v-ix and the 6th, 1951, pp. v-vii for
- [HERBERT SPENCER TRUST (A41)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/herbert-spencer-trust-a41/) - Correspondence and documents relating to the Court of Chancery decisions on the rights of beneficiaries and the winding up of the Trust. 1916-37. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), author of Social statics, 1850, Principles of psychology, 1855, The study of sociology, 1873-96, compiled data on different types of societies, entitled Descriptive sociology between 1867 and 1881. He
- [FEATHERMAN, Americanus. Bequest (A42)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/featherman-americanus-bequest-a42/) - Documents, papers, and letters. 1903-21. Americanus Featherman, 1817-1910, born Abraham Federmann in Oettingen, Bavaria, emigrated to the USA in his late teens and later lived in London from time to time. In his will, Featherman left the RAI bonds in several US railway companies including $6000 bonds in the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway
- [APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY 1928-39 (A43 01 of 03)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/applied-anthropology-1928-39-a43-01-of-03/) - In 1900 the RAI presented petitions to the Government of South Australia associated with the Aborigines of Central Australia and, with the Folklore Society, to the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies on the condition of the indigenous people of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony (see A10/3/3/1-2) Another petition
- [CENTENARIES AND RAI HISTORY (A45)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/centenaries-and-rai-history-a45/) - Council on 25 May 1943 appointed a committee 'to consider plans for the observance of the centenary' of its forerunner the Ethnological Society which held its foundation meeting on 7 Feb. 1843. The centenary was held on 30 Oct. 1943 at the Royal Society where lunch was served after addresses by Prof. J.H. Hutton, President,
- [FINANCE COMMITTEE. Minutes incomplete (A46)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/finance-committee-minutes-incomplete-a46/) - Authorization for the appointment of a Finance Committee was given by the Standing Committee on 14 Sept. 1972 (see SC/72/7, Item 33). The first references to the committee in Council minutes are on 8 Feb. and 15 Mar. 1973 (see CM/73/1-2). After 22 Oct. 1975 the committee was entitled, Finance and Development Committee. Minutes and
- [LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (A47)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/leakey-louis-seymour-bazett-a47/) - Correspondence and papers on the human remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya excavated during Leakey's East African Expedition. 1931-2. The RAI convened a meeting on 18-19 Mar. 1933 at St John's College, Cambridge to 'discuss the early human remains recently discovered by the East African Expedition of Dr L.S.B. Leakey'. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS,
- [RAI. Library Committee (A48)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-library-committee-a48/) - Meeting attendance. 22 Oct. 1971 - 22 Oct. 1980, ff. 1-28; signatures for the meetings of 28 May, 11 June, 19 Nov. 1981 (LC/20/5-7) are on single leaves. Signatures of Library Committee members are recorded. There is no record of those attending the meetings held on 4 Dec. 1980, 28 Jan. and 11 Feb. 1981
- [LIBRARY. Catalogues (A49)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/library-catalogues-a49/) - Catalogues printed or microfilmed. after 1882 - 1967. 1 Alphabetical and subject sequence (printed). after 1882. Henry Ling Roth's copy. Roth (1855-1925) was elected a Fellow in 1882 and later was Curator of the Bankfield Museum, Halifax1.1 Author, title and date list (A-C) and at end [2 pp.] list by title, author and date of
- [COOPERATIVE HOUSING SCHEMES (A50)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/cooperative-housing-schemes-a50/) - Since the mid-1850's various schemes have been initiated for the provision of shared accommodation for learned societies. On 27 May 1853 the Vice-President of the Ethnological Society, G.B. Greenough, FRS, reported that the Royal Society with other learned societies was trying to obtain accommodation in the proposed building, Burlington House, at public expense. Council resolved
- [CONFERENCE ON PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY (A52)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/conference-on-problems-and-prospects-of-european-archaeology-a52/) - Leaflet and report of the Conference held on 16-17 Sep. 1944 at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. 1 Programme of the Conference (annotated by M.C. Burkitt) 2 Report of Miles C. Burkitt, RAI delegate (autogr.); see Man, Jan./Feb. 1945, No. 10, p. 20 for publication of the report
- [AUTOGRAPH LETTERS (A53)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/autograph-letters-a53/) - Autograph letters removed from files or donated. 1857 -. 1 William R. Jolly to Henry Christy, Mexico, 2 Dec. 1857 - sends thanks for his hospitality; gives details of his return to Mexico and of local conditions (Photostat) Henry Christy (1810-65), author (with Edouard Lartet) of Reliquiae Aquitanicae, 18 Catalogue of a collection of ancient and
- [TRUGANINI (A55)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/truganini-a55/) - Correspondence with the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart on the disposal of Truganini's skeleton. 1954. In 1953, the Director of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery informed the RAI President of the move to remove Truganini's skeleton from the Museum and to scatter her remains in the sea. He wished to prevent this, feeling
- [IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ANTHROPOLOGY (A56)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/imperial-bureau-of-anthropology-a56/) - Memoranda on the establishment of a bureau of anthropology within the RAI. [1908-11]. The Executive Committee at its meeting of 14 Apr. 1908 was requested by Council to draft a memorial requesting an annual subsidy from the government and an office at the Imperial Institute to assist it to set up a bureau of anthropology
- [FRIENDS OF THE RAI. COMMITTEE FOR LIAISON WITH THE FRIENDS. COMMITTEE ON ANTHROPOLOGY IN INDUSTRY (A57)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/friends-of-the-rai-committee-for-liaison-with-the-friends-committee-on-anthropology-in-industry-a57/) - Correspondence, papers, and minutes. 1947-61. Council approved the formation of the Friends of the RAI on 4 Dec. 1951 (CM/81/3, Item 2d). The prime mover was Mr I.M. Sieff and its membership a group of industrialists. Its aim was to strengthen the RAI by attracting support from industry and to provide for development in the
- [DINING CLUB. SHERRY CLUB. GARDEN PARTY. STRAWBERRY TEAS (A60)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/dining-club-sherry-club-garden-party-strawberry-teas-a60/) - At its Council meeting on 15 Dec. 1863, the Anthropological Society resolved to constitute a Committee 'to arrange a Dinner of the Society' (see Council minutes, A3:1, f. 41). The dinner took place on 3 Jan. 1864 at its Anniversary Meeting (A8, Supplement 2/12) and appears to have been an annual event since subsequent dinners
- [SWANSCOMBE COMMITTEE (A61)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/swanscombe-committee-a61/) - Appointed by the Council of the RAI for the purposes of co¬operating with A.T. Marston in his investigation on the Swanscombe skull and on the site of its discovery; and publications of the results; 1936-64. The archive also contains papers relating to an excavation led by John d’Arcy Waechter, 1968-72. Members of the CommitteeM.A.C. Hinton
- [INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS (A64)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/international-congress-of-americanists-a64/) - Correspondence and papers. 1912-58. The International Congress of Americanists was held every two years, alternately in Europe and America. The first took place in Nancy, France in 1875; see Proceedings of the Congress for list of subsequent venues. The first Congress to be held in England took place in 1912; see also references in A18
- [GRAIG-LWYD EXCAVATION COMMITTEE, PENMAENMAWHR (A67)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/graig-lwyd-excavation-committee-penmaenmawhr-a67/) - Expenditure. 1920. This prehistoric site in North Wales was discovered by S. Hazzledine Warren in 1919. On 9 Dec. 1919 at a meeting of Council of which he was a member, Council decided to form the Graig-Lwyd Excavation Committee (Council minutes, 9 Dec. 1919, f. 394). In the Report of the Council, 1919, p. 5
- [HORNELL, James (A68)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/hornell-james-a68/) - The evolution of primitive boat-construction and correspondence on either reading or publishing it as the Huxley Lecture. 1948-9. James Hornell (JH) (1865-1949) received the Rivers Memorial Medal in 1944 and was elected Huxley Memorial Medallist and Lecturer for 1949. The Huxley Lecture was not delivered and Council considered it was not 'suitable for printing and
- [FAWCETT PAPERS (A69)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/fawcett-papers-a69/) - Human remains thought to be those of the explorer, col. P.H. Fawcett were brought from Brazil to the RAI for examination and report. The remains were examined by Prof. A.J.E. Cave, Miss M.L. Tildesley, and Dr J.C. Trevor who reported conclusively that they were not those of Col. Fawcett. Col. Fawcett disappeared in the Matto
- [MUSEUM COLLECTION (A70)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/museum-collection-a70/) - The RAI Museum Collection covers material received from 1851 to 1986 and attempts to account for all artifacts, paintings and portraits acquired and their present location. Some material was inherited from the Ethnological and Anthropological Societies in 1871 and it has acquired material throughout its history. However, Council minutes, 10 Feb. 1880, f. 354 records
- [CENSUS OF BRITISH ANTHROPOLOGISTS (A71)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/census-of-british-anthropologists-a71/) - Replies to a questionnaire circulated to Fellows asking for information on: (1) name; (2) address; (3) telephone number; (4) nationality; (5) date of birth; (6) occupation; (7) membership of other societies; (8) anthropological interests: (a) subjects, (b) areas; (9) theoretical training: (a) university or other institution, (b) details of degrees with dates, (c) other theoretical
- [RAI. Library (A72)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-library-a72/) - Accessions of books and pamphlet; 1891 - 1950. After 17 May 1950, the books and pamphlets were re-accessioned. The accessions were entered on 5 x 3 in, slips. 1/ 13 Jan. 1891 - 19 Apr. 1912 1 Accession number, author, title, size, number of volumes, pagination, name of donor, publisher, date, date of receipt, and shelf-mark recorded
- [WILLIAM OF GLOUCESTER, HRH Prince (A73)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/william-of-gloucester-hrh-prince-a73/) - Prince William, who died in a flying accident on 28 Aug. 1972, became RAI Patron early in that year. He launched the Centenary Appeal at the Martini-Rossi Terrace, New Zealand House, on 12 July. His African Collection was presented to the RAI by HRH The Duchess of Gloucester at the Conversazione held at the Museum
- [RAI. Library (A74)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-library-a74/) - Catalogue arranged by the classification schedules of the International catalogue of scientific literature, P: Anthropology. The first International Conference on the production of a complete index of current literature took place in 1896 on the initiative of the Royal Society. The delegates agreed on the desirability of such an index by means of an international
- [COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF BEADS (A75)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/committee-for-the-study-of-beads-a75/) - Minutes. 3 Mar. 1960 - 16 May 1961. Council set up the Committee on 4 Feb. 1960 (CM/89/4, f. 94) with W.B. Fagg as Convener. Three meetings were held on: 3 Mar. and 17 Nov. 1960, the former a preliminary one, and 16 May 1961. Following the resignation of Dr A.J. Arkell, Council agreed on
- [STANDING COMMITTEE (A76)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/standing-committee-a76/) - The Committee was one of three set up following the demise of the Executive Committee on 31 May 1961; the other two were the Library Committee and the Publications Committee (see Officers’ Meeting, 18 May 1961, A11:5, f. 79) Minutes incomplete 1/ Minutes and Committee papers, 1961-78, held as follows:Ref.no ref. until 28 July 1966, then:SC/66/1-
- [PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE (A77)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/publications-committee-a77/) - Minutes, correspondence and papers The committee was one of three set up following the demise of the Executive Committee on 31 May 1961; the other two were the Library Committee and the Standing Committee (see Officers’ Meeting, 18 May 1961, A11:5, f. 79) Minutes, 1961-70, are held as follows:Ref. Date of meetingnone 30 Nov. 1961
- [RAI. Extraordinary General Meeting, 24 June 1976 (A80)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-extraordinary-general-meeting-24-june-1976-a80/) - Meeting held on 24 June 1976 at the School of Oriental and African Studies to consider two resolutions: 1, transfer by Deed of Gift of the Library to the Trustees of the British Museum; 2, the transfer of the Library on trust ... for the benefit of the national and international community of man. See
- [COMMITTEE ON THE EXPORT OF WORKS OF ART ETC. (A81)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/committee-on-the-export-of-works-of-art-etc-a81/) - Correspondence and papers. 1951-3. The Committee was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Oct. 1950 ‘to consider and advise on the policy to be adopted by His Majesty’s Government in controlling the export of works of art, books, manuscripts, armour and antiques and to recommend what arrangements should be made for the practical
- [SELIGMAN CENTENARY SYMPOSIUM (A82)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/seligman-centenary-symposium-a82/) - Symposium organized by Prof. Meyer Fortes on the centenary of Prof. C.G. Seligman, FRS, FRCP (1873-1940), Prof. of Ethnology, University of London, RAI President, 1923-5 held on 28 June 1973 at the London School of Economics. See Report of Council, 1973, p. 2. See also Council minutes, A10, 31 May 1973, CM/73/4, Item 37; and
- [RAI. Library (A84)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-library-a84/) - Register of negatives, prints and slides. 1897. Following the suggestion of (Sir) John L. Myres (JLM), FBA, OBE (1869-1954), Later Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford; RAI President, 1928-31, founder and editor of Man, the Library Committee decided to form a loan collection of photograph, negatives, and lantern slides on 23 Nov. 1896.
- [EDUCATION COMMITTEE. Temporary only: minutes incomplete (A85)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/education-committee-temporary-only-minutes-incomplete-a85/) - Minutes, committee papers and some agendas, 1974-85, held as follows: REF. DATE OF MEETING 16 Dec. 1974 EC/75/1 2 June 1975 EC/75/2 28 Oct. 1975 EC/75/2 - Item 4: RAI Teaching Resources Project report EC/75/2 - Item 4: Draft of request for SSRC grant : Measurements of pupils' reaction to different styles of media
- [PERCY AMAURY TALBOT PRIZE FOR AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGY (A86)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/percy-amaury-talbot-prize-for-african-anthropology-a86/) - This Prize was instituted in honour of her husband in the Will of Mrs Amaury Talbot, and until 1996 was administered by her Trustees, Barclays’ Bank. Thereafter, the RAI took control of the administration. The Prize is offered for the best work published in a given year on African Anthropology, with preference being given to
- [INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN CHILDREN (A87)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/international-conference-on-african-children-a87/) - Correspondence and papers. 1929-31. The Conference (formerly entitled Congress on Children of Non-European Origin) was organized by Save the Children International Union and was held in Geneva from 21-5 June 1931. At, a meeting on 22 Nov. 1928 it was decided that the proposed conference should limit itself to: (1) Infant mortality; (2) Education in
- [ANCIENT MINING AND METALLURGY COMMITTEE (A89)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ancient-mining-and-metallurgy-committee-a89/) - Minutes, correspondence, and papers. 1947-71. The Committee (as the Early Mining and Metallurgy Group) held its first meeting on 8 May 1946 attended by C.E.N. Bromehead, H.H. Coghlan (Chairman), Prof. Desch, (Prof.) C.F.C. Hawkes, Dr Winifred Lamb (Secretary) and (Prof.) Stuart Piggott. Later in 1946 and in 1947 Miss Sylvia Benton (later Secretary), Adrian Digby,
- [METALLURGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE (A90)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/metallurgy-and-archaeology-conference-a90/) - Correspondence and papers. Feb.-Oct. 1963. The Conference was held under the auspices of the Ancient Mining and Metallurgy Committee (see A89) as an outcome of the failure of the VI International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Rome, 1962 to reach conclusions on ‘analysis and their correlation in respect of the non-ferrous ores and metals’
- [BLOOD GROUP COMMITTEE (A91)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/blood-group-committee-a91/) - Minutes, correspondence and papers. 1951-72. The RAI organised a special meeting on ‘Blood groups and anthropology’ on 17 Mar. 1951 which resulted in the formation of the Blood Group Committee. At its first meeting on 18 May 1951, the Committee with Dr Fraser Roberts in the Chair and Dr A.E. Mourant as Hon. Secretary, decided
- [CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL DES SCIENCES ANTHROPOLOGIQUES ET ETHNOLOGUES. 1938-60 (A92)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/congres-international-des-sciences-anthropologiques-et-ethnologues-1938-60-a92/) - The first meeting of the Congrès was held in London and Oxford in 1934 (see A62). There after the intention was to hold it every four years. Following the second meeting in 1938 the third, due in 1942 could not be held, was then to be held in 1947 in Prague but the invitation was
- [CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL DES SCIENCES ANTHROPOLOGIQUES ET ETNOLOGIQUES. Conseil Permanent (A93)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/congres-international-des-sciences-anthropologiques-et-etnologiques-conseil-permanent-a93/) - Papers. 1934-54. The Permanent Council governs the Congress and consists of not more than four members from each country assisted by one or two National Secretaries. On retirement from the Permanent Council, members are elevated to the Committee of Honour in order to maintain the tradition of the Congress and to give advice to succeeding
- [CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP (A97)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/corporate-membership-a97/) - Papers. 1948-50. The idea of Corporate Membership was first broached by the Ways and Means Committee on 25 July 1945 when it was recommended that the Articles of Association should be amended to permit the institution of a category of corporate members. At their meeting on 4 Sep. it was reported that Council requested a
- [MANKIND QUARTERLY (A98)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/mankind-quarterly-a98/) - Correspondence, papers, and newspaper articles relating to the writ for summons for damages for libel against the RAI, W.B. Fagg, Hon. Editor of Man, and Prof. Bozo Skerlj by R. Gayre, Editor, Prof. Henry E. Garrett, and Prof. R. Ruggles Gates, Associate Editors of the Mankind Quarterly. 1960-5; later correspondence and printed matter, 1972-95; correspondence,
- [CHRISTMAS CARDS (A99)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/christmas-cards-a99/) - The Hon. Editor of Man, W.B. Fagg, arranged for Christmas cards to be available to Fellows from 1953 to 1962; most of them were reproductions of plates that had already appeared in Man. The only reference to cards for 1954-5 is in a letter of 19 Sep. 1957 (see 99/3/10); there is no correspondence or
- [COMPANIES ACT, MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION, BY-LAWS, AND REGULATIONS OF THE RAI (A100)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/companies-act-memorandum-and-articles-of-association-by-laws-and-regulations-of-the-rai-a100/) - The (Royal) Anthropological Institute, established in 1871 by the amalgamation of the Ethnological Society and the Anthropological Society, issued its Regulations in the same year and was incorporated under the Companies Acts of 1862 to 1886 on 26 Mar. 1886. It operated under the subsequent Acts of 1908 and 1929 to which amendments were made
- [ASSOCIATION COPIES AND OTHER RELATED BOOKS (A101)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/association-copies-and-other-related-books-a101/) - Books associated with or belonging to distinguished scholars and presented to the RAI. 1 Man: a paper for ennobling the species; designed to be continued weekly. Nos. 1-53, 1 Jan. - 31 Dec. 1755. London, J. Haberkorn, printer; sold by J. Robinson and A. Linde, 1755. Presented by Sir John Myres, OBE, FBA, (1869-1954, President 1928-31)
- [EPHEMERA (A102)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ephemera-a102/) - Leaflets, posters, stationery and other ephemera. 1926 to date. 1/ Annual general meetings 1 24 items giving date, agenda, with balloting lists on verso (of some) 1938-71 (not consecutive); leaflet notice of Extraordinary General Meeting 1963; cards for Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting 1971; Report of Council 1956 (draft, tpc.); W.B. Fagg’s draft report (autogr.)
- [BURTON LIBRARY (A103)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/burton-library-a103/) - After Burton’s death Lady Burton destroyed his notebooks, manuscripts and papers but most of his working library remained (his second, the first being destroyed in a fire shortly after his marriage in 1861) as well as some manuscript material and these form the present collection which was received by the Kensington Vestry, the fore runner
- [RAI. Library (A104)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-library-a104/) - Visitors’ book. 28 Feb. 1950 - 21 Sep. 1976. The book records in the hand of the visitor the date of visit and name and address of the visitor. After the move from Bedford Square visitors from commercial organisations paid a modest fee. 1 28 Feb. 1950 - 26 Feb. 1971, 1 Oct. 1971 - 21
- [MANUSCRIPT AND HOUSE ARCHIVES COLLECTIONS (A105)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/manuscript-and-house-archives-collections-a105/) - This archive covers the donors of manuscripts from 1936-76 though the record of those received before 1954 is sketchy; records of permissions granted commence in 1963. It also covers permissions and queries associated with the RAI House Archives. In general, House Archives may not be consulted until 30 years have elapsed; some may be consulted
- [BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF THE TECHNIQUES OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY later BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF ANTHROPOMETRIC TECHNIQUES (A106)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-committee-for-the-standardization-of-the-techniques-of-physical-anthropology-later-british-committee-for-the-standardization-of-anthropometric-techniques-a106/) - Correspondence and papers. 1932-60. At its meeting in New York in Aug. 1932, the International Federation of Eugenics Organizations (IFEO) invited four anthropologists to form a standardization committee under IFEO with Prof. Th. Mollison, Prof. J. Czekanowski, and Miss M.L. Tildesley (MLT), (the fourth was unable to accept nomination), who became the nucleus of the
- [ANTHROPOMETRIC SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (A107)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropometric-survey-of-great-britain-a107/) - Correspondence. 1934-5. The ‘Report by Prof. H.J. Fleure and Dr G.M. Morant with reference to the proposed Anthropometric Survey of Great Britain’ outlines the aims of the survey and is followed by a draft of a letter to The Times (see Council minutes, 20 Nov. 1934, f. 252). The latter differs substantially from the letter
- [RAI. Officers’ Meetings (A108)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-officers-meetings-a108/) - Agendas, minutes and correspondence. 1945-61. This archive is very incomplete and contains odd agendas, minutes and a little correspondence. The outcome of discussions was not reported to Council as such though most of the subjects covered were discussed in Council. The last Officers’ Meeting was on 19 Sep. 1961 when it considered amendments to the
- [SCOTTISH ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND FOLKLORE SOCIETY (A109)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/scottish-anthropological-and-folklore-society-a109/) - Papers. 1934-7. The Scottish Anthropological Society was founded in 1934 (in 1936 it was named the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society) by a group of RAI Scottish Fellows with Prof. H.J. Rose as President, Robert Kerr of the Royal Scottish Museums as Hon. Secretary and G.R. Gair (later Robert Gayre of Gayre) as Hon. Editor.
- [COMMITTEE ON HONOURS AND AWARDS (A110)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/committee-on-honours-and-awards-a110/) - Papers. 1977-99. The Committee on Honours and Awards was a small committee of the President and some members of Council plus the Director which met normally before Council. It announced its recommendations to Council which formally approved them. Only two documents survive prior to 1983 (see 15/). Formerly it was called the Medal Committee. The
- [ABORIGINES’ PROTECTION SOCIETY (A111)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/aborigines-protection-society-a111/) - REEL 1: Annual reports 1838-1908; Annual reports 1839-1890 The annual reports for the following years are missing: 1838, 1841-6, 1868-70, 1883 1838 - missing 1839 The second annual report of the Aborigines Protection Society, 21 May 1839. Committee; honorary members. Second annual meeting of the APS, 21 May 1839, resolutions; report;. The Indians of Upper
- [Ethnological Society of London. Publications (A112)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ethnological-society-of-london-publications-a112/) - The Ethnological Society was founded in 1843. In 1871 it merged with the Anthropological Society of London to form the Anthropological Institute. Details of the publications of the Anthropological Society are given in A113 and those of the Anthropological Institute in A114. 1/1-6 Journal of the Ethnological Society of London. 6 Vols. 1848-70. Edited by Thomas
- [ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. PUBLICATIONS (A113)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/anthropological-society-of-london-publications-a113/) - The Anthropological Society was founded in 1863 and merged in 1871 with the Ethnological Society of London to form the Anthropological Institute. Details of the publications of the Ethnological Society are given in A112 and those of the Anthropological Institute in A114. 1/1-8 The Anthropological Review and Journal of the Anthropological Society of London. 8 Vols.
- [HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURES (A115)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/huxley-memorial-lectures-a115/) - In 1896 it was decided to commemorate Prof. Huxley with an annual lecture in his name. The lecturer was to be presented with a Medal, and the honour of being chosen to deliver the lecture was the highest the Institute could bestow. Negotiations were entered into with the Huxley Memorial Committee at the Royal College
- [RAI. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (A116)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-annual-general-meeting-a116/) - Minutes. 27 June 1968 -. The minutes of the Annual General Meeting were read at the following Annual General Meeting. This was called the Anniversary Meeting on 15 Jan. 1872 (to which the Report for 1871 was read) and 21 Jan. 1873; there after from 27 Jan. 1874 it was called the Annual General Meeting.
- [RADCLIFFE BROWN TRUST FUND FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH (A117)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/radcliffe-brown-trust-fund-for-social-anthropological-research-a117/) - The Radcliffe-Brown Fund is the responibility of the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) but the RAI provides the administration and is the Custodian Trustee. Resources come principally from the royalties from the ASA conference volumes, secondly there are dividends on the capital account. A third source is £1000 annually from the Sutasoma trust. The aim
- [MAN T SHIRTS (A118)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/man-t-shirts-a118/) - In Oct. 1981 the RAI issued Man T shirts which were ‘ideal unisex attire for the student or younger anthropologist, teenage kin and friends of anthropologists.’ They were priced at £2.99 or US$5.60 and in sizes large, medium and small; 117 remained in Sep. 1992 the last figures available. See Council minutes, 24 Sep. 1981,
- [BRITISH SOMALILAND ARCHAEOLOGY. ETHIOPIA COMMITTEE (A119)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-somaliland-archaeology-ethiopia-committee-a119/) - Correspondence and papers. 1946-54. The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg was interested in archaeology in British Somaliland in 1946 and had already 1500 specimens then; apart from two letters to Sir John Myres there are no further papers at the RAI. In 1950 the Emperor of Ethiopia was anxious for a learned society to explore
- [EXHIBITION COMMITTEE (A120)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/exhibition-committee-a120/) - Correspondence, papers and minutes. 1949, 1951. Following the successful exhibition, ‘Traditional art of the British Colonies’ in 1949, Council recommended that the exhibition should be followed by others, perhaps annually and submitted suggestions for 1950-2 (see Council minutes, 11 Oct. 1949, Item 11, f. 579; see also Report of the Council, 1948-9 for an exhibition
- [ARTHUR MAURICE HOCART MEMORIAL PRIZE (A121)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/arthur-maurice-hocart-memorial-prize-a121/) - Correspondence and papers 1948 to 1963 Mrs Hocart left the RAI a bequest in her will with which to establish a prize in memory of her husband. It was designed to be awarded for the best undergraduate essay in anthropology, and was originally given in anthropological books every three years. A cash prize was later
- [RAI LOCAL BRANCHES (A122)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-local-branches-a122/) - Correspondence and papers. 1922. Local branches were set up in June 1923 but only one branch was established, the Local Branch for Edinburgh and the Lothians. The Executive Committee recommended the payment of a per capita subsidy for the 14 members of the Edinburgh and Lothian Branch. This branch was dissolved in 1933 and their
- [RAI. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE FOR THE JRAI (A123)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/rai-editorial-committee-for-the-jrai-a123/) - Correspondence. 1937-51. Though there is no record of the setting up of the Editorial Committee in Council minutes or the Report of Council, the first meeting appears to have been on 23 Feb. 1892 (see Editorial Committee attendance book, 23 Feb. 1892-1 May 1900, A13:3/3). Editorial Committee minutes, 3 Mar. 1898-1 May 1900 are recorded
- [PRESIDENCY COMMITTEE (A124)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/presidency-committee-a124/) - Correspondence and papers. 1943-63, 1975. The Presidency Committee consisted of the Officers, past Presidents and senior members of Council, usually two. It met every two years and reported to Council its recommendations on the President and elected Vice-Presidents; no minutes were kept. All retiring Presidents became permanent Vice-Presidents. One of the three elected Vice-Presidents retired
- [COMMITTEE FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF RUDE STONE MONUMENTS AND ALLIED STRUCTURES (A125)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/committee-for-the-classification-and-distribution-of-rude-stone-monuments-and-allied-structures-a125/) - Minutes and papers. 1919-20. This Committee, also known as the Megalithic Committee, was one of the two Research Committees set up by Council in 1919; the other was the Graig-Lwyd Committee (see A67; and the Report of the Council, 1919). The Committee was also referred to in the Report of the Council, 1920 and there
- [FLUORINE RESEARCH (A126)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/fluorine-research-a126/) - Correspondence. 1946. Dr G.M. Morant proposed investigating the fluorine content of bone with a view to determining the antiquity of human fossils. He suggested the appointment of a small committee and W.B. Fagg suggested that this should be one of the Research Committees. Nothing appears to have come of the proposal and there are no
- [HENRY MYERS LECTURE ON THE PLACE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (A127)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/henry-myers-lecture-on-the-place-of-religious-belief-in-human-development-a127/) - Correspondence and papers. 1944-1972. This biennial lecture was made possible by the desire of Henry Myers to establish a forum for the discussion of man’s spiritual evolution. A Fellow since 1909, Henry Myers bequeathed a sum of money for this purpose but only lived to hear the first lecture, delivered by Prof. Radcliffe-Brown in 1945.
- [ART PANEL (A128)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/art-panel-a128/) - Papers. 1968-77. The Art Panel was formed in 1968 by J.B. Donne, Anthony Forge and P.J. Ucko (see Council minutes, 6 June 1968, Minute 53, f. 96). J.B. Donne was the Secretary throughout except for 1972 when he was out of the country; Howard Morphy was Secretary during this period (see Council minutes, 4 May
- [BRITISH COUNCIL (A129)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/british-council-a129/) - Correspondence. 1940-3. Book Lists were sponsored by the British Council and distributed by the National Book Council. Book List 185: Anthropology was drawn up by a RAI Committee and published in Apr. 1943 at 3 pence. See Executive Committee minutes, 4 June 1940, f. 210 and Council minutes, 11 June 1940, f. 374 Abbreviations NBC National
- [PAPERS ON RACE AND RACE RELATIONS (A130)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/papers-on-race-and-race-relations-a130/) - Contents /1 RAI Committee on Race and Racialism 1943-44 /2 Miscellaneous documents /3 The Racial Relations Group (Institute of Sociology) /4 Race and Race Relations Symposium /5 Further Correspondence with the Institute of Race Relations /6 Correspondence relating to Julia Pastrana /7 UNESCO Statement on Race, 1950, and RAI response A130/1 RAI Committee on Race and Racialism 1943-44An exploratory Committee
- [COMMITTEE FOR COLLECTION OF DATA ON ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ALLIED TRAINING (CCDAT) (A131)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/committee-for-collection-of-data-on-anthropological-and-allied-training-ccdat-a131/) - Correspondence, minutes and papers. 1940. This Committee appears to have been the colonial section of the Applied Anthropological Committee. Dr Margaret H. Read was the Secretary of the Committee and Dr Lucy P. Mair the Secretary of the Applied Anthropology Committee itself. There is no mention of the Committee for Collection of Data on Anthropological
- [ARTIST IN TRIBAL SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM, THE (A133)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/artist-in-tribal-society-symposium-the-a133/) - Correspondence, papers, agendas and minutes. 1957, 1960-1. The Symposium took place from 16-17 Oct. 1957 in the Rooms of the Institute; the members of the Committee were W.B. Fagg, Prof. R.W. Firth, C.P. Mountford, Mrs Webster Plass, Sir Herbert Read, and Dr Marian W. Smith. The Proceedings of the Symposium were published on 24 Nov.
- [MAN AND CATTLE: A SYMPOSIUM ON DOMESTICATION (A134)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/man-and-cattle-a-symposium-on-domestication-a134/) - Invitations, papers and publication. 1960, 1961-3. The Symposium took place from 24-6 May 1960. The members of the Committee were Dr A.E. Mourant, Dr Marian W. Smith and Prof. F.E. Zeuner. It was published as Occasional Paper, No. 18 in June 1963. See Council minutes, 7 Apr. 1960, Item 5e, f. 100 and 2 June
- [RUGGLES-GATES FUND FOR BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (A137)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/ruggles-gates-fund-for-biological-anthropology-a137/) - Abbreviations AHC Anthony H. Christie JB Jonathan Benthall LRG Mrs Laura Ruggles Gates Mar. Mrs Margaret Carey Contents 1/ Transfer of the original fund from the Royal Society 2/ Correspondence with Mrs Laura Ruggles Gates 3/ Specifications of the Fund 4/ Applicants 1/ Transfer of the original fund from the Royal Society 1963 1 N. Le Grand, Royal Society to AHC, 4 June 1963 -
- [Annual Report 2000](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2000/) - PDF Photo Caption: Papua New Guinea. Photograph by F.W. Barton, c. 1904. (RAI 20248).
- [Annual Report 2001](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2001/) - PDF Photo Caption: Unionyen sets out for palace with gifts from ‘Ife’ (Festival). Benin, 1958. Photograph by W.B. Fagg, (WBF 58/73/12). © Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
- [Annual Report 2002](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2002/) - PDF Photo Caption: Dances, Bargesh 1949-50. Photograph by W. B. Fagg, (WBF 49-50/1/10) © Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
- [Annual Report 2003](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2003/) - PDF Photo Caption: A fisherman loading the boats with nets. Thrivumbadi Beach, Kerala, India, Oct. 2003. © Photograph by Miranda McMinn, RAI Student Associate.
- [Annual Report 2004](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2004/) - PDF Photo Caption: The photographs in this edition of the Annual Report are taken from the Bethlehem, Marseille, Chania, Nicosia (north) and Nicosia (south) sites of the MED-VOICES project web site (www.med-voices.org) to be publicly launched in the autumn of 2005. The RAI is associated with MED-VOICES, which is part-funded by the EC as a
- [Annual Report 2005](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2005/) - PDF Photo Caption: At a meeting in Tokyo, April 2005, the RAI representatives and the Japanese partners reached an agreement to form the Munro Project Consortium. Standing from right: Yurika Wakamatsu (Project Coordinator, National Museum of Japanese History), Sarah Walpole (Archivist, The Royal Anthropological Institute), Arkadiusz Bentkowski (Photo Curator, The Royal Anthropological Institute), Okada Kazuo
- [RAI Biological Anthropology Small Grant Scheme Letter to Applicants](https://therai.org.uk/awards/awards-forms/rai-biological-anthropology-small-grant-scheme-letter-to-applicants/) - THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 50 Fitzroy Street London W1T 5BT United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)20 7387 0455 Fax +44 (0)20 7388 8817 Dear, RAI BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY SMALL GRANT SCHEME Thank you for applying to the above fund; we look forward to receiving your application. It will be in your interests
- [RAI Biological Anthropology Small Grant Scheme Notes to Applicants](https://therai.org.uk/awards/awards-forms/rai-biological-anthropology-small-grant-scheme-notes-to-applicants/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute administers a fund which provides grants for research in biological anthropology. Preference will be given to those applications which lie within human population biology, human genetics, human ethology and palaeoanthropology. Eligibility There are no restrictions on age, sex, religion, ethnic origin or nationality. Grants will not be made for undergraduate fieldwork
- [RAI Biological Anthropology Small Grant Scheme Referee Form](https://therai.org.uk/awards/awards-forms/rai-biological-anthropology-small-grant-scheme-referee-form/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 50 Fitzroy Street London W1T 5BT United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)20 7387 0455 Fax +44 (0)20 7388 8817 RAI Biological Anthropology Small Grant Scheme REFEREE FORM Thank you for agreeing to act as a referee for this application to the RAI Biological Anthropology Small Grnat Scheme. The
- [Gambia (MS 199)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0199-gambia-ms-199/) - ‘Native law & customs’ transmits reports on, [by Travelling Commissioners; forwarded by] His Excellency Sir George C. Derton, KCMG, Governor to the Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies, London, No. 61 [70] 27th April 1908, [2 May 1908] 5 pts. 13 phots. (in pocket). 32.5 x 19 cm Typescript Contents : /1
- [Annual Report 2008](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2008/) - PDF Cover caption: Informal beerdrinking; the two central figures, husband and wife, entertain guests. Photograph by I. Schapera, (RAI4040). © Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
- [DABA - Na shaman](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/daba-na-shaman/) - A Study Guide by CAI HUA Translation into English from the French by Clare Perkins Cléret Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT September 1999, © RAI 1999 This is a Study Guide by Cai Hua to his film Daba - Na shaman (colour, 40 minutes, 1999), which is available on DVD and VHS
- [Daba](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/daba/) - The religious life of the Na is guided by two types of coexistent beliefs: their own religion, whose priests are called daba, and Tibetan buddhism. The majority of daba are men; before the l940s, there were a few women daba. In general, they work on the land. They proceed individually with their rituals, without any
- [Two Rites](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/two-rites/) - In July l997, I returned to Na country to study their own religion. I chose to stay in the Dafa4 household, whom I had met ten years earlier. Daba - Na shaman, was filmed mainly during this stay. Here is the description of the two rituals presented in the film. Nati diji This rite is
- [Footnotes](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/footnotes/) - 1 Thanks to the support of the Urgent Anthropology programme organized by Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the Royal Anthropological Institute I was able to produce this video film DABA and the accompanying study guide concerning Na shamanism. The principal funding agency was the Anthropologists' Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research (Founding Sponsor: George N.
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- [Brewster, Adolphe (MS 25a)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0025a-brewster-adolphe-ms-25a/) - Genealogies and histories of Mantanitu: or, tribal governments of central Viti Levu, Great Fiji [original native documents] [120] pp. 33 cm and insertion 36 pp. 22.5 cm Holographs Contents: /1 Noemalu: account of the election of the first Vunivalu of Noemalu /2 Noikoro: original notes by Jimi Tiraulevu, district scribe of Noemalu, 27 Nov. 1892 /3 Vunaqumu: original
- [Peters, Emrys Lloyd and Stella M. Peters (MS 447)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/peters-emrys-lloyd-and-stella-m-peters-ms-447/) - Photographs of Cyrenaica, Bedouin in black and white. 3 albums of photographs and loose photographs. Various sizes Most of the photographs are unlabelled so they have been described. Where written identification exists, it is noted by quotation marks. Some photographs are numbered; these numbers have been noted. See also negatives at MS 448/15 Presented by
- [Peters, Emrys Lloyd and Stella M. Peters (MS 448)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/peters-emrys-lloyd-and-stella-m-peters-ms-448/) - Photographs of J’baa village, Lebanon, and Egypt, Syria and Israel. Loose black and white photographs, and negatives in 23 envelopes. Various sizes. Some photographs are marked with numbers which have been noted. Presented by Brian Peter, August 2006. /1 Lebanon: general views, ecology [some of which may be J’baa village]. 42 photographs. Various sizes. 1 envelope
- [12 Oct. 1932-12 May 1938 (A25/3)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/archive-contents/12-oct-1932-12-may-1938-a253/) - 12 Oct. 1932-12 May 1938 1 Amer, M. The excavations of the Egyptian University in the prehistoric site at Maadi near Cairo; published 1936; correspondence attached: G. Caton Thompson 12 Oct. 1932 .1 RAI to author, 8 Dec. 1932 (tpc.) .2 author to RAI, 18 Dec. (autogr.) .3 RAI to author,
- [Longmore, Laura (MS 446)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/longmore-laura-ms-446/) - LONGMORE, Laura 1916-98 Essays, literary works, and biographical papers. Books, papers and photographs. Various sizes. Handwritten, printed and typewritten. Cataloguer’s note: a large collection of newspaper cuttings on general topics has been discarded as all are available published material. See also collection in Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library. Presented by Dr L. Longmore,
- [Dennis, Reginald Burton (MS 449)](https://therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/dennis-reginald-burton-ms-449/) - DENNIS, Reginald Burton 1900-1951 Biographical diaries and papers, scientific communications, technical papers, general anthropological papers and Burmese culture. Various papers. Various sizes. Handwritten, printed and typewritten. 5 folders of the employment records of R.B. Dennis, 1928-47, have been presented to the India Office Records, British Library, together with technical data and papers related to his
- [New Directions for Urgent Anthropological Research](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/new-directions-for-urgent-anthropological-research/) - New Directions for Urgent Anthropology Research September 24-26, 2010Woolf College, Seminar 6, University of Kent, Canterbury A seminar reviewing 15 years of research fellowships of the Anthropologists’ Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research. The seminar was funded by a Conference Grant from the British Academy, The RAI and the School of Anthropology and Conservation at University
- [Short Research Ethics Bibliography](https://therai.org.uk/about/governance/short-research-ethics-bibliography/) - Akeroyd, A.V. 1984. Ethics in relation to informants, the profession and governments. In: Ellen, R. F. (Ed.) Ethnographic research: a guide to general conduct, pp. 133-154. London: Academic Press. Benedict, K. 1988. Archival ethics. In Managing archives and archival institutions, J. G. Bradsher (Ed.) London: Mansell Publishing. Aagaard-Hansen, J. and M. V. Johansen 2008. Research
- [Manuscripts and Archives - Policies and Guidelines](https://therai.org.uk/about/governance/archives-guidelines/) - Introduction 1. The Royal Anthropological Institute (hereafter 'the Institute') houses a collection of manuscripts and archives relating to the history of the Institute, and as a result of acquisition or donation by others of papers of professional anthropologists and of those writing about anthropological subjects. 2. In this document, ‘archives’ refers to the papers relating
- [Photo Guidelines](https://therai.org.uk/about/governance/photo-guidelines/) - The RAI Photo Library adheres to the following guidelines which are issued to users, and which help define policy: 1. The RAI exists to foster cross-cultural understanding and the appreciation of anthropological insight. 2. The RAI Photo Collection operates within this general rubric. 3. The Photo Collection exists to support researchers and other users in
- [Dr Roxanne P Hakim](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-roxanne-p-hakim/) - Dr. Roxanne P. Hakim (World Bank, Washington D.C.) 'The resettlement experiences of a Vasava Bhil community affected by the Sardar Saroval (Narmada) Dam Project in western India' (1995) The Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river in India has a reservoir that covers three states of India (Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh). The reservoir submerged
- [Dr Stuart Kirsch](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-stuart-kirsch/) - Dr. Stuart Kirsch (University of Michigan) 'Resisting the Mine: the Yonggom and the World System' (1996) My project “Resisting the Mine” enabled me to continue working with the Yonggom and their neighbors on their campaign against the environmental impacts of the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea. In 1996, I collaborated
- [Dr Bartholomew Dean](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-bartholomew-dean/) - Dr. Bartholomew Dean (U. Kansas) Violence & Cultural Autonomy among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia (1998) This ethnographic project was devoted to understanding how post-colonial regimes in Amazonia have mobilized violence, fear and terror to effectively produce authoritarian domination. This involved the systematic collection and analysis of oral histories recounting violence among the indigenous (Urarina)
- [Dr Cai Hua](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-cai-hua/) - Dr. Cai Hua (China) ‘Daba/Na Shaman ‘ Video on the revival of religion among the southwest China (1998) This project documented the shamanic knowledge among the few remaining shaman of the Na, an ethnic minority group in the Yunnan Province, PRC, rapidly facing assimilation. 1999 DABA - Na shaman: A Study Guide. (Guide to film).
- [Professor Veronica Strang](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/professor-veronica-strang/) - Professor Veronica Strang (U. Auckland) Negotiating Under Siege: defending Aboriginality in Far North Queensland (1999) The Aboriginal community of Kowanyama, in Cape York, is involved in a continual process of renegotiating its relationships with a range of other groups, all of whom promote non-indigenous economic practices, conceptual frameworks, beliefs and values. This research focused on
- [Dr Christopher Duncan](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-christopher-duncan/) - Dr. Christopher Duncan (Arizona State Univ.) 'The Impact of communal violence on the Tobelo, of Halmahera, Indonesia' (2000) I originally intended to use this Urgent Anthropology Fellowship to document the indigenous ritual practices and cosmological beliefs of the Forest Tobelo, a group of forest-dwelling foragers on the eastern Indonesian Island of Halmahera. Unfortunately, prior to
- [Annual Report 2009](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2009/) - PDF Cover caption: The images in this edition of the annual report have been selected from the 11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film held in Leeds, 1-4 July 2009; the 2009 London Anthropology Day; and the 2009 ESRC Festival of Social Science; as well as various events organised by the Educational Outreach programme of
- [Professor Alan MacFarlane & Dr Mark Turin](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/professor-alan-macfarlane-a-dr-mark-turin/) - Professor Alan MacFarlane & Dr Mark Turin (Cambridge U.) 'Digital processing of anthropological information'. (2000) They have produced a website, Digital Himalaya. Shneiderman, Sara, Mark Turin and the Digital Himalaya Project Team n.d. Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research Vol. 20-21. In Press. n.d. Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive
- [Dr Noriko Sato](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-noriko-sato/) - Dr. Noriko Sato (Pukyong U, South Korea) 'Syrian Orthodox Christians' (2001) The contemporary Syrian Orthodox Christians in Syria seek to reconstruct their political and social identities within the broader perspective of nationalism, religion, language, and ethnicities in order to secure their political rights. As religious multiculturalism is considered to be a fundamental part of Syrian
- [Dr Ananda Rajah](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-ananda-rajah/) - Dr Ananda Rajah (National University of Singapore) 'Karen refugees in Thailand' (2002) Karen refugees began arriving in Thailand in 1984 in relatively small numbers as a consequence of the ethnic conflict in Burma. The collapse of Manerplaw, the General Headquarters of the Karen National Union (KNU) and Karen National Army (KNLA), in 1994 however resulted
- [Dr Rogaia Abusharaf](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-rogaia-abusharaf/) - Dr Rogaia Abusharaf (Qatar U.) The impact of Arabization and Islamization on identity and self-hood among the Southern Sudan's indigenous peoples (2003) Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. My project examined the lives of women who have forged a new community in a
- [Dr Emma Gilberthorpe](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-emma-gilberthorpe/) - Dr Emma Gilberthorpe (Durham) 'Living with Oil: the impact of resource development in Papau New Guinea' (2004) The Urgent Anthropology Fellowship gave me the opportunity to continue my work in two regions of Papua New Guinea affected by large-scale resource extraction projects. I worked closely with friends and contacts in both the Waro Valley, where
- [Dr Tatiana Bulgakova](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-tatiana-bulgakova/) - Dr Tatiana Bulgakova (Russia) 'Bringing traditional Nanay knowledge from the archive to the school' (2005) In the context of recent rapid cultural change, unique linguistic and cultural inheritance of the Nanay (Tungus-Manchurian people, who live in Far East of Russia) is endangered. The majority of field materials are mostly kept in private archives. These have
- [Dr Mark Jamieson](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-mark-jamieson/) - Dr Mark Jamieson (Durham) 'Language and identity among the Sumu people of the Rio Siquia, eastern Nicaragua' (2005) I conducted fieldwork principally amongst the Ulwa (Southern Sumu) of Karawala on lower Rio Grande, as well as among the Sumu of the Rio Escondido basin and the Miskitu of the Pearl Lagoon area, in eastern Nicaragua.
- [Dr Thanuja Mummidi](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-thanuja-mummidi/) - Dr Thanuja Mummidi (Pondicherry) 'The Konda Reddis: perspectives on their social organisation and shifting cultivation overlooked by developmental intervention' (2006) The project focused on understanding the linkage between the Konda Reddi social organization and their system of shifting cultivation. Exploring this linkage furthered understanding of the people’s perception of their environment and how they engaged
- [Dr Dario Novellino](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-dario-novellino/) - Dr Dario Novellino (CBCD, Italy) ‘Enabling the “indigenous voice”: beyond technocratic solutions to forest conservation on Palawan Island (the Philippines)’ (2007) The project intended to empower indigenous communities on Palawan Island (the Philippines) and equip them with tools: (a) for recording their ‘ecological knowledge’ as well as the threats posed to this by large-scale corporations;
- [Dr Thomas Thornton](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-thomas-thornton/) - Dr Thomas Thornton (ECI, Oxford) 'The effects of rapid climate change on indigenous Northern coastal peoples, with particular reference to marine food resources and indigenous knowledge' (2008) This project is on Far North coastal indigenous communities and fish and wildlife resources. I am particularly concerned with the effects of rapid climate change on marine resources
- [Dr Rahile Dawut](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-rahile-dawut/) - Dr Rahile Dawut (University of Xinjiang) Ugyur Pilgrimage Rites in Xinjiang (2008) We have visited a number of different parts of Xinjiang to collect audio and video materials and to interview performers that accompany Ugyur pilgrimages to shrines in Western China. We have made great progress in archiving, editing, transcribing, transliterating these materials. Two films
- [Dr Simron Singh](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/dr-simron-singh/) - Dr Simron Singh (ISE, Vienna) 'Anthropological and ethnological research and documentation among the inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands, India' (2009-10) This project deals with the Nicobar Islands where I have worked since 1999. In December 2004 the islands were devastated by the tsunami that wiped out all material artifacts and the local economy. The fellowship
- [Annual Report 2010](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2010/) - PDF Cover caption: The 2010 RAI contribution to the ESRC Festival of Social Science was called The Meaning of Water. The daylong event focused on the connections between water, conservation and community held on the HMS President, a boat on the river Thames. Hilary Callan, the director of the RAI from 2000 till October 2010
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Konstantina Isidoros](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-konstantina-isidoros/) - Award Holder: Konstantina IsidorosUniversity: University of OxfordTitle of Research: Social transformation among Sahrawi desert nomads My research examines social transformation among the Sahrawi nomads of the hassaniya linguistic group in the western Sahara desert. The purpose of my fieldwork has been to live among Sahrawi desert nomads and learn how they adapt to a diverse
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Nikolas Gestrich](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-nikolas-gestrich/) - Award Holder: Nikolas GestrichUniversity: Institute of Archaeology, University College LondonTitle of Research: Tongo Maare Diabal: the material culture and built space of a complex, multi-ethnic community in the Gourma (Mali; AD 400-1100). This is the report of a season of archaeological excavation and survey near the town of Douentza, Mali, in the north of the
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Michael Berthin](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-michael-berthin/) - Award Holder: Michael BerthinUniversity: London School of EconomicsTitle of Research: An ethnographic examination of social robotics in Japan This project involves both social robots in Japan and the daily life of disabled people at an independent living center. Social robots have recently become a hot topic in Japan because of a perceived demographic crisis caused
- [Emslie Horniman Award - James Blinkhorn](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-james-blinkhorn/) - Award Holder: James BlinkhornUniversity: University of OxfordTitle of Research: Gateway of India: Investigating the Late Pleistocene occupation of the Thar Desert, west India My fieldwork has involved undertaking the first Palaeolithic excavations in Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India, for thirty years, accompanied by a suite of surface surveys, that offers the highest quality dataset in
- [Ruggles-Gates Award - Adriano Reis e Lameira](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/ruggles-gates-award-adriano-reis-e-lameira/) - Award Holder: Adriano Reis e Lameira University: Utrecht UniversityTitle of Research: Variations in the Call Repertoire of Wild Orangutans The evolutionary puzzle of human language has fascinated scientists for centuries. Where variation between languages, dialects, accents, is an important part of human culture, there is little information on the variation between populations in the acoustic
- [Ruggles-Gates Award - Matthew A. Gasperetti](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/ruggles-gates-award-matthew-a-gasperetti/) - Award Holder: Matthew A. GasperettiUniversity: University of CambridgeTitle of Research: The Foundations of Agriculture: A Biocultural Study of Diet, Health, and Behaviour in the Prehistoric Southern Levant My research examines changes in skeletal biology and behaviour across the transition from hunting-and-gathering to sedentary agriculture and urbanism in the prehistoric southern Levant. Plant and animal domestication
- [Ruggles-Gates Award - Lesley Gregoricka](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/ruggles-gates-award-lesley-gregoricka/) - Award Holder: Lesley GregorickaUniversity: The Ohio State UniversityTitle of Research: An Isotopic Investigation of Mobility, Exchange, and Tomb Membership in Bronze Age Arabia My research examines the development of Bronze Age interregional exchange networks and the resultant impact of these dynamic economic relationships on human mobility, tomb membership, and diet in the United Arab Emirates.
- [Emslie Horniman Award - Bryn James](https://therai.org.uk/awards/past-awards/emslie-horniman-award-bryn-james/) - Award Holder: Bryn Trevelyan JamesUniversity: University of ManchesterTitle of Research: ‘The Healer’s Tools – A Study of Material Assemblages amongst Traditional Practitioners in Ghana and their Archaeological Implications Figure 1. Chief Adamu prepares his tools and herbs in preparation for cooking medicine. This report concerns two seasons of ethnographic engagement with indigenous medicine practitioners living
- [Ugo D'Ambrosio](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/ugo-dambrosio/) - Ngäbe explanations of agroculinary transitions in southern Conte-Burica, Costa Rica Ugo D'Ambrosio (PhD Candidate, University of Kent) In Costa Rica, the manifold effects of multimillionaire conservation and development programs such as payments for environmental services and public schooling, have been chiefly analysed in socioeconomic terms, or in the majority of cases merely overlooked. This is
- [Michael Costello](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/michael-costello/) - Law as adjunct to Custom in Abkhazia Michael Costello (PhD Candidate, University of Kent) Field work among the Abkhaz of the Caucasus raises questions about a number of current paradigms regarding relationships of Law to Custom, post-Sovietics and ‘modernisation’ as the Pagan (self-description) Abkhaz seek to situate changed social relations within their apsuara customary rules.
- [Farhana Hoque](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/farhana-hoque/) - The Journey of Cultural Identity in the Chittagong Hill Tracts: a Transgenerational Approach Farhana Hoque (University College London) This research will explore processes behind identity formation among 1 to 2 Burmese-origin hill tribes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), a region of Bangladesh which is home to approximately 15 tribes. The groups in the CHT
- [Rachel Scicluna](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/rachel-scicluna/) - The Kitchen is ‘good to think with’: power, resistance and uncertainty Rachel Scicluna (PhD Candidate, The Open University) This paper considers one aspect of my thesis which is largely looking at the meaning of the domestic kitchen in the lives of older lesbians residing in London. The subjects in this study group were of several
- [Lucia Rubinelli](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/lucia-rubinelli/) - Law and Politics: a tale from Iceland. How a constituent moment turned out to be a simple constitutional revision. Lucia Rubinelli One of the most interesting aspects of the everlasting quest to define the nature of constituent power rests on the analysis of its relation with the political and the legal sphere. Treated either as
- [Jenna Murray de Lopez](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/jenna-murray-de-lopez/) - Conflict and Reproductive Health in Chiapas, Mexico: Disappearing the Midwife Jenna Murray de López (Phd Candidate, University of Manchester) This paper draws upon fieldwork carried out in urban locations of Chiapas two periods 2007-2009 and a following 3 months in 2011. The original aim of this fieldwork was to investigate types of antenatal care available
- [Hannah Parathian](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/hannah-parathian/) - Being Tikuna in a Contemporary World: An ethnoecological account of human- wildlife interactions in the Colombian Amazon Hannah Parathian (Oxford Brookes University) Individual and societal worldviews are the result of a set of historical and political experiences combined with the social, economic and cultural realities of the local situation [Ellen 1993]. The land in which
- [Daniel A. Mullins](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/daniel-a-mullins/) - Literacy and Large Group Living Daniel A. Mullins (DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford) Literacy emerged and spread primarily in large, complex societies. Why? Did writing and recordkeeping systems facilitate the emergence of significant increases in polity size and social complexity or the other way around? Or is some third as yet unidentified factor responsible for
- [Rebecca Lynch](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/rebecca-lynch/) - Cosmologies of Uncertainty: Spirits, Sickness and Agency in a Trinidadian Village Rebecca Lynch (PhD Candidate, University College London) This paper is based on fieldwork conducted in Trinidad as part of my PhD. The PhD focuses on local understandings of illness to investigate wider notions of misfortune, cosmological worldview, and self and agency in a Trinidadian
- [Malcolm Franklin](https://therai.org.uk/conferences/rai-student-conference/malcolm-franklin/) - Concepts of displacement and home: seeking asylum and belonging amongst the host community of Belfast, Northern Ireland Malcolm Franklin BA Hons MA This paper explored some of the ways in which refugees and asylum-seekers in Belfast negotiate the daily realities and experiential challenges of their displacement. Refugees and asylum-seekers have been displaced from their original
- [Annual Report 2011](https://therai.org.uk/about/annual-report/annual-report-2011/) - PDF The 2011 Annual Report of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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## Venues

- [King's College London](https://therai.org.uk/venue/king-s-college-london/) - The River Room, 2nd Floor
- [London School of Economics & Political Science](https://therai.org.uk/venue/london-school-of-economics/) - Welcome to the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a world-leading university, specialising in social sciences. LSE was awarded University of the Year 2025 and ranked top in the UK for 2025 and 2026 by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide. Based in the heart of London, we are a global
- [Senate House](https://therai.org.uk/venue/senate-house/) - Senate House is the administrative centre of the University of London, situated in the heart of Bloomsbury, London, immediately to the north of the British Museum. The Art Deco building was constructed between 1932 and 1937 as the first phase of a large uncompleted scheme designed for the university by Charles Holden. It consists of 19 floors and is 210 feet (64 m)
- [Watershed Cinema](https://therai.org.uk/venue/watershed-cinema/)
- [Online](https://therai.org.uk/venue/online/)
- [University College London](https://therai.org.uk/venue/university-college-london/)
- [St Anne's College, University of Oxford](https://therai.org.uk/venue/st-anne-s-college-university-of-oxford/)
- [Jesus College, University of Cambridge](https://therai.org.uk/venue/jesus-college/)
- [Bertha DocHouse](https://therai.org.uk/venue/bertha-dochouse/)
- [Watershed](https://therai.org.uk/venue/watershed/)
- [Durham University](https://therai.org.uk/venue/durham-university/)
- [Wellcome Trust](https://therai.org.uk/venue/wellcome-trust/)
- [Brunel University](https://therai.org.uk/venue/brunel-university/)
- [Horniman Museum](https://therai.org.uk/venue/horniman-museum/) - The Horniman is a five to ten minute walk from Forest Hill station and is signposted from the platform 1 exit. Please be aware this walk is uphill, although there are several bus services which stop at both the station and museum. Maps of the museum spaces are available here http://www.horniman.ac.uk/visit/floorplan.
- [SOAS](https://therai.org.uk/venue/soas/) - SOAS, Russell Square, London (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/)
- [Royal Anthropological Institute](https://therai.org.uk/venue/royal-anthropological-institute/) - The RAI office is just around the corner from Warren Street, NORTH of Fitzroy Square. It is next door to French's Theatre Bookshop.
- [Anthropology Library, British Museum](https://therai.org.uk/venue/anthropology-library-british-museum/) - The Anthropology Library and Research Centre is located inside the British Museum opposite the Islamic galleries. The closest entrance is on Montague Place.
- [The British Museum's Clore Centre](https://therai.org.uk/venue/the-british-museum-s-clore-centre/) - The Clore Education Centre is housed in the lower level of the Great Court in the British Museum. Quicker access from the main entrance on Great Russell Street.
- [London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine](https://therai.org.uk/venue/)
- [John Snow Lecture Theatre](https://therai.org.uk/venue/)

## Organizers

- [The Folklore Society](https://therai.org.uk/organizer/the-folklore-society/)
- [The British Museum Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas](https://therai.org.uk/organizer/the-british-museum/)
- [University of Edinburgh](https://therai.org.uk/organizer/university-of-edinburgh/)
- [University of Durham](https://therai.org.uk/organizer/university-of-durham/)
- [Royal Anthropological Institute](https://therai.org.uk/organizer/royal-anthropological-institute/)
- [Maison des Sciences de l’Homme–Université Clermont Auvergne](https://therai.org.uk/organizer/maison-des-sciences-de-lhomme-universite-clermont-auvergne/)

## Events

- [Henry Myers Lecture 2026: Professor Aparecida Vilaca](https://therai.org.uk/events/myers-lecture-2026/) - The Myers Lecture has been organised with the kind support of the King's Brazil Institute. ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE MYERS LECTURE The 2026 Myers Lecture will be given by Professor Aparecida Vilaca, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Wednesday 30 September 2025, 6.00-7.15 pm BST Location: Kings College London, Rooms To Be Advised In-Person
- [RAI AGM 2026 Followed by the Myers Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2026/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2026 followed by the Myers Lecture The 2026 AGM will take place on Wednesday 30 September 2026 at 3.00 pm at Kings College London, The River Room. The Strand Campus, The Strand, London, WC2R 2LS It will be followed by the 2026 Myers Lecture by Professor Aparecida Vilaça
- [RAI Research Seminar: Jeremy MacClancy - On ethnographic satire](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jeremy-macclancy-on-ethnographic-satire/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINAR Tuesday 13 October 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This is a hybrid event. To join online via Zoom, please register here. To join in Person (at 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), please register here. On ethnographic satire Jeremy MacClancy, Member of Common Room, Wolfson College, Oxford University Deploying ethnographic methods and style for satirical
- [Workshop: Durkheim and Nationalism ](https://therai.org.uk/events/workshop-durkheim-and-nationalism/) - ~ Workshop ~ Friday 9 October 2026 - full day (exact times tbc) at the RAI in 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London Durkheim and Nationalism Abstract and list of speakers tbc
- [London Anthropology Day 2026](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2026/) - London Anthropology Day London Anthropology Day (LAD) is a FREE annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, undergraduate or graduate students interested in Master’s degrees, careers advisers and teachers, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute. Attendees get to learn what anthropology is about, the types of careers anthropologists do, and find out
- [Book launch: Afghan Village Voices & The Piruzai of Afghanistan](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-afghan-village-voices-the-piruzai-of-afghanistan/) - Book launch in collaboration with the Afghanistan Society Wednesday 10 June 2026, doors opening 6:30 for a 7pm start of the talk This is an in Person event at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT London). Book your ticket here. Join the Royal Anthropological Institute and The Afghanistan Society for the launch of two books
- [Anthropology of Play and Games: Ludic Fascism](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-ludic-fascism/) - Anthropology of Play and Games ~ A seminar series organised by Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores), Kellynn Wee (UCL) and the RAI~ Tuesday 9 June 2026, 4.00 – 6.00pm BST This is an online event. Please register here. Ludic Fascism: Ethnographic Perspectives on Play in the Political Present Konstanze N’Guessan (The Center for Advanced Internet
- [JRAI Special Issue Launch: Beyond Public Reason](https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-special-issue-launch-beyond-public-reason/) - JRAI Special Issue Launch Event Thursday 14th May 2026, 3.00 – 5.00 pm BST This is an online event. Please register here for the Zoom link. JRAI 2025 Special Issue: Beyond Public Reason with editors: Charis Boutieri (King’s College London) Samuel Sami Everett (Universities of Southampton, Cambridge, & Aix-Marseille) Erica Weiss (Tel Aviv University) special
- [Exhibition Opening and Reception: The Piruzai](https://therai.org.uk/events/exhibition-opening-and-reception-the-piruzai/) - New exhibition opening: The Piruzai - Afghanistan 1971 Wednesday 3 June 2026, 6pm (BST) This is an in-Person event at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT London). Please book your attendance here. Join the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Afghanistan society to celebrate the opening of Piruzai – Afghanistan 1971, an exhibition of photographs by Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Richard Tapper. In 1971-2,
- [RAI Photographic Salon ](https://therai.org.uk/events/46899/) - RAI Photographic Salon The RAI and its Photo Committee will be holding another of its popular Photo Salons on Monday 11 May 2026 at 5pm, at 50 Fitzroy Street, London Presentation slots are now filled. You can join the event as an attendee by signing up here. Join us for short presentations on current work with
- [Anthropology in India: From Colonial Beginnings to Innovative Futures](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-in-india-from-colonial-beginnings-to-innovative-futures/) - A two-day workshop Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 April 2026 King’s College London, Strand Campus, Bush House South East Wing 1.05 This is an in-Person event. Please book your ticket here. Anthropology in India: From Colonial Beginnings to Innovative Futures This workshop aims to explore anthropology in India as it is being taught and practiced
- [RAI Lecture by Professor Deborah Swallow](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-lecture-by-professor-deborah-swallow-from-magic-to-monumentality-the-museum-in-todays-india/) - RAI Lecture Monday 27 April 2026, 5.00pm (BST) Location: King’s College London, Bush House, North East Wing, Lecture Theatre 0.01 (Strand Campus, WC2B 4BG) Map Please register here to attend in Person From Magic to Monumentality: the ‘Museum’ in Today’s India Speaker: Professor Deborah Swallow, CBE, former President RAI, former Director Courtauld Institute In the later 20th century, some
- [Anthropology of Play and Games: Prediction markets](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-prediction-markets/) - Anthropology of Play and Games ~ A seminar series organised by Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores), Kellynn Wee (UCL) and the RAI~ Tuesday 12 May 2026, 3.00 – 5.00pm BST This is an online event. Please register here. Prediction markets: how a gambling mechanism meets a political moment Dr Anthony Pickles (Associate Professor of Social
- [RAI Research Seminar: James Rose](https://therai.org.uk/events/46661/) - RAI Research Seminar Wednesday 29 April, 4-6pm BST This is a hybrid event. To join online, register here. To join in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT), register here. The Science and Philosophy of Social Anthropology James Rose, The University of Melbourne Since its inception in the 1870s, the field of social
- [Kinship Trouble: Cambridge Archaeological Journal Special Issue Launch](https://therai.org.uk/events/cambridge-archaeological-journal-special-issue-launch-kinship-trouble/) - This virtual launch is co-organized with the Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) Network of the European Association of Archaeologists. Tuesday 14 April 2026, 4-6pm (BST) To join on Zoom, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AIj41HC-Q-uN5dyYFK9VrA#/registration Kinship Trouble: Traversing Interdisciplinary Boundaries between Archaeology, Archaeogenetics and Socio-cultural Anthropology Speakers: Sabina Cveček (Field Museum of Natural History, Austrian
- [Book Launch: Max Carocci](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-max-carocci/) - BOOK LAUNCH AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 26 March 2026, 4.00 - 6.00pm (GMT) This is a hybrid event. For the Zoom, please register here For in Person attendance at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT London), please register here Shamans The visual culture of animism, healing and journeys to other planes
- [The Eye of Ritual – Exploring Generative Processes in Contemporary Society](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-eye-of-ritual-exploring-generative-processes-in-contemporary-society/) - NEW DATES! Sunday, March 1st & Monday, March 2nd 2026 To join via Zoom, please register here A Two-Day Online Symposium in collaboration with Nord University (Norway) The Eye of Ritual – Exploring Generative Processes in Contemporary Society Organizers: Marianne Blom Brodersen, Bruce Kapferer, and Knut Rio Programme Sunday March 1st (Discussants Marianne and
- [Anthropology of Play and Games: Tom Boellstorff](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-tom-boellstorff/) - Anthropology of Play and Games ~ A seminar series organised by Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores), Kellynn Wee (UCL) and the RAI~ Tuesday 24 March 2026, 4.00 – 6.00pm GMT This is an online event. Please register here PlayCable: Intellivision and the Origins of Online Gaming Speaker: Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine Discussant: Paolo Ruffino,
- [Artistry@Work: Robert Simpkins](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-robert-simpkins/) - Tuesday 7 April 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SQ38aYNZStiWN28Czjw0Zw#/registration Between Notes: sound, self, and the unfolding present in the careers of Tokyo’s independent musicians Speaker: Robert Simpkins, social anthropologist and musician, Oxford Invited Discussant: Christine Guillebaud, anthropologist, CNRS LESC-CREM Abstract: This talk explores the working lives of
- [Screening & Panel discussion: Unsettling Freud, Psychoanalysts, Anthropologists](https://therai.org.uk/events/screening-panel-discussion-unsettling-freud-psychoanalysts-anthropologists/) - ~ Hybrid film screening and panel discussion ~ Wednesday 11 March 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) Location: Basement Studio of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, located in the Humanities building, Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester Register here by selecting either in Person or online attendance: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unsettling-freud-psychoanalysts-anthropologists-tickets-1983257549719?aff=oddtdtcreator Unsettling Freud, Psychoanalysts, Anthropologists Unsettling Freud, is to be an
- [2026 MN Srinivas Lecture: Prof Surinder S. Jodhka](https://therai.org.uk/events/2026-mn-srinivas-lecture-prof-surinder-s-jodhka/) - The 2026 MN Srinivas Lecture will be given by Professor Surinder S. Jodhka This lecture is supported by the Royal Anthropological Institute Tuesday 24 February 2026 18:00 - 19:00 (GMT) The lecture will be followed by a wine reception. Location: Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31) King's Building, Strand Campus, London To attend in person, register on Ticket Tailor
- [Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation: When loud rumour speaks](https://therai.org.uk/events/folklore-and-anthropology-in-conversation-when-loud-rumour-speaks/) - ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ The Tenth Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar Thursday 15 October, 2026, 10:00-17:00, at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Call for Papers ‘When Loud Rumour Speaks’: Informal communication in the modern online world Anthropologists know what it is to deal with networks of informal communication.
- [Anthropology of Play and Games: Cold War Toys in South America](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-cold-war-toys-in-south-america/) - Anthropology of Play and Games ~ A seminar series organised by Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores), Kellynn Wee (UCL) and the RAI~ Tuesday 10 February 2026, 4.00 – 6.00pm GMT This is an online event. Please register here Cold War Toys in South America Speaker: Jordana Blejmar (University of Liverpool) chaired by Alyssa Grossman (University
- [RAI Research Seminar: Mark Maguire](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-mark-maguire/) - ~ RAI Research Seminar ~Tuesday 17 February 2026, 4-6pm (GMT)This is a hybrid event.To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register hereTo join us online via Zoom, register herePublic Behaviour During Terror AttacksProf Mark Maguire (Maynooth University)For over a decade, Mark Maguire has studied terrorist attacks in Europe and
- [A Kabul Music Diary (2003): Film Screening and Conversation](https://therai.org.uk/events/a-kabul-music-diary-2003-film-screening-and-conversation/) - Film Event organised in partnership with the Afghanistan Society Thursday 22 January 2026, 18.00 (GMT) Doors open at 17:30, 30 minutes wine reception, screening starts at 18:00 Location: RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London Tickets must be booked in advance, here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977611941553?aff=oddtdtcreator A Kabul Music Diary (2003): Film Screening and Conversation with John Baily and Andre
- [Huxley Memorial Lecture 2025: The Moral Question by Dr Didier Fassin](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley2025/) - The Moral Question by Dr Didier Fassin Click here to view the recording Friday 5 December at The London School of Economics & Political ScienceThe lecture will start at 6pm and will be followed by a drinks reception. The Venue for The Huxley Lecture this year will be The London School of Economics.The Sheikh Zayed
- [Annual William Fagg Lecture - Dr Lissant Bolton (FULLY BOOKED)](https://therai.org.uk/events/william-fagg-lecture-2025/) - The Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas cordially invite to to: The Annual William Fagg Lecture 2025 Monday 10 November 2025 at 6pm Dr Lissant Bolton of the British Museum will be presenting Anomalous Objects: Insights From the Material Culture Into The Voyaging History Of The Pacific The event is now fully booked Please
- [RAI Research Seminar: Otto Pipatti](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-otto-pipatti/) - RAI Research Seminar Tuesday 24 June 2025, 4.00-6.00pm BST This is a hybrid event. To join us in person at the RAI (Address), register here. To join us via Zoom, register here. The Origins Of Human Social Nature: Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology Dr Otto Pipatti Edward Westermarck (1862–1939) was one of the most renowned sociologists and
- [Anthropology of Play and Games: Gaming the Anthropocene](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-gaming-the-anthropocene/) - A seminar series organised by Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores University), Kellynn Wee (UCL) and the RAI Wednesday 12 November 2025, 4.00-6.00pm GMT This is an online event. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bEzpeKBnTPS1cgvv3jYnMQ#/registration Gaming the Anthropocene - thinking with games Dr Fiona P. McDonald (Assistant Professor, Visual Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan) Moderated by Dr Aaron Trammell
- [Book Launch: Isak Niehaus](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-isak-niehaus/) - Book Launch Wednesday 29 October 2025, 4.00-6.00pm BST This is a hybrid event For the online attendance please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nJY4l_e-RTeKTGmHOapOsg For the in Person attendance (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-isak-niehaus-tickets-1782557259749?aff=oddtdtcreator Radcliffe-Brown: Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955 Isak Niehaus (Brunel University, London) with discussant Adam Kuper (LSE) Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955)
- [RAI AGM followed by the Curl Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-followed-by-the-curl-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2025 followed by the Curl Lecture The 2025 AGM will take place on Wednesday 24 September 2025 at 3.00 pm at the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG (Map) and on Zoom. It will be followed by the 2025 Curl Lecture by Dr Isabelle C Winder
- [Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation: Revisiting Oral Narrative](https://therai.org.uk/events/folklore-and-anthropology-in-conversation-soundscapes-and-folklore-in-east-asia-copy/) - ‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’ Ninth ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ Joint Seminar The Folklore Society and The Royal Anthropological Institute Date: Thursday 23 October, 2025Time: 10 AM to 5 PMLocation: 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT and online via ZoomTo attend in Person please register here(In Person tickets are limited and currently fully
- [Freud’s Two-by-Two: Habitation, Homemaking](https://therai.org.uk/events/freuds-two-by-two-habitation-homemaking/) - Hybrid Symposium organised by the RAI - Online and in Person in Manchester Wednesday 15 October 2025, 10.00 am to 6.00 pm BST Location: Room 3.o13a, Alliance Manchester Business School, Booth St W, Manchester M15 6PB Register here by selecting either in Person or online attendance: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freuds-two-by-two-habitation-homemaking-tickets-1601139955709?aff=oddtdtcreator Freud’s Two-by-Two: Habitation, Homemaking Convened by Richard Werbner
- [JRAI Special Issue Launch: Aging Time Beings](https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-special-issue-launch-aging-time-beings/) - JRAI Special Issue Launch Event Friday 19 September 2025 12.00-2.00 pm BST This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RmUk2ictTeqIZorofXTy-A#/registration JRAI Special Issue: Aging Time Beings with editors: Lone Grøn (Professor, VIVE, Danish Center for Social Science Research) Lotte Meinert (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University) special issue contributors: Cheryl Mattingly (Professor, Departments of Anthropology
- [Wellcome Medal lecture: Bharat Venkat](https://therai.org.uk/events/wellcome-medal-lecture-bharat-venkat/) - RAI Wellcome Medal Lecture Thursday 11 September 2025, 5.00-6.00pm BST Find the Zoom registration here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n25IsrLdTA6uo8JhZyV3Aw On the occasion of Professor Venkat’s being awarded the RAI Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems At the Limits of Cure Bharat Venkat (Associate Professor at UCLA) Can a history of cure be more than a
- [2025 Curl Lecture: Dr Isabelle C Winder](https://therai.org.uk/events/2025-curl-lecture-dr-isabelle-c-winder/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE CURL LECTURE The 2025 Curl Lecture will be given by Dr Isabelle C Winder SFHEA. Wednesday 24 September 2025, 5.00-6.00 pm BST Location: The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG In-Person registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1537293328729?aff=oddtdtcreator Zoom registration for online attendance will follow. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception and
- [London Anthropology Day 2025](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2025/) - London Anthropology Day (LAD) is a FREE annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, undergraduate or graduate students interested in Master’s degrees, careers advisers and teachers, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute. Go to the LAD website to find more information Join the notification list to receive a notification email when booking
- [Exhibition Launch: Audrey Richards and the Making of African Studies](https://therai.org.uk/events/exhibition-launch-audrey-richards-and-the-making-of-african-studies/) - EXHIBITION LAUNCH EVENT Monday 8 July 2024, 6.00pm BST To join us in person at the RAI register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1258758 Exhibition Launch: Audrey Richards and the Making of African Studies Curated by Andrew Bank (UWC, Cape Town) Dedication to Jean La Fontaine (b. 1931), Jo Gladstone (b. 1938) and Marilyn Strathern (b. 1941). Audrey Isabel Richards (1899-1984) was a central figure
- [Book Launch: Alex Pillen](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-alex-pillen/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 27 September 2024, 4.00-6.00pm BSTThis is a hybrid event. To join us in-Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here:https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1389805To join us online via Zoom, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QIi8vsOlS1eeUrBfurnZQA#/registration EnduranceSpeaking Kurdish in a Warped World Dr Alex Pillen (Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Language at UCL) In Endurance , Alex Pillen
- [Book Launch: Caitlin Procter & Branwen Spector](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-caitlin-procter-branwen-spector/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Thursday 10 October 2024, 4:00-6:00pm BST This is a hybrid event.To join online via Zoom, register here:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FVWbAZW3Qxa7P3lysP3T7w#/registrationTo join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here:https://buytickets.at/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1398892 Inclusive Ethnography Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical with editors Dr Caitlin Procter - European University InstituteDr Branwen Spector -
- [Talk: Why the climate is changing from a Kogi perspective](https://therai.org.uk/events/talk-why-the-climate-is-changing-from-a-kogi-perspective/) - Talk organised by Tairona Heritage Trust in collaboration with the RAI Tuesday 15 October 2024, 4:30pm BST This is a hybrid event.To join online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zbiKBTgyRJush7GFCB93HA#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here: https://buytickets.at/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1381576 Why the climate is changing from a Kogi perspective Narciso Coronado In the
- [THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE - Alex de Waal](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-alex-de-waal/) - Anthropology and the Humanitarian Encounter: Famine, Societal Trauma and the Academy
- [Annual William Fagg Lecture - Stephanie Bunn](https://therai.org.uk/events/annual-william-fagg-lecture-stephanie-bunn/) - The Humble Basket: following a path from cordage and containers to measurement and space Prof Stephanie Bunn, University of St Andrews The invention of string, baskets and related forms of weaving is told in countless creation myths, from the invention of string by the Wawilak Sisters, Ancestral Beings in Northwest Arnhem Land, to the discovery
- [RAI 2024 Blacking Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-2024-blacking-lecture/) - BORDER LISTENING: ETHNOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE BEYOND NATION THE 2024 BLACKING LECTURE will be given by Professor Rachel Harris (School of Arts, SOAS University of London) ~ with live music by Ozan Baysal and Shohret Nur On 15 November 2024, 5.30-7pm GMT at Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS. To book an in-person ticket please go to:
- [JRAI Special Issue 2024 Launch Event: Religious Suasion](https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-special-issue-2024-launch-event-religious-suasion/) - JRAI Special Issue Launch Event Monday, 13 January 2025 4:00-5:30pm GMT This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e_8Y5B0xSiCZpNDKly62lA#/registration JRAI 2024 Special Issue: Religious Suasion Co-editors and authors: Sam Victor, McGill University Danny Cardoza, Brigham Young University Contributing authors: Julia Cassaniti, University of Virginia Michal Kravel-Tovi, Tel-Aviv University Courtney Handman, University of Texas
- [Screening: Conquistador Freud (Richard Werbner)](https://therai.org.uk/events/screening-conquistador-freud-richard-werbner/) - Screening (Part one of two in-Person events) Date & Time: Friday 24 January 2025, 2.00-6.00 pm (GMT) Locations: 2-3pm 221 Hong Kong Alumni Room, Bentham House, UCL 3-6pm G04 Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences & Anatomy Building, UCL The walking distance between the two venues is about 10 minutes. You can find the
- [Anthropology of Play and Games: Sarah Huxley](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-sarah-huxley/) - Friday 14 February 2025, 2.30 - 4.30pm GMT This is an online event. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uPMjHdHJSTKandbViEMpsA#/registration Fun-ing: Education for a changing world Dr Sarah Huxley (University of Lincoln) chaired by Dr Emily Dowdeswell (Director at Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination) Abstract At a time when many educational and research practices, more specifically those that consider
- [Workshop: Conquistador Freud (Richard Werbner)](https://therai.org.uk/events/workshop-conquistador-freud-richard-werbner/) - Workshop (Part two of two events) Date & Time: Friday 14 February 2025, 6.00 - 9.00pm (GMT) Location: Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6, UCL (full address below) Free in Person event. No ticket needed. Conquistador Freud ~ Imaginaries, Fables, Fantasies A video Essay by Richard Werbner Workshop, consisting of two panels PROGRAM 6:00 Welcome
- [RAI Research Seminar: Silvia Citro and Soledad Torres Agüero](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-silvia-citro-and-soledad-torres-aguero/) - RAI Research Seminar organised by the RAI's Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology Committee Monday 31 March 2025, 4:00-6:00pm BST This is a hybrid event. To join us in person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London): https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1583322 To join us via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q6o-BofMTQipkMH2LdRWCg#/registration Collaborative Intercultural Assemblages: Between Ethnography and Aesthetic Experimentation with Indigenous Qom
- [RAI Research Seminar: Stephan Kloos](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-stephan-kloos/) - RAI Research Seminar Thursday 3 April 2025, 3.00-5.00pm BST This is a hybrid event To join us at the RAI (Address), register here. To join us online via Zoom, register here Whose Medicine? Sowa Rigpa between Tibetan Culture and Indian Geopolitics Stephan Kloos, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences Are Tibetans losing control over
- [Workshop: early career researchers in medical anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/workshop-early-career-researchers-in-medical-anthropology/) - Workshop ~ organised by the RAI Medical Anthropology Committee ~ Wednesday 30 April 2025, 1.00-5.00pm BST In-Person event at the RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT The workshop is now fully booked. Workshop on early career researchers in medical anthropology What? An opportunity for medical anthropologists at all career stages to come together to reflect on
- [Artistry@Work: Alice Doublier-Akakpo](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-alice-doublier-akakpo/) - Artistry@Work Series by Maison des Sciences de l’Homme–Université Clermont Auvergne, in collaboration with the RAI Tuesday, 01 October 2024 4:00-6:00pm BST This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kkKWJwoUThmJ_JwGYED54A#/registration Image: Kôji molds blooming on soybeans and wheat at Suzuki Shôten brewery (Fukushima, March 2024) ©Alice Doublier-Akakpo Cultivating the most beautiful kôji: the aesthetics of brewing soy-sauce in twenty-first century Japan Discussant: Iza Kavedžija, Associate
- [Artistry@Work: Chloé Paberz](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-chloe-paberz/) - Drawing: Cultivating freedom in South Korea’s highly standardised creative industries This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R0eAIhcxSSimZfEUVGHyoA Speaker: Chloé Paberz, INALCO, Institut Français de Recherche sur l'Asie de l'Est Discussant: Jenn Law, social anthropologist & artist Abstract With the growing global success of manga, anime and video games, East Asia has become a key player in
- [Artistry@Work: Alice Aterianus-Owanga](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-alice-aterianus-owanga/) - The art of 'vitesse': ntcham music, banditry, and the digital fabric of a pirate industry This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zSf_DZ4zTl266_Tv7cby2g Speaker: Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Université de Neuchâtel Discussant: Jamila Dorner, SOAS Abstract “Vitesse” (speed), “vivacité” (liveliness) and “rapidité” (quickness): the texts and videos of Ntcham music are filled with references (textual, musical and gestural) to rhythm and its
- [Artistry@Work: Geoffrey Gowlland](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-geoffrey-gowlland/) - This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ATz3WvLQC6VvZmbRb90tg Crafting Indigeneity in Taiwan Speaker: Geoffrey Gowlland, University of Geneva Discussant: Michele Feder-Nadoff, artist & anthropologist Abstract Why is it that the revitalisation of forms of art and craft has, for Indigenous peoples around the world, taken such a significance in self-presentations and political engagements? What is it about
- [Artistry@Work: Sónia Mota Ribeiro](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-sonia-mota-ribeiro/) - Clay Figuration in Barcelos, Portugal: Crafting futures by re-imagining the past This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DihhqB12QZSXzF-fuIUsaQ Speaker: Sónia Mota Ribeiro, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Discussant: Stephanie Bunn, University of St Andrews Abstract This seminar will focus on the practice of a group of artisans from the Barcelos region, in the north of Portugal. These “barristas”
- [Artistry@Work: Julien Debonneville (cancelled)](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-julien-debonneville/) - “Becoming a Dancer, Becoming Mobile”: Navigating mobility regimes in the field of European contemporary dance This event had unfortunately be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstance. Speaker: Julien Debonneville, Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale Discussant: Robert Simpkins, social anthropologist Abstract This seminar will examine the way in which mobility acts to structure artistic careers in the
- [Artistry@Work: Michele Feder-Nadoff](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-michele-feder-nadoff/) - This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VPYV9hSISeWUg8Cx6WCmsQ#/registration The Incommensurability of Making: Learning from long-term apprenticeship in Santa Clara del Cobre Speaker: Michele Feder-Nadoff, artist & anthropologist Discussant: Dr Lydia Arantes, University of Graz Abstract:What is the incommensurability of making? How and under what circumstances can craft production be seen as a practice
- [Artistry@Work: Dorothee Hemme](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-dorothee-hemme/) - This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8pOX1wpMRuSczwVQyyjDZw On the Art of Being a Female Entrepreneur in the Skilled Trades Speaker: Dorothee Hemme, anthropologist & entrepreneur, Göttingen Discussant: Myriem Naji, University College London Abstract The exhibition project "Women in Crafts from Here!" aims to show the diversity of female craftsmanship in the region of South Lower Saxony
- [Artistry@Work: Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-helene-neveu-kringelbach/) - This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zhcIqGJVQoKM1j_dtDkKEQ Livelihoods of West African Performers Speaker: Dr Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, University College London Discussant: Dr Thomas Chambers, Oxford Brookes University Abstract:In the 1990s and early 2000s, much of the scholarship on the performing arts celebrated the new insights afforded by the transnationalism paradigm and the ‘mobilities’ turn. There
- [Kent Anthropology and its Impact 1965-2025](https://therai.org.uk/events/kent-anthropology-and-its-impact-1965-2025/) - Kent Anthropology DayTuesday 3 June 2025, 10.00 -17:00 BSTYou can register here for joining via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lAclTMGPQaywr5PTChOhpQKent Anthropology and its Impact 1965-2025A daylong event examining the history and impacts of anthropologists, anthropological research and teaching at the University of Kent, which has been closed by the University after 60 years. The day will include guest
- [Cycles of Theory: a critical review of 60 years of archaeological theory and practice](https://therai.org.uk/events/cycles-of-theory-a-critical-review-of-60-years-of-archaeological-theory-and-practice/) - Royal Anthropological Institute & UCL Institute of Archaeology Cycles of Theory: a critical review of 60 years of archaeological theory and practice 6-7th June 2025 This is a two-part in-Person event. Please sign up for each part individually. __________ Friday 6 June 4.15 – 6.30pm: Opening Discussion - Register here Saturday 7 June 10am-6:30pm: One-day
- [RAI Research Webinar: James Rose](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-webinar-james-rose/) - RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 6 May 2021 at 10am-12pm (BST) Forensic Social Anthropology Dr James Rose (University of Melbourne) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6phN-VnZQ8OULRzUkagZZA If forensic physical anthropology is the science of biological processes with causal links to death, then
- [RAI FILM Festival 2025 - Online](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-festival-2025-online/) - RAI FILM Festival 2025 | OnlineThe 19th RAI FILM Festival will take place from 11 to 15 June 2025 in Bristol, UK. If you can’t join us in person in Bristol – or simply want to revisit what moved you there – the festival continues online from 16 June to 16 July 2025. This extended
- [Just alternatives for climate finance - Joint Event with Forest Peoples Programme](https://therai.org.uk/events/just-alternatives-for-climate-finance-forest-peoples-programme-joint-event/) - Forest Peoples Programme & RAI Joint Event Monday 23rd June 2025, 3.30 – 5.30pm BST To join the Zoom event, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XFp8PGzDSue8SXj6R8u83Q#/registration Just alternatives for climate finance Exploring rights-based and non-market mechanisms, including direct funding of Indigenous peoples as well as local communities Languages – Spanish and English Public discussions of climate finance
- [Book Launch: Dance, Performance and Visual Art](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-dance-performance-and-visual-art/) - Book Launch Thursday 17 July 2025, 4.00-6.00pm BST This is a hybrid event To join us at the RAI (Address), register here. To join us online via Zoom, register here Dance, Performance and Visual Art: Intersections with Material Culture with editors Linda E. Dankworth, Henia Rottenberg, and Deborah Williams This book offers a research framework for
- [Artistry@Work: Erin O'Connor](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-erin-oconnor/) - Tuesday 7 October 2025, 4.00-6.00pm GMT This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sH9bhYrMQYy8D3IyI-N4iQ The Elemental Work of Studio Glassblowing Speaker: Erin O’Connor, sociologist and glassblower, Marymount Manhattan College, New York City Discussant: Geoffrey Gowlland, anthropologist, University of Geneva Abstract: Studio glassblowing is an art of collaborating bodies, both human and
- [Artistry@Work: Myriem Naji](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-myriem-naji/) - Tuesday 4 November 2025, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gBjqg1U5ShGkZXl1l1jmlw Strategies of female entrepreneurs in southern Morocco: degrees of visibility and processes of visibilisation Speaker: Myriem Naji, anthropologist, Department of Anthropology, University College London Discussant: Claire Nicholas, anthropologist and curator, University of Oklahoma Abstract: In the south of
- [Artistry@Work: Sarah May, Sinah Osner, Fabian Stransky & Janine Wildhage](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-sarah-may/) - Tuesday 2 December 2025, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kA7eWqa3Tk2jeeHUuf7y1w#/registration Hands, Skills, Tools: learning the craft of violin making Speaker: Sarah May, cultural anthropologist, University of Freiburg joined by Sinah Osner (photographer) Fabian Stransky (photographer & photographic artist) and Janine Wildhage (violin maker) Invited Discussant: Marie Baltazar, anthropologist,
- [Artistry@Work: Yukiko Oshima](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-yukiko-oshima/) - Tuesday 6 January 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kgm3w5iaSuOrprxuJkz5xw Living and Created Tradition among Japanese Master Carpenters Speaker: Yukiko Oshima, architect and urbanologist, Japan Research Centre, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Invited Discussant: Edoardo Paolo Ferrari, anthropologist and architect, Hoare, Ridge & Morris Architects
- [Artistry@Work: Jenn Law & Jillian Ross](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-jenn-law-jillian-ross/) - Tuesday 3 February 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w8O119ivRQWOjrS4oTrQjA Meet Me in the Middle: collaborative printmaking and lessons in democratic thinking in Canada and South Africa Speakers: Jenn Law, social anthropologist & artist, Toronto Jillian Ross, master printmaker, Saskatoon Invited Discussant: Jacqui Ramrayka, ceramicist and educator, London
- [Artistry@Work: Laura Steil](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-laura-steil/) - Image: Private archives, François Mallia, 1950. Tuesday 3 March 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AiqkX33rTBSsjY5haWh4PA#/registration ‘Amateur’ musicians? Steel workers crafting free time in the Luxembourgish mining basin Speaker: Laura Steil, cultural anthropologist, Paris and Luxembourg Invited Discussant: Jonathan Skinner, anthropologist and dancer, University of Surrey Abstract:
- [Artistry@Work: Raphaël Blanchier](https://therai.org.uk/events/artistrywork-raphael-blanchier/) - Tuesday 5 May 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VrjHFAS2SmaANh7ISeCrhA#/registration Lives of Talent: an ethnography of dancers’ work/life in Mongolia Speaker: Raphaël Blanchier, anthropologist, Université Clermont Auvergne and IFRAE-CNRS, LESC-CREM Invited Discussant: Cassis Kilian, anthropologist and performer, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Abstract: In Mongolia, recognised dancers, professional or otherwise,
- [RAI Research Seminar: Mally Stelmaszyk](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-mally-stelmaszyk/) - RAI Research Seminar Tuesday 22 July, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This is a hybrid event. To join us in person at the RAI (Address): https://SeminarMallyStelmaszyk.eventbrite.co.uk To join us via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WUssDPyzRQWkFl1tAZEMBw Thinking beyond the drum: climatic uncertainties and shamanic practice in Siberia Dr Mally Stelmaszyk, Research Associate in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester In
- [RAI FILM Conference 2025](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-conference-2025/) - Where Are We Now? Visual and Multimodal Anthropology 1-4 July, online To view panels and calls, and general info about this conference, please go to our main page RAI FILM Conference 2025
- [Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish Society: Güneş Duru](https://therai.org.uk/events/joint-seminar-with-the-anglo-turkish-society-gunes-duru/) - RAI / Anglo-Turkish Society joint seminar Thursday, 5 June 2025, 6.00pm (BST) This is a hybrid event. Booking essential: https://gunes-duru-lecture.eventbrite.co.uk (There is a free ticket option for RAI members and those that attend via Zoom) For any questions, contact: contact@angloturkishsociety.org.uk Central Anatolian Neolithic: Tracing the Emergence of Early Sedentary Communities Speaker: Associate Professor
- [RAI FILM Festival 2025 - Bristol](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-festival-4/) - RAI FILM Festival 2025The RAI FILM Festival is a biennial event providing a leading showcase for the best in groundbreaking and innovative anthropological documentary filmmaking from around the globe. Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute since 1985, the festival has created a vital space where cinema, academia, and public dialogue intersect.The 19th RAI FILM Festival
- [RAI Research Seminar: Edvard Hviding](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-edvard-hviding-2/) - RAI Research Seminar Tuesday 25 March 2025, 4.00-6.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us in person at the RAI (Address), register here. To join us via Zoom, register here. Lt. (RN) H.B.T. Somerville and HMS Penguin in Solomon Islands, 1893-1895: Entanglements of archival, local, anthropological, and naturalist knowledges, past and present
- [2024 Photographic Studies Award: Prof Tina Campt](https://therai.org.uk/events/2020-photographic-studies-award-prof-tina-campt/) - RAI Photographic Studies Award NEW DATE: Thursday 6 March at 5:00pm (GMT), followed by a drinks reception Register here for the Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pEspSU1TQfWCvPHXyPNYNw#/registration Register here to come in Person to the RAI: https://buytickets.at/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1523508 If you have an in Person ticket but can't make the new date, please let us know. Thank you.
- [Health, Environment, and AnThropology (HEAT) 2025](https://therai.org.uk/events/heat2025/) - Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Society and Co-organised by Durham and Edinburgh universities, HEAT1 is a two-day international conference on planetary health and the environment. The conference will be hosted by Durham’s Department of Anthropology, one of only a few in the UK to integrate social, health, and evolutionary fields. Drawing from that diversity, HEAT
- [Anthropology of Play and Games: Early Career Researcher Showcase](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-chika-watanabe-copy/) - Early Career Researcher Showcase: Choosing Fun, Becoming Through Storytelling and Cruel Play A seminar series organised by Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores University), Kellynn Wee (UCL) and the RAI This is an online event. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pg6csvrWT2Ggc6NlWLLxLQ#/registration Speakers ken tianyuan Ge, PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kellynn Wee, University College London Adriano De
- [London Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-6/) - 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
- [Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation: Soundscapes and Folklore in East Asia](https://therai.org.uk/events/folklore-and-anthropology-in-conversation-soundscapes-and-folklore-in-east-asia/) - The seminar series ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ encourages empirical and conceptual dialogue between the two related disciplines of folklore and anthropology The symposium is a one-day event held at the offices of the Royal Anthropological Institute and The Folklore Society at 50 Fitzroy Street, London on Thursday 24 October 2024. Presentations will be given
- [RAI AGM followed by the Huxley Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-followed-by-the-huxley-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2024 followed by the Huxley Lecture
- [Anthropology of Play and Games: Chika Watanabe](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-chika-watanabe/) - Fun as Detour: An Anthropology of Play in Disaster Preparedness
- [Health, Environment, and AnThropology 1 (HEAT1)](https://therai.org.uk/events/health-environment-and-anthropology-1-heat1/) - Health, Environment, and AnThropology 1 (HEAT1) As the world is getting fuller, faster, hotter, and sicker, HEAT1 asks how can anthropologists contribute to unfolding debates around health and environment on a changing and unequal planet? In what ways can medical and environmental anthropology work together and with other disciplines, communities, and stakeholders to help support
- [Horniman Day 2013](https://therai.org.uk/events/horniman-day/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to invite you to the Horniman Day held at the Horniman Museum. This will include papers by six former Horniman scholars about their fieldwork experience and the 2013 Curl Lecture by Dr Liana Chua, who was also a Horniman award holder in 2004. 11am - 1pm - Welcome and
- [Book Launch: Ann R David](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-ann-r-david/) - Book Launch This is a hybrid event. To join online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZnLwTXc-SGGlntFb4vWqoA#/registrationTo join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here: https://buytickets.at/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1362032 Ram GopalInterweaving Histories of Indian Dance ~ Ann R. David (Prof Emerita of Dance and Cultural Engagement, University of Roehampton) Both a biography and a history, this
- [Anthropology of Play and Games: Thomas Malaby](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-thomas-malaby/) - Monday 9 September 2024, 3.00-5.00pm BST This is an online event. Please register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oF6SJ0AsSweAqXQqReVXQw Legitimacy through Contingency – Or, How to Do Things with Games Prof Thomas Malaby (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Among the many topics about which anthropology has made significant contributions, its handling of the cultural forms of bureaucracy and ritual
- [Book Launch: Webb Keane](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-webb-keane/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 13 September 2024, time tbc This is an online event. (Registration links to follow soon) Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination ~ Webb Keane (George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan) How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating, mind-expanding exploration of our moral universe
- [Book Launch: André Chappatte](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-andre-chappatte/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 9 February 2024, 4.00-6.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ovJUROgNStqUc2mwEvzAIw#/registration To join in person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-andre-chappatte-tickets-773158115737 In Search of Tunga: Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town André Chappatte and Gunvor Jónsson (Honorary Research Associate in Sociology at
- [2024 MN Srinivas Lecture: Dr Piers Vitebsky](https://therai.org.uk/events/2024-mn-srinivas-lecture-dr-piers-vitebsky/) - 2024 MN Srinivas Lecture by Dr Piers Vitebsky: 'Adivasi futures and the vernacular afterlives of fieldnotes' 28 May 2024 18:00 to 19:30 King's Building, Strand Campus, London Dr Piers Vitebsky will deliver the 2024 MN Srinivas Lecture titled 'The village remembered, but by whom? Adivasi futures and the vernacular afterlives of fieldnotes'. Register for this
- [Anthropology and Education Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-and-education-conference/) - 25 June – 28 June 2024. Face to Face Conference at Senate House, University of London
- [Precarity and the Teaching of Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/precarity-and-teaching-of-anthropology/) - WEBINAR Tuesday 21 May 2024 at 2.00-4.00pm (BST) To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y-5JCJVQSluSCz7wfgevZA Precarity and the Teaching of Anthropology The webinar is organised by the RAI in collaboration with the IUAES Commissions (Migration and Education), the WCAA, SEPHIS and PrecAnthro It is part of a series of online events prior to the Anthropology and Education
- [Applying Anthropology: Career Insights from Professionals - Online Roundtable](https://therai.org.uk/events/applying-anthropology-career-insights-from-professionals-online-roundtable/) - Unlock the World of Opportunities with Anthropology! Are you a graduate or student of anthropology, curious about the diverse career paths your degree might take you? Look no further! Join us for our upcoming online roundtable event: "Applying Anthropology: Career Insights from Professionals." Date: Monday 13 May 2024 Time: 12:00 - 13:30 BST Location:
- [Henry Myers Lecture: Chris Gosden](https://therai.org.uk/events/henry-myers-lecture-chris-gosden/) - Make Believe: a processual and material approach to the deep history of magic and religion The Henry Myers Lecture Wednesday 26 June 2024 at 1.00-2.3-pm (BST) Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of London This talk is part of the Anthropology and Education Conference, but can be attended free without registering for the conference. You will
- [Book Launch: Gunvor Jónsson](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-gunvor-jonsson/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENTFriday 7 June 2024, 3.00-5.00pm BSTThis is a hybrid event.To join us on Zoom, register here:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e56Hd_WrQdekan-sWAmIXw#/registrationTo join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T5BT), register here:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-gunvor-jonsson-tickets-824104357317?aff=oddtdtcreator Urban Displacement and Tradein a Senegalese Market:An anthropology of endingsGunvor Jónsson(Honorary Research Associate in Sociology at the Open University;Senior Research Officer at the Department for
- [Webinar: Anthropology and Education Across Different Cultures and Countries](https://therai.org.uk/events/webinar-anthropology-and-education-across-different-cultures-and-countries/) - Anthropology and Education Across Different Cultures and Countries Friday 3 May 2024, 1.00-3.00pm BST (12.00-2.00pm UTC / 2.00pm CEST / 3.30pm IRST / 8pm AWST / 7am CDT / 9am BRT) To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZBkqqohtQGWFZEX3DbnteQ#/registration The webinar is sponsored by RAI, IUAES Commission on Anthropology and Education, and IUAES Commission on Documentation and part
- [RAI Film Online Roundtable: Merging Horizons](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-online-roundtable-merging-horizons/) - Merging horizons: visual anthropology, indigenous communities and the work of online media archives A VIRTUAL EVENT BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 25 April 2024, 4-6pm BST To join us via Zoom, register here Chair: Aparna Sharma (UCLA) Discussants: Michael York (filmmaker and anthropologist), Hercules Singh Munda (Edinburgh) and Arpit Gaind (UCLA) This roundtable considers strategies
- [Book Launch: Ross Bowden - 'The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik'](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-ross-bowden-the-yalaku-history-and-warfare-in-the-middle-sepik/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Monday 25 March 2024, 1.00 - 3.00pm GMT To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oEht-kTwRYKSxZKW1J9DFQ The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik Dr Ross Bowden with Dr Robert Welsch as discussant This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of
- [Film Webinar: Anna Grimshaw](https://therai.org.uk/events/film-webinar-anna-grimshaw/) - Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 26 March 2024, 2:00-4:00pm GMT To join us via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1V2OrPdxRIWom5rdJYz2Yg#/registration Extending the Frame: Ethnographic Film and the Potential of Multipart Work Anna Grimshaw (Emory University) For a century or more, ethnographic filmmakers have been expected to produce discrete, bounded films of
- [RAI Research Seminar: Ken Dark](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-ken-dark/) - RAI Research Seminar Tuesday 2 April 2024, 3:00-5:00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us online via Zoom, register here To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T5BT), register here (Image: Ken Dark. ''Tintagel - where archaeology, long-term memory and legend collide') Beyond the Horizon: rethinking the long-term
- [RAI Research Seminar: Tom Western](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-tom-western/) - RAI Research Seminar organised by the RAI’s Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology Committee Tuesday 9 April 2024, 4:00-6:00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L_fgARJYShWx-auttxyzhg#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T5BT): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-seminar-tom-western-tickets-809192465447?aff=oddtdtcreator Mediterradio – a sonic geopoetics on four wavelengths Dr Tom Western (University College
- [Hybrid Book Launch: Nancy Lindisfarne & Jonathan Neale](https://therai.org.uk/events/hybrid-book-launch-nancy-lindisfarne-jonathan-neale/) - HYBRID BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Tuesday 30 April 2024, 3.00 - 5.00pm BST This is a hybrid event. To join us on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kAQf9bUFQSaPEAeosj6uWw#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1196881 Why Men? A Human History of Violence and Inequality with authors Nancy Lindisfarne
- [Screening and Talk: An Introduction to Neil Gordon Munro’s The Ainu Bear Ceremony](https://therai.org.uk/events/screening-and-talk-an-introduction-to-neil-gordon-munros-the-ainu-bear-ceremony/) - Screening and Talk In Collaboration with Japan House London 11 February 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 GMT Location: Japan House London, 101-111 Kensington High St, London W8 5SA (Map) Booking here: https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/an-introduction-to-neil-gordon-munros-the-ainu-bear-ceremony/ An Introduction to Neil Gordon Munro’s The Ainu Bear Ceremony Simon Wright (Japan House London) Dr Stephen Putnam Hughes (RAI) The Ainu Bear Ceremony was filmedby
- [RAI Research Seminar: Razia Sultanova](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-razia-sultanova/) - RAI Research Seminar organised by the RAI's Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology Committee Tuesday 27 February 2024, 4:00-6:00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L_fgARJYShWx-auttxyzhg#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T5BT): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-seminar-razia-sultanova-tickets-807045082567?aff=oddtdtcreator Afghanistan Dispossessed: Burka, Bans and Music in the time of Taliban -
- [Book Launch: María Cruz-Torres](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-maria-cruz-torres/) - ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 23 February 2024, 4.00-6.00pm GMT To join us online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2PY_ciYCQQmWGtq391Ew6A#/registration Pink Gold Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico María L. Cruz-Torres (Arizona State University) The "shrimp ladies," locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell seafood in open-air markets, forming an extralegal but key part
- [Book Launch: Itsushi Kawase](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-itsushi-kawase/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Wednesday 31 January 2024, 6.00-8.00 pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RUZ3SgBiRTCx-PambWXoRg#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-itsushi-kawase-tickets-793419076817?aff=oddtdtcreator Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets Itsushi Kawase Chair: Stephen Hughes, RAI Film Translator: Jeffrey Johnson (from Japanese)
- [Premiere Film Screening and Director Q&A – “Azmari” by Itsushi Kawase](https://therai.org.uk/events/premiere-film-screening-and-director-qa-azmari-by-itsushi-kawase/) - FILM SCREENING Tuesday 30 January 2024, 5:30pm - 7:30pm GMT This is an in person only event Location: Cinema, Goldsmiths University of London, SE14 6NW Book your free ticket here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/musicdepartmentatgoldsmithsuniversityoflondon/1099180 The Asian Music Unit at Goldsmiths and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) are delighted to invite you to this special screening event. European premiere of
- [Annual Willian Fagg Lecture: Michael W Scott](https://therai.org.uk/events/annual-willian-fagg-lecture-michael-w-scott/) - The Annual William Fagg Lecture Thursday 15 February 2024 at 6pm Clore Centre, British Museum Prof Michael W Scott, London School of Economics and Political Science When is an Object? Insights from the Cumulative Lives of a Solomon Islands Canoe House Post In May of 1936, an anthropomorphic wooden carving from the island of Owa
- [Fieldwork Sketches: Blurring the Lines between Art and Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/fieldwork-sketches-blurring-the-lines-between-art-and-anthropology/) - Workshop organised by the Anthropology of Art Committee, Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI). The meeting will take place in person on 16 February 2024 at the RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, London. Friday 16 February 2024 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT and on Zoom Friday 16 February 2024, 10am - 5pm GMT
- [Book Launch: Soraya Tremayne](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-soraya-tremayne/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 26 January 2024, 3.00-5.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. Registration links to be added soon! INCONCEIVABLE IRAN To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce? Soraya Tremayne (Co-Founding Director of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group; Research Affiliate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford)
- [Book Launch: Giovanni Ercolani](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-giovanni-ercolani/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday 19 January 2024, 3.00-5.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DZS2Io7HSYy4Z3x8JPPjyA#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-giovanni-ercolani-tickets-772922761787?aff=oddtdtcreator The Maidan Museum: Preserving the Spirit of Maidan Dr Giovanni Ercolani (University of Murcia, Spain) chair Prof Chris Farrands (Nottingham Trent University)
- [Tips on Publishing in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)](https://therai.org.uk/events/tips-on-publishing-in-the-journal-of-the-royal-anthropological-institute-jrai/) - Tips on Publishing in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) Tuesday, 5 December, 14.00 – 15.30 (GMT) In this online workshop, we will demystify the process of publishing in the JRAI. What kinds of papers make it to the reviews stage? How long do reviews take? How should authors address reviewers’ comments?
- [Lecture: Professor Orlando Patterson - The Paradox of Freedom: A Socio-Historical Approach](https://therai.org.uk/events/lecture-professor-orlando-patterson-the-paradox-of-freedom-a-socio-historical-approach/) - Lecture at the RAI Thursday 7 December 2023, 6.00 - 8.00pm GMT The event will happen in person at the RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT To reserve your spot, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-orlando-patterson-the-paradox-of-freedom-tickets-759624546467?aff=oddtdtcreator The Paradox of Freedom: A Socio-Historical Approach Prof Orlando Patterson (John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University) Introduction Prof David Scott (Columbia University) The history
- [Freedom and Slavery: An Open Conversation with Professor Orlando Patterson](https://therai.org.uk/events/freedom-and-slavery-an-open-conversation-with-professor-orlando-patterson/) - Event at the RAI Saturday 9 December 2023, 10am - 4pm GMT The event will happen in person at the RAI, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT To reserve your spot, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-and-slavery-an-open-conversation-with-professor-orlando-patterson-tickets-759673161877?aff=oddtdtcreator Freedom and Slavery: Issues of Comparative Understanding and Contemporary Social and Political Relevance ~ An Open Conversation with Prof Orlando Patterson Professor David
- [Mostly Out of Africa](https://therai.org.uk/events/mostly-out-of-africa/) - Mostly Out of Africa 6 & 7 November 2023 10.00am to 5.30pm in the Flett Lecture Theatre, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD In honour of Chris Stringer's Huxley Medal, the RAI is organising a conference on the theme of 'Mostly Out of Africa'. 'Out of Africa' is commonly used to represent the
- [Huxley Lecture - Chris Stringer](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-chris-stringer/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum Tuesday 7 November 2023 at 1.30 pm in the Flett Lecture Theatre, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD and on Zoom. Mostly Out of Africa: how, when and where During the last 50 years the Recent African Origin model
- [RAI AGM 2023 proceeded by the Huxley Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2023-proceeded-by-the-huxley-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2023 proceeded by the Huxley Lecture The 2023 AGM will take place on Tuesday 7 November 2023 at 2.30 pm in the Flett Lecture Theatre, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD and on Zoom. It will be proceeded by the 2023 Huxley Lecture at 1.30 pm. All
- [How did we get here and why?: Exploring the Overlaps Between Psychoanalysis and Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/how-did-we-get-here-and-why-exploring-the-overlaps-between-psychoanalysis-and-anthropology/) - This event is a collaboration between the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Royal Anthropological Institute and CPU London HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHY?: Exploring the Overlaps Between Psychoanalysis and Anthropology In conversation with Hugh Brody and Mike Brearley Chaired by Naomi Segal Friday 17th November 2023 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm (GMT) In their two
- [Mridu Rai Exhibition: How Do I Bring You Home?](https://therai.org.uk/events/mridu-rai-exhibition-how-do-i-bring-you-home/) - How Do I Bring You Home? Mridu Rai Exhibition at the Royal Anthropological Institute: December 2021 – April 2022 The exhibition is in the RAI's meeting room. Viewing is possible Mo-Fri 10am-5pm but only by previous appointment via email (info@therai.org.uk) or phone (020 7387 0455) Address: 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT Nearest underground stations: Warren Street (Victoria
- [Seminar and film screening: John Baily and 'Return of the Nightingales'](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-and-film-screening-john-baily-and-return-of-the-nightingales/) - AN EVENT BY THE RAI ETHNOMUSICOLOGY-ETHNOCHOREOLOGY COMMITTEE Monday 27 June 2022 at 5.30pm (BST) at the RAI This will be an in-person event. Please book your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-and-film-screening-john-bailey-and-return-of-the-nightingales-tickets-359539671837 Film Screening of 'Return of the Nightingales' and talk with filmmaker John Baily John Baily (Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths) chaired by David Shankland (RAI) In 2010
- [London Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-5/) - 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
- [Before and after Malinowski: Alternative Views on the History of Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/before-and-after-malinowski-alternative-views-on-the-history-of-anthropology/) - Thursday 7 July 2022, 1.00 - 4.30pm (BST) / 2.00 - 5.30pm (CET) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-PF5mimORAGCuMnukfPG-Q ------ BEFORE AND AFTER MALINOWSKI: Alternative Views on the History of Anthropology A virtual Round Table to celebrate the centennial of Bronisław Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) and
- [Anglo Turkish Society/RAI Concert: with Ferhat Tanriverdi and David Shankland](https://therai.org.uk/events/anglo-turkish-society-rai-concert-with-ferhat-tanriverdi-and-david-shankland/) - Joint Concert With The Anglo-Turkish Society Thursday 16 June 2022, 6.00pm (BST) This seminar will be held in-Person at the Royal Anthropological Institute Booking essential: https://ferhat-tanriverdi-concert.eventbrite.co.uk A brief introduction to Alevi music and its religious context Artist: Dede Ferhat Tanrıverdi Introduction: David Shankland, Director, RAI The rich musical culture of the Alevis centres around the saz, or
- [Steve Rayner Memorial Seminar](https://therai.org.uk/events/steve-rayner-memorial-seminar/) - A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 23 June 2022, 4.00 - 6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEucO-rqDgrHtdwJP1d8ma5puNWiylk9MKT Recognising Steve Rayner’s contributions to social science of weather and climate change: anthropology and beyond Professor Steve Rayner (1953-2020) was a renowned expert in the
- [Henry Myers Lecture 2022: Harvey Whitehouse](https://therai.org.uk/events/henry-myers-lecture-2022-harvey-whitehouse/) - THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2022will be given by Harvey Whitehouse (Chair in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (CSSC)) Rethinking Ritual: How rituals made our world… and how they could save it Tuesday 7 June, 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This event is free and will take place
- [Indigenous Film Futures](https://therai.org.uk/events/indigenous-film-futures/) - Indigenous Film Futures is an online exhibition taking place as part of the RAI conference Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. Centering indigenous speculative fiction on film, the exhibition celebrates the work of Indigenous filmmakers and theorists who focus on temporality and the future in their practice. The featured artists explore alternate worlds,
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Burgundy: The Global Story of Terroir](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-burgundy-the-global-story-of-terroir/) - A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 16 June 2022 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) You can register for the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zy6bZul4QWmZfknn8DsbCw Burgundy: The Global Story of Terroir The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Prof Marion Demossier (University of Southampton) and reviewer Prof
- [Anthropology Communicates on International Humanitarian Action](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-on-international-humanitarian-action/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 26 May 2022, 10.00am-12.00pm (BST) Register for the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdO-pqDMiHdarD6pJWvwe3iJAgBDRya1m Anthropology Communicates on International Humanitarian Action A frequently expressed critique of international humanitarian sector is that it is a top-down, logistically-driven system relying heavily on standardised responses that make
- [Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-ai-and-the-future-of-human-society/) - Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society Virtual Conference 6 -10 June 2022 Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. AI has come to represent multiple causal drivers of change: amongst them artificial intelligence itself, space exploration, bio-tech and other emerging technologies. The implications for human society could hardly be more significant,
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-hegemonies-of-language-and-their-discontents/) - A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 19 May 2022 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) You can register for the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Oh4Bd_ooSVKWEA6vekw11w Hegemonies of language and their discontents: The Southwest North American region since 1540 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author
- [A celebration of Gilbert Lewis (1938-2020)](https://therai.org.uk/events/a-celebration-of-gilbert-lewis-1938-2020/) - A celebration of Gilbert Lewis (1938-2020)Friday, 20 May 2022 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT Virtual attendance is welcome using Zoom: Meeting ID: 836 3936 8430 Passcode: GILBERT starting at 12.00 11:30-12:00: Welcome (in person only) 12:00-13:00: Gilbert Lewis’ legacy in medical anthropology, moderated by Elisabeth Hsu 12:00 Gilbert Lewis and British
- [Irish Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/irish-anthropology-day/) - Irish Anthropology Day19 May 2022 Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin This seminar is dedicated to the anthropology on/of the island of Ireland. Co-organized by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and the Department of Anthropology at Maynooth University, together with colleagues in Queens University Belfast, the event
- [Anarchival Materiality in Archives](https://therai.org.uk/events/anarchival-materiality-in-archives/) - RAI Film SeminarFriday 29 April 2022 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) Anarchival Materiality in Archives Speakers: Dr Kate Hennessy (Simon Fraser University) and Dr Trudi Lynn Smith (University of Victoria) You can register for the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvd-iqpjgvGdFwWvT4XI3Y8d8E0axBLa8o In this talk, we present a series of video and photography-based research-creation artworks that have emerged through our
- [RAI Research Seminar: Ilia Iliev](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-ilia-iliev/) - RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 12 May 2022 at 3.00 - 5.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DAN-i1BtRYS-_XffcC5pPA Image: Fresco displayed on the front cover of 'Траките/The thracians' by Alexander Fol and Valeria Fol. From WikiCommons Alexander Fol: or
- [Book Launch: Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-museums-societies-and-the-creation-of-value/) - BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 11 April 2022, 10.00am - 12.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SIlZxalvRSut62E6YkExGg Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value with editors Robyn McKenzie (Australian National University) Prof Howard Morphy (Australian National University) and Prof Paul Basu (SOAS) Dr
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Momentous Mobilities](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-momentous-mobilities/) - A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 21 April 2022 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) You can register for the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VvcmOoOfRxKM_Hn6X1M8mQ Momentous mobilities: anthropological musings on the meanings of travel The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Prof Noel Salazar (University
- [Anthropology Communicates for Social and Market Research](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-for-social-and-market-research/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 28 April 2022, 1.00-3.00pm (BST) Register for the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpceChrzwtEtSOSXW8In1naQJpZxLN6wT- Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Anthropology Communicates for Social and Market Research Speakers: Marnie Freeman (NeighbourlyLab) has 20 years of experience in Participatory Research Design, Community
- [Joint Seminar With The Anglo-Turkish Society: Peter Andrews](https://therai.org.uk/events/joint-seminar-with-the-anglo-turkish-society-peter-andrews/) - Joint Seminar With The Anglo-Turkish Society Monday 28 March 2022, 6.00pm (BST) This seminar will be held in-Person at the Royal Anthropological Institute Booking essential: https://peter-andrews-presentation.eventbrite.co.uk The Engendering of Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey, maps and book Speaker: Dr Peter Andrews Ethnic Groups in Turkey, and the accompanying maps, are the most important single reliable source of
- [Book Launch: Tim Ingold](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-tim-ingold/) - BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 11 March 2022, 4.00pm-6.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__0fwz8ouQb6J6Yujigcmxg BEING ALIVE BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION Prof Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) with Dr Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford) as discussant and David Shankland (Royal Anthropological Institute) as chair November
- [RAI Research Seminar and Book Launch: Pardis Mahdavi](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-and-book-launch-pardis-mahdavi/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINAR AND BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 25 February 2022, 3.00pm-5.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu6uqTstHtca8DbC5S4RrS5sVvkeXJu8 Hyphen Dr Pardis Mahdavi (Dean of Social Sciences at Arizona State University) and Dr David Shankland (Royal Anthropological Institute) as chair To hyphenate or not
- [Book Launch: Harvey Whitehouse](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-harvey-whitehouse/) - BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 1 March 2022, 4.00pm-6.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqdO2vqz4rGtJL4ohDCd-PfVydU-b80pFO The RAI is proud to present this book launch event, which discusses a new theory of how ritual has shaped human societies over the millennia: The Ritual Animal: Imitation
- [Film Webinar: Keepers of the Faith](https://therai.org.uk/events/film-webinar-keepers-of-the-faith/) - Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 March 2022 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuce2rqjMiG9PUkCN0T2lzH_CX4lhvd4Ba From our archives - Keepers of the Faith: The Buddhist Nuns of Sagaing Hills 1996 / 51 minutes With Prof Hiroko Kawanami (Lancaster University) and Rachelle Saruya (University of
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Being and dwelling through tourism](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-being-and-dwelling-through-tourism/) - A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 17 February 2022 at 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) You can register for the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qbvnp1ugQJevh0xS0NeUMA Being and dwelling through tourism: an anthropological perspective The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Dr Catherine Palmer (University of Brighton) and
- [Book Launch: Encounters with Anthropology in Austria](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-encounters-with-anthropology-in-austria/) - BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 22 February 2022, 2.00 - 5.30pm (GMT) / 3.00-6.30pm (CET) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErceivqzsuEt2vZO8B8iwK57iTqG-zmFca Encounters with Anthropology in Austria The RAI is proud to present this two part event, which discusses two important publications highlighting Anthropology in and from
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Magic’s Reason: an Anthropology of Analogy](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-magics-reason-an-anthropology-of-analogy/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 20 January 2022 at 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7B7mapF5QOaHFoWtSvNU5A Magic’s Reason: an Anthropology of Analogy The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Professor Graham Jones (Massachusetts Institute of
- [Book Launch: Time and its Object](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-time-and-its-object/) - RAI BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 27 January 2022, 3.00pm-5.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucO2qrTsuGdUhd5QFHlQYIgavrkasAySu Time and Its Object A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images with editors Dr Paolo Fortis (Durham University) Prof Susanne Kuechler
- [Anthropology Communicates: with Anthropologist Politicians](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-with-anthropologist-politicians/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Tuesday 3 February 2022, 3.00-5.00pm (GMT) Register for the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvd-ivqDkuE9ZyK5u5WhOkeq7wFU0yvMnV Photo by Jim Grant/Nevada Momentum Anthropology Communicates: with Anthropologist Politicians Speakers: Dr Harini Amarasuriya, MP in the Sri Lankan Parliament Dr Heidi Swank, former member of the Nevada
- [Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/mobilising-methods-in-medical-anthropology/) - Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology18-21 January 2022 Virtual Conference Scientific committee: Maya Unnithan, Kit Davies, Nadine Beckmann, Clare Chandler, Melissa Parker The RAI and RAI Medical Committee members are delighted to announce the new dates for our conference on ‘Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology’. After much deliberation, and following the constantly changing Covid-19 restrictions, we
- [Huxley Lectures: Stephen Shennan & Stephen Levinson](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lectures-stephen-shennan-stephen-levinson/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURES FOR 2020 & 2021 Tuesday 14 December in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. 1.30pm - the 2020 Huxley Lecture from Prof Stephen Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 3.00pm - the 2021 Huxley Lecture from Prof Stephen Shennan, University College
- [Breaking the Silence, screening and Q&A with Simon Broughton](https://therai.org.uk/events/breaking-the-silence-screening-and-qa-with-simon-broughton/) - RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 9 December 2021 at 4.00 - 6.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqceGtqj0iE9SKYFfVmYi1fNaMD-3VDifo BREAKING THE SILENCE: MUSIC IN AFGHANISTAN Screening and Q&A with Simon Broughton Chaired by Prof John Baily (Goldsmiths, London) and with Mirwaiss Sidiqi (Director of the Aga Khan
- [RAI Book Launch: Social Anthropologies of the Welsh](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-book-launch-social-anthropologies-of-the-welsh/) - RAI BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 25 November, 4.00pm-6.00pm (GMT) Social Anthropologies of the Welsh: Past and Present with editors Prof W. John Morgan (Cardiff University) Dr Fiona Bowie (Oxford University) and Dr Elaine Forde (Swansea University) Prof Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology) Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones (Aberystwyth University)
- [RAI Film Webinar: Karen Boswall](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-webinar-karen-boswall/) - RAI Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 26 November 2021 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoduqhrzojHdJjrq-Du-kzgR4X0DSK_JnL Collaboration, co-creation, participation and the surrender of film authorship Speaker: Karen Boswall, University of Sussex How can the embodied knowledge of the men, women and children of the world
- [Anthropology Communicates on Managing Universities](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-on-managing-universities/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Tuesday 30 November 2021, 3.00-5.00pm (GMT) Photo by Good Free Photos on Unsplash Anthropology Communicates on Managing Universities With Prof Andrea Cornwall (SOAS) Prof Cris Shore (Goldsmiths, University of London) chaired by Prof Emma Crewe (SOAS, University of London) What does a
- [Annual William Fagg Lecture: Wayne Modest](https://therai.org.uk/events/annual-william-fagg-lecture-wayne-modest/) - THE ANNUAL WILLIAM FAGG LECTURE 2019will be given by Professor Wayne Modest, Director of Content at the National Museum of World Cultures and Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Thursday 4 November at 6.00pm, in the Clore Centre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Followed by a reception.
- [RAI Research Seminar and Book Launch: Susan Crate](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-and-book-launch-susan-crate/) - RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR AND BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 11 November 2021 at 4.00 - 6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m5qNemk2RE-jk6HgFPkvyw Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia Prof Susan A. Crate (George Mason University) Once Upon the
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Classes of Labour](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-classes-of-labour/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 16 November 2021 at 3.00-5.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CNDtdgNpQsKFPbcfSJ2gXQ Classes of labour: work and life in a central Indian steel town The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Prof
- [Book Launch: The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-the-anthroposcene-of-weather-and-climate/) - VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 26 October at 6.30 - 8.00pm (BST) This event is part of our Anthropology and Conservation Conference, 25-29 October 2021 The book launch is free to attend and you can register for it here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfu2uqj0iHtD0Yzzb9Fq1WsC-T__EBdY9 The book launch is a public event and you do not have to
- [RAI Book Launch: Music, Dance, Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-book-launch-music-dance-anthropology/) - VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 4 November at 4.00 - 6.00 pm (GMT) Music, Dance, Anthropology with editor Prof Stephen Cottrell (City, University of London) Contributors Prof John Baily (Goldsmiths, London) Prof Ann R David (University of Roehampton) Dr Catherine Foley (University of Limerick) Dr Maria Koutsouba (University of Athens) Dr Jerome Lewis (University College London) Dr
- [Anthropology and Conservation Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-and-conservation-conference/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference 25-29 October 2021 We are very pleased to announce a major interdisciplinary conference on Anthropology and Conservation. The aim of the conference is simple: it is increasingly recognised that conservation can only be properly achieved with Indigenous Peoples, in full recognition of their rights. It is therefore
- [RAI Film Webinar: Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-webinar-uma-a-water-crisis-in-bolivia/) - RAI Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 19 October 2021 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcuGuqzIuG9BYixLTZijJ7ivmKEHga1U0 Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia: a conversation with filmmaker, Ana Llacer, and Dr Esther Balboa, an Aymara and Quechua intellectual from Bolivia The event is both a
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Where are we heading?](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-where-are-we-heading/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 21 October 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SGDd7kyaRP6IuIdwBbj0Hw Where Are We Heading? The Evolution of Humans and Things The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Prof Ian Hodder (Stanford
- [RAI Research Seminar: Les Roberts](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-les-roberts/) - RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 14 October 2021 at 3.00 - 5.00pm (BST) Killing space, giving life to space: interdisciplinary excursions in spatial anthropology Dr Les Roberts, University of Liverpool This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bkBCSSnvSB2AmX9KuqcHuQ In this paper I draw on
- [Creativity during the Covid lockdown: Life and Renewal During the Pandemic](https://therai.org.uk/events/creativity-during-the-covid-lockdown-life-and-renewal-during-the-pandemic/) - 6th Annual Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar ‘Creativity during the Covid lockdown: Life and Renewal During the Pandemic’ A Virtual Two-Day Conference Date: Thursday 7 and Friday 8 October, 2021 Time: 10.00am to 5.00pm There is no conference fee. Register in advance for both days: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAucuyrqzouGNB6rW6npEi0VjpcRj-uLXsm Programme Thursday 7 October 10:00 -
- [Curl Lecture - Rachel Crellin](https://therai.org.uk/events/curl-lecture-rachel-crellin/) - The Curl Lecture 2021Dr Rachel Crellin, University of Leicester Posthumanist feminist archaeology: a becoming Monday 27 September 2021, at 5.30pm (approximately) via Zoom The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. Abstract: This paper explores the potential of posthumanist feminism in archaeology. I argue that our discipline, our present world, and our futures all
- [Anthropology, Tourism and Development: A reflection on the work of Professor David Harrison (1941-2021)](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-tourism-and-development-a-reflection-on-the-work-of-professor-david-harrison-1941-2021/) - A VIRTUAL EVENT BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 28 September 2021 at 1.00 - 3.00pm (BST) This event will be held on Zoom. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcOuvpz4rHtOGNtBY5BASagM4q0OzVe81 Anthropology, Tourism and Development: A reflection on the work of Professor David Harrison (1941-2021) Contributors: Professor Clemen Aquino, University of the Philippines-Diliman Dr Raoul Bianchi, Manchester Metropolitan University Professor Vijay
- [Anthropology Communicates in Schools and Colleges](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-in-schools-and-colleges/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 16 September 2021, 3.00-5.00pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates in Schools and Colleges With confirmed panel speakers: Prof Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes; Scottish Qualifications Authority) Tomislav Maric (Bentley Wood High School) Emma Ford (Secretary IUAES Commission on Anthropology and Education) Dr Kevin
- [RAI Book Launch: Nick Stanley](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-book-launch-nick-stanley/) - VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 23 September at 3.00 - 4.30 pm (BST) This event will take place online on Zoom. Please register for it here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zQyXjVXlQnm0mgSm46X_XQ Objects as Insights: R. H. Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia Dr Nick Stanley (British Museum) Robert Codrington (1830-1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University.
- [RAI AGM 2021 followed by the Curl Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2021-followed-by-the-curl-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTEANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2021 followed by the 2021 Curl Lecture The 2021 AGM will take place on Monday 27 September 2021 at 3.00 pm on Zoom. It will be followed by the 2021 Curl Lecture Only RAI Fellows can attend the AGM. Please contact admin@therai.org.uk for a registration link. Formal notification of the
- [London Anthropology Day 2021](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2021/) - Tuesday 29th June 2021, 10am- 14:30pm (BST) - Online The London Anthropology Day is an annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. This year it will happen all online. For more information on the participating universities and to book, please go here: https://londonanthropologyday.co.uk/ Programme: 10:00 – 11:30 Welcome and
- [Anthropology Communicates: for Global Challenges Research](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-for-global-challenges-research/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 8 July 2021, 3.00-5.00pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates: for Global Challenges Research With confirmed panel speakers: Prof Laura Hammond (SOAS, University of London) Prof Helen Lambert (University of Bristol) chaired by Emma Crewe (SOAS) The Global Challenges Research Fund
- [RAI Film Webinar: Multimodal inventions](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-webinar-multimodal-inventions/) - RAI Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 9 September 2021 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApduyhrDMpE9Rg-KBLVABTLKguZ4cACoYs Multimodal inventions in conversation with Dr Isaac Marrero-Guillamón (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Dr E. Gabriel Dattatreyan (Goldsmiths, University of London) This talk discusses our experiences and experiments in multimodal anthropology
- [RAI Research Webinar and Book Launch: Gillian Tett](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-webinar-and-book-launch-gillian-tett/) - RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR AND BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 22 June 2021 at 4.00 - 5.30pm (BST) Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life Dr Gillian Tett (Financial Times) with Dr James G. Carrier (Max Planck Institute) as discussant. This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go
- [RAI Research Webinar: Deborah Reed-Danahay](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-webinar-deborah-reed-danahay/) - RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 24 June 2021 at 4.00 - 6.00pm (BST) At the Intersection of Urban Anthropology and Migration Studies: Locating the French in London Prof Deborah Reed-Danahay, University at Buffalo (SUNY) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sTU4efahQdKlU1ZX9ieHmg In this seminar
- [JRAI 2021 Special Issue Launch: Towards an Anthropology of Data](https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-2021-special-issue-launch-towards-an-anthropology-of-data/) - JRAI 2021 Special Issue Online Launch Event Thursday 27 May 2021, 4:00-5:30pm (BST) TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF DATA with the special issue editors Dr Rachel Douglas-Jones, Dr Antonia Walford and Dr Nick Seavers, reader/assessor Dr Katherine Smith, and contributors Dr Vijayanka Nair, Prof Tahani Nadim, Dr Alexander (A.R.E.) Taylor, Dr Cori Hayden, Dr Hannah Knox, Dr Sarah Blacker
- [Publication Launch: Asia Collections outside Asia](https://therai.org.uk/events/publication-launch-asia-collections-outside-asia/) - A VIRTUAL LAUNCH EVENT OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTETuesday 1 June 2021 at 13:30-15.30pm (BST) Publication Launch: Asia Collections outside Asia: Questioning Artefacts, Cultures and Identities in the Museum with editors Dr Iside Carbone (RAI) Dr Helen Wang (British Museum) chaired by Prof Elisabetta Colla (University of Lisbon) and special issue contributors: Dr Sofia Campos Lopes (Orient
- [Anthropology Communicates: with Corporations](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-with-corporations/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 10 June 2021, 3.00-5.00pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates: with Corporations With confirmed panel speakers: Catherine Dolan (SOAS, University of London) Rebecca Prentice (University of Sussex) Dinah Rajak (University of Sussex) chaired by Richard Axelby (SOAS) Anthropologists often criticise corporations for contributing to the harmful environmental
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Vital diplomacy: the ritual everyday on a dammed river in Amazonia](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-vital-diplomacy-the-ritual-everyday-on-a-dammed-river-in-amazonia/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Vital diplomacy: the ritual everyday on a dammed river in Amazonia Thursday 17 June 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2kSOAYoQQZOYHL1uxPtMdg The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is
- [Mary Douglas Lecture: Albert I. Baumgarten](https://therai.org.uk/events/mary-douglas-lecture-albert-i-baumgarten/) - Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2021Living Together When We Cannot Agree On How to Live: Sectarian Factions in Ancient Judaism Professor Albert I. Baumgarten Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Wednesday 26 May 2021 6.00pm-8.00pm Online How can people live peaceably together, when they have come to be ordered in
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse from Paris to Kinshasa](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-breaking-rocks-music-ideology-and-economic-collapse-from-paris-to-kinshasa/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDAN VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse from Paris to Kinshasa Thursday 20 May 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0rbHbrBtR-SjhbIDUtjE5Q The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is
- [RAI Research Seminar and Book Launch: Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-and-book-launch-recording-kastom-alfred-haddons-journals/) - RAI RESEARCH WEBINAR AND BOOK LAUNCHA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 20 April 2021 at 12-13.30pm (BST) Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from his Expeditions to Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898 Dr Anita Herle (University of Cambridge) Dr Jude Philp (University of Sydney) chaired by Prof Haidy Geismar
- [Anthropology Communicates: with Government Policymakers](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-with-government-policymakers/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 13 May 2021, 1.00-2.30pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates: with Government Policymakers Picture: Howard Lake/(CC BY-SA 2.0) With confirmed speakers: Brendan Donegan (Dept for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, International Climate Finance) Carrie Heitmeyer (Government Office for Science, SAGE Covid Behaviour Team)
- [2020 Photographic Studies Award: Prof Darren Newbury](https://therai.org.uk/events/2020-photographic-studies-award-prof-darren-newbury/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute is proud to award the 2020 Photographic Studies Prize to Prof Darren Newbury. Sadly last year's live event had to be cancelled. We are now following up with a virtual event. ------------------------ Friday 16 April 2021 at 6.30 - 8:00pm (BST) Please join us in this celebration for a talk by
- [Book launch and seminar: Clive Gamble](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-and-seminar-clive-gamble/) - VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH AND SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 1 April at 3.00 - 5.00 pm (BST) Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859 Prof Clive Gamble (University of Southampton) with Prof Felix Driver (Royal Holloway) as discussant. This event will take place online on Zoom. Please register for it here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2lBmKc1lRiKyW2h2SthNQQ One
- [Anthropology Communicates: with Civil Society](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-with-civil-society/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 8 April 2021, 3.00-5.00pm (BST) Anthropology Communicates: with Civil Society With confirmed speakers: Alex Clegg (Senior community coordinator at Sense about Science) Ingrid Abreu Scherer (Civil Society Lead at What Works Wellbeing) Prof Danny Miller (Professor of Anthropology, UCL)
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Marital Breakdown Among British Asians](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-marital-breakdown-among-british-asians/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDAN VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marital Breakdown Among British Asians: Conjugality, Legal Pluralism and New Kinship Thursday 15 April 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) This webinar will be held on Zoom. You can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iI2L-0bAQDSNqW7JfeyXGg The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute,
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: My Life as a Spy](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-my-life-as-a-spy/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File Thursday 18 March 2021 at 2.00-4.00pm (GMT) The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author
- [RAI Film Festival](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-festival-3/) - RAI Film Festival 2021 The RAI Film Festival will take place 19-28 March 2021. Please note that due to the ongoing uncertainty about COVID-19 the RAI Film Festival 2021 and the conference will take place online. Details aboiut the Film festival can be found here https://raifilm.org.uk/rai-film-festival-2021/
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: The Empire's New Clothes](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-empires-new-clothes/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Empire's New Clothes: the Myth of the Commonwealth Thursday 18 February 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Prof Philip
- [RAI Research Webinar: Anthropology and/of the Future, with Ezri Carlebach](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-webinar-anthropology-and-of-the-future-with-ezri-carlebach/) - RAI Research Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 22 February 2021 at 3-5pm (GMT) Anthropology and/of the future with Ezri Carlebach presented by the RAI’s Anthropology of Policy and Practice Committee with speakers: Professor Kathleen Richardson, De Montfort University, author of An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines.
- [Anthropology Communicates: Sue Black on Forensic Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-sue-black-on-forensic-anthropology/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 11 March 2021 at 3:00-05:00pm (GMT) Forensic anthropology - no longer a cowboy! Prof Dame Sue Black (President of the RAI and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University) chaired by Dr Emma Crewe (SOAS) This event will be held on Zoom. To
- [RAI Research Webinar: Trevor Marchand](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-webinar-trevor-marchand/) - RAI Research Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 4 February 2021 at 3-5pm (GMT) The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: craftwork in 21st century England Prof Trevor Marchand (SOAS) With an introduction by Professor Michael Herzfeld (Harvard) This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscOygpzMvEtPvRWN5MePRMrLgQuM3sEgy Against the backdrop of
- [RAI FILM Festival programme launch](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-festival-programme-launch/) - RAI FILM Festival programme launchFriday 12 February 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) Register for the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqfuqgqTwrEtcxHcejlDqIrF_DhP20z5TG Join us for the launch of the 17th RAI FILM Festival 2021 programme. The festival team will reveal for the first time the full line-up of feature length documentaries, shorts, student films and music docs competing for our 5 prizes, as well
- [Anthropology Communicates: Raymond Apthorpe on UN Agencies and International NGOs](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-raymond-apthorpe-on-un-agencies-and-international-ngos/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Wednesday 13 January 2021 at 10:00-12:00 (GMT) A Mission to Accomplish: communicating anthropology to international governmental and non-governmental development organisations This session will be led by Professor Raymond Apthorpe (RAI), with confirmed speakers: Amy Croome (Oxfam) Alex Fenwick (Welthungerhilfe) and chaired
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: Being Bedouin Around Petra](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-being-bedouin-around-petra/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Being Bedouin Around Petra: Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century Tuesday 19 January 2021 at 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) This webinar will be held on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5YLbHtpJT2mq8X0sWnGDMQ The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological
- [Book Launch: The Nuaulu world of plants & Nature Wars (Roy Ellen)](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-the-nuaulu-world-of-plants-nature-wars-roy-ellen/) - VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE This event - hosted jointly by the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Centre for Biocultural Diversity at the University of Kent - marks the publication of two complementary books by Prof Roy Ellen. The event will be chaired by Dr Rajindra Puri (University of Kent). The Nuaulu
- [RAI Film Webinar: Stephen Hughes](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-webinar-stephen-hughes/) - RAI Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 3 December 2020 at 2-4pm (GMT) A video of the event is available here What can we learn from children about ethnographic filmmaking? David MacDougall, Indian children and documentary film. Dr Stephen Hughes (RAI) In this seminar I will present material from the video
- [Anthropology Communicates: Emma Crewe and Abbi Hobbs](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-emma-crewe-and-abbi-hobbs/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Wednesday 9 December 2020 at 11:00-13:00 (GMT) Engaging Anthropologically with UK Parliamentary Select Committees This session will be led by: Emma Crewe, Director of Global Research Network on Parliaments and People, SOAS, University of London and Abbi Hobbs, Head of Social
- [RAI Webinar: Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-webinar-carlos-vlez-ibez/) - RAI Research Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 29 October 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Necro/Narco State Dynamics: The Transformation and Mirroring of the U.S and Mexican Nations of the Southwest North American Region. Prof Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez (Arizona State University) Since the conquest of
- [Anthropology Communicates: LSE Covid and Care Research Group](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-communicates-lse-covid-and-care-research-group/) - Anthropology CommunicatesA VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Wednesday 11 November 2020 at 3-5pm (GMT) A video of the event is available here A Right to Care: The Social Foundation of Recovery from Covid-19 This session will be lead by the LSE Covid and Care Research Group, with confirmed
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-being-young-male-and-muslim-in-luton/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDAN VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton Thursday 19 November 2020 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) A video of the event is available here The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets
- [Presidential Address 2020 - Sue Black](https://therai.org.uk/events/presidential-address-2020-sue-black/) - The Presidential Address 2020Professor Dame Sue Black, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University Forensic Anthropology and the UK Criminal Justice System Friday 16 October 2020, at 5.30pm (approximately) via Zoom The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM. Abstract: Forensic anthropologists are
- [Reviewer meets Reviewed: The Sweatshop Regime](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-sweatshop-regime/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Sweatshop Regime: labouring bodies, exploitation and garments Made in India Wednesday 21 October 2020 at 5.30 pm This event will happen online, please follow this Zoom link The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is
- [Henry Myers Lecture - David Gellner](https://therai.org.uk/events/henry-myers-lecture-david-gellner/) - THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2020will be given by Prof David Gellner, University of Oxford The Spaces of Religion: A View from South Asia Wednesday 16 September, 6.30pm (BST) The lecture will be part of the Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future virtual conference Do assaults on distinctions and deconstructions of concepts inherited from
- [RAI AGM 2020 followed by the Presidential Address](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2020-followed-by-the-presidential-address/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2020 followed by the Presidential Address The 2020 AGM will take place on Friday 16 October at 3.00 pm on Zoom. It will be followed by the 2020 Presidential Address Only RAI Fellows may vote at the AGM. Formal notification of the AGM has also been published in Anthropology
- [Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 Crisis: Svašek](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropological-contributions-to-the-covid-19-crisis-svaek/) - Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 23 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) Lockdown: Sociality, Materiality and Placemaking Dr Maruška Svašek, Queen’s University Belfast A video of the event is available here Drawing on previous research into human mobility, emotional interaction and material mediation (Svašek 2018; 2016;
- [Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 Crisis: Borgstrom, Cohn and Driessen & Árnason](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropological-contributions-to-the-covid-19-crisis-borgstrom-cohn-and-driessen-rnason/) - Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 30 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here End-of-life care in England during the Covid-19 Pandemic Dr Erica Borgstrom, Open University Prof Simon Cohn, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Dr Annelieke Driessen,
- [Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-and-geography-dialogues-past-present-and-future/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future BRITISH MUSEUM/SOAS/RGS, 14 - 18 September 2020 The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference is jointly organised by the RAI, the RGS, the British Academy, the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, and the BM’s Department for Africa, Oceania and
- [Antropological Contributions to the Covid-19 Crisis: Grotti and Quagliariello & Guslini](https://therai.org.uk/events/antropological-contributions-to-the-covid-19-crisis-grotti-and-quagliariello-guslini/) - Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 9 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Lockdown Babies: Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Shadow of Covid-19 in Italy Prof Vanessa Grotti, University of Bologna Dr Chiara Quagliariello, European University Institute Since the
- [Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest: Mirror Mirror](https://therai.org.uk/events/fringe-queer-film-arts-fest-mirror-mirror/) - Fringe! Queer Film & Arts FestThe Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival is delighted to team up with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest throughout July this year in celebration of Pride. The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world.
- [Anthropological Contribution to the Covid-19 Crisis: Heady and Pieta & Bullen](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropological-contribution-to-the-covid-19-crisis-heady-and-pieta-bullen/) - Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 16 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Strong Families and Infection – European Kinship and the Corona Virus Dr Patrick Heady, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Ms Barbara Pieta, Max Planck Institute
- [Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 Crisis: Miller & Adepegba](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropological-contributions-to-the-covid-19-crisis-miller-adepegba/) - Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 2 July 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of the event is available here Smartphones and the fine line between care and surveillance Prof Daniel Miller, University College London Two recent developments have made the fine line between care and
- [Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest: This is My Face](https://therai.org.uk/events/fringe-queer-film-arts-fest-this-is-my-face/) - Fringe! Queer Film & Arts FestThe Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival is delighted to team up with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest throughout July this year in celebration of Pride. The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world.
- [Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest: Dream Girls](https://therai.org.uk/events/fringe-queer-film-arts-fest-dream-girls/) - Fringe! Queer Film & Arts FestThe Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival is delighted to team up with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest throughout July this year in celebration of Pride. The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world.
- [JRAI Special Issue Online Launch: Mind and Spirit: A Comparative Theory](https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-special-issue-online-launch-mind-and-spirit-a-comparative-theory/) - JRAI Special Issue Online LaunchMind and Spirit: A Comparative Theory with the special issue editor Professor Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford University) and editorial liaison Dr Nick Long (LSE) plus contributors (Felicity Aulino, Joshua Brahinsky, John Dulin, Vivian Afi Dzokoto, Emily Ng, Rachel E. Smith, Kara Weisman) A video of the event is available here Friday 29 May
- [Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 Crisis: Roundtable](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropological-contributions-to-the-covid-19-crisis-roundtable/) - Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 CrisisA VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSITUTE Thursday 25 June 2020 at 3pm (BST) A video of this event is available here Roundtable discussion with: Prof Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford Friendship is turning out to be the single most important factor influencing our mental and physical health.
- [Joy Hendry Webinar + Q&A](https://therai.org.uk/events/joy-hendry-webinar-qa/) - RAI WEBINARWEBINAR SERIES OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 'An Affair with a Village' Webinar + Q&A Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes) Tuesday 12 May at 2pm BST (UK) Other time zones: 3pm CEST (Central European Summer Time) / 10pm JST (Japan) / 9am EDT (East Coast US) / 11pm AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) A video
- [Research in Progress: Frederick Martineau](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-frederick-martineau/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 26 March 2020, 4.00pm Shadow lives of surveillance: technologies of control and the management of disease and health crisis Frederick Martineau, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine This seminar will be given remotely via Zoom, https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/906161455 Abstract: This paper problematises the production, performativity
- [Research in Progress: Marcello Francioni](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-marcello-francioni/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 5 March 2020, 4.00pm Not myself tonight, Insincerity and learning at a Japanese-style Gay Bar in Tokyo Marcello Francioni, SOAS Free, but booking advised: https://marcellofrancioni.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: This paper investigates the researcher’s experience as a foreigner miseko (gay bar help) attempting to embody the work ethics
- [RAI Research Seminar: Matthew Machin-Autenrieth](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-matthew-machin-autenrieth/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music, Protest and the Politics of Cultural Memory at the Día de la toma in Granada Matthew Machin-Autenrieth (University of Cambridge) Wednesday 11 March at 5.30 pm The Día de la toma [Day of the Taking] is an annual festival held on the 2nd January that
- [The Urban Janissary in Eighteenth Century Istanbul](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-urban-janissary-in-eighteenth-century-istanbul/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 12 March 2020 6:00-8:00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The Urban Janissary in Eighteenth Century Istanbul Speaker: Dr Gemma Masson During the eighteenth-century the Ottoman Empire was changing, and so the long-standing institutions changed with it. By far the most famous, or, in some cases, infamous, of these institutions
- [History of Arctic Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/history-of-arctic-anthropology/) - History of Arctic AnthropologyThursday 27 and Friday 28 February 2020 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT There is no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided on the day, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to https://arcticanthropology.eventbrite.co.uk DAY ONE Thursday 27 February 10.00 TEA AND COFFEE 10.20 WELCOME
- [RAI@USC 2020](https://therai.org.uk/events/raiusc-2020/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) celebrates ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe at the RAI Film Festival in Bristol, UK, every two years. The USC Center of Visual Anthropology brings a USC Edition of the festival to Los Angeles in alternate years. This March, USC will host
- [Landscapes of Human Evolution](https://therai.org.uk/events/landscapes-of-human-evolution/) - LANDSCAPES OF HUMAN EVOLUTION Organisers: James Cole, John McNabb, Matt Grove, and Robert Hosfield Thursday 13 and Friday 14 February 2020 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT There is no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided on the day, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to https://landscapeshuman.eventbrite.co.uk
- [RAI Research Seminar: Edward Simpson](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-edward-simpson/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE State Highway 31: A Road Trip through the Heart of Modern India to How the World Works Professor Edward Simpson (SOAS) Wednesday 19 February at 5.30 pm This talk follows the route of State Highway 31 through western Madhya Pradesh, central India. The research was part
- [RAI Research Seminar: Ahmed Rahman](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-ahmed-rahman/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mohamed Wardi and his contribution to the kisir (tambour) music of Sudan Ahmed A Rahman (MMus Ethnomusicology) Wednesday 12 February at 5.30 pm Since relatively little is known about Sudanese music, this presentation will give an introduction to Sudanese music and culture by means of interactive
- [RAI Research Seminar: Junji Koizumi](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-junji-koizumi/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Globalization of Anthropology and the Creation of the WAU, World Anthropological Union Junji Koizumi International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Osaka University and the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Monday 03 February at 5.30 pm The Globalization of anthropological studies in terms of differentiated
- [Archaeology in Anatolia](https://therai.org.uk/events/archaeology-in-anatolia/) - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Archaeology in Anatolia SOAS, 10th February 2020 The Royal Anthropological Institute, SOAS, Anglo-Turkish Society and the British Institute at Ankara are delighted to announce a one-day symposium: Archaeology in Anatolia Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG 10th February 2020, 9.30am-4.30pm. The aim of this symposium is to
- [RAI Research Seminar: Louise Humphrey](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-louise-humphrey/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Evolution of Childhood Dr Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum, London Wednesday 29 January at 5.30 pm Life history incorporates a series of milestones that define the pace of life and the transitions between different lifetime stages. Modern human life histories incorporate several unique and derived
- [RAI Photographic Salon – Photography and Tourism](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-photographic-salon-photography-and-tourism/) - RAI PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON – PHOTOGRAPHY AND TOURISMJanuary 30, 2020, 6-8 pm, Royal Anthropological Institute The RAI Photographic Committee invites you to attend our third photography salon, a convivial and informal evening of conversation and drinks exploring the relationship between anthropology and photography. This salon explores tourism and especially the role of photography in it. How
- [Research in Progress: Annamaria Dall’Anese](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-annamaria-dallanese/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 16 January 2020, 4.00pm Refocussing the Self: Life After and Beyond Sight Loss Annamaria Dall’Anese, UCL Free, but booking advised: https://dallanese.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: Adventitious sight loss often leads to reduced employability or unemployment. In a British context, where success at work is one of the
- [RAI Research Seminar: Richard Williams](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-richard-williams/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music Videos and Prosthetic Memories in Pakistan’s Coke Studio Dr Richard Williams, SOAS Wednesday 22 January at 5.30 pm Since 2007, Coke Studio has rapidly become one of the most influential platforms in televisual, digital and musical media, and has assumed a significant role in generating
- [Anglo-Turkish Society/RAI concert: The Silk Road Collective](https://therai.org.uk/events/anglo-turkish-society-rai-concert-the-silk-road-collective/) - Anglo-Turkish Society/RAI concert: The SOAS Silk Road Collective at the Royal Anthropological Institute 23 January 2020, 6.00 pm The SOAS Silk Road Collective is a London-based group which promotes collaboration among musicians from different cultures along the silk routes, and celebrates their shared cultural heritage. The ensemble includes musicians and dancers, both students and professionals, from
- [Huxley Lecture - Chris Hann](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-chris-hann/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Wednesday 18 December at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Economy and Ethics in the Cosmic Process When, late in life, T.H. Huxley returned to the themes
- [Book Launch: Exotic No More](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-exotic-no-more/) - BOOK LAUNCH AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Celebrating Exotic No More/ Professor Jeremy MacClancy Cultural Relativism and Indigenous Rights: rethinking some dilemmas in applied anthropology Dr Marcus Colchester, Forrest Peoples Programme Wednesday 15 January at 5.30 pm We are pleased to announce the launch of the second, revised edition of the best-selling publication Exotic No
- [The Argonauts of the Stone Age](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-argonauts-of-the-stone-age/)
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Work, Sleep, Repeat](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-work-sleep-repeat/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Work, Sleep, Repeat: The Abstract Labour of German Management Consultants Tuesday 19 November at 5.30 pm Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’,
- [Launch of the Policy and Practice Committee](https://therai.org.uk/events/launch-of-the-policy-and-practice-committee/) - Launch of the new RAI Committee on Policy and PracticeWednesday 27 November at 5:30 pm The RAI is launching a new committee for both academic and policy/practitioner anthropologists, and those who consider themselves both, as well as social scientists interested in anthropology in the UK and overseas. The question for this committee is why, how,
- [RAI Research Seminar: Menaka PP Bora and John Baily](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-menaka-pp-bora-and-john-baily/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seduction of the Senses - Re-imagining Dance Performance in the 19th century Kabul Court through oral, archival and cinematic resources Dr Menaka PP Bora and Prof John Baily, Afghanistan Music Unit, Goldsmiths Wednesday 13 November at 5.30 pm In Afghanistan there is a type of multi-part
- [Seminar: Peter Andrews](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-peter-andrews/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 14 November 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Peter Andrews A Migration of Tents; Evolution and diffusion of nomadic tent types across Central Asia The arrival of nomadic Turks in Anatolia was dependent in part on the dwelling they developed, which allowed them to cross
- [The End of AIDS?](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-end-of-aids/) - Free double-bill screening of films exploring the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in two different parts of the world. The End of AIDS? Wednesday 6 November at 7.00pm Free double-bill screening of films exploring the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in two different parts of the world. Introduced by anthropologist Gem Aellah
- [The Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture: Janet Topp Fargion](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-royal-anthropological-institute-blacking-lecture-janet-topp-fargion/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecturewill be given by Dr Janet Topp Fargion, British Library Archiving World Music Cultures and the Impacts of Listening Thursday 31 October 2019 7:00pm, Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB The lecture will be followed by refreshments. This event is free, but tickets must be
- [RAI Research Seminar: Rupert Cox](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-rupert-cox/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tremulous Images: visualising sound as a memory of place and conflict in Okinawa Dr Rupert Cox, University of Manchester Wednesday 6 November at 5.30 pm Sound is a way of understanding how the memory of conflict resides in place through resonance, reverberation and reflection. This presentation
- [Eurorama 2019: The Best of Europe's Ethnographic Film Festivals in London](https://therai.org.uk/events/eurorama-2019-the-best-of-europes-ethnographic-film-festivals-in-london/) - Please note: All free tickets for this event have now been allocated. We will, however, be operating a waiting list queue on the day. If seats are vacant at 11:00, we will allocate them to those waiting in the queue on a first-come first-served basis. You can join the queue from 10:30. Join us at
- [Book Launch: Civilisation Recast](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-civilisation-recast/) - BOOK LAUNCH AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Civilisation Recast Prof Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics & Prof Michael Rowlands, University College London Wednesday 30 October at 5.30 pm Civilisation is a debated and contentious concept and is often associated with the prerogatives of the ‘West’, colonial histories, and even emerging global politics. In this
- [In Honour of Asen Balikci: The Netsilik Inuit films + intro by Hugh Brody](https://therai.org.uk/events/in-honour-of-asen-balikci-the-netsilik-inuit-films-intro-by-hugh-brody/)
- [Africa - Folklore Society and RAI Joint Seminar](https://therai.org.uk/events/africa-folklore-society-and-rai-joint-seminar/) - The Fifth ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ Seminar.Celebrating five years of conversation on ideas of mutual interest to both disciplines. ‘Africa’ Date: Thursday 24 October 2019 Time: 10.00am to 5.00pm Venue: Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT There is no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided on the day, but tickets
- [The Architecture of Evidence: Language Printed in 3D](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-architecture-of-evidence-language-printed-in-3d/) - RAI Anthropology and Language Committee EventThe architecture of evidence: language printed in 3D Dr Alex Pillen, University College London Friday 25 October 2019 at 6.30 pm All languages have the means for establishing ‘evidence’ for what one is saying. Evidentiality constitutes sections of verbal performance which are closely tied into observable reality. Language and perceivable
- [Seminar: Priscilla Mary Işın](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-priscilla-mary-isin/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 17 October 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Priscilla Mary Işın Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history—and one of the most culinarily inclined. According to Prof Robert Dankoff, the Ottomans saw their
- [Presidential Address - Sue Black](https://therai.org.uk/events/presidential-address-sue-black/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute in association with the Centre for Environment & Society, Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University Forensic anthropology in the UK – past, present and future Public Lecture by Professor Dame Sue Black Tuesday 22 October 2019 at 6.30pm followed by a drinks reception. JHB Main Lecture Theatre (John Henry
- [RAI Research Seminar: Indigenous Australia in British Museums](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-indigenous-australia-in-british-museums/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Indigenous Australia in British museums: the relational museum as practice Dr Lissant Bolton (British Museum), Dr Gaye Sculthorpe (British Museum) and Prof Howard Morphy (Australian National University) Wednesday 16 October at 5.30 pm This seminar is a reflection on an ongoing research project, The Relational Museum
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Made in Egypt](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-made-in-egypt/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Made in Egypt: Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor Thursday 17 October at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the
- [Prof Michael Banton Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/prof-michael-banton-day/) - Prof Michael Banton Day 10 October 2019 at the Royal Anthropological Institute A one-day conference exploring his works and career. There will be no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided on the day, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please got to https://michaelbanton.eventbrite.co.uk. 9.30 TEA AND COFFEE 9.50 WELCOME 10.00 Dr Christopher
- [Annual William Fagg Lecture: James Leach](https://therai.org.uk/events/annual-william-fagg-lecture-james-leach/) - THE ANNUAL WILLIAM FAGG LECTURE 2019will be given by Professor James Leach, CNRS – CREDO Aix-Marseille Université and the University of Western Australia Monday 30 September at 6.15pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Followed by a reception. Relationships in the making: negotiating knowledge
- [JRAI Special Issue Launch: Energy and Ethics?](https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-special-issue-launch-energy-and-ethics/) - JRAI Special Issue LaunchEnergy and Ethics? with the special issue guest editors Dr Mette M. High (University of St Andrews) and Dr Jessica M. Smith (Colorado School of Mines) Friday 4 October at 5.30 pm Energy rises, if not demands, vital and vexing ethical questions. In what ways does energy contribute to or imperil the
- [Book Launch: Mapping Indigenous Australia](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-mapping-indigenous-australia/) - BOOK LAUNCH AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mapping Indigenous Australia Frances Morphy, General Editor (with Bill Arthur), Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, Center for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University Wednesday 9 October at 5.30 pm The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, published in 2005, was the first atlas of its kind, anywhere.
- [Curl Lecture - Oliver Harris](https://therai.org.uk/events/curl-lecture-oliver-harris/) - THE CURL LECTURE 2019will be given by Dr Oliver Harris, University of Leicester Archaeology and the creation of pasts Friday 20 September 2019, at 5.30pm (approximately) in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London, 2nd Floor, South Junction Wilkins Building, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT. The lecture will be preceded by the RAI’s AGM.
- [RAI AGM 2019 followed by the Curl Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2019-followed-by-the-curl-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2019 followed by the Curl Lecture The 2019 AGM will take place on Friday 20 September at 3.30 pm in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London, 2nd Floor, South Junction Wilkins Building, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT. It will be followed by the 2019 Curl Lecture. All
- [RAI Student Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-student-conference-3/) - RAI Ninth Annual Student Conference Anthropology: Past, Present and Future 11-12 September 2019 10.00 – 16.00 School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford Lecture Theatre, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN Programme on Wednesday 11 September 09.30 Registration 10.00 Welcome by Emma Ford (Royal Anthropological Institute) Chair: Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford) 10.15
- [Ariadne van de Ven Exhibition](https://therai.org.uk/events/ariadne-van-de-ven-exhibition/) - Exhibition LaunchAriadne van de Ven Monday 16 September at 5.30 pm Ariadne van de Ven (1961-2017) bequeathed the archive of her photographic work to the Royal Anthropological Institute when she died of cancer in 2017. Ariadne was a member of the RAI’s Photo Committee and her observations of Kolkata’s people and streets are a rich
- [Seminar: Alan Greaves](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-alan-greaves/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 19 September 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Alan Greaves, University of Liverpool John Garstang and Turkey John Garstang of Liverpool University was a pioneer of Turkish archaeology and the founder of the British Institute at Ankara. His book The Land of the Hittites(1910) not
- [Seminar: Cengiz Güneş](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-cengiz-gnes/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 20 June 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Cengiz Güneş, Open University The Kurds in a Changing Middle East Kurdish political activism has reached a new height in the beginning of the 21st Century with Kurdish movements in Iraq, Turkey and Syria establishing themselves as
- [London Anthropology Day 2019](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2019/) - 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
- [Seminar: Noémi Lévy-Aksu](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-nomi-lvy-aksu/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 21 May 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Noémi Lévy-Aksu, London School of Economics The Power of Discretion: Martial Law in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey İdare-i örfiyye, an equivalent of the martial law, appeared as a neologism in the 1876 Ottoman constitution.
- [Mary Douglas Lecture: Christopher Hood](https://therai.org.uk/events/mary-douglas-lecture-christopher-hood/) - Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2019We are pleased to announce that this year’s Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Christopher Hood (Visiting Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford) on Wednesday 22 May at 6pm in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK. Playing the Numbers Game in the UK’s Public
- [RAI Research Seminar: Glynn Flood](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-glynn-flood/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Afar ethnography & its future: Glynn Flood's ethnographic estate Prof Gill Shepherd (Chair), Dr Maknun Ashami, Michèle Flood, Jean Lydall, and Till Trojer Wednesday 5 June at 5.30 pm To the mark the publication: In Pursuit of Afar Nomads. Glynn Flood's Work Journal and Letters From
- [RAI Research Seminar: Stefan Williamson Fa](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-stefan-williamson-fa/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Sonic Dimensions of Twelver Shi’ism in Turkey: Living with the Household of the Prophet Dr Stefan Williamson Fa, University College London Wednesday 12 June at 5.30 pm Devotion to the Household of the Prophet – the Prophet Muhammad, his daughter Fatima and the Twelve Imams, collectively
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Josefu’s Thousand Hills](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-josefus-thousand-hills/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Josefu’s Thousand Hills Thursday 16 May at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets
- [RAI Research Seminar: Rachel Harris](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-rachel-harris-2/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Revitalising Uyghur Intangible Cultural Heritage in China and Kazakhstan Dr Rachel Harris, SOAS Wednesday 15 May at 5.30 pm Among the Uyghurs, Meshrep gatherings play a prominent role in modern imaginings of national identity, and in local processes of community making. Meshrep are sites for acts
- [Social Anthropologies of the Welsh: Past and Present](https://therai.org.uk/events/social-anthropologies-of-the-welsh-past-and-present/) - Social Anthropologies of the Welsh: Past and Present A Joint Symposium: 1-2 May 2019 The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the Learned Society of Wales, the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, and the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods. Publication: RAI Country Day Series: Sean Kingston Publishing. This event is
- [Wellcome Medal Presentation: Elizabeth Hallam](https://therai.org.uk/events/wellcome-medal-presentation-elizabeth-hallam/) - WELLCOME MEDAL PRESENTATIONAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anatomy Museum – the edit Dr Elizabeth Hallam, University of Oxford Friday 10 May at 5.00 pm Moving through complicated routes to publication, a work develops with many omissions, gaps, deletions, replacements, and losses. My book, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed, is no exception; its composition
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Sustainable Food Systems](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-sustainable-food-systems/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City Tuesday 30 April at 5.00 pm Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion
- [Book Launch: Fragments of Nepali History in the UK](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-fragments-of-nepali-history-in-the-uk/) - BOOK LAUNCH Fragments of Nepali History in the UK Tuesday 26 March at 5.30pm by Sanyukta Shrestha ‘Fragments of Nepali History in the UK’ is a collection of essays and reviews by Sanyukta Shrestha from 2012 to 2019. The essay section includes scholarly investigation of manuscripts and artefacts of Nepali origin and scattered around the
- [RAI Research Seminar: Fiorella Montero-Diaz](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-fiorella-montero-diaz/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marginal like you! Reconfiguring white upper class identity and citizenship through fusion music in post-war Lima. Dr Fiorella Montero-Diaz, Keele University Wednesday 20 March at 5.30 pm Between 1980 and 2000 Peru was engulfed in an internal war between the state and two armed groups, Shining
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Democracy as Death](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-democracy-as-death/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Democracy as death: the moral order of anti-liberal politics in South Africa Thursday 21 March at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the
- [Seminar: Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-zde-eliktemel-thomen/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 21 March 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen Dangers of Cinema: Films and Moral Discourse in the late Ottoman Empire Silent films have been contested for various reasons. Within late Ottoman society, early cinema created concerns in relation to films’ political content, obscenity
- [David Parkin's RAI President's Lifetime Achievement Award](https://therai.org.uk/events/david-parkins-rai-presidents-lifetime-achievement-award/) - RAI President’s Lifetime Achievement AwardTuesday 19 March 2019 at 3.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The presentation of the RAI President's Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof David Parkin. 3.30 Prof Richard Fardon, SOAS The African foundations of David Parkin's anthropological thought The taken-for-granted relationship between ethnography and anthropology has recently become contentious, and rightly so.
- [Book Launch: Dunbar's Number](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-dunbars-number/) - BOOK LAUNCH DUNBAR’S NUMBER Wednesday 27 February at 5.30pm Edited by David Shankland, Director, RAI Sean Kingston: RAI Occasional Publication Number. 45 The RAI is delighted to announce that the launch of the RAI’s most recent occasional publication ‘Dunbar’s Number’ will take place at the offices of the RAI on 27th February 2019, 5.30pm. This
- [RAI Research Seminar: Theodore Konkouris](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-theodore-konkouris/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE “I am sorry that we made you bleed”: Locality and Apprenticeship Among Mande Hunters Dr Theodore Konkouris, Queen's University Belfast Wednesday 6 March at 5.30 pm Abstract: This article considers apprenticeship among Mande hunters’ musi-cians in Mali. By drawing on the concepts of ‘locality’ and ‘musicking’,
- [RAI Research Seminar: Isak Niehaus](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-isak-niehaus/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Modern Art and the Scientific Aesthetics of Radcliffe-Brown: Towards ‘The Social Organisation of Australian Tribes’ (1931) Dr Isak Niehaus, Brunel University London Wednesday 13 March at 5.30 pm In this seminar, I suggest that modern art was a major inspiration for the social structural approach in
- [The Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro Disaster](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-museu-nacional-in-rio-de-janeiro-disaster/) - The Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro DisasterThursday 21 February 2019 Venue: Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH 2.00pm tea and coffee 2.30pm Welcome Paper 1 3.00-4.00pm: Luiz F. D. DuarteThe National Museum in Rio de Janeiro: its history, its role in Brazilian science, its tragic fire, and some prognostications.
- [Brazilian Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/brazilian-anthropology-day/) - Brazilian Anthropology DayFriday 22 February 2019 Venue: Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Provisional Programme 9.30-10.00am: tea and coffee 10.00am Welcome Paper 1 10.15-10.45am: João Pacheco de Oliveira Ethnic territories formation in contemporary Brazil Paper 2 10.45-11.15am: Andréa Zhouri Environmental deregulation, disasters and violence in Brazil: a political ecology approach
- [Seminar: Ian Hodder](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-ian-hodder/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 20 February 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Prof Ian Hodder The Curious Case of Çatalhöyük Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012,
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Anthropological Practice](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-anthropological-practice/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method Thursday 21 February at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased
- [Socotra, the Island of Djinns (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening)](https://therai.org.uk/events/socotra-the-island-of-djinns-rai-film-festival-ambassador-screening/) - Socotra, the Island of Djinns (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 19th February 2019, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Free The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra is isolated during the monsoon season, when it is impossible to land
- [RAI Research Seminar: Wolfgang Kraus](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-wolfgang-kraus/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seen from the Atlas: Ernest Gellner and Moroccan tribes Dr Wolfgang Kraus, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna Wednesday 13 February at 5.30 pm In my ethnographic research in the Moroccan Atlas (between 1983 and 2005), Ernest Gellner’s work has been an obvious
- [Mr W. et al: a community event on art & disability (RAI Film Festival Ambassador Screening)](https://therai.org.uk/events/mr-w-et-al-a-community-event-on-art-disability-rai-film-festival-ambassador-screening/) - Mr W. et al: a community event on art & disability (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 9 February 2019, 5:00pm - 11:00pm Free Unit 15 and the RAI FILM FESTIVAL anthropology / ethnography / archaeology will come together this February to bring you a celebratory event about art and disability. The programme will include
- [Why is Mr W. Laughing? (RAI Film Festival Ambassador Screening)](https://therai.org.uk/events/why-is-mr-w-laughing-rai-film-festival-ambassador-screening/) - Why is Mr W. Laughing? (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 31 January 2019, 7:30pm - 9:30pm Free WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than making a film about inclusion, the film itself was produced inclusively. In an open collaborative journey
- [Journey to the Maggot Feeder (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening)](https://therai.org.uk/events/journey-to-the-maggot-feeder-rai-film-festival-ambassador-screening/) - Journey to the Maggot Feeder (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 15th January 2019, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free SoMA Edinburgh is proud to present a free film screening of Journey to the Maggot Feeder (2015). This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a
- [Seminar: John Mole](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-john-mole/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 17 January 2019 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: John Mole Martoni’s Pilgrimage: the Levant before the Pax Ottomana In 1394 a little, short-sighted middle aged provincial lawyer from Southern Italy made a dangerous pilgrimage to Jerusalem across the Mediterranean to Alexandria, up the Nile to Cairo
- [Fighting for Nothing to Happen & Treasured Moments (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening)](https://therai.org.uk/events/fighting-for-nothing-to-happen-treasured-moments-rai-film-festival-ambassador-screening/) - Fighting for Nothing to Happen & Treasured Moments (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 25th January 2019, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Free Fighting for Nothing to Happen After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and
- [Research in Progress: Nada Al-Hudaid](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-nada-al-hudaid/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 25 January 2019, 4.00-6.00pm The materiality of dreams and divine mediation among Shi’a artists in Kuwait Nada Al-Hudaid, University of Manchester Free, but booking advised: https://nadaal-hudaid.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: Dream experiences among various communities are translated into reality in different ways; stories, sermons, specific actions and
- [Seminar: Diana Darke](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-diana-darke/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 13 December 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Diana Darke The Merchant of Syria and his Ottoman ancestors Diana Darke’s fully illustrated talk will focus on her new book “The Merchant of Syria” and his Ottoman origins. The merchant of the title was a real person
- [Food for Thought](https://therai.org.uk/events/food-for-thought/) - Food for Thought A day at the RAI with David Sutton Monday 17 December 2018 10.30 - Welcome & Coffee 10.45-13.00 - The Anthropology of Greece through the work of David Sutton 13.00-14.00 - Lunch 14.00-15.30 - Current directions in the Anthropology of Greece: A critical discussion With David Sutton Jane Cowan Elisabeth Kirtsoglou Nafsika
- [MA Visual Anthropology Goldsmiths 2018 Screening](https://therai.org.uk/events/ma-visual-anthropology-goldsmiths-2018-screening/) - MA Visual Anthropology Goldsmiths 2018 Screening12 December 2018 2:00 – 9:30PM at the RAI Goldsmiths 2018 MA Visual Anthropology students invite you to a screening of a special selection of short films created as part of their final projects. We believe the future of filmmaking is anthropological and we are excited to show you our
- [Huxley Lecture - Anna Tsing](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-anna-tsing/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz Thursday 29 November 2018 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The More-than-Human Anthropocene As with most things, we humans have been unable to make the Anthropocene by
- [RAI Research Seminar: Lindsay Bishop](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-lindsay-bishop/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Smoke, Smell & Skins: Ritual Performance in Heavy Metal Lindsay Bishop, University College London Wednesday 5 December at 5.30 pm In 2010 Lindsay Bishop conducted master’s fieldwork in the United Kingdom, her ethnography focused on British heavy metal, with an emphasis on the impact of metal
- [RAI Research Seminar: John Baily](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-john-baily-3/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Playing Malinowski in Herat: Ethnomusicological fieldwork in 1970s Afghanistan Prof Jon Baily, Goldsmtihs, University of London Wednesday 14 November at 5.30 pm In 1973–74 John Baily, with the help of Veronica Doubleday, conducted fieldwork in the city of Herat, mainly focused on the invention of a
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: The Politics of Distinction](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-politics-of-distinction/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Politics of Distinction: African Elites from Colonialism to Liberation in a Namibian Frontier Town Thursday 15 November at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in
- [Seminar: Anderson Bakewell](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-anderson-bakewell/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 22 November 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Anderson Bakewell The concept, development and execution of the Ottoman Garden in St Louis, Missouri, USA The Bakewell Osmanlı Bahçesi, which opened in 2006 in the American city of St Louis, is the result of efforts to resurrect
- [RAI Research Seminar: Susan Crate](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-susan-crate/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From Siberia Speaks the World: Ethnographic Insights in Times of Change Dr Susan Crate, Urgent Anthropology Fellow Wednesday 7 November at 5.30 pm Dr Susan Crate has conducted ethnographic research with Viliui Sakha in NE Siberia, Russia since 1991. In this talk she shares her understandings
- [Meeting Gorbachev](https://therai.org.uk/events/meeting-gorbachev/) - Film screening - Meeting Gorbachev, followed by Q&A with director André Singer Tuesday 6 November at 5.30pm Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Farm boy to President of the USSR; Mikhail Gorbachev helped end the Cold War and enabled the reunification of Germany, only for the Soviet empire to collapse peacefully beneath
- [Book Launch: Robert Gordon](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-robert-gordon/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of a "Luckyman" in Africa Robert J. Gordon Monday 5 November at 5.30pm Max Gluckman was one of the more enigmatic figures in post-World War 2 social anthropology. Some have suggested that his `Bridge´ essay is the single most important article
- [The RAI and the Folklore Society in Conversation](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-rai-and-the-folklore-society-in-conversation/) - 4th Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar Anthropology and Folklore in Conversation: Revisiting Frazer, Lang, and Tylor Thursday 25 October 2018 at 10.00am to 5.00pm 10 – 10:15 Welcome 10:15 – 10:45 Paper 1 Dr. Paul Cowdell Critical Reception and Critical Rejection: Frazer, Folklore and Folklorists 10:45 – 11:15 Paper 2 Docent Dr
- [The Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture: Ruth Finnegan](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-royal-anthropological-institute-blacking-lecture-ruth-finnegan/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecturewill be given by Professor Ruth Finnegan FBA, Open University Where Does Music Come From? Thursday 1 November 2018 3:00pm, Meeting Room 1, Floor 7, Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, 75 Bedford Rd, Aberdeen AB24 3UE All welcome, no need to book. The lecture will be followed by
- [Aftermath](https://therai.org.uk/events/aftermath/) - AFTERMATH: screening and Q&A Friday 2 November at 7.00pm Aftermath 2013 / 91 minutes Directed by Raphael Barth With Simron Jit Singh The Royal Anthropological Institute invites you to the screening of the documentary AFTERMATH, which explores the story of the indigenous Nicobar Islanders after being devastated by the 2004 Tsunami. The film focuses
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Head Hunters](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-head-hunters/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Head Hunters: A Drama Based upon the Life and Works of Alfred Cort Haddon Wednesday 24 October at 5.30 pm Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to
- [An Evening with Rumi](https://therai.org.uk/events/an-evening-with-rumi/) - Joint concert with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 23 October 2018 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Musicians: Esbe, Jeff Rodrigues (guitar) An Evening with Rumi Composer and singer, Esbe, has produced an album featuring lush cinematic strings, delicate Early Music arrangements and Arabic scales. These arrangements, combined with her clear and resonant vocal style, bring
- [The life and works of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973)](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-life-and-works-of-sir-edward-evans-pritchard-1902-1973/) - The life and works of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973)Two day conference 18 & 19 October 2018 at the Royal Anthropological Institute There will be no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided on the day, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please got to https://evans-pritchard.eventbrite.co.uk. Thursday 18 October DAY 1 9.30 TEA AND
- [Book Launch: Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-liana-chua-and-nayanika-mathur/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Who are ‘we’?: Reimagining alterity and affinity in anthropology Edited by Dr Liana Chua (Brunel University) and Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford) Wednesday 10 October at 5.00pm Who do “we” anthropologists think “we” are? And how do forms and notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think,
- [Seminar: João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-joo-pacheco-de-oliveira-filho/) - Joint seminar with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, University College London and King's College LondonWhat fire cannot destroy: memories, networks and projects Prof João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho, Head of Ethnography at the National Museum of Brazil Tuesday 16 October at 6.30 pm at the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, UCL The talk will present a brief history
- [Henry Myers Lecture - Simon Coleman](https://therai.org.uk/events/henry-myers-lecture-simon-coleman/) - THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2018will be given by Prof Simon Coleman, University of Toronto Laterality: A Sideways Look at Ritual Thursday 4 October 2018, at 5.30pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture 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
- [2018 Photographic Studies Award: Dr Karen Strassler](https://therai.org.uk/events/2018-photographic-studies-award-dr-karen-strassler/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute is proud to award the 2018 Photographic Studies Prize to Dr Karen Strassler.Friday 21 September at 5.30 pm Please join us in this celebration on 21 September between 5.30 and 7.30 pm for a talk by Dr Strassler and a drinks reception. The Eventfulness of Images Focusing on political images in
- [JRAI Special Issue Launch: Dislocating Labour](https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-special-issue-launch-dislocating-labour/) - JRAI Special Issue LaunchDislocating Labour: Anthropological Reconfigurations with the special issue guest editors Prof Penelope Harvey (University of Manchester) and Dr Christian Krohn-Hansen (University of Oslo) Tuesday 25 September at 5.30 pm The contributors to this volume interrogate the labour/capital relation, exploring the ways in which industrial outsourcing and subcontracting transform the conditions, possibilities, and
- [Seminar: Şebnem Şenyener](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-sebnem-senyener/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 27 September 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Şebnem Şenyener The Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, its influence on literature and on my work Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, is a literary mystery. The hero, whose identity is the central riddle of the book,
- [RAI AGM 2018 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2018-followed-by-the-henry-myers-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2018 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture The 2018 AGM will take place on Thursday 4 October at 3.30 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2018 Henry Myers Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may
- [Research in Progress: Kirsty Wissing](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-kirsty-wissing/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 21 September 2018, 3.00 pm – 4.45 pm. Pure water: purity and power in ritual meanings and uses of water in Ghana Kirsty Wissing, Australian National University Free, but booking advised https://kirstywissing.eventbrite.co.uk Abstract: Water, being essential to life and fluid in form, is a useful metaphor
- [Images in the Post-Truth Era](https://therai.org.uk/events/images-in-the-post-truth-era/) - Photography+(Con)TextSecond International Conference Photography in Academic Research: Images in the Post-Truth Era Call for Papers, Panels and Visual Submissions Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX 6-8 September 2018 Donald Trump’s presidency began with a battle over images. Photographs had been reframed, his administration insisted, to detract from the largest inauguration
- [RAI Research Seminar: Michael Aird](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-michael-aird/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From illustration to evidence in native title: the potential of photographs Michael Aird, Director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum Wednesday 12 September at 5.30 pm By working with photographs from the collections of museums and libraries, Michael Aird is testing whether historical photographs can
- [RAI Student Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-student-conference-2/) - RAI Pop-up Student Conference 13 & 14 September 2018 University of Bristol Where are we going? Reflections on the future of human beings and the anthropological disciplines The annual Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Student Conference returns for 2018 at the University of Bristol. We will have presentations of work by students from institutions all over
- [RAI Research Seminar: Jonathan Zilberg](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jonathan-zilberg/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Early Modern Zimbabwean Art History in British Archives Dr Jonathan Zilberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wednesday 13 June at 5.30 pm There is a surprising amount of data on the early history of modern art in Zimbabwe to be found in archives in the UK.
- [London Anthropology Day 2018](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2018/) - 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
- [RAI Photographic Salon - Archival Affordances](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-photographic-salon-archival-affordances/) - RAI PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON – ARCHIVAL AFFORDANCESTuesday 12 June 2018 at 6.00pm The RAI Photography Committee invites you to attend our second salon, an informal and convivial evening of conversation exploring the relationship between anthropology and photography. This salon is focused on photographic archives and the concept of ‘affordances’. What do photographs in the archive afford?
- [Mary Douglas Lecture: Caroline Humphrey](https://therai.org.uk/events/mary-douglas-lecture-caroline-humphrey/) - Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2018We are pleased to announce that this year’s Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday 23 May at 6pm in the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW. The Politicization
- [Art, Materiality and Representation](https://therai.org.uk/events/art-materiality-and-representation/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, THE DEPARTMENT OF AFRICA, OCEANIA AND THE AMERICAS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT SOASArt, Materiality and Representation British Museum/SOAS, 1-3 June 2018 We are very pleased to announce the fourth of the RAI’s recent major conferences. As before, it will be jointly organised by the RAI and
- [The Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-cinematographic-the-ethnographic-and-the-essayistic/) - FILM SCREENING AND TALKAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic Cathy Greenhalgh Tuesday 22 May at 6.30 pm In this talk I will show clips from my films Undercurrent (2001), Aftermath (2006), Switch (2013), Drone (2013) and Cottonopolis (2019 forthcoming). I employ documentary techniques, reflexive essay and meditation, sensory and
- [Book Launch by Özlem Warren](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-by-zlem-warren/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 17 May 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Book launch by Özlem Warren: Özlem’s Turkish Table: Recipes from My Homeland 10 years in the making this book will be officially released on 26th April 2018 and the author will inform and entertain us on this journey of
- [RAI Research Seminar: Fred Moehn](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-fred-moehn/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marathon Music: Soundscapes of Running Dr Fred Moehn, King’s College London Wednesday 2 May at 5.30 pm In this lecture I present material from my ongoing research into the topic of running, music, and sound. I start by considering how music is mapped onto ‘the race
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-a-jewish-guide-in-the-holy-land/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land Thursday 17 May at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased
- [RAI Research Seminar: Peter Rohrbacher](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-peter-rohrbacher/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seligman, the RAI and the Race Debate 1933-1945 Dr Peter Rohrbacher, Anthropology, University of Vienna Wednesday 25 April at 5.30 pm Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) undoubtedly represented an outstanding founding figure in British anthropology. The RAI and the LSE remain those two institutions his name was
- [Reviewer Meets Reviews: In Defense of Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviews-in-defense-of-anthropology/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology Thursday 19 April at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal
- [RAI Research Seminar: Maxime Brami](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-maxime-brami-3/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The invention of prehistory and the rediscovery of Europe: Exploring the deeper intellectual roots of Gordon Childe’s early writings (1925-1936) Dr Maxime Brami, RAI Library Fellow 2018 Thursday 19 April at 5.30 pm If the 18th century was the century of the rediscovery of man, in
- [RAI Research Seminar: Eline Kieft](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-eline-kieft/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Fine-tuning the anthropologist’s body as fieldwork instrument Dr Eline Kieft, Coventry University, Centre for Dance Research Wednesday 21 March at 5.30 pm This seminar will introduce the NCRM project “Research with a Twist: A Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers” that I am currently developing in collaboration with
- [RAI 15th Film Festival at USC](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-15th-film-festival-at-usc/) - Royal Anthropological Institute 15th International Ethnographic Film Festival 23-25 March 2018 at USCLOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Screenings Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 23-25, 2018. For full details please see the website here.
- [RAI Research Seminar: Nathalie Clayer](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-nathalie-clayer/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE In association with the Anglo-Albanian Association Bektashism in Albania: An insight into Bektashi places, practices and beliefs Dr Nathalie Clayer, CNRS-EHESS Wednesday 18 April at 5.30 pm Bektashism has a central position when one speaks about Islam in Albania. Babas (spiritual leaders), teqes (dervish lodges), tyrbes
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Space and Society in Central Brazil](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-space-and-society-in-central-brazil/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography Thursday 15 March at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute,
- [Documentary Film in India: an Anthropological History](https://therai.org.uk/events/documentary-film-in-india-an-anthropological-history/) - What can anthropologists learn from documentary film-art practices 'made in India'?Tuesday 20 March at 6pm Dr Giulia Battaglia, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 This talk will be a reflection about the theoretico-methodological approach of the discipline of social and cultural anthropology and that of filmmaking and art creation with reference to the Indian subcontinent. It
- [The Turkish Makam: Sounds of Istanbul](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-turkish-makam-sounds-of-istanbul/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 28 February 2018 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute The Turkish Makam: Sounds of Istanbul Baha Yetkin: Oud Alexandros Koustas: Klasik Kemençe Constantly evolving since the 13th century, the Turkish Makam has become one of the worlds’ great music traditions. With Istanbul as its centre, folk, religious and
- [When Multilingualism is Your Mother Tongue](https://therai.org.uk/events/when-multilingualism-is-your-mother-tongue/) - When multilingualism is your mother tongue: the documentary Kanraxël and associated teaching resourcesTuesday 20 February 6:00PM – 8:30PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute On the eve of world mother tongue day, we would like to take you on a journey to Agnack, at tiny village in the south of the West African country of Senegal.
- [RAI Research Seminar: Stephen Banfield](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-stephen-banfield/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Music in the West Country: History or Anthropology? Prof Stephen Banfield, University of Bristol Wednesday 21 February at 5.30 pm How much music does a community need, and does the equation vary across time and place? To what extent has the musician’s role in English society
- [Journeys Through Colour](https://therai.org.uk/events/journeys-through-colour/) - Journeys through Colour: experimentation, realism and artifice in non-fiction travel filmTuesday 27 February at 6pm Introduced and chaired by Dr Natasha Eaton (University College London) With Jeffrey Geiger, Jan Faull and Liz Watkins A study of colour in film – its multifarious technologies and practices - offers a way to question a teleological film history
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Muslim Families, Politics and the Law](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-muslim-families-politics-and-the-law/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Muslim Families, Politics and the Law: A Legal Industry in Multicultural Britain Thursday 15 February at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the
- [The Desert Prince](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-desert-prince/) - The Desert Prince – screening and discussion with Howard Reid and Jeremy KeenanTuesday 6 February 6:00PM – 8:00PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute THE WORLD OF GEO SERIES The Desert Prince Director: Howard Reid, 1994. 1995 Best Documentary Golden Gate Award. San Francisco International Film Festival. UK PREMIERE With Director Howard Reid, Series Producer André Singer and Social Anthropologist Jeremy
- [Research in Progress: Sandro Simon](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-sandro-simon/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 25 January, 1.00 pm Fear and Epistemic Murkiness: Fieldwork Under the Possibility of Fire Sandro Simon, University of Cologne Free, but booking advised https://sandrosimon.eventbrite.co.uk In late Summer 2017, around the time of Kenya's general election and when I was about to engage into longterm fieldwork
- [History of the Waiwai](https://therai.org.uk/events/history-of-the-waiwai/) - The History of the Waiwai from the Arrival of the Missionaries to the Demarcation of Land: an indigenous point of viewThursday 25 January at 5.30 pm Rodrigo Waiwai, from the indigenous village Mapuera, in the northern part of the Brazilian Amazon, is in London to research the collections of Waiwai objects at the British Museum,
- [Observation and Participation](https://therai.org.uk/events/observation-and-participation/) - Observation and Participation: Rossella Schillaci presents her films Sea Boundary and Ghetto PSATuesday 30 January 6:30PM – 8:30PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute Rossella Schillaci, prolific documentary filmmaker and anthropologist trained at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, will present two of her films (Sea Boundary and Ghetto PSA) and speak about the different filmic
- [RAI Research Seminar: Elina Djebbari](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-elina-djebbari/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Musical Dialogues in the Cold War: Cultural Diplomacy between Cuba and West Africa (1960s-1970s) Dr Elina Djebbari, King’s College London Wednesday 24 January at 5.30 pm Based on fieldwork and archives research in Cuba and Mali, the paper will address the political and musical issues revealed
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Dreaming and Historical Conciousness in Island Greece](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-dreaming-and-historical-conciousness-in-island-greece/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece Thursday 18 January at 2.00 pm Anthropology Library and Research Centre, British Museum THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased
- [Teaching Anthropology Annual Conference 2017](https://therai.org.uk/events/teaching-anthropology-annual-conference-2017/) - Teaching Anthropology Annual Conference 2017 Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus 10am-4pm, 7 December, 2017 In collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Attendance is free but spaces are limited. Please click here to register. Conference Programme MORNING 9.30-10.00 Coffee and registration (FG11) 10.00-10.15 Welcome (Patrick Alexander) 10.15-10.40 Thoughts on the Teaching
- [Kivalina](https://therai.org.uk/events/kivalina/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 13 December 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Kivalina by Gina Abatemarco, 64 min / 2016 More than a hundred miles above the Arctic Circle, an Inupiaq Eskimo community is living on an island that is fast disappearing
- [Huxley Lecture - Margaret Conkey](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-margaret-conkey/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Margaret Conkey, University of California, Berkeley Field Walking, Walking the Field: Anthropological Archaeology as Viewed from Deep Time Friday 15 December 2017 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. In this talk I will begin
- [The Man who Loved Books (Homage to JR Llobera)](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-man-who-loved-books-homage-to-jr-llobera/) - FILM SCREENING AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Man who Loved Books (Homage to JR Llobera) Dr Roger Canals, Universitat de Barcelona Wednesday 10 January at 5.30 pm Any personal library is much more than a collection of books, is like material biography, a living archive, a sort of geographical legacy of one's interests, projects
- [RAI Research Seminar: Enrico Ille](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-enrico-ille/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Scorched trees. What date palm fires in Northern Sudan can tell about socio-ecological and political vulnerability Dr Enrico Ille, Urgent Anthropology Fellow, British Museum and Royal Anthropological Institute. Wednesday 6 December at 5.30 pm In recent years, many major fires in Northern Sudan’s date palm groves
- [RAI Research Seminar: Caroline Wilkinson](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-caroline-wilkinson/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Craniofacial anthropology in forensic identification and archaeological investigation Prof Caroline Wilkinson, Director of Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University Wednesday 22 November at 5.30 pm This presentation will describe how craniofacial anthropology can contribute towards the depiction of faces from the past and from contemporary forensic
- [How do you see me?](https://therai.org.uk/events/how-do-you-see-me/) - How do you see me? Screening and discussion with filmmaker Nariman MassoumiTuesday 28 November at 7.00pm EMERGING VOICES SERIES HOW DO YOU SEE ME? Nariman Massoumi UK / 2017 / 30 minutes How do you see me? is a quietly observed documentary portrait of the filmmaker’s mother, Manijeh, an Iranian immigrant who has lived in
- [Treasured Moments & Youth Group](https://therai.org.uk/events/treasured-moments-youth-group/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 29 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Treasured Moments by Ravi Hart Lloyd 33 min/2016 This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he
- [Changa Revisited](https://therai.org.uk/events/changa-revisited/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 6 December 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Changa Revisited by Peter Biella Leonard Kamerling 60 min / 2016 This is the story of Tanzania Maasai elder Toreto ole Koisenge and his passage through three decades of cultural
- [Seminar: Bettany Hughes](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-bettany-hughes/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 21 November 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Bettany Hughes Istanbul: The World’s Desire Award-winning historian, broadcaster and author Bettany Hughes presents an epic new biography of Istanbul, the city with three names -Byzantium, Constantinople, stanbul, the gateway between the East and the West, and
- [Cinema Travelers](https://therai.org.uk/events/cinema-travelers/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 22 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Cinema Travelers by Shirley Abraham Amit Madheshiya, 96 min / 2016 An affectionate but melancholy ode to a vanishing phenomenon in rural India: the travelling cinema. The huge projector has
- [Ignacio's Legacy](https://therai.org.uk/events/ignacios-legacy/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 15 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Ignacio's Legacy by Titus Fossgard-Moser. 52 min / 2016 Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960),
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: The Great Reimagining](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-great-reimagining/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE RAI The Great Reimagining: Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland Thursday 16 November at 5.00 pm Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is pleased to
- [RAI Blacking Lecture: Lucy Durán](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-blacking-lecture-lucy-durn/) - RAI EthnomusicologyFourth Annual RAI Blacking Lecture The 2017 annual Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture, named in honour of esteemed ethnomusicologist and anthropologist John Blacking (1928-1990), will be hosted by the University of Cardiff School of Music. 14 November 2017 at 4.30pm at the Large Lecture Theatre, School of Music, University of Cardiff, Carbett Road, Cardiff
- [RAI Research Seminar: Edvard Hviding](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-edvard-hviding/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology Beyond the Comfort Zone: Expanding Our Work into Climate Change Politics and Action on a Global Scale Prof Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen Friday 10 November at 5.30 pm There is rapid growth and diversification of anthropology’s engagement with global climate change. Major conferences, substantial
- [Socotra, the Island of Djinns](https://therai.org.uk/events/socotra-the-island-of-djinns/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 1 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Socotra, the Island of Djinns by Jordi Esteva, 64 min / 2016 The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off
- [South Asia and its Diaspora](https://therai.org.uk/events/south-asia-and-its-diaspora/) - CONFERENCE SOUTH ASIA AND ITS DIASPORA: MUSICAL PERFORMANCES IN THE CULTURES OF DECOLONIZATION The Pavilion, Horniman Museum and Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ, UK 4 November 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR TINA K. RAMNARINE Decolonization is a creative process, as well as a historical and political one. Interdisciplinary critical attention to creative
- [Travel](https://therai.org.uk/events/travel/) - Travel: film screening with director Nick MaiTuesday 7 November at 7.00pm Visual Anthropology Series TRAVEL Nick Mai France / 2016 / 63 minutes Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was going to sell sex in France, but she was unaware of the degree of exploitation that she would
- [Book Lauch: Built in Niugini & Made in Niugini](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-lauch-built-in-niugini-made-in-niugini/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea The RAI Series Volumes One & Two by Prof Paul Sillitoe, Durham University Thursday 9 November at 6.00pm Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of
- [Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation](https://therai.org.uk/events/folklore-and-anthropology-in-conversation-2/) - Third Folklore Society / Royal Anthropological Institute Joint SeminarThe Third Joint Seminar of the Society and the RAI will be held on Thursday 26 October, 2017 from 10am to 5pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT. The general theme will be 'Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation', continuing on from last
- [Carnival, King of Europe](https://therai.org.uk/events/carnival-king-of-europe/) - Carnival, King of Europe: DVD launch & presentationFriday 27 October at 6.00pm Visual Anthropology Series Carnival King of Europe is a research project of the Ethnographic Museum of San Michele all’Adige, Italy (Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina), that aims to bring into light the important similarities that can be observed among specific aspects of
- [Goldsmiths MA Visual Anthropology End of Year Screening](https://therai.org.uk/events/goldsmiths-ma-visual-anthropology-end-of-year-screening/) - Goldsmiths MA Visual Anthropology End of Year ScreeningSaturday 21 October 4PM – 8PM The Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT 4PM – 5:15PM Misia Zoccoli - Where is home (20’) A woman in the street can be everyone, and a smile can hide many experiences. A single-person ethnography, this short film is
- [Journey to the Maggot Feeder](https://therai.org.uk/events/journey-to-the-maggot-feeder/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 25 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Journey to the Maggot Feeder by Liivo Niglas and Priit Tender, 68 min / 2015 This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender,
- [RAI Research Seminar: Bill Barclay](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-bill-barclay/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Why Music Is Everywhere (and why we need it to be) Bill Barclay, Director of Music, Shakespeare's Globe Wednesday 25 October at 5.30 pm How can we leverage humankind's anthropological need for music over the entertainment sector and into creativity, learning, consensus, and expression? Never before
- [The Life and Works of Elizabeth Colson](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-life-and-works-of-elizabeth-colson/) - A ONE-DAY SEMINAR ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ELIZABETH COLSONThursday 12 October, 10.00am to 5.00pm Royal Anthropological Institute The late Elizabeth Colson was for many years a Fellow of the RAI. This day will recall her great contribution in several fields, including the anthropology of Africa, the anthropology of migration and displaced peoples, applied
- [The King of the Cockroaches](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-king-of-the-cockroaches/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 18 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The King of the Cockroaches by Timothy Cooper 70 min / 2016 The degraded surfaces of mass-copied films - the glitches, scanlines, errors, and coding artifacts - rather than the
- [RAI Research Seminar: John Baily](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-john-baily-2/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Incomplete Film Maker: Reflections of a Dilettante Prof John Baily, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday 18 October at 5.30 pm In this seminar John Baily will trace his work as an ethnomusicological film maker, starting with the naïve films he made as a result of
- [Seminar: Prof Nedret Kuran Burçoğlu](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-prof-nedret-kuran-buroglu/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 11 October 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Prof Nedret Kuran Burçoğlu Osman Zeki Bey, the Printer, His Printing Office and "The Ottoman Paper Manufacturing Company" Osman Zeki Bey (printer, calligrapher) whose accomplishments will be the topic of this talk was the First Chamberlain of Sultan
- [The Day the Sun Fell](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-day-the-sun-fell/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 11 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Day the Sun Fell by Aya Domenig, 78 min / 2015 The Swiss-Japanese filmmaker is the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945
- [RAI Research Seminar: Shireen Walton](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-shireen-walton/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Popular Digital Photography and Anthropology: Cases from Iran Dr Shireen Walton, Teaching Fellow in Material and Visual Culture, Department of Anthropology, University College London Thursday 5 October at 5.30 pm ‘Popular photography’ as a topic of anthropological enquiry is undergoing a significant transformation in the digital
- [The Block](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-block/) - The Block: film screening with director Maria ȘalaruTuesday 10 October at 7.00pm EMERGING VOICES SERIES THE BLOCK Maria Șalaru Romania / 2016 / 60 minutes From neighbourly disputes over garlic-heavy cooking to memories of Ceaușescu’s heatless winters, The Block explores the rich social and material universe of a Romanian apartment building. It follows the story of the
- [Book Launch: Handbook of Education in China](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-handbook-of-education-in-china/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Handbook of Education in China Edited by W. John Morgan, Professor Emeritus, School of Education; Senior Fellow, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham; Honorary Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University and Qing Gu, Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK and Fengliang Li, Associate Professor
- [J.C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer](https://therai.org.uk/events/j-c-abbey-ghanas-puppeteer/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 4 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS J. C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer by Steven Feld, 55 min / 2016 This film presents an exceptional fifty-year artistic career, from Accra’s streets to Ghana’s villages to international TV. In
- [RAI Research Seminar: Angela Torresan](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-angela-torresan/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Vidigal Favela Chic: the moral geography of a slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro Dr Angela Torresan, University of Manchester Wednesday 4 October at 5.30 pm Nestled on the hill between two of the wealthiest South Zone beach neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro, with staggering city
- [RAI Research Seminar: Nick Bainton](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-nick-bainton/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Custom, Power and Ideology in the Papua New Guinean Mining Industry Dr Nick Bainton, University of Queensland Monday 18 September at 5.30 pm The popular characterisation of the relationship between indigenous people and mining companies is often forced into a crude binary where untrammelled capital devastates
- [Seminar: Erol Sağlam](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-erol-saglam/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 20 September 2017 at 5.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Erol Sağlam, Birkbeck, University of London The Romeika of Trabzon: Discretion, Memory, and Treasure Hunts in Contemporary Turkey Drawing on an ethnographic study in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey, this research explores dynamics of memory through the public invisibility
- [RAI Research Seminar: Andreas Ackermann](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-andreas-ackermann/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Atmospheres, Ecstasis, Thick Participation: Towards an Aesthetic Anthropology Prof Andreas Ackermann, University Koblenz-Landau Wednesday 27 September at 5.30 pm Going back to the phenomenology of perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, my paper introduces approaches towards an aesthetic anthropology that tries to link David MacDougall’s concept of social
- [RAI AGM 2017 followed by the Curl Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2017-followed-by-the-curl-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017 followed by the Curl Lecture The 2017 AGM will take place on Friday 15 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2017 Curl Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote at
- [Curl Lecture - Andrea Migliano](https://therai.org.uk/events/curl-lecture-andrea-migliano/) - THE CURL LECTURE 2017will be given by Dr Andrea Migliano, University College of London, Department of Anthropology Hunter-gatherers social structure: a window into the evolution of human cumulative culture Friday 15 September 2017, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture
- [University Archaeology Day 2017](https://therai.org.uk/events/university-archaeology-day-2017/) - Thursday 22 June 10:00am to 5.00pm Location: UCL: South Cloisters, Main Quad, Gower Street WC1E 6BT Explore the possibilities of a future in the past at the inaugural University Archaeology Day, being held at UCL, on 22 June. An archaeology degree can open doors to all kinds of careers, and at the University Archaeology Day
- [London Anthropology Day 2017](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2017/) - 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
- [JRAI Special Issue Launch](https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-special-issue-launch/) - JRAI Special Issue LaunchMeetings: Ethnographies of Organizational Process, Bureaucracy, and Assembly with the special issue guest editors Dr Hannah Brown (Durham University), Dr Adam Reed (University of St Andrews), and Dr Tom Yarrow (Durham University) Wednesday 6 September at 5.30 pm Meetings, socially and institutionally prescribed spaces for coming together, are important and ubiquitous organizational
- [Exhibition Launch: A Tale of Two Rivers](https://therai.org.uk/events/exhibition-launch-a-tale-of-two-rivers/) - EXHIBITION LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE A Tale of Two Rivers: The Lower Wye and the Nubian Nile Dr Kirsty Rowan, The Wye Valley Society and the Nubian Languages and Culture Project Thursday 14 September at 5.30pm The exhibition focuses on two sites of outstanding natural beauty - the Lower Wye and the Nubian
- [Tourism Seminar: Chris Cooper](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-chris-cooper/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Challenging Tourism Contexts for Innovation and Policy Prof Chris Cooper, Oxford Brookes University Monday 12 June 2017 at 5.30 pm Tourism can be seen as a hostile context for innovation, not only is it characterised by few leaders and
- [Teachers Event: Social Anthropology Units for Schools and Colleges in Scotland](https://therai.org.uk/events/teachers-event-social-anthropology-units-for-schools-and-colleges-in-scotland/) - CALLING ALL TEACHERS AND LECTURERS CONSIDERING THE NEW SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY UNITS Tuesday 30 May 2017 Time: 10.00am - 3.30pm Location: Charteris Land, University of Edinburgh, Holyrood Road, EH8 8AQ To celebrate and support the introduction by the SQA of social anthropology units into Scottish schools and colleges, the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and the Scottish
- [RAI Research Seminar: Aleksandar Bošković](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-aleksandar-bokovic/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE William Robertson Smith's Influence on the "Myth and Ritual School" Prof Aleksandar Bošković, Institute of Social Sciences and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade Wednesday 31 May at 5.30 pm Scottish Semitist William Robertson Smith (1846-1894), who was at the time of his death Chair and
- [Seminar: David Barchard](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-david-barchard-2/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyTuesday 6 June 2017 at 6.00pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: David Barchard The Referendum: a preliminary evaluation David Barchard, veteran Turkey analyst and author lecture on 'The Referendum: a preliminary evaluation'. Turkey is entering a new era as it makes a transition from a parliamentary system of government
- [Mary Douglas Lecture: Pat Caplan](https://therai.org.uk/events/mary-douglas-lecture-pat-caplan/) - On 24 May the 2017 Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture, will be held in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre at St Anne's College (56 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6H). The lecture will begin at 6pm. This year, the lecture will be given by Professor Pat Caplan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. The
- [Breaking the Chains](https://therai.org.uk/events/breaking-the-chains/) - Breaking the Chains: film screening and DVD Launch followed by discussion with the directorTuesday 23 May at 6.00pm The practice of using shackles and chains (known in Bahasa Indonesian as 'pasung') to physically restrain people with mental illness is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other low-middle income countries) and almost universally ignored. This ethnographic
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Dark Side of Travel](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-dark-side-of-travel/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Writing the Dark Side of Travel / Thanotourism: Case Studies in Travel to the Dark Side Thursday 18 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
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Aliens and Strangers](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-aliens-and-strangers/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE RAI Aliens and Strangers: The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals Wednesday 3 May at 10.30 am (tea & coffee served from 10.00 am) at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and
- [Seminar: Robert Langer](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-robert-langer/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyMonday 8 May 2017 at 5.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr Robert Langer, Research Group Leader “Contemporary Islamic Cultures”, Study of Religions, University of Bayreuth, Germany Turkish Shiites in Germany: Conversion, Ethnicity, and ‘Germanisation’ This presentation focusses on a specific portion of the Twelver Shiites, those with a
- [Photography, Alterity & Epidemics](https://therai.org.uk/events/photography-alterity-epidemics/) - Photography, Alterity & EpidemicsAn exhibition of the Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic project Thursday 11 May 2017 at 5.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Based in the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, the project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic has
- [RAI Student Conference: People in Context](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-student-conference-people-in-context/) - This year, the annual RAI student conference comes to Durham, combining with their regular student conference. Panel spaces at the conference are open to students of all levels and there are multiple other ways to get involved. If you are interested, please respond to the call for papers by 6 March 2017. For
- [RAI Research Seminar: Maria Koutsoba](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-maria-koutsoba/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Local dance traditions and glocalised crisis: A landscape of traditional dance in Greece under austerity Dr Maria Koutsoba, University of Athens Wednesday 22 March at 5.30 pm The present socio-economic crisis worldwide has inevitably affected dance and dancing both locally and internationally. Greece is among the
- [RAI Film Festival](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-film-festival/) - 15th RAI Film Festivalanthropology – ethnography – archaeology 29 March - 1 April 2017 Watershed Cinema, Bristol, United Kingdom Tickets and more details available at https://raifilm.org.uk/ The RAI Film Festival is a biennial event dedicated to the celebration of the best in ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe. First held in 1985,
- [Modern Climate Change and the Practice of Archaeology](https://therai.org.uk/events/modern-climate-change-and-the-practice-of-archaeology/) - Archaeological Review from Cambridge Friday‑Saturday, 7‑8 April 2017 Jesus College, University of Cambridge Modern Climate Change and the Practice of Archaeology Conference Modern climate change has serious consequences for the knowledge of our past. Desertification, eroding coasts, rising sea levels and melting permafrost threaten the preservation of natural and cultural sites. These and other damaging
- [Memories of the Ainu Past and Present](https://therai.org.uk/events/memories-of-the-ainu-past-and-present/) - Memories of the Ainu Past and PresentTuesday 21 March 2017 at 7.00pm Lecture theatre SALT, Senate House SOAS University of London 10 Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Free – booking essential Book online here Co-organised by the Japan Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), this is the third and last in the current
- [Tourism Seminar: Nika Balomenou](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-nika-balomenou/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Utopia or Dystopia? The development of Kavos, Corfu, into a tourism destination and the impacts on the local community; a pseudo-longitudinal study from 2003 to 2016. Dr Nika Balomenou, University of Hertfordshire Monday 20 March 2017 at 5.30 pm
- [Sifinja: the Iron Bride](https://therai.org.uk/events/sifinja-the-iron-bride-2/) - Sifinja: the Iron BrideValerie Hänsch / Sudan,Germany / 2009 / 70 minutes Thursday 9th March 2017, 6:30PM. Bromley Historic Collections The Lubbock Gallery, 2nd Floor, Central Library, High Street, Bromley BR1 1EX Winner of the Material Culture & Archaeology Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to
- [Leaving Greece & Boya Boya](https://therai.org.uk/events/leaving-greece-boya-boya-2/) - Migration and exile double billThursday 9 March, 19.30 Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive, 7 Pier Road, St Helier, Jersey Leaving Greece Anna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min Winner of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2015 The film tells the very personal story of three young
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Before Boas](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-before-boas/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment Thursday 16 March 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
- [2017 Photographic Studies Prize: Elizabeth Edwards](https://therai.org.uk/events/2017-photographic-studies-prize-elizabeth-edwards/) - The Royal Anthropological Institute is proud to award the 2017 Photographic Studies Prize to Professor Elizabeth Edwards. Friday 17 March at 5.00 pm Please join us in this celebration on 17 March between 5.00 and 7.00 pm for an introduction by Professor Chris Pinney, a talk by Professor Edwards and a drinks reception. Abstract: This
- [Anthropology & Language Seminar: Guilherme Orlandini Heurich](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-language-seminar-guilherme-orlandini-heurich/) - The shaman and the flash-drive: singing and forgetting in Araweté verbal art.Dr Guilherme Orlandini Heurich, University College London Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 11.00 am This will take place at 11 am in the Department of Anthropology, UCL, Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 14 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW. Guilherme is an affiliated scholar of
- [Leaving Greece](https://therai.org.uk/events/leaving-greece/) - Leaving GreeceAnna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min Sunday 26th February, 11AM. Cinema City, Norwich, St Andrew’s Street, Norwich, NR2 4AD When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an application for asylum. So much is clear. Less well known, however is the fact that for 90% of all
- [RAI Research Seminar: Emily Hayes](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-emily-hayes/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Common ground and distinguishing features: the co-production of knowledge by the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute, c. 1883-1900 Dr Emily Hayes, University of Exeter Wednesday 1 March at 5.30 pm Geographers are beginning to discern the historical mutualism between anthropology and geography and
- [RAI Research Seminar: Ruard Absaroka](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-ruard-absaroka/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ‘Musicking Like a State’: Hidden Musicians and the (Musical) ‘Right to the City’ in Contemporary Shanghai Dr Ruard Absaroka, Senior Teaching Fellow, Music Dept., SOAS, University of London Wednesday 22 February at 5.30 pm Conceived from the outset as a Chinese updating (and transplanting) of The
- [Node](https://therai.org.uk/events/node/) - NodeThursday 23 February 2017 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Free – booking essential Book online here Hirogawara is a village with a long lasting tradition of forestry located in a mountain area of Kyoto prefecture, Japan. Although municipal records drafted in 2009 recorded a population of 120 residents amongst its five districts, over half
- [Tourism Seminar: Peter Burns](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-peter-burns/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tourism and Climate Change: resilience and resistance in Vietnam Prof Peter Burns, Professor of Tourism and International Development and Director of the Institute for Tourism Research, University of Bedfordshire Monday 20 February 2016 at 5.30 pm Abstract: Tourism is
- [Seminar: John Palmer](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-john-palmer/) - Fighting for indigenous right in northern ArgentinaJohn Palmer Friday 3 February at 2pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute John Palmer (DPhil, Oxon) is a social anthropologist who has lived among the Wichí of northern Argentina since 1998. His life is the subject of the multi-prizewinning documentary, ‘El etnógrafo’. On his 1st visit to the UK
- [Gaea Girls](https://therai.org.uk/events/gaea-girls-3/) - Gaea GirlsKim Longinotto, Jano Williams / United Kingdom / 2000 / 106 mins Friday 3rd February 2017 7.30pm - 9.45pm The Exchange Bar (The Snug room), 50 Rutland St, Cultural Quarter, Leicester LE1 1RD A film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women's wrestling. Gaea Girls focuses on the hopes
- [The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-auction-house-a-tale-of-two-brothers-3/) - The Auction House: A Tale of Two BrothersEd Owles / United Kingdom / 2014 / 85 min Tuesday 7 February 2017 5.30-7.30 PM Location: Lecture Centre room 064, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH Campus map: www.brunel.ac.uk/campus-map The oldest auction house in India is fighting for survival in the age of eBay and a changing
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: The Existentialist Moment](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-existentialist-moment/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual Thursday 16 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
- [RAI Research Seminar: Guangtian Ha](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-guangtian-ha/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE His Master’s Voice: Media, Sensory Politics, and Islamic Sociality in Northwest China Dr Guangtian Ha, SOAS Wednesday 25 January at 5.30 pm Jahriyya Sufism in northwest China can be characterized by its juxtaposition of opposites: its name means “loud” and “public,” proclaiming the centrality of dramatic
- [Seminar: Kaya Genç](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-kaya-gen/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyWednesday 18 January 2017 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Kaya Genç Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey Representations of Turkey in western media has undergone a startling change after the summer of 2013, when activists staged an Occupy-style protest in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. Kaya
- [Gaea Girls](https://therai.org.uk/events/gaea-girls-2/) - Gaea GirlsTuesday 24 January 2017 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Free – booking essential Book online here Filmed over a period of three months, Gaea Girls (Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, 2000) is a film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women’s wrestling or joshi puroresu. It marked the fifth
- [Baka: People of the Rainforest](https://therai.org.uk/events/baka-people-of-the-rainforest/) - BAKA: PEOPLE OF THE RAINFORESTPhil Agland / United Kingdom / 1987 / 104 min 11 January 2017 6:30PM UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PY London The screening will be introduced by Dr. Jerome Lewis, UCL. This film, made for Channel 4 Television, is about the Baka Pygmies and their life in the
- [Tourism Seminar: Xavier Font](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-xavier-font/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Marketing sustainability: greenwashing or greenhushing? Prof Xavier Font, University of Surrey Monday 16 January 2016 at 5.30 pm Tourism and hospitality businesses do not communicate persuasive sustainability messages to their potential clients, because their messages are half hearted legitimisation
- [Baka: A Cry form the Rainforest](https://therai.org.uk/events/baka-a-cry-form-the-rainforest/) - BAKA: A CRY FROM THE RAINFORESTPhil Agland / United Kingdom / 2013 / 89 min 18 January 2017 6:30PM UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PY London A quarter century after his award-winning documentary Baka: People Of The Rainforest, Phil Agland revisits the same Baka family in the Cameroon. For the first time
- [Tourism Seminar: Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-emmanuel-akwasi-adu-ampong/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tourism planning for economic development and poverty reduction in Ghana: historical trajectories and contemporary challenges Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong, University of Lincoln Thursday 15 December 2016 at 5.30 pm Since independence in 1957, successive governments in Ghana have sought to
- [Presidential Address - André Singer](https://therai.org.uk/events/presidential-address-andr-singer/) - Film screening - Sow the Wind, followed by Q&A with director André SingerPresidential Address by André Singer Monday 5 December 2016 at 6pm Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Sow the Wind will tell the story of Kazakhstan’s place in the Cold War struggle for nuclear supremacy, and the power of the
- [RAI Photographic Salon](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-photographic-salon/) - FIRST RAI PHOTOGRAPHIC SALONWednesday 7 December at 6.00 pm The RAI Photographic Committee invites you to attend the first salon, a convivial and informal evening of conversation and drinks exploring the relationship between anthropology and photography, aimed at graduate students and early career researchers. Every participant will have the opportunity to talk about their work
- [Dream Girls](https://therai.org.uk/events/dream-girls/) - DREAM GIRLSKim Longinotto and Jano Williams / UK / 1993 / 50 min 9 December 2016. 12-2PM Room 309, Watts Building, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, BN2 4GJ Organised by Film Festival Ambassadors Patricia Prieto Blanco and Paul Gilbert This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female
- [History of Anthropology and the RAI](https://therai.org.uk/events/history-of-anthropology-and-the-rai/) - Royal Anthropological InstituteThird conference on the History of Anthropology and the RAI 1918-1945: the rise of university departments 13-14 December 2016 The conference will take place at the RAI’s rooms, 50 Fitzroy Street, London. There is no conference fee, and refreshments will be provided. To book your place please go to http://thirdhistoryday.eventbrite.co.uk Day One: Tuesday
- [RAI Research Seminar: Juan Diego Diaz](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-juan-diego-diaz/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Crossing the Atlantic (Once Again): The Return of a Tabom Master Drummer to Bahia Dr Juan Diego Diaz, Department of History, University of Essex Wednesday 30 November at 5.30 pm During the first half of the 19th century some eight thousand Africans and creoles resettled from
- [Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest](https://therai.org.uk/events/baka-a-cry-from-the-rainforest-2/) - BAKA: A CRY FROM THE RAINFORESTPhil Agland / United Kingdom / 2013 / 89 min 30 November 2016. 6:30-9PM The Pod, The Spark, E Park Terrace, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 0YN Organised by Film Festival Ambassador Roy Hanney A quarter century after his award-winning documentary Baka: People Of The Rainforest, Phil Agland revisits the same Baka
- [Research in Progress: Natalia Garcia Bonet](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-natalia-garcia-bonet/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 2 December, 4.00 pm The perennial expansion of the Venezuelan frontier (the school, the church and the government) Natalia Garcia Bonet, University of Kent This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://nataliagarciabonet.eventbrite.co.uk In this paper I explore
- [Leaving Greece & Boya Boya](https://therai.org.uk/events/leaving-greece-boya-boya/) - LEAVING GREECEAnna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min with BOYA BOYA (SHINE SHINE) Karen Boswall, Ruba Al Akash / Jordan, UK / 2014 / 18 min 30 November 2016. 12-2PM Room 309, Watts Building, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, BN2 4GJ Organised by Film Festival Ambassadors Patricia Prieto Blanco and Paul Gilbert The
- [MN Srinivas Lecture: David Mosse](https://therai.org.uk/events/mn-srinivas-lecture-david-mosse/) - King’s India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute warmly invite you to the MN Srinivas Memorial Lecture 2016 Outside caste?: The enclosure of caste and claims to castelessness in India and the UK Speaker: Professor David Mosse (School of Oriental and African Studies) Date: 29 November 2016 Time: 6:15-7:30pm* Venue: Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King's
- [RAI Blacking Lecture: Georgiana Gore](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-blacking-lecture-georgiana-gore/) - RAI EthnomusicologyThird Annual RAI Blacking Lecture The 2016 annual Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture, named in honour of esteemed ethnomusicologist and anthropologist John Blacking (1928-1990), will be hosted by the University of Roehampton Dance and Anthropology departments. 24 November 2016 at 6.30pm at the University of Roehampton’s Froebel College in the Portrait Room, London SW15 5PJ
- [Nowhere to Call Home](https://therai.org.uk/events/nowhere-to-call-home-3/) - Nowhere to Call HomeWednesday 23 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jocelyn Ford China / United States / 2014 / 76mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. "This story breaks all the rules and upends popular perceptions of Tibetans
- [A Revolution in Four Seasons](https://therai.org.uk/events/a-revolution-in-four-seasons-3/) - A Revolution in Four Seasons Thursday 24 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jessie Deeter United States / 2016 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Over the course of Tunisia’s post-revolution years, we follow two politically-opposed young
- [Nueva Venecia](https://therai.org.uk/events/nueva-venecia-3/) - Nueva Venecia Saturday 19 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Emiliano Mazza de Luca Uruguay / 2016 / 80mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. The fishing community of Nueva Venecia is like any other, with one extraordinary difference:
- [Ukrainian Sheriffs](https://therai.org.uk/events/ukrainian-sheriffs-3/) - Ukrainian Sheriffs Sunday 20 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Roman Bondarchuk Germany / Latvia / Ukraine / 2015 / 85mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Welcome to Stara Zburyevka, where local sheriffs Viktor and Volodya are trying
- [What Tomorrow Brings](https://therai.org.uk/events/what-tomorrow-brings-3/) - What Tomorrow Brings Friday 18 November 2016, 4.00pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Beth Murphy Afghanistan / United States / 2015 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. A year in the life of the first all-girls school in a
- [Gaea Girls](https://therai.org.uk/events/gaea-girls/) - GAEA GIRLS(Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams / UK / 2000 / 106 min) 18 November 2016. 6:50PM Studio Space, Byre Theatre, Abbey St, St Andrews KY16 9LA. The screening will be introduced by Dr. Mattia Fumanti, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Saint Andrews. Organised by Film Festival Ambassador Angelica Cabezas Pino in collaboration with
- [Latin American Music Seminar](https://therai.org.uk/events/latin-american-music-seminar/) - Latin American Music Seminar: Music and the State in Latin AmericaThe Pavilion, Horniman Museum and Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ Saturday 19th November 2016 SESSION 1: (10.00-11.00) WHAT IS THE STATE? HOW DOES IT RELATE TO MUSIC/CULTURE? Introduction to the Day: Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Frederick Moehn
- [Tourism Seminar: Mark Hampton](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-mark-hampton/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Karst Limestone or Cast Concrete? Coastal tourism and local impacts in Vietnam: lessons from Ha Long Bay Dr Mark Hampton, University of Kent Thursday 17 November 2016 at 5.30 pm This paper explores the local impacts of rapidly growing
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Art, Anthropology and the Gift](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-art-anthropology-and-the-gift/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Art, Anthropology and the Gift Thursday 17 November 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 with the
- [Nueva Venecia](https://therai.org.uk/events/nueva-venecia-2/) - Nueva Venecia Sunday 13 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Emiliano Mazza de Luca Uruguay / 2016 / 80mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. The fishing community of Nueva Venecia is like any other, with one extraordinary difference:
- [Nowhere to Call Home](https://therai.org.uk/events/nowhere-to-call-home-2/) - Nowhere to Call HomeMonday 14 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jocelyn Ford China / United States / 2014 / 76mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. "This story breaks all the rules and upends popular perceptions of Tibetans
- [A Revolution in Four Seasons](https://therai.org.uk/events/a-revolution-in-four-seasons-2/) - A Revolution in Four Seasons Wednesday 16 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jessie Deeter United States / 2016 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Over the course of Tunisia’s post-revolution years, we follow two politically-opposed young
- [RAI Research Seminar: Andrea Grant](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-andrea-grant/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Giving messages to small people: Hip hop music and identity in post-genocide Rwanda Dr Andrea Mariko Grant, University of Cambridge Wednesday 16 November at 5.30 pm This paper explores the development of Rwanda’s post-genocide music industry, particularly the booming popularity of Kinyarwanda-language hip hop. Like elsewhere
- [What Tomorrow Brings](https://therai.org.uk/events/what-tomorrow-brings-2/) - What Tomorrow Brings Saturday 12 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Beth Murphy Afghanistan / United States / 2015 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. A year in the life of the first all-girls school in a
- [Ukrainian Sheriffs](https://therai.org.uk/events/ukrainian-sheriffs-2/) - Ukrainian Sheriffs Friday 11 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Roman Bondarchuk Germany / Latvia / Ukraine / 2015 / 85mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Welcome to Stara Zburyevka, where local sheriffs Viktor and Volodya are trying
- [Anthropology in Austria](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-in-austria/) - Anthropology in Austria From the “Blue Danube“ to studying the diversity of the world Tuesday 8 November 2016 Venue: Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH 09:00-09:50 – Registration and Coffee & tea service 10:00-10:30 - Opening remarks 10:30-11:30 – Presentations 11:30-12:00 – Coffee & tea break 12:00-13:00 - Presentations 13:00-14:00
- [Nueva Venecia](https://therai.org.uk/events/nueva-venecia/) - Nueva VeneciaWednesday 9 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Emiliano Mazza de Luca Uruguay / 2016 / 80mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. The fishing community of Nueva Venecia is like any other, with one extraordinary difference: The village is
- [Huxley Lecture - Margaret Lock](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-margaret-lock/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Margaret Lock, McGill University Mutable Environments and Permeable Human Bodies Friday 11 November 2016 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Mapping the human genome produced unexpected findings that paved the way for recognition of
- [A Revolution in Four Seasons](https://therai.org.uk/events/a-revolution-in-four-seasons/) - A Revolution in Four SeasonsMonday 7 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jessie Deeter United States / 2016 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Over the course of Tunisia’s post-revolution years, we follow two politically-opposed young women who show
- [Ukrainian Sheriffs](https://therai.org.uk/events/ukrainian-sheriffs/) - Ukrainian Sheriffs Saturday 5 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Roman Bondarchuk Germany / Latvia / Ukraine / 2015 / 85mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Welcome to Stara Zburyevka, where local sheriffs Viktor and Volodya are trying to keep
- [What Tomorrow Brings](https://therai.org.uk/events/what-tomorrow-brings/) - What Tomorrow Brings Sunday 6 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Beth Murphy Afghanistan / United States / 2015 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. A year in the life of the first all-girls school in a remote, conservative
- [Acts of Remembrance](https://therai.org.uk/events/acts-of-remembrance/) - Acts of RemembranceSunday 6 November 2016, 5.00pm to 8.00pm Kino-Teatr, 43-53 Norman Rd, Saint Leonards-on-Sea TN38 0EQ On the 6th November at 5pm we will be joined by a group of World War Two veterans in the beautiful Kino-Teatr in St Leonards-on-sea (Hastings). The event includes a screening of Return of the Liberators (filmmaker Janet
- [RAI Research Seminar: Maxime Brami](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-maxime-brami-2/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE From the origins of agriculture to the spread of the Neolithic Dr Maxime Brami, Austrian Academy of Sciences Monday 7 November at 4.00 pm Archaeologists have long assumed that, as soon as sedentary farming was invented, c. 10,000 years ago in the Near East, it slowly
- [Nowhere to Call Home](https://therai.org.uk/events/nowhere-to-call-home/) - Nowhere to Call HomeFriday 4 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jocelyn Ford China / United States / 2014 / 76mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. "This story breaks all the rules and upends popular perceptions of Tibetans
- [Research in Progress: Joseph Briestly](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-joseph-briestly/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 November, 4.00 pm Animal Economics: exchange and personhood in pastoral Mongolia Joseph Briestly, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://josephbristley.eventbrite.co.uk In pastoral Mongolia a strongly held ideology of abundance accentuates the importance of owning lots
- [Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation](https://therai.org.uk/events/folklore-and-anthropology-in-conversation/) - Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation(a joint one-day seminar with the Folklore Society) Thursday 27 October, 10.00am to 5.00pm Final programme 10.00-10.30am COFFEE 10.30-10.45 Welcome 10.45am-11.30am Dr David Shankland, Director (Royal Anthropological Institute) - The RAI and the Folklore Society: or Anthropology and Folklore The RAI and the Folklore Society have often worked closely together, and
- [Seminar: John McManus](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-john-mcmanus/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 3 November 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Dr John McManus Turkey and the anthropology of football Turkey is a football-mad nation. Ninety per cent of all citizens are self-confessed fans of the sport, which frequently intersects with debates about social class, politics, community and identity.
- [Research in Progress: Christine Moderbacher](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-christine-moderbacher/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 21 October, 4.00 pm Deconstructing a Rhinoceros! Voices from Molenbeek/Brussels Christine Moderbacher, University of Aberdeen This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://christinemoderbacher.eventbrite.co.uk Based on research in one of Brussels central neighbourhoods, Molenbeek, where the daily life experience
- [RAI Research Seminar: Carine Plancke](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-carine-plancke/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Political Design and Cultural Creativity: Changing Dance Performances in Post-Genocide Rwanda Dr Carine Plancke, University of Roehampton Wednesday 26 October at 5.30 pm Since it took power by putting an end to the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan Patriotic Front has initiated the project of building a
- [Seminar: Hugh Pope](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-hugh-pope/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyThursday 13 October 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Hugh Pope THE TURKISH KALEIDOSCOPE Few are more stunned by Turkey’s 15 July coup attempt than the Turkish people themselves. Even outside Turkey, analysts have reacted to the confusion by veering deep into ideological and even conspiracy
- [Visual Anthropology and the City](https://therai.org.uk/events/visual-anthropology-and-the-city/) - Visual Anthropology and the City14 & 15 October 2016 ‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ is a two-day-symposium at UCL, which brings together anthropologists, filmmakers and artists. Urban anthropology has fascinated journalists, photographers and policy makers with the emergence of the Chicago School since the 1920s. Ethnography and long-term research facilitated deeper insights into the everyday
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: The British on Holiday](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-british-on-holiday/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The British on Holiday: Charter Tourism, Identity and Consumption Thursday 20 October 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,
- [Book Launch: Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-islamic-charities-and-islamic-humanism-in-troubled-times/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times Jonathan Benthall Wednesday 12 October at 5.30pm To mark the launch of his new book, there will be a discussion between the author, Jonathan Benthall, and Prof André Singer, the President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. This book is the fruit
- [Tourism Seminar: Heather Jeffrey](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-heather-jeffrey/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (Re)Presenting the daughters of Bourguiba: Tunisian women and tourism Heather Jeffrey, University of Bedfordshire Tuesday 11 October 2016 at 5.30 pm Before the Jasmine revolution and terrorist attacks of 2015 Tunisia was cited as one of the fastest growing
- [Research in Progress: Camelia Dewan](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-camelia-dewan/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 7 October, 4.00 pm Rice, Soil and Strength: Food and Ecology in a Freshwater Village Camelia Dewan, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://cameliadewan.eventbrite.co.uk My overall doctoral thesis problematizes the idea of Bangladesh as a
- [RAI AGM 2016 followed by the Myers Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2016-followed-by-the-myers-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2016 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture The 2016 AGM will take place on Friday 30 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2016 Myers Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote
- [Myers Lecture - Ken Dark](https://therai.org.uk/events/myers-lecture-ken-dark/) - THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2016will be given by Dr Ken Dark, University of Reading Returning to the Caves of Mystery: archaeology and the origins of Christian pilgrimage Friday 30 September 2016, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The lecture will be
- [RAI Research Seminar: Kirsty Rowan](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-kirsty-rowan/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Revitalising the Nubian Endangered Languages and Living Heritage Dr Kirsty Rowan, Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London Wednesday 5 October at 5.30 pm For many millennia, the Nubian peoples have lived along a stretch of the Nile comprising northern Sudan to southern Egypt. However, during
- [An|Other Representation](https://therai.org.uk/events/another-representation/) - An|Other Representation. Final film screening MA Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths 2015-16Saturday 17 September 5.00-8.00pm Sunday 18 September 5.00-8.00pm Students graduating from the MA Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths University present an exclusive selection of their final short-films. Come and discover a myriad of serendipitous realities from Jamaica to Berlin, San Francisco to Catalonia, Kenya to Norfolk over
- [London Anthropology Day 2016](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2016/) - 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
- [Symposium No. 2: Slow Cinema Screenings](https://therai.org.uk/events/symposium-no-2-slow-cinema-screenings/) - Symposium No. 2: Slow Cinema ScreeningsFriday 8 July 2016 11:00am to 5:00pm Location: UCL Slow Cinema Screenings A series of slow cinema film screenings will be held at UCL on 8 July. This event follows on from the inaugural Slow Cinema Symposium held at the Institute of Archaeology in April 2016. Filmmakers are invited to
- [Photography in Academic Research](https://therai.org.uk/events/photography-in-academic-research/) - photography + (con) text Photography in Academic Research 8 & 9 September 2016 Conference Programme ‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to invite you to our conference on ‘Photography in Academic Research’ hosted by UCL Heritage Studies, Institute of Archaeology, in collaboration with RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) and Birkbeck, Department of Politics. There are
- [Care on Display](https://therai.org.uk/events/care-on-display/) - Film screening and discussion Care on Display Care on Display brings together documentary and artistic films by anthropologists interested in the subject of care for the elderly and for people suffering from dementia. The screenings, which will be followed by a discussion, aim to investigate how films explore notions of access and visibility of ‘care’
- [Research in Progress: Emilio G. Berrocal](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-emilio-g-berrocal/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 17 June 2016, 4.30pm Thinking with Rap: Thinking, Anthropocene, Racism Emilio G. Berrocal This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://emiliogberrocal.eventbrite.co.uk In this paper, I will try to offer answers to the following questions: 1) What does
- [RAI Research Seminar: Adrian Poole](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-adrian-poole/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ethnographic Wax Cylinder Recordings, Technology and Archival Issues Dr Adrian Poole, University College London Wednesday 15 June at 5.30 pm Phonographic wax cylinder equipment was the principal means by which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anthropologists, comparative musicologists and linguistics recorded and played back the sounds
- [Tourism Seminar: Andrew Holden](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-andrew-holden/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Evolving perspectives on tourism's interaction with nature- connecting at last? Professor Andrew Holden, University of Bedfordshire Monday 13 June at 5.30 pm Our relationship to nature is under re-evaluation as society faces environmental challenges driven
- [Music at the RAI: Japan and Java](https://therai.org.uk/events/music-at-the-rai-japan-and-java/) - Never mind the notation: Understanding music through performance in Japan and JavaDr David W Hughes, SOAS and Durham University Wednesday 15 June at 11.00am In many non-Western traditions, even when written notation exists, music is still learnt and understood primarily through performance: imitating one’s teacher, learning from one’s mistakes when performing in public, ‘stealing’ from
- [Research in Progress: Anna Ruddock](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-anna-ruddock/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 3 June 2016, 4.30pm Getting In: ‘rank’ as biographical number at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Anna Ruddock, King's College London This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://annaruddock.eventbrite.co.uk The All India Institute of Medical
- [Peak](https://therai.org.uk/events/peak/) - Saturday 28th May, 20:00 PEAK Hannes Lang Germany, Italy / 2011/ 91min As part of the Anthropology, Climate Change and Weather conference, the RAI, in partnership with Bertha DocHouse Screen at the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema, presents a curated programme of films open to conference delegates and to the general public. Are You Listening! and Peak
- [Are You Listening!](https://therai.org.uk/events/are-you-listening/) - Friday 27th May, 20:30ARE YOU LISTENING! Kamar Ahmad Simon Bangladesh / 2012 / 90 min As part of the Anthropology, Climate Change and Weather conference, the RAI, in partnership with Bertha DocHouse Screen at the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema, presents a curated programme of films open to conference delegates and to the general public. Are You
- [Torres Strait Trilogy Film Screenings](https://therai.org.uk/events/torres-strait-trilogy-film-screenings/) - Torres Strait Trilogy Film Screenings + Q&A with Director Frances Calvert11.00-17.00 Monday 23 May 2016 Nash Lecture Theatre Second Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus King’s College London WC2R 2LS The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London, in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, are excited to
- [Mary Douglas Lecture: Michael Thompson](https://therai.org.uk/events/mary-douglas-lecture-michael-thompson/) - Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2016 25 May 2016 The 3rd Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture will be held on Wednesday 25 May at 6pm in the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW, followed by a drinks reception. How BOFIs (Banks and Other Financial Institutions) Think Dr Michael Thompson International Institute of
- [Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-weather-and-climate-change/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE / DEPARTMENT OF AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND THE AMERICAS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUMAnthropology, Weather and Climate Change British Museum, Clore Centre, 27-29 May 2016 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference ‘Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change’ will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the
- [States of Alterity Workshop](https://therai.org.uk/events/states-of-alterity-workshop/) - States of AlterityWORKSHOP AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 23 May at 10.00am 10.00–10:30: Welcome and introductions 10.30–11.00: Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti: The indigenous cosmopolitics of citizenship in Peru, or becoming Peruvian to keep the state away 11.00–11.30: Liana Chua: Christian cosmopolitics, ontology and the problem of difference: reflections on a legal victory in Malaysian
- [RAI Student Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-student-conference/) - Oxford Brookes’ Anthropology Society is hosting the 6th Annual RAI Student Conference on 18 May 2016. The theme is ‘Anthropology in the 21st Century’; this conference is hoping to cover various areas of anthropology and display the broad range of research being conducted in the field. The day will consist of a series of student talks
- [RAI Research Seminar: Hélène Neveu Kringelbach](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-hlne-neveu-kringelbach/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Dance, morality and self in urban Senegal Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, University College London Wednesday 18 May at 5.30 pm In Dakar, in predominantly Muslim Senegal, dance is tabloid matter on a daily basis. Indeed, dance is regarded as morally ambiguous: on the one hand, certain
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Writing the Dark Side of Travel](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-writing-the-dark-side-of-travel/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Writing the Dark Side of Travel Thursday 19 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 with
- [Research in Progress: Syed Mohammed Faisal](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-syed-mohammed-faisal/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 20 May, 4.30 pm Reciprocity: materiality and technicality in credit transactions Syed Mohammed Faisal, University of Sussex This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://syedmohammedfaisal.eventbrite.co.uk The aim of the paper is to understand Islamic norms and their limits
- [Research in Progress: Amber Abrams](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-amber-abrams/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 6 May, 4.30 pm Living well despite it all; exploring the impacts of protected areas on edge-dwellers' attempts towards health Amber Abrams, University of Kent This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://amberabrams.eventbrite.co.uk Protected areas often appear
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: The House of Commons](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-house-of-commons/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The House of Commons: an Anthropology of MPs at Work Thursday 21 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 Research
- [Research in Progress: Adeel Khan](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-adeel-khan/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 April 2016, 4.30pm Auditing Muslim Audition Adeel Khan, University of Cambridge This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://adeelkhan.eventbrite.co.uk Discussing the place of propriety of speech and act in Euro-America has from George Minois to J. M.
- [Tourism Seminar: Peter Smith](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-peter-smith/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE International volunteer tourism: decommodified moral encounters or a search for moral meaning? Peter Smith, St Mary's University Monday 25 April at 5.30 pm In recent decades there has been a boom in international volunteer tourism,
- [RAI Research Seminar: Robert Foley](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-robert-foley/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The complex origins and evolution of our species Professor Robert Foley, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge Wednesday 27 April at 5.30 pm Nearly thirty years ago the idea that Homo sapiens evolved recently in Africa and dispersed rapidly from there took hold,
- [RAI Research Seminar: James H. Wade](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-james-h-wade/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Scale, Cohesion and Complexity: Understanding Fali community chiefdoms of the Mandara Mountains James H. Wade Wednesday 20 April at 5.30 pm A combination of dispersed powers and ego-centred networks generated within the trajectory of the Fali of the southern Mandaras is shown to achieve a high
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Anthropology and Anthropologists](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-anthropology-and-anthropologists/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Anthropology and Anthropologists: the Modern British School Thursday 17 March 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
- [Tourism Seminar: Marina Novelli](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-marina-novelli/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic (EVDE) and its Unexpected Effects on Tourism in The Gambia and Sierra Leone Dr Marina Novelli, University of Brighton Monday 21 March at 5.30 pm Abstract Over the past 20
- [RAI Research Seminar: Ann R David](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-ann-r-david/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Listening to the ‘voice of the body’: revisiting the concept of embodied ethnography in the anthropology of dance Dr Ann R David, Head of Dance, Reader in Dance Studies, University of Roehampton Wednesday 23 March at 5.30 pm Whilst Radcliffe-Brown, Malinowski, Mead and other early eminent
- [Music at the RAI: Women and Dutar in Uzbekistan](https://therai.org.uk/events/music-at-the-rai-women-and-dutar-in-uzbekistan/) - "Love Terrestrial and Love Divine": Women and Dutar in UzbekistanDr Razia Sultanova, University of Cambridge Wednesday 6 April at 11.00am Playing the Uzbek Dutar (plucked lute) and doira (frame drum), Dr Razia Sultanova will give a rendition of Uzbek female music. This feminine repertoire was performed exclusively indoors, far from the eyes and ears of
- [RAI Research Seminar: Catherine Foley](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-catherine-foley/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE “Play Music Without Dancers and It’s a Waste of Music”: Sounding Movements, Changing Contexts, and the Sean Nós Dancer Dr Catherine Foley, University of Limerick Wednesday 16 March at 5.30 pm This seminar ethnochoreologically examines sean nós dancing, a solo, vernacular semi-improvisatory percussive dance practice performed
- [Research in Progress: Kelly Fagan Robinson](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-kelly-fagan-robinson/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 March, 4.30 pm Erasure of the individual: Interruptions, egalitarianism, and equality in the context of deaf people in the UK Kelly Fagan Robinson, UCL This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://kellyrobinson.eventbrite.co.uk This paper will address
- [Mr Coperthwaite: Spring in Dickinson's Reach](https://therai.org.uk/events/mr-coperthwaite-spring-in-dickinsons-reach/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 9 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Mr Coperthwaite: Spring in Dickinson's Reach, Anna Grimshaw, 2014, 82 min. In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the
- [Marion Berghahn](https://therai.org.uk/events/marion-berghahn/) - RAI SEMINARSEMINAR AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE A publisher's perspective Marion Berghahn, Berghahn Books Wednesday 9 March at 5.30 pm Drawing on her many years in publishing, Marion Berghahn, an anthropologist by training, will present an overview of the industry and where, in particular, the monograph fits into the spectrum. As a major publisher in
- [The Halfmoon Files- A Ghost Story](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-halfmoon-files-a-ghost-story/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 16 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS The Halfmoon Files- A Ghost Story, Philip Scheffner, 2008. 87 min. This experimental film follows the history of a brief sound recording of the voice of
- [RAI 14th Film Festival at USC](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-14th-film-festival-at-usc/) - Royal Anthropological Institute 14th International Ethnographic Film Festival 4th-6th March 2016 at USCLOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Screenings Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 4-6th, 2016. All screenings at Seeley G. Mudd Hall [SGM}on USC campus. Vermont Avenue Entrance at 36th Place (Gate #6). The prize winning films at The 14th RAI International
- [Queens of Syria & Boya Boya](https://therai.org.uk/events/queens-of-syria-boya-boya/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 24 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Queens of Syria, Yasmin Fedda, 2014, 70 mins Boya Boya (Shine Shine), Karen Boswall, Ruba Al Akash, 2014, 18 mins The first film tells the story
- [An evening with Edith Durham](https://therai.org.uk/events/an-evening-with-edith-durham/) - An evening with Edith DurhamIn association with the Anglo-Albanian Association Dr Robert Elsie Wednesday 24 February 2016, 5.30pm-7.30pm Edith Durham was at once one of the most distinguished Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a well-known war-correspondent, lecturer, writer, photographer and artist of Albania and the Balkans. A former Member of Council and Vice-President,
- [Tourism Seminar: Dorothea Meyer](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-dorothea-meyer/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Gaining access to tourist markets: female craft producers in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Dr Dorothea Meyer, Sheffield Hallam University Monday 29 February at 5.30 pm Abstract Tourism accounts for 40% of all international arrivals into less economically
- [Ainu: Paths to Memory](https://therai.org.uk/events/ainu-paths-to-memory/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 2 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Ainu: Paths to Memory, Marcos Centano, 2014, 82 mins The film sets out to discover the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan. The film shows a
- [Anthropology and Photography: Jane Lydon](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-and-photography-jane-lydon/) - To mark the conferment of the RAI Photography Studies AwardAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Australian Aboriginal Transformations of the Colonial Archive Professor Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia) Monday 22 February at 5.30 pm Many European photographic archives contain images of Australian Aboriginal people, produced from the mid-nineteenth century for scientific and popular purposes –
- [Research in Progress: Anneke Newman](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-anneke-newman/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 19 February, 4.30 pm Passive, voiceless victims or actively seeking a religious education? Qur’anic school students in Senegal Anneke Newman, University of Sussex This presentation will problematise dominant representations in grey and academic literature of Qur'anic school students in Senegal as passive victims, 'marginalised' or
- [Damiana Kryygi](https://therai.org.uk/events/damiana-kryygi/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 17 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Damiana Kryygi, Alejandro Fernández Mouján, 2015, 96 mins Paraguay, 1896. A three year-old girl is captured by settlers after they had massacred of a group of
- [RAI Research Seminar: Jonathan Roper](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jonathan-roper/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARJoint seminar with the Folklore Society SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Texts of Charms, the Contexts of Charming Dr Jonathan Roper (Estonia) Wednesday 17 February at 5.30 pm Complementing the work of Social Anthropologists and Linguistic Anthropologists, Folklorists have centred their attention on traditional verbal genres. Although pride of place
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Communities of Complicity](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-communities-of-complicity/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China Thursday 18 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 Research Centre, in
- [RAI Research Seminar: Judith Lynne Hanna](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-judith-lynne-hanna/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Choreographing Brain: Cognition, Emotion, and Dance Dr Judith Lynne Hanna, Affiliate Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, USA Wednesday 10 February at 5.30 pm Recent technological advances in neuroscience are unraveling secrets about the cognitive, emotional, and exercise power of dance. Hidden from
- [Book Launch: Michael Banton](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-michael-banton/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mistakes About Race: a discussion Michael Banton, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol Wednesday 3 February at 5.30pm The expression `race relations’ was adopted by the London School of Economics in 1947. It was the title of a course, and a lectureship, in the Anthropology Department. At that time Michael
- [Research in Progress: Martyn Wemyss](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-martyn-wemyss/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 5 February, 4.30 pm Embodied Ghosts of Phantom Lynchings: A 'hauntography' of El Alto's hanging puppets Martyn Wemyss, LSE This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://martynwemyss.eventbrite.co.uk El Alto's markets and residential streets are marked by the phenomenon
- [Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish Society](https://therai.org.uk/events/joint-seminar-with-the-anglo-turkish-society/) - Joint seminar with the Anglo-Turkish SocietyMonday 8 February 2016 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Speaker: Pat Yale The explorer, archaeologist and writer Gertrude Bell is best known for her travels in Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia but as a young woman she spent a lot of time in what is now
- [Body Games](https://therai.org.uk/events/body-games/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 3 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Body Games, Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção, Christine Dettmann, 2014, 87 mins The film follows master Cobra Mansa and his friends in the search for the
- [The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-auction-house-a-tale-of-two-brothers-2/) - UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Tuesday 2 February 7.00pm PICK OF THE FESTIVAL A selection of award winning films from the 2015 edition of the RAI FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM THE AUCTION HOUSE: A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS Director/Anthropologist: Ed Owles UK / 2014 / 85 min Country of Production: Location: India Ethnic Group: Indian
- [Tourism Seminar: Harold Goodwin](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-harold-goodwin/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE All forms of tourism can be more responsible. The mass matters...... Prof Harold Goodwin, Manchester Metropolitan University Monday 25 January at 5.30 pm Abstract Using satellite accounting, leaders in travel and tourism present themselves as
- [Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush](https://therai.org.uk/events/kalanda-the-knowledge-of-the-bush/) - UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Tuesday 26 January 7.00pm PICK OF THE FESTIVAL A selection of award winning films from the 2015 edition of the RAI FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM KALANDA - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BUSH Director/Anthropologist: Lorenzo Ferrarini UK / 2014 / 62 min Location: Burkina Faso Language: Jula with English subtitles The
- [Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest](https://therai.org.uk/events/baka-a-cry-from-the-rainforest/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 27 January 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest, Phil Agland, 2013, 89 mins Phil Agland returns to south east Cameroon to rediscover the Baka family he filmed 25
- [Research in Progress: Kapil Dahal](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-kapil-dahal/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 January 2016, 4.30pm Understanding Health Seeking Practices: reflections on doing ethnography as a native anthropologist in Nepal Kapil Dahal, Tribhuvan University, Nepal/Durham University (Visiting Research Student) This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://kapildahal.eventbrite.co.uk Doing ethnographic
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-war-exile-and-the-music-of-afghanistan/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer’s Tale Thursday 21 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
- [Yangon Film School Films](https://therai.org.uk/events/yangon-film-school-films/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 20 January 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Behind the Screen, Aung Nwai Htway Yangon Film School, 2012, 35 mins Lady of the Lake, Zaw Naing Oo Yangon Film School, 2014, 22 mins Tyres,
- [Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars](https://therai.org.uk/events/sepideh-reaching-for-the-stars/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 13 January 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars Berit Madsen, 2013, 90 mins The film follows the story of Sepideh, a young Iranian who dares to pursue her dream
- [Book Launch: Richard Werbner](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-richard-werbner/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Divination’s Grasp: Uncertainty and the Intersubjective Predicament Prof Richard Werbner, Emeritus Professor in African Anthropology, University of Manchester Tuesday 19 January at 5.30pm This lecture introduces the launch of Divination’s Grasp (2016, Indiana University Press), a book I began in fieldwork in 1972 among Moremi villagers in the Tswapong
- [Book Launch: Daniel Miller](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-daniel-miller/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Photography in the Age of Snapchat Prof Daniel Miller, University College London Monday 14 December at 5.30pm With well over two billion photographs posted daily on social media this is now the dominant form of contemporary photography. It also means the photograph takes its place with text and voice
- [RAI Research Seminar: Simon Underdown](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-simon-underdown/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Festive Tales of the Fitzroys: evolutionary stories from the past Dr Simon Underdown, Oxford Brookes University Wednesday 16 December at 5.30 pm The cabin and conversations shared by a young Charles Darwin and Captain Robert Ftizroy onboard the HMS Beagle produced one of the most well
- [Tourism Seminar: Jim Butcher](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-jim-butcher/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Morality or Moralising? Ethical tourism’s critique of the masses on holiday Dr Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University Monday 7 December at 5.30 pm In recent decades ‘ethical tourism’ has become a popular theme amongst
- [History of the RAI: 1871 to 1918](https://therai.org.uk/events/history-of-the-rai-1871-to-1918/) - History of the Royal Anthropological InstituteWorkshop in preparation for Volume 2: 1871 to 1918 8th & 9th December 2015 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://raihistory2.eventbrite.co.uk 8th December 2015 DAY 1 10.30 TEA AND COFFEE 11.00
- [Research in Progress: Natalie Djohari](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-natalie-djohari/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 11 December, 4.30 pm A Feeling for Water: Rethinking the role of affective geographies in lessening the emotional burden of research participation Dr Natalie Djohari, Visiting Research Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please
- [Huxley Lecture - Robin Dunbar](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-robin-dunbar/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Robin Dunbar, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Dunbar’s Number: How Constrained Is Your Social World? Friday 4 December 2015 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The Social Brain Hypothesis, first proposed in
- [Anthropology & Language Seminar: Smith](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-language-seminar-smith/) - RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The cultural evolution of linguistic structure Dr Kenny Smith, University of Edinburgh Thursday 3 December at 5.00 pm No other species has a communication system which provides the expressive power of human language: at least at a first approximation, anything you can think, you
- [Sibirr and Close to Home – Film Screening](https://therai.org.uk/events/sibirr-and-close-to-home-film-screening/) - UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Sibirr and Close to Home – Film Screening ‘Sibirr’ (1989/2000) // Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes // 40min, 16mm, colour, sound; transferred to digital video. ‘Close to Home’ (1982/1987) // Nina Danino // 28min, 16mm, black and white, sound; transferred to digital video. 4pm, Saturday 28th November All Hallows
- [Bx46 - Film Screening](https://therai.org.uk/events/bx46-film-screening/) - UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Bx46 – Film Screening Directed by Jeremie Brugidou and Fabien Clouette FRANCE, USA / 2013 / 78 min Tuesday 1st December 18:00 – 20:00 Bx46 is an documentary film essay, an exploration of trajectories and routes between three and a half spaces in contemporary New York: the legendary fish market that
- [RAI Research Seminar: Rachel Harris](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-rachel-harris/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Soundscapes and Ethnomusicology Dr Rachel Harris, SOAS Wednesday 2 December at 5.30 pm This seminar considers the burgeoning interest in soundscapes within the discipline of ethnomusicology. Drawing on diverse strands from urban geography to sound art and acoustic ecology, Rachel Harris asks what fresh insights a
- [Anthropology & Language Seminar: Majid](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-language-seminar-majid/) - RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Are some experiences impossible to put into words? Professor Asifa Majid, Radboud Universiteit Thursday 26 November at 5.00 pm Language seems to be better at expressing some notions (e.g., geometric shapes), but poor at others (e.g., describing an individuals’ face). But are there ineffable
- [Seminar: David Barchard](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-david-barchard/) - Life in a Turkish provincial town in 2015: Elections and New Social Directions?David Barchard Friday 27 November at 3.30 pm David Barchard looks at the structures and patterns underlying life in a small central Anatolian community and tries to relate them to broader questions about the direction of Turkish society and its political system.. A
- [RAI Research Seminar: Kevin Dawe](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-kevin-dawe/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Musical Instruments and Material Culture Professor Kevin Dawe, University of Kent Wednesday 25 November at 5.30 pm The seminal Handbook of Material Culture (2006) provides a broad introduction to its field of study and demonstrates how well material culture studies is embedded and established within anthropology.
- [RAI Research Seminar: Jerome Lewis](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jerome-lewis/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Why Music Matters. Social Aesthetics and Cultural Transmission. Dr Jerome Lewis, UCL Wednesday 18 November at 5.30 pm All social groups have their own music. Why should this be? This talk will argue that attending to musical activity provides great insight into a group’s core values
- [Anthropology & Language Seminar: Leguy](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-language-seminar-leguy/) - RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Naming and other veiled speaking among the Bwa People of Mali: A contribution to pragmatic anthropology Professor Cecile Leguy, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Thursday 19 November at 5.00 pm In France, linguistics and anthropology have developed independently of each other. First-generation ethnographers
- [Research in Progress: Clara Rubico](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-clara-rubico/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 20 November, 4.30 pm Catalan young migrants in London Clara Rubico, Universitat de Lleida This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://clararubico.eventbrite.co.uk The high rate of unemployment in Catalonia and the persistent precariousness of the labour market
- [The 'Dunbar Number', Evolution and Cognition](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-dunbar-number-evolution-and-cognition/) - The 'Dunbar Number', Evolution and CognitionFriday 13 November 2015 Archaeology G6 LT, Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://dunbarnumber.eventbrite.co.uk Chair: Professor Rob Foley (Cambridge) 10.00am - Welcome and opening remarks Paper One 10.10-10.50am “Primate social evolution and the
- [RAI Blacking Lecture: Martin Stokes](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-blacking-lecture-martin-stokes/) - RAI EthnomusicologyRAI Blacking Lecture 10 November 2015 Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast Music and Citizenship Professor Martin Stokes, King's College London Citizenship debates - traditionally focused on questions about property, liberty of the person, and representation - shifted radically in the 1990s. Globalization pushed questions about ‘flexible citizenship’, about problems of inclusion and exclusion in
- [Workshop on Anthropology and Humanitarian Crisis](https://therai.org.uk/events/workshop-on-anthropology-and-humanitarian-crisis/) - Workshop on Anthropology and Humanitarian Crisis: A thought experiment Location: Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT Date: 11th November 2015 Time: 10:00 - 16:00 Convenor: Professor Raymond Apthorpe Contact: Gemma Aellah, RAI Research Officer, gaellah@therai.org.uk This workshop is part of an on-going project on Anthropology and Humanitarian Crisis convened by Professor Raymond
- [Anthropology & Language Seminar: King](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-language-seminar-king/) - RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Koryak Ethnopoetics: Stories from Herders and Maritime Villagers Dr Alexander King, University of Aberdeen Thursday 12 November at 5.30 pm I present an initial analysis of a documentation project that is 20 years in the making. Funded by a large project grant from the
- [The Anthropology of Health in Africa](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-anthropology-of-health-in-africa/) - The Anthropology of Health in Africa Location: SOAS, Brunei Building Date: 10 November 2015 Time: 14:00 - 17:00 Through two interactive workshops focused on interdisciplinary health projects in Africa, Anthropology A Level / International Baccalaureate students will engage with ethnographic examples from the field and researchers working on these projects. Dr Shelley Lees’ workshop will
- [Tourism Seminar: Hazel Andrews](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-hazel-andrews/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Magaluf, Mamading and Moral Panic Dr Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University Monday 9 November at 5.30 pm At the start of July 2014 The Sunday Mirror newspaper published a story under the headline: 'Magaluf
- [Behind the Screen-World: Visualizing Markets & Hacking Finance](https://therai.org.uk/events/behind-the-screen-world-visualizing-markets-hacking-finance/) - Behind the Screen–World: Visualizing Markets & Hacking Finance7th November 2015 10.00-17.00 Open University Campus, Camden http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact//maps.aspx?contactid=1 (Room 2). Building on the Royal Anthropological Institute and London School of Financial Arts’ 25th April 2015 symposium on Mapping High Finance, this one–day design workshop will begin with by introducing participants to academic work produced by sociologists, geographers and
- [Music at the RAI: A Tale of Two Women](https://therai.org.uk/events/music-at-the-rai-a-tale-of-two-women/) - 'A tale of two women: Recreating Sattriya Dance Theatre from a 15th century Indian monastic performance tradition of male monks from Assam'A spoken word and dance performance By Dr. Menaka PP Bora (University of Oxford) and Indira PP Bora (Co-founder-Kalabhumi India). Friday 6 November at 11.00am This event is free, but tickets must be booked.
- [Research in Progress: Tom Chambers](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-tom-chambers/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 6 November, 4.30 pm ‘We were ready to leave’: Imagination, Migration & Cosmopolitanism between Uttar Pradesh (India) & the Gulf Tom Chambers, Sussex University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://tomchambers.eventbrite.co.uk This article examines migration and imagination
- [RAI Research Seminar: Andre Gingrich](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-andre-gingrich/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Fürer-Haimendorf's early academic career: A case study in exploring methodologies for the history of anthropology Professor Andre Gingrich, University of Vienna Wednesday 4 November at 5.30 pm This seminar will discuss various methods in elaborating the history of anthropology, such as genealogies of ideas, network analysis,
- [Anthropology & Language Seminar: Rampton & Blommaert](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-language-seminar-rampton-blommaert/) - RAI Anthropology and Language SeminarsSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Linguistic ethnography in Britain and Europe: Origins, organisation and perspective Professor Ben Rampton, King's College London Professor Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University Thursday 5 November at 5.00 pm Drawing on US linguistic anthropology but infusing it with interdisciplinary and applied concerns of its own, linguistic
- [RAI Research Seminar: Carole Pegg](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-carole-pegg/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Musical Bodies: Orchestrating personhood, self and place among shamanic nomadic peoples of the Altai-Sayan Mountains of southern Siberia Dr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge Wednesday 21 October at 5.30 pm In the face of recent aggressive Russification policies, the shamanic semi-nomadic peoples of the republics of
- [Research in Progress: Anna Arnone](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-anna-arnone/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 23 October, 4.30 pm Lampedusa caught between shipwreck and tourism Dr Anna Arnone, SOAS Research Associate This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://annaarnone.eventbrite.co.uk October 2013, la spiaggia dei conigli is Tripadvisor-rated most beautiful beach in the
- [RAI Research Seminar: Christina Toren](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-christina-toren/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Touching and being touched – how we shape the world Professor Christina Toren, University of St Andrews Wednesday 28 October at 5.30 pm Skin, hands, and touch – we cannot separate them from one another, neither does it make sense (at least, from an ethnographic perspective)
- [Norwegian Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/norwegian-anthropology-day/) - Norwegian Anthropology Day Friday 30 October 2015 Venue: Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://norwegiananthropology.eventbrite.co.uk 09:00-10:00 Registration 10:00 Opening remarks by Prof. Edvard Hviding, Univ. of Bergen 10:15 – 13:00 PRESENTATIONS (25 minutes each including short
- [Book Launch: French Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-french-anthropology/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology at the Crossroads: The View from France Volume One of the RAI Country Series edited by Sophie Chevalier Monday 19 October at 5.30pm The influence of French intellectual thought on anthropology worldwide has been immense. This set of outstanding essays examines the influence of Lévi-Strauss, internal debates concerning
- [Tourism Seminar: Steve Fothergill](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-seminar-steve-fothergill/) - Royal Anthropological Institute / Development Studies Association Tourism Research Seminars: Theme - Mass TourismSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Seaside towns in the age of austerity Professor Steve Fothergill, Sheffield Hallam University Monday 12 October at 5.30 pm Britain’s seaside towns are home to a substantial population and a visitor destination for millions. But
- [Book Launch: John Baily](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-john-baily/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer’s Tale Professor John Baily, Goldsmiths Tuesday 13 October at 5.30pm In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki’s coup in 1978, came conflict, war,
- [Folklore and Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/folklore-and-anthropology/) - THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY and THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE will host a joint symposium Folklore and Anthropology Friday 16 October, 10.00am to 5.00pm Anthropology and Folklore Studies had a common origin, and today have many areas of common interest in topics, research methods and theory. In this one-day symposium, which is intended to be an
- [LGBT Film Event](https://therai.org.uk/events/lgbt-film-event/) - LGBT Film Event – ‘Family and Parenting’In partnership with Camden LGBT Forum 18th October 2015 Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum FREE, tickets required for each session. You are welcome to join us for one session or for the whole afternoon! Tickets will be available for booking via the website, the ticket office on 020 7323
- [Folklore Society Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/folklore-society-lecture/) - Folklore, Archaeology and Religion in Republican Turkey: Thoughts from Çatalhöyük and the Konya Plain.Thursday 8 October 2015 18:00—19:00 At The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB A Folklore Society lecture by Dr David Shankland (Director, Royal Anthropological Institute) The aim of this lecture is to outline the relationship between religion, folklore and archaeology in
- [Research in Progress: Karen Lane](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-karen-lane/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 2 October, 4.30 pm Half an Hour in Belfast: theatricality (and a haircut) in the ethnographic present Karen Lane, St Andrews University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://karenlane.eventbrite.co.uk Sometimes, an unexpected encounter in the field
- [RAI Research Seminar: Jonathan King](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jonathan-king/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 'Museum ethnography and the origins of anthropology in the mid-19th century'? Dr Jonathan King, Von Hügel Fellow, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge Wednesday 7 October at 5.30 pm ‘Thinking is always the negation of what we have immediately before us’ (Hegel). During the mid-nineteenth century
- [Curl Lecture - Noel Lobley](https://therai.org.uk/events/curl-lecture-noel-lobley/) - THE CURL LECTURE 2015will be given by Dr Noel Lobley, Pitt Rivers Museum Experiencing Sound: Curation, Art, Practice Friday 18 September 2015, at 5pm (approximately) in the Stevenson Lecture 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 welcome to
- [Book Launch: Laura Pountney & Tomislav Maric](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-laura-pountney-tomislav-maric/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Introducing Anthropology: What Makes Us Human? Laura Pountney, Colchester Sixth Form College Tomislav Maric, Heston Community School Friday 25 September at 7.00pm Introducing Anthropology is the first book of its kind. It offers a serious but accessible introduction to anthropology and is the perfect starting point for anyone new
- [RAI AGM 2015 followed by the Curl Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2015-followed-by-the-curl-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2015 followed by the Curl Lecture The 2015 AGM will take place on Friday 18 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2015 Curl Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may vote at
- [Working Method: Digitising and Cataloguing Athur Howes' Mini DV Tapes](https://therai.org.uk/events/working-method-digitising-and-cataloguing-athur-howes-mini-dv-tapes/) - Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday 26 June 2015, 17.30pm Working Method: Digitising and Cataloguing Arthur Howes’ Mini DV Tapes Film-Archive-Seminar and Discussion with Harry Chapman 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) A presentation by Harry Chapman on
- [London Anthropology Day 2015](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2015/) - 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
- [Tourism: Visuality and Memory](https://therai.org.uk/events/tourism-visuality-and-memory/) - Tourism: Visuality and Memory. An interdisciplinary conference University of Plymouth 3 – 5th August 2015 Organised in collaboration with the Tourism Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute Call for papers From the early days of the Grand Tour and the collecting of paintings and drawings, to the advent of the first still and movie cameras,
- [MAGic 2015](https://therai.org.uk/events/magic-2015/) - MAGic2015 - Anthropology and Global Health: interrogating theory, policy and practiceUniversity of Sussex 9-11 September 2015 Organised jointly by the RAI Medical Anthropology Committee, and the EASA Medical Anthropology Network The conference seeks to interrogate the paradigms and practice of global health. We invite reflective contributions from anthropologists working at policy, programme or community levels
- [Island Home Country](https://therai.org.uk/events/island-home-country/) - ISLAND HOME COUNTRY18:00 - 20:00 Wednesday 16 September 2015 A film screening and Q&A with director Jeni Thornley Location: Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31), King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London WC2R 2LS This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required through our Eventbrite page http://thornley.eventbrite.co.uk. Please direct enquiries to
- [Research in Progress: Gwen Burnyeat](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-gwen-burnyeat/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 12 June, 4.30 pm Chocolate and politics: An ethnographic contextualisation of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó Gwen Burnyeat, National University of Colombia and Leverhulme study-abroad scholar. The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó is a peasant farmer community in Urabá, North-West
- [Seminar: Edward Liebow](https://therai.org.uk/events/seminar-edward-liebow/) - The AAA and Anthropology: Today's ViewDr Edward Liebow, American Anthropological Association Monday 15 June at 5.30 pm Abstract: This talk will offer a jazz riff weaving together three themes. First, what is distinctively "American" about the American Anthropological Association today? Has the "four-field" approach, which encompasses archaeology, linguistic, biological, and cultural anthropology, framed some special
- [14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film](https://therai.org.uk/events/14th-rai-international-festival-of-ethnographic-film/) - The 14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2015 will be held in Bristol, 16 - 19 June 2015Sponsored by The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) jointly with The Watershed Cinema in Bristol, The Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol and The Center for Visual Anthropology, USC Dornsife, LA, California RAI Film Festival Festival
- [Presidential Address](https://therai.org.uk/events/presidential-address/) - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSAT THE 14TH RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM Anthropology, Genocide and Imagery Prof André Singer, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute Tuesday 16 June at 4.30 pm The anthropological literature about genocide is sparse although the subject matter of huge relevance in the 20th and 21st centuries. Film imagery has transformed the information
- [RAI Research Seminar: Bob Layton](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-bob-layton/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE What did Ted Hughes learn from anthropology? Professor Bob Layton, Durham University Wednesday 10 June at 5.30 pm During the second year of his undergraduate career in Cambridge, Ted Hughes found that study in the English Department was stifling his creativity, and he transferred to Anthropology.
- [RAI Research Seminar: Charlotte Joy](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-charlotte-joy/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology, UNESCO and the destruction of World Heritage: Controlling the Conversation Dr Charlotte Joy, Goldsmiths Monday 1 June at 5.30 pm In this paper, I will be looking at the recent destructions of cultural heritage in Mali from the point of view of UNESCO’s long-term work
- [Mary Douglas Lecture: Jeffrey Alexander](https://therai.org.uk/events/mary-douglas-lecture-jeffrey-alexander/) - Mary Douglas Memorial LectureWednesday 3 June 2015 at 6pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, 56 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HS The Societalization of Social Problems: Recent Social Crises and the Civil Sphere Professor Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University Drawing
- [2015 RAI Postgraduate Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/2015-rai-postgraduate-conference/) - Anthropology and the politics of engagement5th Royal Anthropological Institute Postgraduate Conference University of Manchester 4-5 June 2015 What is the position of engagement within anthropology and academia as a whole? While in a European context anthropologists have long debated the extent to which their discipline should critically engage with issues beyond academic discourse, in other
- [Mabo: Life of an Island Man](https://therai.org.uk/events/mabo-life-of-an-island-man/) - Film Screening: Mabo: Life of an Island Man + Q&A with director, Trevor Graham18.00-20.00 Tuesday 26 May 2015 Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London WC2R 2LS Entry is free but booking is required: https://mabo.eventbrite.co.uk The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London, in association with the Royal
- [Book Launch: Iside Carbone](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-iside-carbone/) - BOOK LAUNCHAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE China in the Frame: Materialising Ideas of China in Italian Museums Dr Iside Carbone, Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 27 May at 5.30 pm Mechanisms of representation of the cultural Other and their connections with processes of self-expression constitute the core of China in the Frame. This original ethnographic study
- [RAI Research Seminar: Tom Yarrow](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-tom-yarrow/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Subjects as Objects: how heritage practice works with the past Dr Tom Yarrow, Durham University Wednesday 20 May at 5.30 pm Based on ethnographic research with Historic Scotland, the government heritage agency, this paper considers how the historic environment is produced. Focusing on the process by
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: God's Agents](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-gods-agents/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE God’s agents: biblical publicity in contemporary England Thursday 21 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
- [Research in Progress: Oliver Pattenden](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-oliver-pattenden/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 May, 4.30 pm Trust in Charity: Continuing Two Centuries of UK Involvement in South African Education Oliver Pattenden, PhD Candidate, Rhodes University, South Africa My ethnographic research focuses upon Ngomso, a “special school” for “severely socially marginalised” young people in the Eastern Cape province
- [Research in Progress: Smita Yadav](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-smita-yadav/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 8 May, 4.30 pm Mapping Labour and Work Ideologies in Contemporary rural India Smita Yadav, University of Sussex How do contemporary ethnographies of labour and work reveal the redundancy of traditional ways of understanding rural societies as in India? Historically speaking, village studies on India
- [Ogling the Ethnographic](https://therai.org.uk/events/ogling-the-ethnographic/) - Ogling the Ethnographic5-9 pm Thursday 14th May 2015 The Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Artists: Angelina Jesson, Banna Sifri, Charlie Rumph, Jaron Hill, Joshua Tabti, Kane Brinell, Sandhya Stearman, Snail Jin, Uznain Majid, Zarina Muhammad Curators: Joshua Tabti, Kane Britnell and Zarina Muhammad Ogling the Ethnographic invites an audience to encounter
- [William Fagg and the Study of African Art](https://therai.org.uk/events/william-fagg-and-the-study-of-african-art/) - William Fagg and the Study of African Art14.00 – 18.00, Friday 24 April 2015 (with registration from 13.30) 09.30 – 17.30, Saturday 25 April 2015 (with registration from 09.00) Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN William Fagg was the great pioneer in Britain of the study
- [Research in Progress: Fabiola Luvaro](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-fabiola-luvaro/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 24 April, 4.30 pm The Masks of the Wauja and the Timbira Indians: towards a theory of aesthetic performances in indigenous Amazonia. Fabiola Luvaro, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, University of East Anglia This event is free, but
- [Mapping the Frontiers of High Finance](https://therai.org.uk/events/mapping-the-frontiers-of-high-finance/) - A student workshop event: Mapping the Frontiers of High Finance: Art, Anthropology & the Material Culture of Markets Saturday 25th April 2015: 10.00- 17.30 Since the crisis in 2008, anthropology has established itself as a discipline with something to say about finance, whether it be in the pages of the Financial Times or from within
- [RAI Research Seminar: Joy Hendry](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-joy-hendry/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom AND/OR A Retired Anthropologist rethinks her first degree in General Science Professor Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes Wednesday 29 April at 5.30 pm Joy’s “retirement” was marked by a year taking up exciting invitations to visit universities in Australia, New
- [RAI Research Seminar: David Shankland](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-david-shankland-2/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Alevis of Turkey: twenty-five years on Dr David Shankand, RAI & University of Bristol Wednesday 22 April at 5.30 pm (in conjunction with the Anglo-Turkish society) This talk looks back on twenty-five years research conducted by the speaker amongst the Alevis of Anatolia, outlining the
- [RAI Research Seminar: Walsh & Dudding](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-walsh-dudding/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Haddon in Ireland, reconstructing the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey Ciarán Walsh, Maynooth University Dr Joe Dudding, Arch and Anth Museum, Cambridge Wednesday 8 April at 5.30 pm This illustrated talk outlines a project to reconstruct the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey that was
- [BAAS Seminar](https://therai.org.uk/events/baas-seminar/) - The British Association for the Advancement of Science, Anthropology and Historical LegaciesThursday 9 April at 1.00pm The event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://baasseminar.eventbrite.co.uk. This seminar will bring together scholars interested in the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and how it functioned as a
- [RAI Research Seminar: Simone Abram](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-simone-abram/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Meeting Anthropology, or how to talk to chairs Dr Simone Abram, Durham University and Leeds Beckett University Wednesday 1 April at 5.30 pm Almost anyone working in a university, in a political party, in government at any level, or in any large-scale organisation, knows what a
- [Research in Progress: Gemma Aellah](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-gemma-aellah/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 27th March, 4.30 pm Hustling in the village: rural predictabilities, tensions and the flow of life in Western Kenya. Gemma Aellah, LSHTM This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-seminar-gemma-aellah-tickets-14697140543 In the context of the 2007 post-election
- [Scottish Student Forensic Research Symposium](https://therai.org.uk/events/scottish-student-forensic-research-symposium/) - 2ND Annual Scottish Student Forensic Research Symposium (SSFRS) 2015RAI Sponsored event Venue: Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, University of Dundee Date: 27th March 2015 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ssfrsymposium/home The SSFRS is a student lead research based symposium where Scottish students undertaking research in forensic disciplines can come together, share their current research and forge bonds which
- [RAI Research Seminar: Tsuyoshi Saito](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-tsuyoshi-saito/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Westermarck and Muslim Saint Worship in North Africa: Thoughts Based on Recent Fieldwork Dr Tsuyoshi Saito, Kobe University, Japan Wednesday 25 March at 5.30 pm This seminar takes up a particularly significant phenomenon in the social anthropology of Islam: maraboutism in North Africa, and looks at
- [Musical Instruments and Material Culture](https://therai.org.uk/events/musical-instruments-and-material-culture/) - Musical Instruments and Material CultureThursday 26 March 2015 The Pavilion (in the Horniman Gardens), Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ http://www.horniman.ac.uk This conference is held jointly by the Horniman Museum and Gardens and the Royal Anthropological Institute. To book please go to http://www.horniman.ac.uk/visit/events/type/17/date/2015-03-01/interval/30 PROGRAMME 09:30 Registration and coffee 10:15 Welcome/ Opening Remarks Tim
- [RAI Research Seminar: Lucina Hackman](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-lucina-hackman/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Forensic Anthropology in the 21st Century Dr Lucina Hackman, University of Dundee Wednesday 18 March at 5.30 pm This seminar will look at the development of the profession of forensic anthropology from its first use in a criminal case through to its utilisation in casework today.
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Under a Watchful Eye](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-under-a-watchful-eye/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Under a watchful eye: self, power and intimacy in Amazonia Thursday 19 March 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
- [The City Beautiful](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-city-beautiful/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 18 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building The City Beautiful Rahul Roy, 2003, 78 mins Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital
- [Research in Progress: Jas Kaur](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-jas-kaur/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 13th March, 4.30 pm Towards an anthropology of coups in Fiji Jas Kaur, SOAS This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-jas-kaur-tickets-14634166185 Jas’ research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Fiji, and looks at how people talk
- [Double Bill (Two student films on Japan)](https://therai.org.uk/events/double-bill-two-student-films-on-japan/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 11 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building In Pursuit of Happiness Ray Ono, Japan/UK, 2009, 31 mins Tokyo life as rarely seen on mainstream media. This short film takes you to
- [RAI Research Seminar: Lynette Russell](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-lynette-russell/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ‘The greatest delight to all present’: public engagement with Aboriginal performances and displays in Melbourne Victoria, 1836-1914. Professor Lynette Russell, Monash University Wednesday 11 March at 5.30 pm This paper emerges from a book length project on the Racial Thought at the Edge of the World:
- [RAI Research Seminar: Mark Mosko](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-mark-mosko/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Christian dividual and sacrifice: Personal partibility and religious efflorescence among North Mekeo (PNG) Professor Mark Mosko, ANU/LSE Wednesday 4 March at 5.30 pm I take it to be indisputable that Melanesian anthropology has received its greatest theoretical impetus over the past three decades in the
- [Music at the RAI: Learning from Women in Afghanistan](https://therai.org.uk/events/music-at-the-rai-learning-from-women-in-afghanistan/) - Learning from Women in AfghanistanVeronica Doubleday (vocal and daireh frame drum) (Visiting Fellow, Goldsmiths) accompanied by John Baily (Herati dutar lute) Thursday 5 March at 11.30am Veronica will perform some of the traditional women’s music that she learnt in Afghanistan in the 1970s. Between 1973-7 she and her husband the ethnomusicologist John Baily spent two
- [Salma](https://therai.org.uk/events/salma-2/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 4 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Salma Kim Longinotto, 2013, UK/India. Followed by Q&A with director (tbc) When Salma was 13, her parents took her out of school and locked
- [Research in Progress: Taras Fedirko](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-taras-fedirko/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 27th February, 4.30 pm Making relations visible: corporate form and the aesthetics of transparency investigations Taras Fedirko, Durham University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-taras-fedirko-tickets-14534173103 Based on an on-going fieldwork among London-based NGO professionals, my
- [RAI Research Seminar: Barley Norton](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-barley-norton/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ethnomusicology and Filmmaking Dr Barley Norton, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday 25 February at 5.30 pm This seminar will examine filmmaking in ethnomusicology and its relationship with ethnographic film more broadly. The historical development of ethnomusicological film, I will argue, is characterized by a movement from
- [LGBT Film Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/lgbt-film-day/) - LGBT Film DayIn partnership with Camden LGBT Forum 21 February 2015, 12.00 - 17.30, Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Free, tickets required for each section http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/tickets/films/icat/films A part of Camden & Islington LGBT History Month 2015. Films inspired by LGBT lives 12.00-13.00 Paradise Bent: Boys will be Girls in Samoa (1999) (TBC) Documentary / Cert.
- [Me, My Gypsy Family, and Woody Allen](https://therai.org.uk/events/me-my-gypsy-family-and-woody-allen/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 25 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Me, My Gypsy Family, and Woody Allen Laura Halilovic, 2009, Italy, 50 mins A very intimate journey about the ending of a nomadic life
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Envisioning Eden](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-envisioning-eden/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Envisioning Eden: mobilizing imaginaries in tourism and beyond Thursday 19 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 Research Centre, in
- [Other Europe](https://therai.org.uk/events/other-europe-2/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 18 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Other Europe Rosella Schillaci, 2011, Italy, 75 mins What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city,
- [RAI Research Seminar: Mark Jamieson](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-mark-jamieson/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Socioeconomics and the supernatural amongst the Miskitu and Ulwa of eastern Nicaragua Dr Mark Jamieson, University of East London Wednesday 18 February at 5.30 pm This seminar considers in comparative terms the relationships between socioeconomic processes, misfortune and belief in supernatural agency amongst the people of
- [Anthropological Visions of Sustainable Futures](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropological-visions-of-sustainable-futures/) - Inaugural Conference: Anthropological Visions of Sustainable Futures The inaugural CAOS (Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability) conference will be held at UCL between 12th to14th February 2015. Registration is now open! Keynote address and 2015 Daryll Forde Lecture: Prof. Bruno Latour (Sciences Po, Paris) 12th February 2015, 6pm Closing event:Gaia: Global Circus, at the Bloomsbury
- [Research in Progress: Elena E. Burgos-Martínez](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-elena-e-burgos-martnez/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 13th February, 4.30 pm Nature as a circulating entity: hybrid semantics and cultural identity among the Bajo of North Sulawesi, Indonesia Elena E. Burgos-Martínez, Durham University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-elena-burgos-martinez-tickets-14534038701 The way we
- [RAI Research Seminar: James Staples](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-james-staples/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Ethnographic biography: telling leprosy through a life Dr James Staples, Brunel University Wednesday 11 February at 5.30 pm This seminar addresses the question of how anthropologists might write in ways that better allow the objects of our fieldwork to be represented as themselves – or in
- [RAI Research Seminar: Sarah Buckler](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-sarah-buckler/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Listening to ghosts Dr Sarah Buckler, Robert Gordon University Wednesday 4 February at 5.30 pm The small and isolated settlements of Peat Carr and Moorsley in the Sunderland coalfields cling to a precarious existence just as they cling to the edge of an escarpment overlooking the
- [Making and Unmaking – Double Bill](https://therai.org.uk/events/making-and-unmaking-double-bill/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 4 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Final Fitting, OT: Prov Akhar Reza Haeri, Niloofar Haeri, 2008, 30 mins Mr. Arabpour is the master tailor and craftsman, and the proprietor of
- [Toni de Bromhead Book Launch](https://therai.org.uk/events/toni-de-bromhead-book-launch/) - Upstairs @ the RAI, Monday 2 February 2015, 5.30pm Book Launch with Author Toni de Bromhead A Film-maker's Odyssey: Adventures in film and anthropology (Intervention Press, 2014) Introduction by Colin Young With Film Clips from East Anglia to West Sicily (from Super 8 to HD), followed by wine reception This book describes the thinking of
- [Research in Progress: Ben Bowles](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-ben-bowles/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 30th January, 4.30 pm Inside the (Dis)Organisation: Political representation and the Boaters of the southern waterways Ben Bowles, Brunel University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-ben-bowles-tickets-14533876215 The itinerant Boaters of the canals and rivers of
- [RAI Research Seminar: Roy Ellen](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-roy-ellen/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Pragmatism, identity, and the state: how the Nuaulu of Seram have reinvented their beliefs and practices as "religion" Professor Roy Ellen, University of Kent Wednesday 28 January at 5.30 pm The Dutch colonial state categorized animists and ancestor-worshippers and inscribed them into written records in ways
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Centralizing Fieldwork](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-centralizing-fieldwork/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Centralizing fieldwork: critical perspectives from primatology, biological and social anthropology Thursday 15 January at 11.00 am (tea & coffee served from 10.30 am) Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the Royal Anthropological Institute,
- [Research in Progress: Paul Robert Gilbert](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-in-progress-paul-robert-gilbert/) - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 16th January, 4.30 pm The extractive industries and the ‘Age of Conversation’: from corporate social responsibility to corporate diplomacy Paul Robert Gilbert, University of Sussex This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-paul-robert-gilbert-tickets-14527115995 Around the turn of
- [Q2P](https://therai.org.uk/events/q2p-2/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 21 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Q2P Paromita Vohra, 2006, 55 mins Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a
- [The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-auction-house-a-tale-of-two-brothers/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 28 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers Ed Owles, 2014, India/UK, 85 mins. Followed by Q & A with director The oldest auction
- [History of the Royal Anthropological Institute](https://therai.org.uk/events/history-of-the-royal-anthropological-institute/) - History of the Royal Anthropological InstituteWorkshop in preparation for Volume 1: Pre 1871 Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://raihistory.eventbrite.co.uk 9th December 2014 DAY 1 (1pm – 6pm) 12.00 pm: SANDWICH LUNCH 1.00 pm: Dr
- [A Tale of Two Syrias](https://therai.org.uk/events/a-tale-of-two-syrias/) - Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology 14 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building A Tale of Two Syrias Yasmin Fedda, 2012, 64 mins. Followed by Q&A session with director. Salem is an Iraqi fashion designer in Damascus. Botrous
- [RAI Research Seminar: Pat Caplan](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-pat-caplan/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Writing the biography of an unknown African: an 'engaging' form of anthropology? Professor Pat Caplan, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday 14 January at 5.30 pm This paper addresses a series of questions about ‘engaged’ anthropology, including how anthropologists may ‘give back’ to the people whom they
- [RAI Research Seminar: Raymond Apthorpe](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-raymond-apthorpe/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Humanitarian Intervention Professor Raymond Apthorpe, Vice-President, RAI Wednesday 3 December at 5.30 pm One of anthropology’s currently rapidly developing areas is with regard to humanitarian intervention and aid studies (see the speaker’s JRAI Review Essay in this year’s June issue ‘Anthropology and humanitarianisms across
- [The Guga Hunters of Ness](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-guga-hunters-of-ness/) - Upstairs @ the RAI, Monday 8 December 2014, 5.30pmThe Guga Hunters of Ness (2010, 59 minutes) Screening and Q&A with Director Mike Day 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) Ness is the last place in the UK
- [RAI Blacking Lecture in Ethnomusicology](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-blacking-lecture-in-ethnomusicology/) - RAI Blacking Lecture in EthnomusicologyMusic, power and patronage - the case of the King's musicians of Buganda Dr Peter Cooke Monday 10 November at 5.30 pm at the Concert Room, Department of Music, Durham University, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL Musical activities flourished in successive courts of the kingdom of Buganda (Central Uganda) until the
- [RAI Research Seminar: David Mills](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-david-mills/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Modernism, method and the making of Anthropology Dr David Mills, University of Oxford Wednesday 12 November at 4.00 pm In 1922, proclaimed as modernism's 'Year One' by Ezra Pound, the anthropological project was redefined by the publication of Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: International Seafarers and Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-international-seafarers-and-transnationalism-in-the-twenty-first-century/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century Thursday 20 November 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
- [Sudan Trilogy and Arthur Howes' legacy revisited](https://therai.org.uk/events/sudan-trilogy-and-arthur-howes-legacy-revisited/) - Arthur Howes’ friends, the Royal Anthropological Institute, University of Essex and SOAS present: Sudan Trilogy and Arthur Howes’ legacy revisited Free screenings, panels and dialogues Saturday 29 November 2014, 10:00am - 5:00pm SOAS, Kahlili Lecture Theatre Nearest tube: Euston Square/Russell Square This is a free event but please book your place: http://arthurhowes.eventbrite.com Arthur Howes was
- [Polish Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/polish-anthropology-day/) - POLISH ANTHROPOLOGY DAYAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Monday 10 November at 10.00am The event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://polishanthropology.eventbrite.co.uk. 1. Michał Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań & European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder ‘Polish Anthropology: An (Impossible) Overview’ Post-war Polish ethnography/ethnology, as the discipline was called until
- [RAI Research Seminar: Suzel Reily](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-suzel-reily/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Voices in Music, Voices on Music: anthropology and ethnomusicology in dialogue Dr Suzel Reily, Queen’s University Belfast Wednesday 5 November at 5.30 pm The word ‘voice’ indicates the vocal production of sound, but it is also used in a metaphorical fashion to indicate an individual’s or
- [Film, Mobility and Urban Space](https://therai.org.uk/events/film-mobility-and-urban-space/) - Cinematic cartographies – Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. FILM, MOBILITY AND URBAN SPACE. A cinematic ethnography of London A selection of short archive films from the London Screen Archives collection. discussant tbc This event
- [Huxley Lecture - Tim Ingold](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-tim-ingold/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTUREwill be given by Professor Tim Ingold, Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen On Human Correspondence Friday 7 November 2014 at 5.30pm, in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. I wish to propose a new theory of social life. Its premises
- [Mapping Cultures](https://therai.org.uk/events/mapping-cultures/) - This multidisciplinary workshop/conference aims to bring together anthropologists, geographers, cartographers, archaeologists, linguists and digital media specialists to explore and discuss the interconnections between different mapping technologies. Mapping indigenous lands to secure tenure, manage natural resources, and strengthen cultures is a recent phenomenon. A variety of methodologies have made their appearance, ranging from highly participatory, community-led
- [The Last Navigator](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-last-navigator/) - Cinematic cartographies –Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. THE LAST NAVIGATOR Colour, 50 minutes, 1989 Q&A with filmmaker and anthropologist: André Singer This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator
- [Memorialising and Commemorating the Dead in Mexico City](https://therai.org.uk/events/memorialising-and-commemorating-the-dead-in-mexico-city/) - Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday 31 October, 2014, 5pmMemorialising and Commemorating the Dead in Mexico City: A critical look at the Mexican Day of the Dead Research Seminar followed by some tasters with Dr Marcel Reyes-Cortez, Goldsmiths, University of London In Mexico City, the dead are very present in popular culture and are manifested in
- [She-River](https://therai.org.uk/events/she-river/) - Cinematic cartographies –Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. SHE-RIVER (la Fiuma) Rosella Schillaci, 2008, 67 mins She-River is an anthropological documentary exploring the River Po (Northern Italy) and its surrounding and people. A journey with
- [Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/mary-douglas-memorial-lecture/) - The Inaugural Mary Douglas Memorial LectureThursday 23rd October 2014 at 6pm Harrie Massie Lecture Theatre, UCL, 25 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AY Irreconcilable Conflicts? Civil Wars from the Perspective of an Institutional Theory of Culture Professor Paul Richards, Njala University (Sierra Leone) The annual lecture, in memory of Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007), is sponsored by
- [RAI Research Seminar: Andrée Grau](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-andre-grau/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Dance, ethnomusicology, anthropology: Same difference? Professor Andrée Grau, University of Roehampton Wednesday 29 October at 5.30 pm The seminar will look at the relation between dance and ethnomusicology, and dance and anthropology. The anthropologist and ethnomusicologist John Blacking (1928-1990) saw ethnomusicology and the anthropology of dance as
- [RAI Research Seminar: Noel Lobley](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-noel-lobley/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Curating sound: views from the galleries, streets and rainforests Dr Noel Lobley, Pitt Rivers Museum Wednesday 22 October at 5.30 pm Sound curation can link the most beautiful music in the world with cultural renewal projects and also with the senseless and violent destruction of militias.
- [Sulphur, Sugar, Scholars and Secrets](https://therai.org.uk/events/sulphur-sugar-scholars-and-secrets/) - Sulphur, Sugar, Scholars and SecretsA photographic exhibition about the life of James Arthur Harley, the first Black Anthropology Diploma student at Oxford, 1909. James Arthur Harley, Antiguan born, outstanding scholar, educated at Howard, Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and the first Black student to take the Anthropology Diploma in 1909 at Oxford. This exhibition, through a
- [RAI Research Seminar: John Baily](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-john-baily/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The emergence of ethnomusicology and the RAI Professor John Baily, Goldsmiths Wednesday 15 October at 5.30 pm In 1953, when the newly denominated discipline of ethnomusicology was emerging, the RAI Council proposed ‘to appoint a committee to consider what action should be taken for the encouragement
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: War and Embodied Memory](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-war-and-embodied-memory/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE RAI War and embodied memory: becoming disabled in Sierra Leone Thursday 16 October at 10.30 am (tea & coffee served from 10.00 am) Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre, in conjunction with the
- [The Persistence of the ‘Observational Method’](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-persistence-of-the-observational-method/) - Upstairs @ the RAI, Tuesday 21st October, 2014, 6pm The Persistence of the ‘Observational Method’ in Ethnographic Film Film extracts and discussion with Gary Kildea Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Referring to excerpts from his own films (Trobriand Cricket, Celso & Cora, Koriam’s Law) and some from the Visual
- [RAI Research Seminar: John Gowlett](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-john-gowlett/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Archaeology on the track of earliest fire: the consequences for human life, and recent researches in Africa Professor John Gowlett, Liverpool University Wednesday 8 October at 5.30 pm Fire plays a major part in human life, with both social and technological significance, but it also poses
- [Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK](https://therai.org.uk/events/intangible-cultural-heritage-in-the-uk/) - Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK: promoting and safeguarding our diverse living cultures Saturday 20 September 2014 09.30 - 16.30 The Museum of London Docklands, No. 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL Storytelling, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, and traditional crafts knowledge
- [RAI Research Seminar: Juliette Wood](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-juliette-wood/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Mari Lwyd in Wales: Celebration as National Identity. Dr Juliette Wood, Cardiff University and The Folklore Society Wednesday 24 September at 5.30 pm The Mari Lwyd has been associated with New Year celebrations in Wales since the end of the nineteenth century. The custom involving
- [RAI Research Seminar: Mhairi Gibson](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-mhairi-gibson/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Evolutionary life history theory and the demographic consequences of rural development intervention in Ethiopia. Dr Mhairi Gibson, Bristol University Wednesday 1 October at 5.30 pm Across the developing world labour-saving technologies are designed and introduced specifically to improve community health and well-being; however long-term anthropological fieldwork
- [Myers Lecture - David Wengrow](https://therai.org.uk/events/myers-lecture-david-wengrow/) - THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2014will be given by Professor David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London Farewell to the “Childhood of Man”: Ritual, Seasonality, and the Origins of Inequality Friday 12 September 2014, at 5pm (approximately) in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B
- [BABAO Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/babao-conference/) - BABAO Conference 201416th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology The Department of Archaeology at Durham University will be holding the BABAO conference in 2014. Place: Durham University, Mountjoy Science Site Date: Friday 12th to Sunday 14th September 2014 Organisers: Prof. Charlotte Roberts, Dr. Janet Montgomery, Dr. Andrew Millard, Dr. Becky
- [Who are 'we'? Reimagining alterity and affinity in anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/who-are-we-reimagining-alterity-and-affinity-in-anthropology/) - Who are 'we'? Reimagining alterity and affinity in anthropologyVenue: Division of Social Anthropology, Cambridge Dates: 3-5 Sept 2014 Website: anthrowho.wordpress.com This workshop will provide a space for anthropologists and other scholars from around the world to explore the key themes of the ‘Who are “we”?’ project. The emphasis here will be on close readings of
- [4th RAI Postgraduate Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/4th-rai-postgraduate-conference/) - Whose Anthropology is it Anyway? Connections in the modern world4th Royal Anthropological Institute Postgraduate Conference Brunel University 3 - 4 September 2014 Registration closed on 30 July 2014. The final programme can be found here. When delivering the 1967 Reith lectures, Edmund Leach recalled a phrase from novelist E.M. Forster, Only connect..., drawing attention to
- [RAI AGM 2014 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2014-followed-by-the-henry-myers-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2014 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture The 2014 AGM will take place on Friday 12 September at 3.00 pm in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2014 Henry Myers Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may
- [Christmas Birrimbirr](https://therai.org.uk/events/christmas-birrimbirr/) - Upstairs @ the RAI, Thursday, 3rd July 2014, 6.30 pmPost-cinematic Ethnography: Miyarrka Media's Christmas Birrimbirr (Christmas Spirit) Anthropologist and filmmaker, Jennifer Deger, will show and discuss recent experiments with multi-screen installation in galleries and museums. Collaboratively produced by a team of Aboriginal and non-Indigenous performers and filmmakers in Australia’s North East Arnhem Land, Christmas Birrimbirr
- [Art & Anthropology Workshop](https://therai.org.uk/events/art-anthropology-workshop/) - Art & Anthropology WorkshopFriday 4 July 2014 at 10.30am at the Royal Anthropological Institute The event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://artandanthropology.eventbrite.co.uk 10.30 - Introduction 11.00 - Susanne Kuechler (UCL) The Move to the Centre: Art in the Vortex of Anthropological Theory In the wake of Alfred
- [RAI Research Seminar: James Grayson](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-james-grayson/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Empire of Mt. Sion: A Korean Millenarian Group Born in a Time of Crisis. Professor James H. Grayson, Sheffield University Wednesday 18 June at 5.30 pm In 1940, during the middle of the Second World War, a millenarian movement emerged in the south-eastern corner of
- [Ketaki Sheth](https://therai.org.uk/events/ketaki-sheth/) - Tea Time Talk at the RAI: Wednesday 2nd July, 16.30 - 17.30 Ketaki Sheth: on photographing Bombay street life, Patel twins and the Sidi, Indians of African descent. Ketaki Sheth is one of India's leading photographers, wining the Sanskriti Award for Indian photography in 1992. Her work has been exhibited around the world, including the
- [London Anthropology Day 2014](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2014/) - 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
- [Wellcome Medal Lecture - Julie Livingston](https://therai.org.uk/events/wellcome-medal-lecture-julie-livingston/) - Wellcome Medal Lecturewill be given by Dr Julie Livingston, Rutgers University Figuring the Tumor : Photography, Self, and Advanced Cancer in Botswana Wednesday 11 June 2014, at 5.30pm (talk to start at 6.00pm) at the Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE This talk considers a series of photographs and other visual
- [RAI Research Seminar: Brian Street](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-brian-street/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology in pre-university Education: negotiating a presence Professor Brian Street, King's College London Wednesday 4 June at 5.30 pm I will discuss the work of the RAI Education Committee in helping to develop anthropological perspectives in pre-university education in the UK. In particular the development of
- [The Art of Regret](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-art-of-regret/) - Films on ‘Anthropology & Photography’In relation to our Conference (29-31 May) the RAI is organizing a series of Upstairs @ the RAI screenings Tuesday 27 May, 6pm THE ART OF REGRET 60 mins, 2007, Filmmaker: Judith MacDougall, Anthropologist: Kathy Zhang Photography is known in China as the “Art of Regret”. In the rapidly
- [Anthropology and Photography](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-and-photography/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE / BRITISH MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTREAnthropology and Photography British Museum, Clore Centre, 29-31 May 2014 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference ‘Anthropology and Photography’ will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the museum’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre. The aim
- [RAI Research Seminar: Laura Bishop](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-laura-bishop/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The evolution of human behaviour - evidence from Kanjera South, Kenya. Dr Laura Bishop, John Moores University Wednesday 21 May at 5.30 pm Palaeoanthropologists investigate how our ancestors lived, and how humans’ interactions with and place in the landscape changes through time. We can see how
- [RAI Research Seminar: Elizabeth Gowing](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-elizabeth-gowing/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Edith Durham: on the trail of an Edwardian traveller in Kosovo. Elizabeth Gowing (Author) Wednesday 14 May at 6.30 pm Mary Edith Durham was the first woman Vice President of the RAI, a woman who broke up a fight between two soldiers on a train in
- [Future Remembrance](https://therai.org.uk/events/future-remembrance-2/) - Films on ‘Anthropology & Photography’In relation to our Conference (29-31 May) the RAI is organizing a series of Upstairs @ the RAI screenings Tuesday 20 May, 6pm, FUTURE REMEMBRANCE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE ARTS IN GHANA 54 minutes, 1998, Filmmaker/ Anthropologists: Tobias Wendl, Nancy du Plessis The film portrays a vibrant range of
- [Photo Wallahs](https://therai.org.uk/events/photo-wallahs/) - Films on ‘Anthropology & Photography’In relation to our Conference (29-31 May) the RAI is organizing a series of Upstairs @ the RAI screenings Tuesday 13 May, 6pm PHOTO WALLAHS 60 minutes, 1991, Filmmakers: David and Judith MacDougall The film is set in Mussoorie, a famous hill station in northern India, which has attracted
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Refractions of Civil Society in Turkey](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-refractions-of-civil-society-in-turkey/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Refractions of Civil Society in Turkey Thursday 17 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 Research Centre, in conjunction with
- [RAI Research Seminar: Jonathan Skinner](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jonathan-skinner/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Light and Dark Tourism from Montserrat to the Maze Prison: Anthropological Reflections Dr Jonathan Skinner, Roehampton University Wednesday 7 May at 5.30 pm Dark tourism is a newly scripted phenomenon now being applied in the anthropology of tourism. Where does the expression come from, how is
- [Under the Palace Wall](https://therai.org.uk/events/under-the-palace-wall/) - Monday, 7 April, 5.30pm Film Screening 'Under the Palace Wall' (2014, 53 mins) followed by Q&A with David MacDougall. The RAI Film Committee is pleased to welcome Prof David MacDougall (ANU) for the presentation and discussion of his latest film 'Under the Palace Wall'. Under the Palace Wall David MacDougall 53 minutes, 2014
- [RAI Research Seminar: Ercolani & Farrands](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-ercolani-farrands/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Security Studies Dr Christopher Farrands, Nottingham Trent University, and Dr Giovanni Ercolani, Universidad de Murcia Wednesday 9 April at 5.30 pm Aim of the Seminar is to develop the argument of the need of an anthropological approach to security studies. For this purpose, the
- [RAI Research Seminar: Jonathan Benthall](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jonathan-benthall/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE A turbulent quarter-century with the RAI: 1974-2000 Jonathan Benthall, former director of the Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 19 March at 5.30 pm As part of the RAI's current investigation of its history, Jonathan Benthall, who was Director between 1974 and 2000, will give a personal assessment
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: Discordant Development](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-discordant-development/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh Thursday 20 March 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 Seminar: Elena Soler](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-elena-soler/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Mother’s milk: reconsidering milk-kinship in our understanding of family and kinship in Europe Dr Elena Soler, Charles University, Prague Wednesday 26 March at 5.30 pm Human milk has long been linked to the construction of motherhood, with breastfeeding and maternity constituing a cultural ideal in many
- [MN Srinivas Memorial Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/mn-srinivas-memorial-lecture/) - King's India Institute and the Royal Anthropological Institute cordially invite you to the MN SRINIVAS MEMORIAL LECTURE 2014 Professor Arjun Appadurai (New York University) The Ecology of Failure: Reflections on Democracy, Participation and Development Thursday 27 March at 6:15 pm Venue: EDMOND J SAFRA LECTURE THEATRE, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
- [RAI Research Seminar: Harry Beran](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-harry-beran/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Innovation and originality in traditional Oceanic art Dr Harry Beran Wednesday 2 April at 5.30 pm Most survey books on traditional Oceanic art give the impression that this art is timeless — that the range of artworks produced at the time of early contact with the
- [RAI Research Seminar: Carocci & Earl Fraser](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-carocci-earl-fraser/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Royal Anthropological Institute’s ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX ON-LINE HALF A CENTURY OF ANTHROPOLOGY: 50 YEARS OF PUBLISHED RESEARCH Dr Max Carocci and Helen Earl-Fraser, Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 5 March at 5.30 pm The AIO as it is fondly known, has been a source of inspiration for
- [Film Festival at USC](https://therai.org.uk/events/film-festival-at-usc/) - Royal Anthropological Institute 13th International Ethnographic Film Festival 7th-9th March 2014 at USC LOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. All screenings at Seeley G. Mudd Hall on USC campus. Click here to VIEW pdf festival schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT WARNING): RAI_USCCVA_filmfest_schedule Friday 7-10pm Premiere: THE ACT OF KILLING (director's cut
- [RAI Research Seminar: Tom Selwyn](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-tom-selwyn/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Political Economy of 'Applied Anthropology': Cases of tourism development in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Palestine, and Ethiopia. Professor Tom Selwyn, SOAS Wednesday 12 March at 5.30 pm This seminar will reflect on some of the political, intellectual, and ethical issues raised in the context of participation by anthropologists
- [Mirror Mirror](https://therai.org.uk/events/mirror-mirror/) - LGBT Film Day: MusicIn Partnership with LGBT Camden Forum Sunday 16 February 2013, 10.45 – 17.30 Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum 14.00 - 15.45 Mirror Mirror Director/anthropologist: Zemirah Moffat 58 minutes, 2006 ‘Mirror Mirror is based on an audio-visual ethnography of London’s queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself
- [RAI Research Seminar: Catherine M Hill](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-catherine-m-hill/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE People-wildlife interactions and the human dimensions of conservation. Human-Wildlife Conflicts, People-Wildlife Interactions, or People-People Conflicts? Professor Catherine M Hill, Oxford Brookes University Wednesday 26 February at 5.30 pm Once the undisputed domain of biologists and ecologists, conservation science is increasingly recognised as a multidisciplinary field that
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: We are Playing Football](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-we-are-playing-football/) - 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 Seminar: Emma Moore](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-emma-moore/) - 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 - Maxime Brami](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-maxime-brami/) - 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 Seminar: Jenny Bangham](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jenny-bangham/) - 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,
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: The Make-Believe Space](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-make-believe-space/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Post-War Polity Thursday 13 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 Research Centre,
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: English Breakfast & Christmas Pudding](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-english-breakfast-christmas-pudding/) - 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
- [Anthropology in Process: Fieldwork Conversations](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-in-process-fieldwork-conversations/) - 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:
- [Tracks Across Sand](https://therai.org.uk/events/tracks-across-sand/) - 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
- [RAI Research Seminar: David Parkin](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-david-parkin/) - 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
- [Himself He Cooks](https://therai.org.uk/events/himself-he-cooks/) - 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
- [The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-bastard-sings-the-sweetest-song/) - 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 Seminar: Emma Cohen](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-emma-cohen/) - 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 Reviewed: Hunter-Gatherer Behaviour](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-hunter-gatherer-behaviour/) - 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
- [Delhi at Eleven](https://therai.org.uk/events/delhi-at-eleven-2/) - 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
- [Hanoi Eclipse](https://therai.org.uk/events/hanoi-eclipse/) - 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
- [RAI History Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-history-day/) - 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
- [Lecture - Howard Morphy](https://therai.org.uk/events/lecture-howard-morphy/) - 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
- [Arctic Hunters - The Netsilik Inuit](https://therai.org.uk/events/arctic-hunters-the-netsilik-inuit/) - 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](https://therai.org.uk/events/a-kalahari-family/) - 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 Seminar: Margarita Huayhua](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-margarita-huayhua/) - 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
- [2013 RAI Postgraduate Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/2013-rai-postgraduate-conference/) - 2013 RAI Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen Ideas in movement: Addressing tensions in anthropology Date: 28-29 October 2013 Deadline for submission: 31 May 2013 Plenary speakers: Tim Ingold and Rane Willerslev The Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) is proud to announce the 2013 RAI Postgraduate conference at the University of Aberdeen. Established
- [The Price of Death](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-price-of-death/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 30 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Price of Death Rebekah Lee, 29 mins, UK 'The Price of Death' explores the cost of death in contemporary South Africa through the intertwined stories of
- [Conflicting Interests?](https://therai.org.uk/events/conflicting-interests/) - 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.
- [RAI Research Seminar: Paul Basu](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-paul-basu/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Northcote W. Thomas, a Government Anthropologist in Sierra Leone, 1914-15 Dr Paul Basu, University College London Wednesday 23 October at 5.30 pm Northcote W. Thomas (1868-1936) is celebrated as the first ‘Government Anthropologist’ to be employed by the Colonial Office to conduct anthropological research that would
- [Playing With Nan](https://therai.org.uk/events/playing-with-nan/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 23 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Playing With Nan Dipesh Kharel, Asami Saito, 88 mins , Nepal/Japan Playing with Nan is the story of a young Nepali man who migrated to work in
- [RAI Research Seminar: David Shankland](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-david-shankland/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The roots of international co-operation in anthropology; Myres, the RAI and the founding of the IUAES Dr David Shankland, Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 9 October at 5.30 pm In 1934, the Royal Anthropological Institute organised the largest gathering of anthropologists that had, until that time, taken
- [Real Time Memories](https://therai.org.uk/events/real-time-memories/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 16 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Real Time Memories - The '18 Days in Egypt ' interactive platform as instant archive In this seminar contribution, Ludovica Fales, will discuss an aspect of her
- [RAI Research Seminar: Steve Rayner](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-steve-rayner/) - RAI RESEARCH SEMINARSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Anthropology and Climate Change Professor Steve Rayner, University of Oxford Wednesday 16 October at 5.30 pm This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to http://steverayner.eventbrite.co.uk/">http://steverayner.eventbrite.co.uk/#
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: The Masons of Djenne](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-masons-of-djenne/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE The Masons of Djenne Thursday 17 October 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 with the Royal
- [Salma](https://therai.org.uk/events/salma/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 9 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Salma Kim Longinotto, 90 mins, 2013, UK/India When Salma was 13, her parents took her out of school and locked her away in a room with a
- [RAI AGM 2013 followed by the Presidential Address](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2013-followed-by-the-presidential-address/) - 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 Seminar: Philip Noble](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-philip-noble/) - 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
- [Gods and Kings](https://therai.org.uk/events/gods-and-kings/) - Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 2 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Gods and Kings Robin Blotnick, Jubilee Films, Garrett Cook, Rachel Lears, 87 mins, 2012, USA At a festival in a sleepy Guatemalan mountain town, traditional dances
- [RAI Research Seminar: Garry Marvin](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-garry-marvin/) - 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
- [Teaching Amidst Change](https://therai.org.uk/events/teaching-amidst-change/) - Teaching Amidst Change 5-6 September 2013, 15 Norham Gardens, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK Joint Teaching Anthropology (TA), a journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and EASA Teaching Anthropology Network (TAN) Conference Public sector reforms on a national scale are being forced on European states struggling to sustain their
- [Presidential Address - Clive Gamble](https://therai.org.uk/events/presidential-address-clive-gamble/) - 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
- [Gaali Haddha - A Camel is Like a Mother](https://therai.org.uk/events/gaali-haddha-a-camel-is-like-a-mother/) - 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
- [World Congress of the IUAES, Huxley Lecture - Howard Morphy](https://therai.org.uk/events/world-congress-of-the-iuaes-huxley-lecture-howard-morphy/) - 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 Seminar: Glenn Banks](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-glenn-banks/) - 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
- [RAI Research Seminar: James Carrier](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-james-carrier/) - 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
- [13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film](https://therai.org.uk/events/13th-rai-international-festival-of-ethnographic-film/) - 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 Seminar: Rebecca Marsland](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-rebecca-marsland/) - 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
- [London Anthropology Day 2013](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2013/) - 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
- [Northern Anthropology and Archaeology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/northern-anthropology-and-archaeology-day/) - 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,
- [RAI Research Seminar: Paolo Fortis](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-paolo-fortis/) - 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](https://therai.org.uk/events/research-seminar-student-anthropologists-on-fieldwork-reflections/) - 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 Seminar: Roland Littlewood](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-roland-littlewood/) - 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 Reviewed: Archaeology and Anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-archaeology-and-anthropology/) - 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 Seminar: Chris Fuller](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-chris-fuller/) - 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
- [2013 RAI Undergraduate Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/2013-rai-undergraduate-conference/) - Close Encounters: Bringing Anthropology Home The University of St Andrews will be host to the 2013 student-led Royal Anthropological Institute Conference, 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 Seminar: Sarah Elton](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-sarah-elton/) - 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: Nick Stanley](https://therai.org.uk/events/a-papuan-photographic-encounter-nick-stanley/) - 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
- [RAI Research Seminar: Jeremy MacClancy](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-jeremy-macclancy/) - 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 Reviewed: Fusions](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-fusions/) - 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 Seminar: Stephen Leonard](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-stephen-leonard/) - 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 Seminar: Simon Roberts](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-simon-roberts/) - 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
- [M. N. Srinivas Lecture - Veena Das](https://therai.org.uk/events/m-n-srinivas-lecture-veena-das/) - 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](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-a-level-conference/) - 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 Seminar: John Burton](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-john-burton/) - 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
- [Delhi at Eleven](https://therai.org.uk/events/delhi-at-eleven/) - 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)
- [History, Memory and Stigma](https://therai.org.uk/events/history-memory-and-stigma/) - 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 Seminar: Fiona Jordan](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-fiona-jordan/) - 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
- [Eyes of the Ancestor](https://therai.org.uk/events/eyes-of-the-ancestor/) - 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
- [RAI Research Seminar: Angela Creese](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-angela-creese/) - 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
- [Visual Narratives of 'Fierce Goddesses and 'Brave' Historical Women](https://therai.org.uk/events/visual-narratives-of-fierce-goddesses-and-brave-historical-women/) - 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
- [Gods, Moneylenders and Anthropologists](https://therai.org.uk/events/gods-moneylenders-and-anthropologists/) - 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 Seminar: John MacGinnis](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-john-macginnis/) - 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 Reviewed: Believing in Belonging](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-believing-in-belonging/) - 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](https://therai.org.uk/events/making-educational-ethnography-matter/) - 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,
- [The Professional Foreigner - Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-professional-foreigner-asen-balikci-and-visual-ethnography/) - Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - The Professional Foreigner - Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography Film screening of The Professional Foreigner - Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography by Rolf Husmann. 2009, 60 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square,
- [Suspend Your Beliefs](https://therai.org.uk/events/suspend-your-beliefs/) - THE BODY CANVAS EXHIBITION & FILM SCREENING At the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St., London W1T 5BT 13th December 6:00 pm -7:30 pm SUSPEND YOUR BELIEFS Film screening and Q&A with film maker Simone Clifford-Jaeger Director: Simone Clifford-Jaeger Release: 2004 Length: 29 mins Suspension of the living body from hooks has been practiced in
- [Huxley Lecture - Alan MacFarlane](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-alan-macfarlane/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Alan MacFarlane FBA, Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge Anthropology, Empire and Modernity Friday 14 December 2012 at 5.30pm, in the BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. The event is free, but places must be booked. Please
- [Book Launch: The Making of Asmat Art](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-the-making-of-asmat-art/) - 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 Reviewed: The Life of Property](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-life-of-property/) - 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
- [Sermiligaag 65°54'N, 36°22'W](https://therai.org.uk/events/sermiligaag-6554n-3622w/) - Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Sermiligaag 65°54'N, 36°22'W Film screening of Sermiligaag 65°54'N, 36°22'W, by Anni Seitz and Sophie Elixhauser, 2008, 64 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) The people of East Greenland
- [Letters form Palestine](https://therai.org.uk/events/letters-form-palestine/) - Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday, 30 November 2012, 6.30 pm LETTERS FROM PALESTINE (2011, 36 minutes) Film screening and discussion about the use of archival material to create a documentary with Ludovica Fales The Royal Anthropological Institute 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French
- [Reaching Out: The Anthropologist as Cultural Journalist](https://therai.org.uk/events/reaching-out-the-anthropologist-as-cultural-journalist/) - REACHING OUT: THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS CULTURAL JOURNALIST Professor Helena Wulff Department of Social AnthropologyStockholm University Leverhulme visiting professor University of East London Autumn 2012 Cultural journalism is a feature of outreach and impact activities at many universities. In the framework of Swedish university life, activities of communicating and collaborating with groups and audiences outside the
- [Unity through Culture](https://therai.org.uk/events/unity-through-culture/) - Wednesday, 5 December 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Unity through Culture Film screening of Unity through Culture by Christian Suhr and Ton Otto, 2011, 60 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) Soanin Killangit is determined to
- [Fragments from the Past](https://therai.org.uk/events/fragments-from-the-past/) - Upstairs @ the RAI, Thursday, 22 November 2012, 6 pm FRAGMENTS FROM THE PAST Film screening and discussion with Julie Scott A Mediterranean Voices film by Vedide Kaymak and Hakan Demiralay, 27 mins, 2006 An Oral History book with portraits by Barbara and Zafar Baran and interviews by Vrdede Kaymak will be available for sale
- [Light on the Lotus Hill](https://therai.org.uk/events/light-on-the-lotus-hill/) - Upstairs @ the RAI, Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 6 pm Light on the Lotus Hill (2011) Film screening and discussion about the use of archival material to create a documentary with Chan Chow Wah The Royal Anthropological Institute 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT "Light on the Lotus Hill" is a research project and film
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed: The Origins of Grammar](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-origins-of-grammar/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Origins of Grammar: an Anthropological Perspective Monday 19 November at 10.30 am (tea & coffee served from 10.00am) Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), is delighted to present a
- [Black Mountain](https://therai.org.uk/events/black-mountain/) - Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Black Mountain Film screening of Black Mountain by Charlotte Whitby-Coles, Amin Hajee, 2008, 84 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to
- [ESRC Festival of Social Science - Every Language Matters](https://therai.org.uk/events/esrc-festival-of-social-science-every-language-matters/) - Friday, 9 November 2012, 4 - 7 pm ESRC Festival of Social Science Every Language Matters School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Room G2, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) This Open Day Language Forum will promote a public understanding of the place that languages hold in the
- [Awareness](https://therai.org.uk/events/awareness/) - Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Awareness Film screening of Awareness by David and Judith MacDougall, 2011, 67 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) Filmed in South India, Andhra Pradesh, at Rishi Valley School,
- [ESRC Festival of Social Science - Writing Panare](https://therai.org.uk/events/esrc-festival-of-social-science-writing-panare/) - ESRC Festival of Social Science Every Language Matters: Documenting and sustaining endangered languages Thursday, 8 November 2012, 6 pm WRITING PANARE: Portrait of a linguist at fieldwork (1996, 30 minutes) Film screening & discussion with director Paul Henley Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people
- [ESRC Festival of Social Science - Sand Drawings of Vanuatu](https://therai.org.uk/events/esrc-festival-of-social-science-sand-drawings-of-vanuatu/) - ESRC Festival of Social Science Every Language Matters: Documenting and sustaining endangered languages Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 6.15 pm Sand Drawings of Vanuatu Presentation and film screening with Mike Franjieh Sand drawing is a unique art form only found in the Vanuatu archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. Sand drawings are elegant geometric patterns produced
- [ESRC Festival of Social Science - Tracks Across Sand](https://therai.org.uk/events/esrc-festival-of-social-science-tracks-across-sand/) - ESRC Festival of Social Science Every Language Matters: Documenting and sustaining endangered languages Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 6 pm Tracks Across Sand: N/uu language and the =Khomani San of the southern Kalahari (2012) Film screening & discussion with director Hugh Brody Photo: Kirk Tougas 2008 In 1996, as part of land claims research with the
- [Law and War in Rural Kenya](https://therai.org.uk/events/law-and-war-in-rural-kenya/) - Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Law and War in Rural Kenya Film screening of Law and War in Rural Kenya by : Suzette Heald, 2010 , 64 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/)
- [Sifinja - The Iron Bride](https://therai.org.uk/events/sifinja-the-iron-bride/) - Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Sifinja - The Iron Bride Film screening of Sifinja - The Iron Bride by Valerie Hänsch, 70 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) This is a film about
- [Temporary Sanity: The Skerrit Bwoy Story](https://therai.org.uk/events/temporary-sanity-the-skerrit-bwoy-story/) - As contribution to the Black History Month the IBM Film Festival and Black History Walks are organising films and talks ‘Performing Black Bodies in White Spaces’ to explore how African Descendants use African and Caribbean dance as expression of cultural identity and self-discovery. Saturday 13 October, 6pm – 9pm Peckham Plex, Reye Lane, SE15 This
- [Other Europe (Altra Europa)](https://therai.org.uk/events/other-europe-altra-europa/) - Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Other Europe (Altra Europa) Film screening of Other Europe (Altra Europa) by Rossella Schillaci, 2011, 75 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) What happens to African migrants once
- [Q2P](https://therai.org.uk/events/q2p/) - Wednesday, 10 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Q2P Film screening of Q2P by Paromita Vohra, 2006, 55 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through
- [Orania](https://therai.org.uk/events/orania/) - Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - ORANIA Film screening and discussion with director Tobias Lindner (2012, 94 minutes) School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) Orania is situated in South Africa's barren Northern Cape province.
- [Shinjuku Boys](https://therai.org.uk/events/shinjuku-boys/) - The British Museum are hosting their 4th LGBT Film Day in partnership with LGBT Camden Forum and with support from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Date: 22 September Time: 13.15 Venue: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Film: 'Shinjuku Boys' (followed by panel with director Kim Longinotto) SHINJUKU BOYS colour, 54 minutes, 1997 Filmmakers: Kim Longinotto and
- [London Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-4/) - 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
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - Strange Enemies](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-strange-enemies/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia Tuesday 10th July at 10.30 am (tea & coffee served from 10.00am) Royal Anthropological Institute THIS IS A FREE EVENT The British Museum’s Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), is delighted
- [RAI Postgraduate Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-postgraduate-conference-2/) - Royal Anthropological Institute Second Annual Postgraduate Conference 13th September 2012 School of Anthropology and Conservation University of Kent (Canterbury) The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent (Canterbury) invite postgraduate research students from ALL sub-disciplines of Anthropology (Social, Biological, Environmental, Medical etc.) currently studying at UK
- [Myers Lecture - Ian Hacking](https://therai.org.uk/events/myers-lecture-ian-hacking/) - THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2012 will be given by Professor Ian Hacking, Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto "The Anthropology (and Archaeology) of Numbers" Friday 14 September 2012, 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
- [RAI AGM 2012 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2012-followed-by-the-henry-myers-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2012 followed by the 2012 Henry Myers Lecture The 2012 AGM will take place on Friday 14 September at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2012 Henry Myers Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows
- [Tracing Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in](https://therai.org.uk/events/tracing-trails-with-teetlit-gwichin/) - 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
- [Other Europe & Hanoi Eclipse](https://therai.org.uk/events/other-europe-hanoi-eclipse/) - 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,
- [Anthropology in the World](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-in-the-world/) - 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
- [The Rise of Child Science and Psy-Expertise](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-rise-of-child-science-and-psy-expertise/) - 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
- [Pink Saris](https://therai.org.uk/events/pink-saris/) - Thursday, 31 May, 7pm These events are free, no booking required. Pink Saris Filmmaker: Kim Longinotto, India/UK, 2010 (distributed by the RAI)
- [Drugs and Prayers](https://therai.org.uk/events/drugs-and-prayers/) - Thursday, 24 May, 7pm These events are free, no booking required. Drugs and Prayers Filmmaker: Helene Basu, India/Germany, 2010
- [Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism](https://therai.org.uk/events/trobriand-cricket-an-ingenious-response-to-colonialism/) - 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
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-educational-failure-and-working-class-white-children-in-britain/) - 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
- [Warriors of the Plains: The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare](https://therai.org.uk/events/warriors-of-the-plains-the-arts-of-plains-indian-warfare/) - 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
- [Manenberg](https://therai.org.uk/events/manenberg/) - 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
- [Bodies in Motion - Invisible and Visible Bodies](https://therai.org.uk/events/bodies-in-motion-invisible-and-visible-bodies/) - 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
- [Bodies in Motion - The Creation of Cine Parkour](https://therai.org.uk/events/bodies-in-motion-the-creation-of-cine-parkour/) - 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
- [Nuba Wrestling](https://therai.org.uk/events/nuba-wrestling/) - 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
- [Bodies in Motion - Speeding Bodies and the City](https://therai.org.uk/events/bodies-in-motion-speeding-bodies-and-the-city/) - 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](https://therai.org.uk/events/vjesh-singing/) - 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
- [Bodies in Motion - Dancing Gender](https://therai.org.uk/events/bodies-in-motion-dancing-gender/) - 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
- [Future Remembrance](https://therai.org.uk/events/future-remembrance/) - 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
- [Bodies in Motion - Temporary Sanity](https://therai.org.uk/events/bodies-in-motion-temporary-sanity/) - 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](https://therai.org.uk/events/learning-by-example-building-arguments-ethnographically/) - 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
- [Insider Ethnographies](https://therai.org.uk/events/insider-ethnographies/) - 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
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - Cognitive Variations](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-cognitive-variations/) - 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
- [M. N. Srinivas Lecture - Akhil Gupta](https://therai.org.uk/events/m-n-srinivas-lecture-akhil-gupta/) - 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
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - Anthropologist or Colonial Nuisance?](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-anthropologist-or-colonial-nuisance/) - 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](https://therai.org.uk/events/je-ne-suis-pas-moi-mme/) - 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
- [Shooting the Mursi](https://therai.org.uk/events/shooting-the-mursi/) - 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
- [Other Europe](https://therai.org.uk/events/other-europe/) - 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.
- [Violence past and present: researching conflict in northern Mozambique](https://therai.org.uk/events/violence-past-and-present-researching-conflict-in-northern-mozambique/) - 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
- [Pink Saris - Film Screening](https://therai.org.uk/events/pink-saris-film-screening/) - 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 / Born to Break](https://therai.org.uk/events/temporary-sanity-born-to-break/) - 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](https://therai.org.uk/events/breaking-bubbles-anthropology-for-our-future/) - 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
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - State Practices and Zionist Images](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-state-practices-and-zionist-images/) - 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
- [Filming Intangible Heritage](https://therai.org.uk/events/filming-intangible-heritage/) - 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
- [Huxley Lecture - Bruce Kapferer](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-bruce-kapferer/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen How Anthropologists Think: Refiguring the Exotic Friday 16 December 2011, 5.30pm, in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. This event is now fully booked The event is free, but places must be
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - The Intimate State](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-intimate-state/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY The Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi Thursday 12th January 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
- [Men of Words - Film Screening](https://therai.org.uk/events/men-of-words-film-screening/) - MEN OF WORDS Film and Q&A with director Johanne Haaber Ihle about her film in 2009 and living and working in Yemen in 2011, experiencing the coming of the Arab Spring. (22 mins, 2009, A Student Film from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology; commendation Wiley-Blackwell Student Film Prize, RAI Film Festival 2011) ”Men of
- [RAI French Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-french-anthropology-day/) - RAI FRENCH ANTHROPOLOGY DAY Friday 4 November 2011, 10.30am to 7.00pm, in Les Salons at the Institut Français, 17 Queensbury Place, London SW7 2DT. The event is free, but places are strictly limited and must be booked in advance. Please email Amanda Vinson on admin@therai.org.uk to book your place. 10.00: Coffee and tea 10.30: Welcome
- [Sport Cultures](https://therai.org.uk/events/sport-cultures/) - Sport Cultures: capturing sport in a globalised world Join the RAI for an event that explores the human and cultural side of sport in relation to the body, identity and globalisation. Through presentations, exhibitions and hands-on activities, participants will gain a greater understanding of the meaning of sport within society and its impact on the
- [Curl Lecture - Graeme Were](https://therai.org.uk/events/curl-lecture-graeme-were/) - THE CURL LECTURE 2011 will be given by Dr Graeme Were, University of Queensland “On the Materials of Mats: thinking through design in a Pacific society” Monday 3 October 2011, at 5pm in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. All welcome. Admission free without ticket. Refreshments
- [RAI AGM 2011 followed by the Curl Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2011-followed-by-the-curl-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2011 followed by the 2011 Curl Lecture The 2011 AGM will take place on Monday 3 October 2011 at 3.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2011 Curl Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - Bodily Practices and Medical Identities in Southern Thailand](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-bodily-practices-and-medical-identities-in-southern-thailand/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY Bodily Practices and Medical Identities in Southern Thailand Thursday 20th October 2011 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 Institute
- [12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film](https://therai.org.uk/events/12th-rai-international-festival-of-ethnographic-film/) - The 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011will be held in London, 23 - 26 June 2011 Sponsored by The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), The Department of Anthropology, University College London (UCL), and InSight Education For details on registration and the programme of events please go to the dedicated Film Festival website www.raifilmfest.org.uk. Here
- [London Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-3/) - 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
- [Presidential Address - Roy Ellen](https://therai.org.uk/events/presidential-address-roy-ellen-2/) - 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS will be given by Professor Roy Ellen FBA President of the Royal Anthropological Institute & Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology, University of Kent "ON THE CONCEPT OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION" On Friday 16 September 2011 at 1.15 pm during the Annual Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists in the Arts Hall,
- [RAI Postgraduate Conference](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-postgraduate-conference/) - Royal Anthropological Institute First Annual Postgraduate Conference20 September 2011 Department of Anthropology, Durham University The RAI and Durham University invite research students in all sub-disciplines of anthropology at UK universities to the upcoming postgraduate conference at Durham University on 20 September 2011. As this will be the first postgraduate conference held by the RAI, it
- [Amir - Film Screeing](https://therai.org.uk/events/amir-film-screeing/) - Amir: An Afghan refugee musician’s life in Peshavar, Pakistan Thursday 16 June, 13.15 in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Free, but booking advised in order to secure a place. This film investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experience of
- [Anthropology Teachers' Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-teachers-day/) - The RAI´s Education Committee is organising a special teachers' training day for those already invovled in teaching the Anthropology A-level or who are planning to teach the A-level in the near future. The event will take place on June 8th at the RAI, located at 50 Fitroy St. London W1T-5BT. The day will include sessions
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-anthropology-and-expertise-in-the-asylum-courts/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts Thursday 24th March 2011 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 Institute (RAI),
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - Media and Nation-building: How the Iban Became Malaysian](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-media-and-nation-building-how-the-iban-became-malaysian/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY Media and Nation-building: How the Iban Became Malaysian Thursday 21st April 2011 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 Institute
- [Urgent Anthropology Programme Seminar](https://therai.org.uk/events/urgent-anthropology-programme-seminar/) - Urgent Anthropology Programme Seminar Monday, 9 May 2011 from 1pm to 4pm at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum. Welcome Address Professor Roy Ellen, President RAI and School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK Urgency in Anthropology: some history and the aims of AFUAR Dr. Rajindra K. Puri, RAI Urgent Anthropology Committee and
- [Khyber - Film Screening](https://therai.org.uk/events/khyber-film-screening/) - Khyber Friday 3 June, 13.15 in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Free, but booking is advised in order to secure a place. This film, from the Disappearing World Series, looks at the history of Afghanistan up to the Soviet invasion in 1979 from the perspectives of both British and Pashtun, with fascinating parallels to
- [Living with the Invisibles](https://therai.org.uk/events/living-with-the-invisibles-2/) - Upstairs @ the RAI Screening LIVING WITH THE INVISIBLES colour, 52 minutes, 2003 Filmmaker: Dirk Dumont Anthropologist: Philip Hermans followed by Q&A with Philip Hermans When they emigrated to Europe in the 60’s and 70’s, Moroccans brought with them their culture and their “diseases” (caused by the jinn that inhabit some of them). In Europe,
- [Huxley Lecture - Johannes Fabian](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-johannes-fabian/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE will be given by Professor Johannes Fabian, University of Amsterdam "Cultural Anthropology and the Question of Knowledge" Friday 4 February 2011 at 5.30pm in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. All welcome. Admission free without ticket. Refreshments afterwards. Enquiries to: RAI, 50
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - The Charitable Crescent](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-charitable-crescent/) - The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the Muslim WorldThursday November 25th 2010 @ 10 am (Tea & coffee served from 9:30) Centre for Anthropology, British Museum This is a free event. The British Museum’s Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is delighted to present for the first seminar of the
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - Of Orderlies and Men](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-of-orderlies-and-men/) - Of Orderlies and Men: Hospital Porters Achieving Wellness at WorkThursday 20th January 2011 @ 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 Institute, is delighted to present for the 2nd seminar of the
- [Dilemma and Decision: Ethnographic Filmmaking in the Making](https://therai.org.uk/events/dilemma-and-decision-ethnographic-filmmaking-in-the-making/) - Dilemma and Decision: Ethnographic Filmmaking in the Making 29th October REGISTRATION 9.30 AM. TO 10.00 A.M. SCREENINGS 10.00 AM TO 6.30 P.M. Itsushi Kawase, University of Manchester (Ethiopian Troubadors) John Baily, Goldsmith’s College (Amir, refugee musicians) An van Dienderen, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, University College Ghent (Verapaz, Belgian quest for Eldorado in Guatemala) Angela
- [Myers Lecture - Geoffrey Lloyd](https://therai.org.uk/events/myers-lecture-geoffrey-lloyd/) - THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE 2010 will be given by Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge “Humanity between gods and beasts? Ontologies in question” Thursday 23 September 2010 at 5.45 pm in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. All welcome. Admission free without ticket. Refreshments afterwards.
- [RAI AGM 2010 followed by the Henry Myers Lecture](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2010-followed-by-the-henry-myers-lecture/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2010followed by the 2010 Henry Myers Lecture The 2010 AGM will take place on Thursday 23 September 2010 at 4.00 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2010 Henry Myers Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows
- [Living with the Invisibles](https://therai.org.uk/events/living-with-the-invisibles/) - LIVING WITH THE INVISIBLES (Vivre les invisible)followed by Q&A with anthropologist Philip Hermans Location: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Manson Lecture Theatre, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT No booking required; visitors will be asked to sign in with the porter. LIVING WITH THE INVISIBLES (Vivre les invisible) , 52 minutes, 2003 Filmmaker: Dirk
- [Les Maîtres Fous](https://therai.org.uk/events/les-matres-fous/) - Screening of Jean Rouch’s Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad Masters), 1954, 35 mins, selected by artist Spartacus Chetwynd and screened in conjunction of his own performative works, The Walk of Dover (2005) and Call of the Wild (2006). Saturday 2 October, 11am – 5.30 pm, Whitechapel Gallery Film London and Channel 4 in association with
- [London Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day-2/) - 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
- [Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field](https://therai.org.uk/events/medical-anthropology-in-europe-shaping-the-field/) - Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field RAI Conference on 1-2 July 2010 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford Medical anthropology has just as long a history in Europe as in North America. However, European medical anthropologists are often unknown in Britain. One reason is that they often do not write in English or
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- [Jean Rouch and the French New Wave](https://therai.org.uk/events/jean-rouch-and-the-french-new-wave/) - Jean Rouch and the French New Wave Thursday 3 June 20106.30-9.30 pm Paul Henley will introduce Rouch’s classic ‘ethnofiction’ Moi, un Noir, in which migrants on the Ivory Coast improvise their own lives both at work and at leisure. This film won the Prix Louis-Delluc, the French equivalent of an Oscar, in 1959 and had
- [Presidential Address - Roy Ellen](https://therai.org.uk/events/presidential-address-roy-ellen/) - (Cancelled because of travel difficulties.) 2010 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS will be given by PROFESSOR ROY ELLEN FBA President of the Royal Anthropological Institute & Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology, University of Kent 'On the concept of cultural tranmission' On Friday 16 April 2010 at 1.00 pm during the Annual Conference of the Association of Social
- [Kingdom of Ife Film Screenings - 3](https://therai.org.uk/events/kingdom-of-ife-film-screenings-3/) - We would like to invite you for a series of free lunch-time screenings, which the RAI is organising in collaboration with the British Museum for the new exhibition Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa. Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Friday 23 April, 13.30, A documentary double bill Benin Kingship Rituals Filmmakers: Frank
- [The Meaning of Water](https://therai.org.uk/events/the-meaning-of-water/) - The Meaning of Water Location/Time and Date: Saturday March 20th 10:30am - 4:00pm on the HMS President Boat moored on the Thames, near Embankment Tube Station. The RAI’s ‘Meaning of Water’ event focuses on the connections between water, conservation and community. The event aims to raise public awareness of research and development projects undertaken by
- [Kingdom of Ife Film Screenings - 1](https://therai.org.uk/events/kingdom-of-ife-film-screenings-1/) - We would like to invite you for a series of free lunch-time screenings, which the RAI is organising in collaboration with the British Museum for the new exhibition Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa. Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Friday 26 March, 13.30 - Documentary double bill The Blooms of Banjeli: Technology
- [Kingdom of Ife Film Screenings - 2](https://therai.org.uk/events/kingdom-of-ife-film-screenings-2/) - We would like to invite you for a series of free lunch-time screenings, which the RAI is organising in collaboration with the British Museum for the new exhibition Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa. Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Friday 9 April, 13.30, A documentary with guest speaker director Jane Thorburn Alagba:
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- [Water Cultures: discovering the meaning of water through film](https://therai.org.uk/events/water-cultures-discovering-the-meaning-of-water-through-film/) - Water Cultures: discovering the meaning of water through film SOLD OUT For this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science the RAI’s Education Outreach Programme is organising a series of evening film screenings and discussions with anthropologists on water, conservation and community. We hope that the debates and ideas shared at the screenings will build momentum
- [Huxley Lecture - Ian Hodder](https://therai.org.uk/events/huxley-lecture-ian-hodder/) - THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2009 will be given by Professor Ian Hodder, Dunlevie Family Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University Human - Thing Entanglement: Towards an Integrated Archaeological Perspective Monday 2 November 2009 at 5.45 pm in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG All welcome. Admission free
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed/) - Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBCWhen: Thursday, November 12th 2009 at 10am (tea and coffee from 9:30) Where: Centre for Anthropology, British Museum The British Museum’s Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute, will be continuing its series of encounters between authors and their reviewers with a seminar
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - Horse People](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-horse-people/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM’S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY Horse People “The world of Thoroughbred racing is glamorous, secretive, dangerous, and seductive – the sport of kings and the poor man's obsession. While the spectacle of racing stirs the imagination, it belies the ruthless business that lies beneath.” When: Thursday, December 10th 2009
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - The Pot-King](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-pot-king/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM’S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY The Pot-King When: Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 10am (tea and coffee from 9:30) Where: Centre for Anthropology, British Museum The British Museum’s Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute, will be continuing its series of encounters between authors and their
- [Reviewer Meets Reviewed - The Megaliths of Northern Europe](https://therai.org.uk/events/reviewer-meets-reviewed-the-megaliths-of-northern-europe/) - REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWEDSEMINAR SERIES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM’S CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY The Megaliths of Northern Europe When: Thursday, February 18th 2010 at 10am (tea and coffee from 9:30) Where: Centre for Anthropology, British Museum The British Museum’s Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute, will be continuing its series of encounters between
- [RAI AGM 2009](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-agm-2009/) - ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2009 followed by the 2009 Curl Lecture The 2009 AGM will take place on Thursday 17 September 2009 at 4.30 pm in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London WC1. It will be followed by the 2009 Curl Lecture. All are welcome. Only RAI Fellows may
- [Exploring Food, Connecting Communities](https://therai.org.uk/events/exploring-food-connecting-communities/) - This event aims to raise public awareness of local food projects within the UK and abroad, and foster future collaboration between associated groups of individuals. Presentations given by anthropologists, journalists, and organisations such as Sustain, The Soil Association, and Slow Food UK will accompany information stalls, and hands-on learning activities.
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- [London Anthropology Day](https://therai.org.uk/events/london-anthropology-day/) - The London Anthropology Day is a university taster day for Year 12, 13 and FE students, career advisors and teachers. Organised by the RAI’s Education Outreach Programme in collaboration with the British Museum and participating universities, it is one of the largest events in the UK aimed at promoting public engagement with Anthropology. The day
- [Curl Lecture - Joost Fontein](https://therai.org.uk/events/curl-lecture-joost-fontein/) - THE CURL LECTURE 2009 Will be given by Dr Joost Fontein, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh “Graves, Ruins & Belonging: Towards an anthropology of proximity” Thursday 17 September 2009 at 5.30 pm in the Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG All welcome. Admission free without
- [Book Launch: Music and Digital Media - A planetary anthropology](https://therai.org.uk/events/book-launch-music-and-digital-media-a-planetary-anthropology/) - BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Tuesday 28 November 2023, 4.00-6.00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us in Person at the RAI, please register here (Address below) To join us online on Zoom, please register here Music and Digital Media A planetary anthropology with editor Prof Georgina Born (University College London) discussants Prof Tom Boellstorff (Department
- [RAI Research Seminar: Andrew Sanger](https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-andrew-sanger/) - RAI Research Seminar organised by the RAI's Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology Committee Tuesday 5 December 2023, 4:00-6:00pm GMT This is a hybrid event. To join us online on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_89U7iby0TLSTKkZb48zyTw#/registration To join us in Person at the RAI, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-seminar-andrew-sanger-tickets-722117251137?aff=oddtdtcreator For of These Islands, I am Made: Dance and Environmental Sensibility in the
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- [New normalities? Rethinking educational practices in times of crisis and challenge](https://therai.org.uk/events/new-normalities-rethinking-educational-practices-in-times-of-crisis-and-challenge/) - TAN INTERIM ONLINE MEETING, 21 - 22 SEPTEMBER 2023 First of a series of online events preceding the Royal Anthropological Institute conference on Anthropology and Education in 25-28 June 2024 Programme Thursday, 21st September 2023, 13.00-16.00 (UTC) 13:00 - 13:25 Introduction by TAN Co-Convenors: Annika Strauss, Giovanna Guslini, Lorenzo Cañas Bottos, Shukti Chaudhuri-Brill13:30 -
- [Understanding Adolescence: Academic Workshop](https://therai.org.uk/events/understanding-adolescence-academic-workshop/) - Understanding Adolescence: Academic Workshop Tuesday 12 September 2023, 10am - 4:30pm BSTTo attend via Zoom, sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QD2zQmwKSKmLKAekgSg0UQ Organised by: Dr Emily Emmott: UCL; Associate Editor for Biological Anthropology, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute In contemporary Western academia, adolescence is increasingly recognised as a key life stage. For example, some developmental scientists
- [JRAI Forensic Anthropology supplement Issue – Launch event](https://therai.org.uk/events/jrai-forensic-anthropology-supplement-issue-launch-event/) - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Monday 4 September 2023, 10am - 12.00pm (BST)Register for the Zoom event here JRAI Forensic Anthropology supplement Issue – Launch event This supplement has been an exciting project which has allowed us to not only examine the areas of work that forensic anthropologists are involved in on
- [Joint book launch: Reproductive Realities in South Asia](https://therai.org.uk/events/joint-book-launch-reproductive-realities-in-south-asia/) - Joint Book Launch Tuesday 19 September 2023, 3.00 - 5.00pm (BST)Register for the Zoom event here Reproductive Realities in South Asia: Ethnographies from Bangladesh and India Book 1- Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India (Maya Unnithan) Book 2- Childlessness in Bangladesh: Intersectionality, Suffering and Resilience (Papreen Nahar) The authors
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