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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
