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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
