RAI Research Seminar

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 […]

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 […]