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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
