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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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/#
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 […]
