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FRONT COVER: BACK TO ‘CIVILIZATION’? Civilization is the name of a successful series of computer games (more than nine million units sold globally: see www.civilization.com). Over the past two decades, the games have become increasingly sophisticated, not only in…Continue
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CHRIS HANN: back to civilization?
This editorial reinforces recent calls for anthropologists to participate more actively in multidisciplinary reappraisals of the concept of civilization. Beyond the dominant relativist model of discrete cultures and historical accounts of complex trading networks across the Eurasian landmass, it is important to recognize the civilizational coagulations that sustained such networks. The challenge is how to explain the dogged persistence of civilizational boundaries in the face of continuous…Continue
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KIERANS & COOPER on organ donation and ethnicity
Within transplant medicine in the UK, the relationship between organ donation and ethnicity has been characterized as problematic, with a specific focus on the apparent reluctance of black and Asian people in Britain to act as blood and organ donors. In this article, we show that transplant medicine, in trying to work out a solution to this ‘problem’, has culturalized the issue by treating it as something that falls outside its own domain of practice, with racialized responsibility being…Continue
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STRONACH & HODKINSON on Christmas
This account of the cultural phenomenon of Santa/Father Christmas draws on the polarities that attend the rituals of Santa/Christmas: secular/religious; commodity/gift; sacred/profane; material/spiritual etc., while also arguing that these dichotomies act together, rather than as simple oppositions. The account also draws on empirical work by the authors and a wider group of practitioner-researchers on how young children construct and reason with Santa. We then discuss the threat to Santa from…Continue
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CHANG & HAMILTON on anthropology in China
Fei Xiaotong (Fei Hsiao-Tung, 1910-2005) obtained his PhD under Bronislaw Malinowski’s supervision at the London School of Economics in 1938. Of the 20 volumes of his completed works, two books are well-known in the West: Peasant life in China, published in English in 1939, and Xiangtu zhingguo (1947), translated as From the soil by Gary Hamilton and Zheng Wang in 1992. As one of China’s finest sociologists and anthropologists, Fei was instrumental in laying a solid foundation for the…Continue
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JUDITH OKELY interview on Dale Farm eviction
Dale Farm, an Irish Traveller site in Essex which until recently was occupied by multiple families, gained national and some international publicity in October 2011, when an eviction order against its unauthorized settlement was enforced. In this interview, Judith Okely, who has performed fieldwork and research with traveller communities, reflects on the issues surrounding the eviction.Google news on…Continue
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes on clerical child abuse and the Vatican
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on December 7, 2011 at 8:48am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. Clerical child abuse and the Vatican. Counterpunch, 18(18): 1,5-7.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes on kidney trafficking
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on December 7, 2011 at 8:24am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. The Rosenbaum Kidney Trafficking Gang. Counterpunch, 30 November 2011.
FORTHCOMING: editorials on anthropology and(of) austerity
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on December 4, 2010 at 12:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
AT is planning to feature items making sense of the impending austerity, both for the discipline and in human society internationally.
hatred
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on October 28, 2010 at 9:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Frankie Martin contributed a feature to Washington Post surrounding the way Islam is dealt with in right-wing US media, especially on blogs. Readers can draw their own conclusions. The author may be commended for expressing concern about how populism is accompanied by a tendency to plug into the most simplistic representations of reality without admitting the findings of balanced in-depth scholarship.
Frankie Martin is an Ibn Khaldun Chair Research Fellow at American University's… Continue
Frankie Martin is an Ibn Khaldun Chair Research Fellow at American University's… Continue
Austerity is a magic word.
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on October 22, 2010 at 9:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Anthropology = irrelevant? Discuss.
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on October 22, 2010 at 9:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
"Government funding for higher education [in the UK] is to be cut by 40 per cent over four years [79% cut in public funding for teaching, apparently concentrating remaining funding on science and technology, with none for humanities/social sciences?], suggesting that public funding for teaching in the arts, humanities and social sciences may come to an end."
Morgan, J. Fears made flesh: only STEM teaching grants spared CSR scythe,… Continue
Morgan, J. Fears made flesh: only STEM teaching grants spared CSR scythe,… Continue
Nancy Scheper-Hughes on Israel's National Forensic Institute
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on October 4, 2010 at 10:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Nancy Scheper-Hughes published a controversial piece on the harvesting of body parts at Israel’s National Forensic Institute (The body of the terrorist: Body parts, bio-piracy and the spoils of war at Israel’s National Forensic Institute. CounterPunch, 1-15 Sep 2010, 17(5)).
Robin Dunbar on Facebook
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on October 4, 2010 at 9:59am 0 Comments 1 Like
Robin Dunbar is reported as believing that male and female behaviour differs on Facebook, with men seeking to impress potential mates by collecting as many friends as possible, not necessarily the case with women. ‘No mates’ suggests a lack of social skills which in turn might indicate damage to the frontal lobes. (Gray, Richard, ‘Facebook friends are “mating display”’, Daily Telegraph, 16.09.10)
Scarlett Epstein honoured
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on October 4, 2010 at 9:54am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Scarlett Epstein was honoured at the National Seminar on Economic Development and Socio-Cultural Change in the Era of Globalisation, Mysore 25-27 March 2010, held in her honour. A resolution was passed urging, among other things, that globalization ‘not be at the cost of local interests’.
John Button Prize for Peter Sutton
Posted by Gustaaf Houtman on October 4, 2010 at 9:53am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Peter Sutton has been awarded the John Button Prize for the best writing on politics and public policy. He received the $20,000 prize for his most recent book, The politics of suffering: Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus. The book is characterized as a ‘trenchant attack on welfare dependency and a penetrating look at the 1970s when the last generation fully in command of Aboriginal culture was dying and the management of Aboriginal affairs was taken over by… Continue
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Topology- Spaces of Transformation: Continuity/ Infinity, with Olafur Eliasson, Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
March 3, 2012 from 2pm to 4:30pm – Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
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Topology- Spaces of Transformation: The Vast Space-Time of Revolutions Becoming
May 12, 2012 from 2pm to 4:30pm – Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
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Topology- Spaces of Transformation: Spatialised Immunity with Peter Sloterdijk
June 16, 2012 from 2pm to 4:30pm – Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
ANTHCAL - Calender of events as published in the last issue of ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY
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EXHIBITIONS
Made for trade (to 27.01.2013); People apart: Cape Town survey 1952 (to 08.01.2012); Ghost forest (to 31.07.2012). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP; tel. +44 (0)1865 270927;
www.prm.ox.ac.uk.
Journey to the heart of Islam (26.01.12-15.04.2012); Living and dying (permanent); Africa Gallery (permanent). British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG; tel. +44 (0)20 7323 8299 (information desk); www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/index.html.
Bali: Dancing for the gods (to 08.01.12); African worlds (permanent); Centenary Gallery: 100 years of collecting (permanent); Taslim Martin: Blue earth 1807-2007 (permanent). Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872; http://www.horniman.ac.uk.
DECEMBER 2011
1 Dec 2011 Further adventures in Wonderland: The afterlife of Alice. Manchester, UK. http://www.hic-dragones.co.uk/events
7-9 Dec 2011 Ceremonies of law: doctrine, ritual, ceremonial. Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. http://www.uow.edu.au/law/LIRC/conference2011/index.html
9-10 Dec 2011 4th Annual Postgraduate Forum on Asian anthropology: Materiality, movement, and change. Hong Kong. http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/pgforum/
16 Dec 2011 RAI Huxley Lecture by Professor Bruce Kapferer. Clore Education Centre, British Museum, 5.30pm.
17-19 December 2011 2nd International Congress of Bengal Studies. University of Dhaka and Bangla Academy. Dhaka, Bangladesh. http://www.banglabidya.org/cfp/cfp.html
JANUARY 2012
9-20 Jan 2012 Culture, psychology and psychiatry: AMMA Winterschool, Amsterdam Master’s in Medical Anthropology. http://amma.socsci.uva.nl/
12-13 January 2012 Museums, photographs and the colonial past (PhotoCLEC Symposium). Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, in collaboration with De Montfort University. Funded by HERA/ESF. Contact: e.edwards@dmu.ac.uk or astuart@dmu.ac.uk. http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/aad/photographic-history-research-centre/
23 Jan-3 Feb 2012 Anthropology of sexuality, AIDS and reproductive health: AMMA Winterschool, Amsterdam Master’s in Medical Anthropology. http://amma.socsci.uva.nl/winterschool.html
6 Jan-17 Feb 2012 Medicine and human rights in cross-cultural perspective: AMMA Winterschool, Amsterdam Master’s in Medical Anthropology. http://amma.socsci.uva.nl/winterschool.html
MARCH 2012
9-18 Mar 2012 6th International Folk Festival. Kathmandu, Nepal. http://www.folkfestivals.org.np
10 Mar 2012 Southeast Asian Studies symposium: Contemporary issues in Southeast Asia. St.Antony’s College, University of Oxford. http://projectsoutheastasia.com/academic-events/symposium
APRIL 2012
3-6 Apr 2012 ASA Annual Conference: Arts and aesthetics in a globalizing world. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
JUNE 2012
8-10 Jun 2012 Anthropology in the world. RAI conference. Clore Centre, British Museum. Contact: admin@therai.org.uk.
JULY 2012
10-16 Jul 2012 Uncertainty and disgust. 12th EASA biennial conference. Nanterre, France. http://www.easaonline.org/conferences.htm
11-14 Jul 2012 Gulf charities in the ‘Age of Terror’ and the ‘Arab Awakening’ (workshop) - in the framework of the Gulf Research Meeting. University of Cambridge. http://grm.grc.net/
NOVEMBER 2012
14-18 Nov 2012 AAA 111th Annual Meeting. San Francisco Hilton and Towers, San Francisco, California. http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/
26-30 Nov 2012 IUAES Inter Congress: Children and youth in a changing world. KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. http://www.iuaes.org
AUGUST 2013
5-10 Aug 2013 17th IUAES World Congress: Evolving humanity, emerging worlds. University of Manchester. http://www.iuaes.org
NOVEMBER 2013
20-24 Nov 2013 AAA 112th Annual Meeting. Chicago Hilton, Chicago, Illinois.
DECEMBER 2014
3-7 Dec 2014 AAA 113th Annual Meeting. Marriott Wardman Park and Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC.
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