tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62284982959696390302024-03-13T02:11:53.758+00:00Anthropologist About TownLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-46518864375775059672012-08-03T14:59:00.001+01:002012-08-03T15:02:46.716+01:00The Body Canvas International Photo Competition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Body art and modification has been practised for thousands of years across the globe. People have cut, stretched, dyed and pierced their bodies for recognition, relationships, beauty and rites of passage. <br />
The RAI is launching an international photo competition that seeks to find out more about body modification by exploring questions such as: <br />
- Who is involved in body art and modification communities?<br />
- Why do people permanently alter their bodies? <br />
- What are the symbols, meanings, and relationships attached to body alterations?<br />
- Where do practitioners, artists, doctors congregate? <br />
-What type of tourism has this diverse industry created?<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">THE BODY CANVAS</span></strong> </span><br />
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The Body Canvas photography contest forms part of the RAI’s Discover Anthropology Outreach Programme <a href="http://www.discoveranthropology.org.uk/">http://www.discoveranthropology.org.uk</a><br />
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The contest aims to:<br />
• promote public engagement with the RAI’s Education Outreach Programme<br />
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• provide a platform for people to share their work and become actively involved in anthropology <br />
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• develop an understanding for the personal, social and political reasons why people undergo permanent body modification <br />
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• explore the many ways in which communities around the world develop and express relationships with their bodies <br />
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• explore the industry of body modification, the artists, doctors and craftsmen who practise their trade <br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The submissions we are looking for: </span></h4>
Engaging photographs that explore biological, cross-cultural and social elements of body art and modification in relation to these categories:<br />
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<strong>1) Tattoos and Scarification</strong><br />
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<strong>2) Piercings and Body Reshaping</strong><br />
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Below are themes that could be visualised under each category. They are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive. Applicants are encouraged to think creatively about how they can communicate these categories and relate their photographs to anthropological themes. Photographs can include aspects related to body modification such as media and advertising, rituals, material objects, technological advancements, forensics. <br />
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<strong>Category 1: Tattoos and Scarification </strong><br />
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- the commercialisation and commodification of body art and modification <br />
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- the growing industry of tattoos (parlours, conventions, festivals, TV programmes, films) <br />
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- the relationship between tattoos/scarification and metamorphosis (self-development, discovery and growth as an individual) <br />
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- tattooing as a discipline where well-known professionals are respected for their craftsmanship <br />
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- the community of body modification artists and cross-pollination of ideas and practises<br />
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- tourism generated by the artists/trade and practitioners <br />
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- body modification as a means of expressing one’s spiritual/religious beliefs <br />
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- body modification and controversy, social exclusion or stigma <br />
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- body modification as a means of expressing group identity and reaffirming social ties and status<br />
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- tattooing as an addiction- adrenaline, pleasure, thrill and excitement <br />
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- body modification and exhibitionism <br />
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- body modification and rites of passage<br />
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- tattoos and forensic anthropology <br />
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- cultural interpretations of beauty and aesthetics<br />
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- tattoos and art <br />
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- tattoos carrying protective elements against disease, illness, evil spirits and possession <br />
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<strong>Category 2: Piercings and Body Reshaping</strong><br />
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- pushing the body to its physical extremes, dealing with fear, emotion and pain<br />
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- body reshaping and perceptions of strength, beauty, and attractiveness<br />
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- body building, fitness and popular culture <br />
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- plastic surgery and perceptions of beauty, age and social status<br />
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- reconstructing the body after accidents, illness, <br />
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- body reshaping and the media<br />
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- body modification as a means of expressing group identity and reaffirming social ties and status<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666;">Who can participate: </span></strong><br />
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The competition is free to enter and is open to anyone within the UK and abroad who is interested in anthropology, photography and the body. Both professional and amateur photographers are welcome. <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666;">Guidelines for submissions: </span></strong><br />
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• All applicants must fill in the registration form which can be found on the following website: <a href="http://www.discoveranthropology.org.uk/">www.discoveranthropology.org.uk </a><br />
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**Participants must complete a separate form for each of their submissions**<br />
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• To be considered for the photo competition, each photograph must be accompanied by a title and text of 50-150 words to be included in the registration form. <br />
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• Participants can submit a maximum of four photographs to EACH of the categories: 1) Tattoos and Scarification 2) Piercings and Body Reshaping . Composite images can be entered as well<br />
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• Photographers may not submit the same image to more than one category<br />
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• Once a photograph has been submitted, it is final and may not be replaced by another photograph.<br />
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• Photographs need to be submitted in high resolution JPEG/ TIFF or PNG format and sized less than 10MB. Please send submissions to Nafisa Fera, the RAI Education and Communications Officer at <a href="mailto:education@therai.org.uk">education@therai.org.uk</a><br />
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• Submissions must be suitable for all audiences. We will not accept R-Rated photographs including adult themes, sexually-oriented nudity or genitalia.<br />
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• Submissions that infringe copyright agreements, are unethical or disrespectful of anyone will disqualify the photographer from the contest. <br />
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• The RAI is not responsible for any late, misrouted, lost or damaged entries<br />
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• All decisions made by the judges are final<br />
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• The prize is non-exchangeable <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666;">How will the submissions be judged? </span></strong><br />
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The Royal Anthropological Institute has appointed a panel of judges who will assess the photos based on the following criteria: <br />
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- quality of the written text and its incorporation and exploration of anthropological themes <br />
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To get some ideas of other RAI photo contests take a look at our Flickr webpage: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/raieducation">www.flickr.com/photos/raieducation </a><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Deadlines for submission</span></strong><br />
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The deadline for submissions is <strong><span style="color: red;">30th September 2012</span></strong><br />
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The RAI will notify the applicants of the panel's decision by November 2012.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><strong>Prizes </strong></span><br />
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All short-listed contestants will be published in RAI educational materials. In addition, the winning photograph from each category will receive a £100 <strong>Amazon</strong> gift voucher.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><strong>Copyright and Data Protection</strong></span> <br />
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All images submitted for consideration to the RAI’s Body Canvas Photo Competition remain the sole property of the photographer. By submitting to the contest the entrants agree that the RAI has the right to use and display their work for the RAI’s online and printed materials or for further use (as the RAI deems appropriate) without requiring additional compensation. The RAI will cite entrants as copyright holders of their work in its own publications, but takes no responsibility for any third party usage of photographs.<br />
Any personal data acquired will be used primarily in connection with the RAI’s Body Canvas Photo Contest to facilitate communication with the entrant and for consideration of future RAI activities, competitions and events. The data will not be passed on to third parties without the prior consent of the entrant.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><strong>For further enquiries </strong></span><br />
Please contact the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Education & Communications Officer Nafisa Fera at education@therai.org.uk or 020 7387 0455 with any further enquiries. <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666;">Sources of Information and Inspiration </span></strong><br />
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For more information about body art and modification take a look at these great online resources:<br />
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<a href="http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/bodyarts/" target="_blank">Pitt Rivers Museum Body Arts website</a><br />
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<a href="http://penn.museum/sites/body_modification/bodmodpierce.shtml" target="_blank">Penn Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology Body Cultures website</a> <br />
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</div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-14313266272570308202012-03-21T15:35:00.001+00:002012-03-21T15:36:13.517+00:00BODIES IN MOTION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Dear Readers, <br />
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We are up and running again! Due to time restrictions, the blog will no longer be posting non-RAI related events and activities. If you would like to post an anthropology related event or activtity you can join our Discover Anthropology Facebook group and publicise your activities directly to the group. The blog will be running as an open RAI E-Newsletter. <br />
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We have some fantastic events coming up in April at the Institute located at 50 Fitzroy St. London W1T 5BT. We hope you can make it !<br />
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<strong>Place:</strong> The RAI, 50 Fitzroy St, London W1T-5BT <br />
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<strong>Time:</strong> 6:30pm-8:30pm <br />
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<strong>Dates:</strong> Friday 13th April, Tuesday 17th April, Wednesday 18th April, Thursday 26th April, Monday 30th April <br />
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The way in which we move our bodies can express our multiple identities as well as our social and cultural backgrounds. Whether dancing, walking or playing sports, movement can be an affirmation of society’s norms, a celebration of community cohesion and a vehicle for expressing national and international affiliations. Equally, human movement can be a means of resistance demonstrating social and political unrest or an avenue for innovation and cultural change.<br />
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Bodies in Motion, is an initiative that explores the relationship between human movement, space and expression. Using photography, ethnographic film, art and presentations, the project aims to engage the public in exploring the meaning of movement in urban, digital and natural landscapes.<br />
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If you have any questions about the Bodies in Motion series please get in contact with Nafisa Fera, at education@therai.org.uk / 020 7387 0455<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Book your ticket for all events and receive a 20% discount-</strong> <strong><a href="http://bodiesinmotion.eventbrite.com/">http://bodiesinmotion.eventbrite.com/</a></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Temporary Sanity: Jamaican Dancehall Culture</strong></span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S-BgkhOC9n8/T2nu0L-bQ-I/AAAAAAAADi4/Z9aZ3nlJ0Tg/s1600/TemporarySanityDVDCover+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S-BgkhOC9n8/T2nu0L-bQ-I/AAAAAAAADi4/Z9aZ3nlJ0Tg/s1600/TemporarySanityDVDCover+copy.jpg" /></a>Temporary Sanity: the Skerrit Bwoy Story is a film produced by Dan Brun in 2006 as part of his Visual Anthropology Masters at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. The film explores the cultures, gendered performances and political expressions that form part of Jamaican Dance Hall in New York. By following “Skerrit Boy” a Bronx based performer and promoter of Dance Hall music, the film gives an insider’s view into the dancing, history and social roles of Dance Hall clubs in the lives of the Jamaican and Caribbean Diaspora in the United States. The film has won international recognition amongst dance enthusiasts and film makers. <br />
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Tonight’s screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the RAI’s Education and Communications Officer Nafisa Fera<br />
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Tickets: Free for RAI Members and Fellows, £3 Students/Concessions, £5 General Admission<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Dancing Gender: Gesture and Identity among Native American Two Spirits</span></strong><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-beHwP4K71fc/T2nuqY5PkoI/AAAAAAAADiY/hcfVoTbUAhA/s1600/Monkman2webfinal+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-beHwP4K71fc/T2nuqY5PkoI/AAAAAAAADiY/hcfVoTbUAhA/s1600/Monkman2webfinal+copy.jpg" /></a>This presentation explores how Native American gay, lesbian, and transgender people (Two-Spirits or GLBT) find culturally acceptable ways of conveying their gender and sexual identity through dance and performance. Using photographs, clips and over 10 years of research, the presentation shows how ethnicity, gender and sexuality, converge through performed gestures and movement amongst the Native American Two-Spirit community.<br />
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Presentation and Q&A with Max Carocci <br />
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Dr. Max Carocci has conducted research among Two Spirits since 1991 in several US cities. On the subject he published in 2010: ‘Textiles of Healing: Native American AIDS Memorial Quilts’ Textile: the Journal of Cloth and Culture; in 2009: ‘Visualizing Gender in Plains Indian Pictographic Art’ American Indian Culture and Research Journal; and in 2004: ‘Reconfiguring Gender in Contemporary Urban Pow-wows’ in The Challenges of Native American Studies B. Saunders and L. Zuyderhoudt (eds.), Leuven: Leuven University Press. His forthcoming publications on the subject are: ‘Native Americans, Europeans, and the Gay Imagination’ in Tribal Fantasies D. Stirrup (Ed.), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2013), and ‘Sodomy, Ambiguity, and Feminisation: Homosexual Meanings and the Male Native American Body’ in Indigenous Bodies J. Fear-Segal and R. Tillett (eds.) SUNY Press (2013).<br />
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Tonight’s event includes a photo and art exhibition illustrating sport, dance and play in diverse landscapes from concrete jungles to remote highlands where people come together to celebrate movement. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Book your ticket here: <a href="http://bodiesinmotiontwospirits.eventbrite.com/">http://bodiesinmotiontwospirits.eventbrite.com/</a></span></strong><br />
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Tickets: Free for RAI Members and Fellows, £3 Students/Concessions, £5 General Admission<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;"><strong>WEDNESDAY 18th April 2012 </strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Speeding Bodies and the City: From Skateboarding to Car Driving</span></strong><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oNkC6qwPImo/T2nuxrV9vBI/AAAAAAAADiw/2xZ_UALmhhE/s1600/skateboarding+Iain+Borden+small+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oNkC6qwPImo/T2nuxrV9vBI/AAAAAAAADiw/2xZ_UALmhhE/s1600/skateboarding+Iain+Borden+small+copy.jpg" /></a>This presentation explores some of the various ways in which bodies in motion – from skateboarding to walking to automobile driving – produce different experiences of cities and landscapes. Photographs, film clips and music are used to explore the transitory nature of our mobile interaction of the world around us, while also introducing themes of urban politics, bodily senses and mobile aesthetics.<br />
Presentation and Q&A with Iain Borden<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-285ZwbcYe5E/T2nuaNIM1CI/AAAAAAAADh4/4d6fjuC-eFQ/s1600/Iain+Borden+smaller+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-285ZwbcYe5E/T2nuaNIM1CI/AAAAAAAADh4/4d6fjuC-eFQ/s1600/Iain+Borden+smaller+copy.jpg" /></a>Dr. Iain Borden is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he is also Vice-Dean for Communications for the Faculty of the Built Environment. His wide-ranging research includes explorations of architecture in relation to critical theory, philosophy, film, gender, boundaries, photography, bodies and spatial experiences. Authored and co-edited books include Drive: Automobile Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes (2012), Bartlett Designs: Speculating With Architecture (2009), Manual: the Architecture and Office of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (2003), Skateboarding Space and the City: Architecture and the Body (2001), The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space (2001) and InterSections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories (2000). <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Invisible and Visible Bodies in Ceremonial and Ritual Dance in Java</span></strong><br />
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Presentation and Q&A with Felicia Hughes-Freeland<br />
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</tbody></table> Dr. Felicia Hughes-Freeland is an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker who has published widely on performance, including Embodied Communities: Dance Traditions and Change in Java (2010) and the films The Dancer and the Dance and Tayuban: Dancing the Spirit in Java (1996). Most recently she edited ‘Gender and Creativity in Southeast Asia’, the guest issue of Indonesia and the Malay World 115 (November 2011). She is currently working on cultural heritage and documentary film as Research Associate at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at SOAS, London. <br />
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</div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-9997292937515662342011-09-17T12:51:00.016+01:002011-09-17T13:03:03.407+01:00LUCY SPECIAL: GETTING INTO THE SPIRIT OF THE GAMES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong>Calling all sport fans! Do you have objects from your past that hold special memories? Then share your stories with the world!</strong> <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">WHAT ARE ORAL HISTORIES?</span></strong><br />
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Anthropologists have always been interested in sport and games, their research encompassing everything from cock-fighting to cricket. Evarard ImThurn, an anthropologist of the 19th century studying games in South America, noted that some of the simplest and earliest forms of games were those where children imitated their elders.Im Thurn defined a game as a pleasurable exercise involving any part of the mind or body that led to the development of embodied knowledge (1901). <br />
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Analysing games and play in a contemporary <a href="http://www.tasplay.org/about.html">North American context, the Association for the Study of Play (TASP</a>), describes the importance of play in relation to identity and childhood development: “Play is an essential tool for social, cognitive, and physical competence as well as identity development, but research has shown that societal trends have marginalized play…under heightened scrutiny and pressure to respond to the current climate of accountability, economic uncertainty, technologically enhanced learning, changing demographics of students and multiple other factors”. This project hopefully will help us re-visit our attitude to play and stimulate new forms of creative activity.<br />
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Blast from the Past considers games, sports and play to be integrated and mutually cohesive elements. We are interested in any material object associated with individual play, group games or institutionalised sport. In terms of games however, we are excluding non-physical games such as online games, board games any video games.<br />
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Anyone interested in anthropology, history and sport. <br />
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• If you are submitting a photo of your object, please try and take a high resolution image and submit either a JPEG, TIFF or BITmap and sized less than 10MB. <br />
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- The Royal Anthropological Institute will publish the photos on our <a href="http://www.discoveranthropology.org.uk/">Discover Anthropology website</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/raieducation">Flickr</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/royalanthro">YouTube channel</a> and other RAI satellite websites.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">An example of this last approach can be found in an encounter with bodies (and heads) large, small, scattered and clustered currently found meditating upon existence in the Sculpture Park. Jaume Plensa’s work encourages physical and sensory interaction with bodies whose contemplative, pensive nature reflexively provokes the same within the viewer; addressing our situation in the world just as we look at theirs. All of the figures are beguiling and beautiful, interpersonally connective and irresistible; inviting you to spend time with them and affective as with the best of Gormley’s work such as ‘Field for the British Isles’. Some of the bodies are literally inscribed with alphabets, on one set an eclectic mix from global languages; reflective of ongoing ideas of embodiment including those of Marcel Mauss (1934) and Thomas J. Csordas (1990) as well as Judith Butler (1990) adding bodily inscriptions of which the physical markings on these sculptures are evocative.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In addition to the wider view taken on photographic practice by Susan Sontag (1979) and later, Goeff Dyer (2005) attention paid to the uses, abuses and practices associated with using photography as an ethnographic communicating social and cultural information is deftly provided by Christopher Pinney (2010) and Sarah Pink (2001) amongst others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To supplement a visit to the exhibition or to the real, live glory of a car-bootery, a few anthropological observations on alternative social and economic spaces can be brought to bear. While Nigel Rapport’s (1992) brush with car boots and other village affairs informed him about affect and interaction within a small community, N.Gregson and L Crewe (1997, 2005) looked at the purchase of goods in terms of performance and as spectacle; the art of engaging in car-boot transactions as a particular form of knowledge. Martin and Sunley (2001) describe the buying space as in terms of a marginality dismissed by the mainstream market as the balance is weighted less toward pure profit motives and more toward sociality within the selling act. Either way, if you make it to a real car-boot this summer, make sure you bring at least one dodgy jumper/LP/lamp/old boardgame back as well as the ethnographic observations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anthropology is responding to the proliferation of conflict and injustice at local and global levels through the study of violence. David Riches’ ‘Anthropology of Violence’ (1986) looked at the practical and symbolic ends and role of agency within conflictual spaces. A self-professed alternative concerning anthropology of power is supplied by Nigel Rapport (2003) exploring bodies in relation to environment, total institutions and the death of power. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The individual as an agentive force in opposition to political, social and cultural oppression informs Amnesty’s work. Actions and engagement by supporters is a key aspect of involvement in the campaign, especially this year as it’s the 50th anniversary of organisation and there are plenty of events to celebrate and have a knees-up to ensure that conscience isn’t all hard work. Summer events range from tea- to beer-drinking, dancing and film screenings. Political pleasure-seekers can seek out those local to them on the site above plus get more details on the following selection:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">11th July: ‘El Problema: Testimony of the Saharawi People’ </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(dir. Jordi Ferrer, Pablo Vidal)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A documentary developed from on-the-ground collection of testimonies and documents telling the story of Saharawi’s forced displacement from their lands in the Western Sahara by Moroccan government land appropriation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A film tracing the effects and struggles associated with the ongoing pan-African and Diasporic fight for self-determination necessitated by colonial and slave histories and resultant displacements. A multi-sited documentary spanning five continents, this overview of a wide issue brings sharply into focus the phenomena of African holocaust.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">20th July: ‘Possessed by Demons’ and ‘Difficult Love’ (dir. Zanele Muholi) Films concerning the problems facing lesbians in South Africa and discussion around the current situation for the LGBT community led by the film-maker in live-link from Cape Town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">16th July:St John's Church Rooms, Mostyn Street, Llandudno ‘Palestine and the Arab Spring’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">16th July:<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sefton Park, Liverpool </span>‘Amnestea in the Park’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">23rd July: <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Riviera International Centre,Torquay </span>‘Freedom is Coming: Summer Concert’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">An evening of music and performance with the Big Noise Chorus and Stagecoach Arts Theatre plus a talk by former Chair of Amnesty, Tom Hedley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A journalistic panel debating the manner and risks taken in journalistic endeavours in telling stories from spaces of conflict otherwise unknown. Interesting to attend for the parallels and divergence with ethnographic motivations and ethics in similar spaces. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Scrapstore, Hull Play Resource Centre is hosting a rolling programme of low-cost costume making. Email: </span><a href="mailto:info@hullscrapstore.co.uk"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">info@hullscrapstore.co.uk</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Insight into wider African masking and masquerade practice can be found in the photographic work of Phyllis Galembo (2010) whose Pende examples find an ethnographic counterpart in Z. S. Strother (1999) who backgrounds the meaning, production and evolution through reinvention of masking in response to social and cultural change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Intelligent Movement – A Celebration of Hip Hop Culture</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To check into anthropological research on hip hop culture and its global migrations, translations, and transformations H.Samy Alim, Awad Ibrahim, Alastair Pennycook (2009) and James Peterson (2001) look at it from an Islamic perspective. Whereas Greg Dimitriadis (2009) considers the role of ‘tha cipha’ as a speech event in hip hop as one of the established forms of language within genre, its transglobal usage, and how that relates to performing identity and culture true to hip hop; wherever it may travel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The 16th provides talks and discussions on the resonance of dirt in historic and modern contexts sex work in Victorian Britain to Indonesia, the caste system in India and religious ideas of cleanliness. Including appearances by TED’s Elizabeth Pisani and Belle de Jour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">London Action: 10th July</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-75415061177651373402011-06-19T21:45:00.002+01:002011-06-19T22:09:13.552+01:00Lucy Special: Open City beams into the 12th International RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film 24-25th June<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I see from the brochure of the forthcoming RAI film festival that an interesting conversation is ongoing between the Open City and RAI film fests. The conversation takes the form of a screening exchange, reflective of wider interest both within and without the discipline regarding the identity, place and situation of ethnographic film within the documentary genre. It’ll be interesting to see how it develops. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The RAI showed films at the Open City this weekend and, in exchange, the Open City adds extra flavour to the RAI festival pot in the form of Open City screenings. On the 24<sup>th </sup>(</span><st1:time hour="14" minute="0"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">2-7pm)</span></st1:time><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> the ‘Gypsies In Film’ includes the ‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’ which should provoke some interesting debate/discussion from an anthropologically-minded audience. The 25<sup>th</sup> brings ‘The Maasai Saga (1974-1994)’ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">considering the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> body of work produced by director </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Melissa Llewelyn-Davies with the </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Maasai people and including a session in conversation with her. Two very different offerings from this other gem of a documentary film fest but ones that serve to add even more variety to that on offer on the regular festival schedule, considered in previous postings. The festival is being held at various venues at University College London between 23<sup>rd</sup>-26<sup>th</sup> June and details on screenings and bookings can be found at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> <a href="http://www.raifilmfest.org.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">www.raifilmfest.org.uk</span></a></span></div></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-85641851045789633072011-06-10T17:09:00.012+01:002011-06-19T21:57:53.780+01:00June Diary 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hi everyone, as it’s the cusp of the summer-at least in pagan terms-I thought I’d look at what is best and brightest to bring in the sun as well as topical events occurring around the country. Next month, we’ll go for a full-on school’s out bonanza so send in your end-of-term/last-blast-before-going-on-holiday-type stuff to the usual address!</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The first photographer to have retrospective installation at Whitechapel art Gallery in 1960, little-known Ida provided a fairly singular female presence within the creative avant-garde. She was a key player in migrating perceptions of photography into the fine art canon and portrayed major literary and artistic figures from 50’s and 60’s including Henry Moore, Georges Braque and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, in addition to the opportunity to see these figures in the flesh, is the chance to see their environs; the spaces from which the created or thought. This approach applied equally to her in everyday life (as with the Havana image above) providing a view on cultural life post-war. This is a paid exhibition but a bit of a bargain at only £2 with student ID or £3 without. Call 020 7907 7079 (transaction fee applies) or visit the above site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a room arrayed with varieties of styles, fashions and purposes of woven carrying devices, the representation of methods and variation across the diverse regional Aboriginal group add up to a compact survey of both their individual and related material cultures as well as histories and experience. The practice of basketry appears to have been maintained despite the cultural disruption imposed by colonisers. The exhibition contains examples from the historic to the present which equally demonstrate adaptive usage of available materials. The examples I found most arresting were, in fact, the recent examples, objects whose ‘social life’ was intimately involved in their being woven with the ‘ghost nets’ cut loose from fishing boats and what these mean to communities. As these nets are left to drift in the sea, they pointlessly trap and kill sealife. For the locals, this means that salvage is seen by locals as necessary for protecting local environments and their reuse as transformative of something that has become harmful back to being purposive. The resulting bags reflect ongoing traditions in style and decorative flair, adding new elements in the nature and colours of the material, as other materials and substances have once introduced to the cultural space. An interesting interaction with colonisation arises, for example, with the synthetic dyes used by missionaries becoming incorporated, displacing earlier natural dying techniques. These incorporations, as well as changing uses and purposes for production add to the creation of new forms of object related to a tradition. The baskets reveal other information related to historic modes of living and relation across groups; their individuality yet interconnectivity and the familial, personal and spiritual connectivity and meaning of decorative markings. The exhibition provides welcome illumination and insight into a culture too often pigeon-holed or simply overlooked, revealing a rich and varied material cultural which remains not only alive and kicking but also regenerating. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There is deluge of stuff happening across the country for Refugee Week, seeking to think, express, activate, experiment, reflect and celebrate what is to be seeking and finding refuge both in the UK and the places from which individuals come. There are creative meditations and expressions, discussions, cultural presentations and discussions, as well as educational and experiential activities reflecting and exploring self, group/cultural identity and situation within different environmental contexts. Highlighting the experiences, challenges, risks and successes of those seeking, awaiting and finding refuge and asylum in the UK, Refugee Week provides invaluable country-wide focus and forums for direct interaction, encounter and presentation of issues and experience of those seeking a place to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Week’s events provide a good opportunity not only to gain insight and contact with the lived, everyday reality of migration, movement and displacement of involved individuals but those they work or gather with in grassroots support and activist groups to voluntary (or Third) and public sector organisations. The few examples offered here demonstrate a range of such opportunities to connect with an area of significant anthropological interest and activity. There are lots more to find on the site above. All those listed and most on offer are free entry. Anthropologists engaged in looking at migrant and refugee experience include Christopher McDowell who focuses on international experience from the political anthropological perspective. Also, Liisa.H.Malkki captured vividly a specific refugee experience which can give an insight into more general sensations of displacement and identity association in ‘Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees In Tanzania’ (Chicago:1995) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Artworks created by artists seeking or who have found asylum in the UK which use photography, painting, video and poetry describe viewpoints and interests of a diverse, global group. Private view on 17th June with world music and spoken word entertainments and refreshments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">‘Life After Iraq’: Exploring the displacement and lives of Iraqi refugees in Syria with reference to those who have settled in Scotland. Photography by Angerla Catlin, writing by Billy Briggs.</span><br />
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The <a href="http://www.discoveranthropology.org.uk/for-teachers/anthropology-a-level.html"><span style="color: red;">A-level Anthropology</span></a> Teachers’ Day is intended to bring together teachers with members of the<br />
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been involved in the development and support of the course. This will be the first meeting of many to come and will provide an opportunity for people to meet, to discuss progress so far and issues arising, and to plan future meetings. There will be ample opportunity for participants to meet informally, over coffee and lunch, as well as more direct inputs on issues such as<br />
resources, the project activity in Unit 4, and a Q&A session with Senior <a href="http://www.aqa.org.uk/"><span style="color: red;">AQA</span></a> staff.<br />
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If you are interested in attending this event, please email the RAI’s Office Manager at:<br />
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The RAI accepts payment by cheque, credit card or bank transfer. If your school requires an invoice please contact<span style="color: #666666;"> us.</span><br />
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The <a href="http://www.londonanthropologyday.co.uk/" style="color: red;">LAD</a><span style="color: red;"> </span>is a free university taster day for year 12, 13 students, teachers, career advisers. The day consists of an introduction to anthropology, (both biological and social),a range of interactive workshops run by anthropology lecturers, and presentations on applying to university and careers. All participating universities have representatives and information stalls at the day.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MfT12Bv_p3k/TcsctsE6m2I/AAAAAAAADcY/31JLsWZxFoQ/s1600/elw-poster-2011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MfT12Bv_p3k/TcsctsE6m2I/AAAAAAAADcY/31JLsWZxFoQ/s200/elw-poster-2011.JPG" width="139" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">This event seeks to navigate the geographies, social places and cultural influences as well as fragilities of the huge number (over half) of global languages currently threatened with extinction. Including opportunities to familiarise yourself with them through lectures, discussion, demonstration and exhibition and display in arts and media materials, this fascinating week promise to leave no aspect of ‘meeting a language’ unturned. The presentation of SOAS MA student’s <u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">‘<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> Language Landscape’</span> </u>and the Brunei Gallery’s hosting of a range of materials presented by organisations involved in language preservation sound particularly interesting. I’m certainly going to catch what I can, if nothing else to see if Cornish crops up. I’m not sure if it died already as the last I heard was that only one person spoke it, so it seems pretty likely!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 79.5pt;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Returning (whoops, sorry, too many good things happening in Yorkshire-world!) check out the 15 works created in an international collaboration between artists and poets from 35 countries. These </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">form the basis for a new initiative by <a href="http://www.afh.org.za/" target="_blank" title="art for humanities"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Art for Humanities</span></a> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durban</st1:place></st1:city> whose aim is to create worldwide dialogue regarding issues of inequalities and prejudice. Through creative dialogues, the organisation intend to renew commitments to tolerance, harmonious co-existence and human rights. It’d be interesting to see how this laudable ambition works (and looks) in the pieces displayed and what kind of a start it has got off to but as I can’t make this one, it’s be good if anyone out there can give the anthropological once-over and report back.</span></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-70600895730107008372011-05-16T22:38:00.003+01:002011-05-16T22:51:59.367+01:00Lucy Special: RAI's Anthro of Sport Photo Contest-take a look at the results!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Plus, if you get inspired to do something similar, check out the ‘My Street’ competition at the RAI Film Festival site. Instead of still shots, this is a call for film submissions. It’s a great</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> opportunity to ‘have a go’ at some visual anthropology and make your world ours by</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">capturing the</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> activities, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">conversations, observations, impressions that make up your street or neighbourhood</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">. T</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">he premise couldn’t be simpler-or more anthropological as it </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">relates to all sorts of areas of anthropological interest, particularly the Anthropology of Space and Home, Material Cultures, Urban Anthropology, Visual Anthropology to name a few-in fact, the sky’s the limit and the pavement the place! T</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">he competition closes at the end of the month</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> and, in addition to </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">films being streamed online, the winning entry will be screened-putting your home well and truly on the map. I’m looking forward to seeing the stories behind the streets and way more than Google Maps could ever reveal!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-65878252297032676892011-05-16T22:35:00.002+01:002011-05-16T22:50:42.231+01:00Lucy Special: RAI 12th International Film Festival Anthropologists on film<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">There’s a whole strand </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">in this year’s festival concerning</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> anthropologists on film-from those rather famous ones like Levi-Strauss (‘</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Claude Lévi-Strauss, Return to the Amazon’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> Marcelo Fortaleza Flores 2009</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">) and their activities and experiences in the field to</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> those behind the camera considering the nature and reality of the fieldwork endeavor itself. Essential stuff for both budding and fledged anthropologist alike as it’s good to reflect on where the discipline has been to know where it can, and is, going. The radical shifts during disciplinary development can be seen through the leaps forward and mis-steps of pioneers, players and the simply passionate alike. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Follow the festival preparations and commentary by those involved, including film-makers, in the Facebook group <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/RAI-International-Festival-of-Ethnographic-Film/139827756089095" style="color: #990000;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/RAI-International-Festival-of-Ethnographic-Film/139827756089095</a></span></div></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-57737579825212179542011-05-13T18:06:00.003+01:002011-05-16T22:40:27.212+01:00Anthropology Taster Days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-29F0mvooNnY/TbF0otpVVeI/AAAAAAAADcQ/hqcDXhCU8ss/s1600/pink+saris+film+fest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-29F0mvooNnY/TbF0otpVVeI/AAAAAAAADcQ/hqcDXhCU8ss/s1600/pink+saris+film+fest.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I’ve been having another look at the first day of the film fest (23rd June at UCL) and having a nose around the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> strand. Two address elements of faith, religious practice and engagement with ‘The Poojari’s Daughter’ (Gillian Goslinga 2010) looking at the initiation of a Hindu priestess and the motions of every day temple life surrounding significant events in the lives of the ordained. Faith healing through possession is looked at in ‘Drugs and Prayers’ (Helene Basu 2010) through the lens of (and as a form of) community care centring on the activity of a Sufi temple. Both present 360 views through the actors drawn together and co-involved in both the places and practices. A different view of grassroots militancy by members of an untouchable caste is presented in ‘Pink Sari’s’ (Kim Longinotto 2010). These indomitable women in the signature sari’s of the title fight for social justice and against oppression in the wider social world by resisting low-class ascription. They also address the microcosm of ‘the in-laws’ family world and resist the oppression of abuses inflicted by family members when moving into the invariably restrictive realm of their husbands’ domestic world. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The RW on 29th April has stimulated a splurge of RW-related activity around the country. Sadly, I didn't find out in time about the school in Liverpool that put on a 'Big Fat Gypsy Wedding'-themed event which dressed up kids in the mad meringues featured in the show to celebrate the forthcoming RW. Sad, as it would have been a bit of culturally-questionable kitsch. However, passions for the social life, history and place of wedding couture and culture in the UK can nonetheless be indulged in various ways and places. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rag Factory, Shoreditch</span> : <a href="http://www.rsvphrh.com/"><span style="color: #990000;">www.rsvphrh.com</span></a> (no date supplied)</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Heneage Street, just off</span> Brick Lane an exhibition created by from an open submission to international artists displays alternative RW invites made from a wide variety of materials and methods from huge illustrated posters to t-shirts. Distinctly non-"traditional" and with a feel of edginess, this response to the pomp and pageantry of a good old-fashionned, flag-waving national event, definately registers as both an antidote and refuge when crowded out from central London by the mayhem.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Mass Observation Archive Royal Wedding Directive<span style="font-size: small;">: <a href="http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm"><span style="color: #990000;">http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The film Q2P by Paromita Vohras (distributed and archived at the RAI <a href="http://www.therai.org.uk/fs/film-sales/"><span style="color: #990000;">www.therai.org.uk/fs/film-sales/</span></a>) is being screened at the exhibition, addressing issues of urban anthropology as it traces the gendering of public space through the difficulties women have accessing public toilets in New Delhi. As the search for a 'Ladies' unfolds, the restriction of activity and presence for women in public space and resulting social effects is described . I tried and failed to find this film last year so it's well worth catching it at the exhibtion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hey everyone, I’ve got a busy month coming up, trying to get to as many of the delightful and interesting events occurring all over the country. Naturally, I’m not able to make all of them but I’ll have to figure out a strategy! First up, I’ll look at regional events then move onto London as it’s far too often the other way round! By the way, everything listed is free entry unless otherwise noted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oxford Pitt Rivers Museum</span>: </span><a href="http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">www.prm.ox.ac.uk</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A complement to the GOMA exhibition listed below, the Pitt Rivers archive is showing fourteen mounted albumen prints and two related engravings from the Japanese missions to several European cities in 1862 and 1864. Delegates, in portraits taken by Jacques-Philippe Potteau in Paris show members of the last generation of samurai.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In a Different Light (Friday 13 May 18.00 – 22.00)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">‘New Cartographies: Algeria-France-UK’ (8th April to 5th June)<span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ten contemporary artists’ construct personal journeys literally mapping the effects of colonialism and beyond in the relationship between Algeria and Europe through installation, video, photography and mapping. In light of the forthcoming 50th anniversary of Algerian independence, the pertinence of work gains added resonance due to current local and regional revolution and civil unrest. Current debates concerning colonial, post-colonial and neoliberal influences are addressed as well as subsequent connectivity and boundary between North Africa and Europe. Political and personal movements through space are described through migration, Diaspora, and consequent sense of memory and identity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Glasgow GOMA</span>: </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/our-museums/goma"><span style="color: #990000;">www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/our-museums/</span><span style="color: #990000;">goma</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">China Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-1872 (until 12th June) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">‘From Back Home’ (Ongoing in Gallery One) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">First up, there is a debate co-run with The Guardian which ties-in with the 'Afghanistan' exhibition to which the charge (£12 concessions, £15 everyone else) gets you access (so a good deal if you’ve not yet got to the exhibition, especially as it will be a lot quieter and so easier to see). Featuring Jon Snow as chair, the discussion will address the diverse peoples, rich resources, and strategic significance of the country in determining the forces that have shaped it. </span><br />
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</div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-60898014926649804942011-04-05T20:33:00.000+01:002011-04-05T20:33:16.777+01:004th April 2011: Upcoming film treats care of the festival and Migration Week at UCL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As films are grouped according to categories of professional and student prizes, I started by looking at the general areas of anthropological discussion represented. Engagement with the experience of globalised humanity is a definite thread; reaching far beyond any sense of holism to explore the play of social and cultural mixing and movement. The strand which most speaks to this addresses migration which I’ll be following throughout Friday. This is, appropriately enough, moving around the venues, creating a journey within the journeys and travels from Italy with ‘Me, My Gypsy Family and Woody Allen’ (Laura Halilovic) and ‘Other Europe’ (Rossella Schillaci) through Germany and Hungary in ‘About a Village’ (John.C.Swanson) to arrive in Switzerland and ‘For Love’ (Isabelle Stuessi). For me, though, the ‘must-see’ looks fascinating as well as having a clever play on a mainstream title, which is ‘No Country for Young Men’ (Sadaf Javdani) which is shot across multiple sites of migratory experience in Iran, Berlin and London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All the films, made over the past couple of years, tie-in nicely with UCL’s ‘Migration Week’ event (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/intercultural-interaction/migration-week) which started on Monday and has a series of lectures, panel discussions, and conferences exploring topics ranging across the fields of health, economic and social challenge, policy, and the EU Migration Package. An accompanying exhibition explores, amongst other things, the contagious-sounding ‘Egyptomania’ and the ‘Filming Migration’ event on 6th April 2011 is showing five films with a panel discussion. All events are free, requiring no registration so I’m going to brush up on my migration knowledge before I pack my anthro passport and hop on board the good ship RAI film fest ;) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hello and welcome back to regular updates from Anthropologist About Town! I am fresh back from my holidays and ready to unearth anthropological happenings all over the country! </span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As I can't physically be 'about town' throughout the UK, I welcome your input to update me on the many and various events, exhibitions, film-screenings, festivals and celebrations or general occurrences that you feel relate to anthropology. Many ears to the ground are better than one and I want to gain a rich mixture of UK-wide material, reflective of the many areas and aspects of anthropological interest and investigation. Simply by getting involved, you will be actively participating in an area which is of great interest to anthropology-a system of exchange, circulating information through communication. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div></div></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-14307989253695529162010-12-13T15:55:00.003+00:002010-12-13T16:06:05.105+00:00December 2010: Lucy's on Holiday<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TQZDtiOXP9I/AAAAAAAADbQ/58mqrEhOK8A/s1600/HappyHolidaysLights.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 281px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TQZDtiOXP9I/AAAAAAAADbQ/58mqrEhOK8A/s320/HappyHolidaysLights.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550198040340938706" border="0" /></a><br />Hello Dear Readers,<br /><br />Hope you are enjoying good times with friends, food and family coming up to the holidays. Just to let you know, Lucy will be taking this December off but will be back January to welcome you in 2011 .<br /><br />Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!<br />See you in 2011!Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-82647966732652330932010-10-20T10:33:00.013+01:002010-10-20T12:03:56.710+01:00Lucy Special: RAI's Anthropology of Sport Photo Contest<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />The photo contest forms part of the RAI’s Discover Anthropology Outreach Programme <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.discoveranthropology.org.uk/">www.discoveranthropology.org.uk </a></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7GCfQBebI/AAAAAAAADZ4/XbpiuD5GkGo/s1600/Anthropology+of+Sport+new+side+1+copy+quarter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7GCfQBebI/AAAAAAAADZ4/XbpiuD5GkGo/s320/Anthropology+of+Sport+new+side+1+copy+quarter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530075138508290482" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The contest aims to: </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• promote public engagement with the RAI’s Education Outreach Programme</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• provide a platform for people to share their work and become actively involved in </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> anthropology </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• initiate activities and events in relation to the London 2012 Olympics and</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Paralympics</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• develop awareness of the anthropology of sport and facilitate communication between practitioners working in media, arts, sports and social sciences </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br />The deadline for submissions is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday 10th December 2010 </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;">What is Anthropology of Sport?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7C76JFDEI/AAAAAAAADZY/PfbpUxxAC7Y/s1600/warru+shield+game+web.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 182px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7C76JFDEI/AAAAAAAADZY/PfbpUxxAC7Y/s320/warru+shield+game+web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530071726932954178" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Anthropology of Sport is the cross-cultural and biological understanding of sport in prehistory, history, and the contemporary world (Blanchard 1995). It analyzes the socioeconomic, political and cultural dimensions of sport and how sport influences the lives of individuals and communities around the world. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The submissions we are looking for: </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7FHSMNumI/AAAAAAAADZw/H7MWgkKdmug/s1600/2007.264_going_for_the_kill_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 234px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7FHSMNumI/AAAAAAAADZw/H7MWgkKdmug/s320/2007.264_going_for_the_kill_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530074121390373474" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Engaging photographs that explore cross-cultural and human elements of sport in relation to the following categories:1) Globalisation 2) Identity and 3) The Body </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Below are themes that could be visualised under each category. They are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive. Applicants are encouraged to think creatively about how they can communicate these categories and relate their photographs to anthropological themes. Photographs can include aspects related to the world of sport such as spectators, fans, paraphernalia, media, and advertising, in addition to people playing sport.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Category 1: Globalisation </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7KR-x0YeI/AAAAAAAADag/YtScOdK60d8/s1600/world+cup+image+copyright.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7KR-x0YeI/AAAAAAAADag/YtScOdK60d8/s320/world+cup+image+copyright.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530079802716086754" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- the commercialisation, commodification and consumption of sport</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports played out virtually, ‘dream teams’, Second Life </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports in relation to power, equality and hierarchy </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports and colonisation </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- urban infrastructure and development as a result of grand sport events </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- environmental sustainability/degradation in relation to sports upkeep/promotion</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- youth programmes, community activities and regeneration projects </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- media and technological advances in communicating, promoting and advertising sports </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- global sporting events as a means for socio-political mobilization</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports as a cultural product </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports in relation to leisure and tourism industries</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">Category 2: Identity </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7KSfcT62I/AAAAAAAADao/ouNI6S4Px4M/s1600/skater+boy+copyright.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 235px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7KSfcT62I/AAAAAAAADao/ouNI6S4Px4M/s320/skater+boy+copyright.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530079811484248930" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- the formation of local, regional and national identities in relation to sports</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports as rites of passage</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports affiliation passed on through generations </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- looking at the ways sports create boundaries of inclusion/exclusion </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- how sports are linked to identities based on ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- how sports paraphernalia, sports equipment and the type of sports undertaken express aspects of identity</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- religion and spirituality (praying before games, talismans, religious symbols or totems used to facilitate performance) </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports achievement and socio-economic status</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports as a means of organising social relations </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- athletes as icons, ‘Hall of Fame’</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- sports which identify themselves with counter-culture and resistance to the mainstream</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- fans who recreate themselves in their idol’s image </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Category 3: The Body </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7KS5qKuzI/AAAAAAAADaw/wN8QOkkwb24/s1600/The+Body+pic+copyright.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7KS5qKuzI/AAAAAAAADaw/wN8QOkkwb24/s320/The+Body+pic+copyright.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530079818521688882" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- pushing the body to its physical extremes, dealing with fear, danger, emotion and pain</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- the relationship between mind and body</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- the value of players based on performance -who owns their bodies?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- how bodies play interact with time and space </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- the psychological and physical attachment to adrenaline </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- the physical development of professional athletes </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- cultural interpretations of beauty and aesthetics in relation to athletes</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- athletes as icons within popular culture, body styling and modification as a part of forming athletes’ identities</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">Who can participate: </span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7GCuhhYiI/AAAAAAAADaI/04WHjssQo64/s1600/fencing+photo+library+of+congress.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 162px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7GCuhhYiI/AAAAAAAADaI/04WHjssQo64/s320/fencing+photo+library+of+congress.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530075142608216610" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The competition is free to enter and is open to anyone within the UK and abroad who is interested in anthropology, photography and sport. Both professional and amateur photographers are welcome to participate. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Guidelines for submissions: </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• All applicants must fill in the registration form which can be found on the following website: </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.discoveranthropology.org.uk/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">www.discoveranthropology.org.uk</span></a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> **Participants must complete a separate form for each of their submissions**</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• To be considered for the photo competition, each photograph must be accompanied by a title and text of 50-150 words to be included in the registration form. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Participants can submit a maximum of two photographs to EACH of the categories:1) Globalisation 2) Identity 3) The Body </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Photographers may not submit the same image to more than one category</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Once a photograph has been submitted, it is final and may not be replaced by another photograph.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Photographs need to be submitted in high resolution JPEG/ TIFF or PNG format and sized less than 10MB. Please send submissions to Nafisa Fera, the RAI Education Officer at <span style="font-weight: bold;">education@therai.org.uk </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Submissions that infringe copyright agreements, are unethical or disrespectful of anyone will disqualify the photographer from the contest. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• The RAI is not responsible for any late, misrouted, lost or damaged entries.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• All decisions made by the judges are final.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• The prize is non-exchangeable </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />How will the submissions be judged? </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7GC0DsDaI/AAAAAAAADaQ/Q7EURvwOFAk/s1600/gcva_pushy_women.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 165px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7GC0DsDaI/AAAAAAAADaQ/Q7EURvwOFAk/s320/gcva_pushy_women.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530075144093699490" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Royal Anthropological Institute has appointed a panel of judges who will assess the photos based on the following criteria: </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- creativity and originality of the photograph</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- quality of the written text and its incorporation and exploration of anthropological themes and ideas </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- technical quality of the photographs</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prizes </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All short-listed contestants will be published in RAI educational materials. In addition, the winning photograph from each category will receive a £50 gift voucher. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The deadline for submissions is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday 10th December 2010 </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7GCf-ktKI/AAAAAAAADaA/0Gr_8TkP9cA/s1600/Anthropology+of+Sport+new+side+2+copy+quarter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TL7GCf-ktKI/AAAAAAAADaA/0Gr_8TkP9cA/s320/Anthropology+of+Sport+new+side+2+copy+quarter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530075138703537314" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">For further enquiries </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please contact the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Education Officer Nafisa Fera at education@therai.org.uk or 020 7387 0455 with any further enquiries. </span>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228498295969639030.post-55728212091546286782010-10-11T09:09:00.032+01:002010-10-13T14:28:50.075+01:00Diary for October 2010<div><div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />MONDAY 11th October- Sewing in Wartime</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH2NTzgpI/AAAAAAAADYQ/-WLOhM7pdAc/s1600/quilt+in+wartime.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527192008045855378" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 200px; cursor: pointer; height: 149px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH2NTzgpI/AAAAAAAADYQ/-WLOhM7pdAc/s320/quilt+in+wartime.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Running until the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">16th October</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is a great exhibition at the <a href="http://www.quiltmuseum.org.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Quilt Museum and Art Gallery</span></a> which looks at the production of material culture amongst Canadian men and women during the Second World War. In collaboration with <a href="http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/united_kingdom-royaume_uni/events-evenements/index.aspx?lang=eng&menu_id=18&menu=L"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Canada House</span></a>, the exhibition features Canadian Red Cross Quilts and other patch worked and quilted pieces. The quilts tell the stories of Canadian needlewomen who made and donated thousands of quilts to the British war relief using their ingenuity and creativity at finding resources and materials that were available at that time. Visit <a href="http://www.quiltmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/current/sewing-in-wartime.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">this website</span></a> for more information about the history and development of the quilts. The exhibition is free. Everyone welcome.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">MONDAY 11th October- London Street Photography</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSGNp805QI/AAAAAAAADXI/sUWARoTnhmI/s1600/BAN_BW_TRAFFIC_WARDEN.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527190211847841026" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 101px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSGNp805QI/AAAAAAAADXI/sUWARoTnhmI/s320/BAN_BW_TRAFFIC_WARDEN.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Museum of London</span></a> is hosting an exhibition bringing together 19th century and contemporary photographs looking at ways in which street life has changed in the city and how photography has influenced how people relate and identify themselves with the city. The exhibition is free and runs until <span style="font-weight: bold;">September2011</span>. For more information visit <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">this website</span></a>.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">TUESDAY 12th October- 22nd October- Exhibit yourself through things</span> </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSHGK4xjHI/AAAAAAAADXY/NQXC_0JmVmg/s1600/homepage_things.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527191182761888882" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 225px; cursor: pointer; height: 150px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSHGK4xjHI/AAAAAAAADXY/NQXC_0JmVmg/s320/homepage_things.png" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you were asked to choose an object that gave some insight into your life, who you are, your interests, quirks and familiarities what would that be? Would you want to share it with others?</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The <a href="http://www.wellcomecollection.org/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wellcome Collection</span></a> has launched a new public engagement exhibition called </span><a href="http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/things.aspx"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Things</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. The aim of the exhibition is to update Henry Wellcome's curious collection but also to find out the meaning of objects that form part of our everyday lives. You can take part in the collection by donating, lending or submitting a photograph of your thing. The objects will form part of the exhibition.The exhibition is free and open to all. Visit<a href="http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/things.aspx"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> this website </span></a>for more information.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TUESDAY 12th October- 22nd October-The 4th Native Spirit Festival</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH1gQyT8I/AAAAAAAADYA/z-AfCiBcgkA/s1600/NSF10Poster-300x300.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527191995953598402" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 166px; cursor: pointer; height: 166px;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH1gQyT8I/AAAAAAAADYA/z-AfCiBcgkA/s320/NSF10Poster-300x300.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today marks the beginning of the 2010 <a href="http://www.nativespiritfoundation.org/?page_id=7"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Native Spirit Festival of Indigenous Peoples</span></a>. Running until the 22nd October the festival includes films, talks and performances celebrating and exploring Indigenous cultures and the protection of their rights. For a full programme of events visit: <a href="http://www.nativespiritfoundation.org/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">www.nativespiritfoundation.org</span></a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">WEDNESDAY 13th October- SOAS Anthropology of Development Seminar</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSGNKvrOAI/AAAAAAAADWw/zZn-qkuDm_8/s1600/70-caroline-harper.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527190203471181826" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 107px; cursor: pointer; height: 162px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSGNKvrOAI/AAAAAAAADWw/zZn-qkuDm_8/s320/70-caroline-harper.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today from 1:00pm-3:00pm in the <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Brunei Gallery</span></a>, Caroline Harper associate director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and a research fellow at the <a href="http://www.odi.org.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Overseas Development Institute</span></a>, will be giving a presentation entitled </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Gender, Chronic Poverty and Social Justice</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Caroline has over 20 years of experience working with organisations such as Save the Children, UNICEF and ODI on issues regarding childhood poverty, youth exclusion, empowerment and policy processes. You can read more about her work and research background <a href="http://www.odi.org.uk/about/staff/details.asp?id=70&name=caroline-harper"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">here</span></a>. The seminar is free and open to the public.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">WEDNESDAY 13th OCTOBER- Road to Las Vegas</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSKwVb6M8I/AAAAAAAADY4/W4XwswnZLMA/s1600/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 229px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSKwVb6M8I/AAAAAAAADY4/W4XwswnZLMA/s320/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527195205683000258" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.insighteducation.org.uk/?home"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Insight education</span></a> in collaboration with <a href="http://www.risefilms.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Rise films</span></a> and <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UCL </span></a>are hosting a free film screening of Road to Las Vegas directed by Jason Massot. The film documents the journey of an African American couple with five kids from Alaska who take to the road in order to find work in Las Vegas. "Filmed over four years through boom and bust, this is a tale of infidelity, drugs, poverty, infinite promises and new beginnings". The event will take place between 6:30pm-8:30pm in the Archaeology Theatre, Department of Anthropology, entrance 14 Taviton Street. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the director. Everyone welcome.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">THURSDAY 14th October- Gender Health and Wellbeing</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH15lk4dI/AAAAAAAADYI/fpWC5qaJoEk/s1600/phpydBPBh.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527192002751685074" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 179px; cursor: pointer; height: 150px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH15lk4dI/AAAAAAAADYI/fpWC5qaJoEk/s320/phpydBPBh.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today from 2pm onwards, Yiu-Tung Seun from the <a href="http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Institute of Ageing</span></a>, University of Oxford will be giving a lecture entitled: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Men on their own: revisiting assumptions on masculinities, singlehood and health</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. The seminar will take place in Seminar Room 1, ODID, <a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">University of Oxford</span></a>. Entrance is free, all welcome.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">THURSDAY 14th October-Agrarian Change Seminar</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH2ds1rmI/AAAAAAAADYY/3XB_YEC8GRA/s1600/SOAS.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527192012445822562" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 232px; cursor: pointer; height: 166px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH2ds1rmI/AAAAAAAADYY/3XB_YEC8GRA/s320/SOAS.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today from 5:15pm in Room 4421 (fourth floor main building) in <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">SOAS</span></a>, Lucia Da Corta from the <a href="http://www.odi.org.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Overseas Development Institute (ODI) </span></a>will be delivering a talk entitled: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Agrarian Change, Gender Transformations and Poverty in Tanzania. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The seminar is free and everyone welcome.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRIDAY 15th October- Assembling Bodies</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSGM9i12hI/AAAAAAAADWo/PmKt4RbiS7M/s1600/05_catalogue.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527190199927691794" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 185px; cursor: pointer; height: 220px;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSGM9i12hI/AAAAAAAADWo/PmKt4RbiS7M/s320/05_catalogue.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today from 4:00pm onwards at the <a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">University of Manchester</span></a>'s Place Theatre Dr. Anita Herle Senior Curator of World Anthropology at the <a href="http://maa.cam.ac.uk/home/index.php"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge</span></a>, will be giving the first public lecture in Social Anthropology this month. Anita's talk is entitled: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Assembling bodies: Art, Science and Imagination Displaying the technologies that make bodies visible. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The seminar is free and everyone welcome.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">TUESDAY 19th October- Annual Ethnobotany Lecture 2010</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSI5hcA9xI/AAAAAAAADYo/qMWmqgZEv70/s1600/JOD_Bio_Chemistry_070111AM002+%28Main%29.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527193164500236050" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 208px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSI5hcA9xI/AAAAAAAADYo/qMWmqgZEv70/s320/JOD_Bio_Chemistry_070111AM002+%28Main%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today at 5pm at <a href="http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/garden-attractions-A-Z/jodrell-laboratory.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Kew's Jodrell Laboratory</span></a> (Jodrell Gate, Kew Road) is a lecture entitled </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Dynamics of ethnobotanical knowledge in a globalizing world: the Tsimane people of the Bolivian Amazon. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The lecture will be given by Victoria Reyes- Garcia, from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Admission is free, everyone welcome.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">WEDNESDAY 20th October- SOAS Anthropology of Development Seminar</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSIfTL-TZI/AAAAAAAADYg/pfwDqo3SRME/s1600/tse.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527192713998257554" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 192px; cursor: pointer; height: 131px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSIfTL-TZI/AAAAAAAADYg/pfwDqo3SRME/s320/tse.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today from 1:00pm-3:00pm <a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/t-scarlett-epstein/12/4bb/178"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Scarlett Epstein</span></a>, director of (<a href="http://www.pegs.org.uk/index.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Practical Education and Gender Support</span></a>) and SESAC (Scarlett Epstein Social Assessment Consultancy) presents a talk entitled </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">The need to redress Rural/Urban Development Imbalances</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. During the 1950s Scarlett was at the forefront of development anthropology, throughout her extensive career, Scarlett has worked as a researcher, consultant and adviser amongst numerous other roles.</span> To find out more about Scarlett's work, you can download <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/1476">this interview</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> conducted in 2004, by Professor Alan MacFarlane's. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">FRIDAY 22nd October-24th October- Bloomsbury Festival</span> </span><a href="http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/"></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH1T-KHaI/AAAAAAAADX4/4yjVlYOXEaY/s1600/logo-big.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527191992654241186" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 148px; cursor: pointer; height: 220px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSH1T-KHaI/AAAAAAAADX4/4yjVlYOXEaY/s320/logo-big.png" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Bloomsbury Festival</span></a> is a chance to celebrate music, cultural events, dance and activities which bring together people who live and work in this wonderful area of London. Bloomsbury hosts many cultural organisations and leading academic institutions such as <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UCL</span></a>, <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">British Museum</span></a>, <a href="http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Welcome Trust</span></a>, <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">SOAS</span></a>, <a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Birkbeck</span></a> and <a href="http://www.therai.org.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Royal Anthropological Institute</span></a> as well as important galleries, hospitals and a wealth of other private, public and charity organisations. The festival has over 1000 people working across disciplines to share ideas, experience and expertise with each other and the general public. The majority of events are free and open to all. To find out more about the festival and programme of events visit <a href="http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/index/page/id/3"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">this website</span></a>.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:';font-size:12;" lang="EN-GB"><!--[endif]--></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRIDAY 15th October- Christian Freedom and Christian Fixity<br /></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSHG386tmI/AAAAAAAADXo/uiFyBmd_Bnw/s1600/jbialecki.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527191194858862178" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 107px; cursor: pointer; height: 107px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSHG386tmI/AAAAAAAADXo/uiFyBmd_Bnw/s320/jbialecki.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today from 10:30am-12:30pm at the <a href="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/department/seligmanLibrary.aspx"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Seligman Library</span></a> (Old Building) <a href="http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/religion/article_biog?article_id=reco_articles_bpl116&display_return=1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Dr. Jon Bialecki</span></a> from the University of California San Diego will be discussing his research on the practices and beliefs of Southern Californian Third Wave and Emergent Christians analysing how their constructions of personhood affect their political and economic practices. The title of this seminar is </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Christian Freedom and Christian Fixity: Evangelical telos and anti-telos in Southern California and beyond</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Everyone welcome.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRIDAY 22nd October- Money-Go-Round </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSHGR4mEOI/AAAAAAAADXg/qS4bBt9V7kk/s1600/images.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527191184640184546" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 154px; cursor: pointer; height: 146px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSHGR4mEOI/AAAAAAAADXg/qS4bBt9V7kk/s320/images.jpeg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today from 10:30am-12:30pm at the <a href="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/department/seligmanLibrary.aspx"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Seligman Library</span></a> (Old Building) <a href="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/james.aspx"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Professor Deborah James </span></a>from London School of Economics will be presenting a seminar entitled: <span style="font-style: italic;">Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth, aspiration and indebtedness in South Africa</span>. Deborah is a specialist in anthropology of South and Southern Africa. The majority of her fieldwork has been conducted in Mpumalanga and Northern Provinces. Her research interests include the contestations between state and market driven ideologies in relation to land ownership use and governance and issues relating to reproductive health and HIV-AIDS.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRIDAY 29th October- Creating Lasting Love</span></span><br /><br /><div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSHG4YSDOI/AAAAAAAADXw/-McltBT8UxA/s1600/Jessica_187x208.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527191194973637858" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 128px; cursor: pointer; height: 143px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSHG4YSDOI/AAAAAAAADXw/-McltBT8UxA/s320/Jessica_187x208.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Today from 10:30am-12:30pm at the </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/department/seligmanLibrary.aspx">Seligman Library</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span>(Old Building) PhD Candidate Victoria Boydell (</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/home.aspx">LSE</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">)</span> will be presenting a seminar entitled Creating lasting love: a study of contraceptive practice in Central London family planning clinic. Everyone welcome</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRIDAY 29th October- Catching Shadows</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSGNXMZU1I/AAAAAAAADXA/zStmW7uq_Pk/s1600/69003-large.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527190206812869458" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 129px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSGNXMZU1I/AAAAAAAADXA/zStmW7uq_Pk/s320/69003-large.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">As part of their Friday Lates programme the <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">V&A </span></a>will hold an event from 6:30pm-10pm tonight featuring talks, tours, installations and screenings focusing on the '<a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/shadow-catchers-camera-less-photography/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Shadow Catchers' exhibition</span></a>. The Shadow Catchers exhibition presents the work of five artists who create images on photographic paper without the use of a camera, either through <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/events/friday_evenings/friday_late/index.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">casting shadows</span></a>, using chemical treatment or manipulating light. Find out more about the exhibition through this website. To book your place for this evening call 08445 79190.</span><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:130%;">FRIDAY 29th October- 30th October- Ethnographic Filmmaking in the Making</span></div><br /><div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSN6v2RxFI/AAAAAAAADZA/9KGKmU6WEzQ/s1600/index.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 118px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JrWdDIwSxk4/TLSN6v2RxFI/AAAAAAAADZA/9KGKmU6WEzQ/s320/index.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527198683106493522" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The <a href="http://www.aku.edu/ismc/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations</span></a> in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.therai.org.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Royal Anthropological Institute</span></a> and the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research have put together a fantastic film programme exploring topics such as faith-healers, refugee musicians, and diasporic communities. Over the next two days a series of films will be screened from 10:00am- 6:30pm at the Aga Khan University on Euston Road. Full details of the films and filmmakers can be found here. Registration is £10 for a full day. To register your place contact: richard.werbner@manchester.ac.uk </span><br /><br /></div>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374425751333667504noreply@blogger.com0