For those of you interested in issues of the place of
anthropological knowledge within the broader scheme of
things, this terms anthropology department seminar
series at SOAS may be of interest.
SOAS DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
Position and practice in anthropology
Seminar, Wednesdays 3.00pm, Room G52
The speakers in this seminar reflect on the varied
‘positionality’ of anthropological practice today.
What place does anthropological knowledge have in our
globalising world? How do anthropologists locate
themselves within our particular historical
conditions, and what sort of meta-narratives can they
provide? What is the social and political position of
ethnographic research whether by insiders, outsiders,
observers, participants? From where do anthropologists
speak, to whom do they speak, and who wants to know
what they have to say? The seminar’s contributors
speak from different positions — as cultural
commentators, expert witnesses, as policy advisers —
work across disciplines and intersect with other
professional audiences.
October 2nd Daniel Varisco (Hofstra Univerity, New
York)
Anthropology and the Cultural Studies Wars: Matthew
Arnold via Edward Said vs Edward Tylor via Bronislow
Malinowski.
Oct 9th Murray Last (UCL)
Soothsayer, truth-teller or spook? Inserting the
future into anthropology.
Oct 16th Tony Good (Edinburgh)
Undoubtedly an expert’? Anthropologists in the UK
Asylum Courts.
Oct 23rd Pnina Werbner (Keele)
The predicament of Diaspora and Millennial Islam.
Oct 30th Benedetta Rossi (LSE)
Anthropological positionings and policy making in
planned development: the case of Italy's new Programme
to Fight against Desertification for the Reduction of
Poverty in the Sahel.
November 6th — Reading Week, no seminar —
Nov 13th Paul Richards (Wageningen)
Recent theories of trans-national civil war.
Nov 20th Ian Harper (SOAS)
Anthropology and public health: an unequal partnership
Nov 27th Cosimo Zene (SOAS)
The practice of ethnographic research among
Untouchables in Bangladesh
Dec 4th Robert Turner (UCL Institute of Neurology)
The brain and culture: culture and the brain
For further information contact David Mosse,
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