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Thursday Jan 26 - 4.30-6pm
Clore Education Centre - Sackler Room
British Museum
Seminar presented by UCL and the British Museum as part of the free public
lecture and seminar series 'Making things better' (sponsored by Novartis and
the Wellcome Trust):
Speaker: Christopher Davis (SOAS)
Discussant: David Mosse (SOAS)
Kit Davis' fieldwork was conducted in what was then Mobutu's Zaire (since
become the Democratic Republic of Congo), on the shores of Lake Tanganyika -
an area that broadly corresponds to Conrad's fictionalized "Heart of
Darkness". Aspects of or images from that text, and the myth for which it
stands, provide a starting point for an exploration of the kinds of problem
that it represents for us as anthropologists working today - problems of
knowledge, both scientific and social; and the politics of medicine - both
vernacular and international. Talking with her will be David Mosse,whose
region is India, and whose subdiscipline is the anthropology of development,
but who is interested in similar problems.
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