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Social Anthropology Spring Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh,
January-March 2009
Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Fridays, 3-5pm
January:
16: Joost Fontein (University of Edinburgh)—Charles M. Jedrej Lecture
“Anticipating the Tsunami: Rumours, Planning and the Arbitrary State
in Zimbabwe”
23: Gisa Weszkalnys (University of Oxford)
“Cursed Expectations: Performing Economic Theory in West Africa”
30: Andrew Irving (University of Manchester)
“Strange Distance: Towards an Anthropology of the Interior”
February:
6: Magnus Course (University of Edinburgh)
“Of Words and Fog: Amerindian Ontology and Linguistic Relativity”
13: Robin Dunbar (University of Oxford)—Seminar as part of the Munro
Lecture
“Why Do Only Humans Dance?”
20: No seminar; reading week
27: John Borneman (Princeton University)
“Refiguring the Unconscious: Legal and Therapeutic Intervention in
Incest and the Sexual Abuse of Children in Germany”
March:
6: Michelle Obeid (University of Manchester)
“The ‘Ideal Face of the State’ in a Lebanese Border Town”
13: Alexander Edmonds (University of Amsterdam)
“Learning to Love Yourself: Plastic Surgery and Self-Governance in
Brazil”
20: Julien Bonhomme (Musée du quai Branly)
“God’s Graffiti: Prophetic Writings in Postcolonial Gabon”
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