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REVIEWER MEETS REVIEWED: Seminar series at the British Museum's Centre
for Anthropology
The British Museum's Centre for Anthropology, in collaboration with the
Royal Anthropological Institute, will be continuing its series of
encounters between authors and their reviewers next month with two
seminars. Both events are free but please book a place by emailing
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Thursday, February 11th
THE POT-KING: THE BODY AND TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER
Prof. Jean-Pierre Warnier (author) in conversation with Prof. Richard
Fardon (reviewer)
10:00 (tea and coffee from 9:30)
Centre for Anthropology, British Museum
The King of Mankon, in the western highlands of Cameroon, is an
agricultural engineer by training, a businessman, and a prominent
politician on the national stage. He partakes in the "return of the
kings" in the forefront of an African public space.
This book analyses the principles of the sacred kingship which lie at
the core of the king's different roles. While showing that the king's
body acts as a container of bodily substances transformed into unifying
ancestral life-essence by appropriate means, and bestowed upon its
subjects, it develops an innovative approach to bodily and material
cultures as an essential component of the technologies of power. In
doing so, it departs significantly from previous approaches to sacred
kingship.
Thursday, February 18th
THE MEGALITHS OF NORTHERN EUROPE
Dr. Magdalena Midgley (author) in conversation with Prof. Chris Scarre
(reviewer)
10:00 (tea and coffee from 9:30)
Centre for Anthropology, British Museum
The North European megaliths are among the most enduring structures
built in prehistory; they are imbued with symbolic meanings which embody
physical and conceptual ideas about the nature of the world inhabited by
the first Northern farmers.
The Megaliths of Northern Europe brings to light new data on the
construction of the megaliths and their role in the cultural landscape,
and Magdalena Midgley offers a fascinating interpretation of the
symbolism of megalithic tombs within the context of early farming
communities. This wealth of new evidence suggests the Northern European
megaliths were important foci in the wider north-west European context.
The construction of dolmens and passage graves, using huge glacial
boulders, demanded both great communal effort and considerable skill. In
addition to this technical expertise the master builders also made use
of their esoteric knowledge of rituals. This was expressed in the use of
exotic building materials and special architectural features, and in the
placement of tombs within the natural and cultural landscapes, creating
new metaphors and images.
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