As part of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU, Cambridge) and the SOAS Centre for Ethnographic Theory (CET) joint seminar series “Masterhood, Hospitality and Mobility”, Michael Puett (Harvard University) will be giving a talk entitled
Master, Host, Demon, God
Hosting is a key notion among the mobile societies of Inner Asia. But it is an equally recurrent theme among the relatively sedentary societies of China. This paper will attempt to develop the comparative implications of the concept of hosting by exploring the theme across a wide range of practices in China in which the interplay of the sedentary and the mobile plays a major role. I will argue that, when taken seriously, hosting allows us to rethink many of our other anthropological categories, including cosmology, kinship, and kingship.
Mond Building Seminar Room, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit
Division of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane
Tuesday 30 May 2017, 4.30–6.00 pm
Please find a poster with the Series description and a list of this term’s talks here: https://ibb.co/hDhmkv
This term will end with Martin Mills (University of Aberdeen)’s seminar: “Last Gift of the God-King: Negotiating Constitutional Ownership in the Wake of the Dalai Lama’s Resignation”, Tuesday 13 June 4.30-6.00 pm.
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