[Anthropgrad] Joint seminar series, Semester 2

[Liz Walters]

ANU ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES SEMESTER TWO, 2008

 

 

Seminars are held 9.30 - 11.00 am Wednesdays, Seminar Room A, Coombs
Building, ANU.

All are welcome. 

 

 

23 July          Philip Taylor, Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies, ANU

                   'Where water meets land: social worlds of the Khmer
Krom in Vietnam'

 

30 July          Courtney Handman, Anthropology and Linguistics,
University of Chicago

                   'From the mission station to the village: Schism,
denominationalism, and the transformation of village sociality in a
Papua New Guinea Holy Spirit revival'

 

6 August       Robert Foster, University of Rochester

                   'Native Curios, National Patrimony, Primitive Art:
Three Moments in the Biography of the P. G. Black Collection.'

 

13 August      Peter Sutton, South Australia Museum/University of
Adelaide

                   'The closed society and its friends: gerontocracy,
religious secrecy and the code of silence in Central Australia' 

 

20 August      Simone Dennis, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, ANU

                   'Of Red Crabs and Yellow Perils: Life in the
Migration Exclusion Zone,

                   Christmas Island, Australia'

 

27 August      Patrick Sullivan, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies

                   'Bureaucratic Morris Dancing: an Approach for an
Ethnography of Bureaucracy' 

 

3 September  Mark Mosko, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
ANU

                   'The Fractal Yam: Fractal Holography and Human Agency
in the Trobriand Islands'

 

10 September Ian Keen, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, ANU

                   'Language and the constitution of the supernatural: a
critique of Boyer'

 

17 September Phillip Winn, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, ANU

                   'A tale of two mosques: Tablighi Jamaat and Islamic
revival in an Indonesian small island locale'

 

24 September Chris Houston, Macquarie University

                   'An Anti-History of a Non-People:  Kurds, Colonialism
and Nationalism in the History of Anthropology'

 

BREAK 30 September - 10 October 

 

15 October    Sherry Ortner, University of California

                   'Indie Producers: Class and the Production of Value
in Recent American Independent Cinema'  

 

 

 

22 October    Jennifer Alexander, Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies, ANU

                   'Hybrid economy, hybrid culture: Jepara Indonesia
prior to the 1997 economic crisis'

 

29 October    Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy
Research, ANU

                   'Power, culture and economy: Can mining provide
development for Indigenous Australians?'

 

5 November    David Raftery, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, ANU

                   'Growing less, and growing better: An anthropological
analysis of the social relations of quality wine production in the Clare
Valley'

 

 

For more information contact Melinda Hinkson, School of Archaeology &
Anthropology, 

ph (02) 6125 8246, email melinda.hinkson at anu.edu.au

 

 

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Liz Walters

Graduate Administrator

School of Archaeology and Anthropology

ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

AD Hope Building #14

The Australian National University

Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

 

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F: +61 2 6125 2711

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