[Anthropgrad] Melanesia Symposium meeting with Robert Foster, 20 July

[Alan Rumsey]

The next meeting of the Melanesia Symposium will be on Monday, 20 July
at 3:00 in Coombs Seminar Room E. The book to be discussed is:

The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen

By Warrick Anderson

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

The discussion will be led by Prof. Robert Foster, a leading
Melanesianist from the University of Rochester who is currently visiting
the RSPAS Gender Relations Centre on the Vice Chancellor’s scheme for
Distinguished International Visitors.

The assigned readings for the discussion are pages 1–7, 74–115, 133–34,
144–50 and 154–57. Copies of those pages are available in the
Anthropology Library (Coombs 7209), and on the web. To download the
readings, go to the RSPAS Anthropology site at
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/anthropology/seminars.php and click on
‘Seminars’ For this one you must use the username 'melanesia' and the
password 'symp0sium' Note that the these words are case sensitive and
that the fifth character 'symp0sium' is a zero (0), not an 'O'. (Best to
copy them from this message and paste them in.)

You are encouraged to read whole book, which is available on 2-day loan
from Hancock Library. Everyone is welcome to participate in this
discussion group, whether academic staff, students or anyone else who is
interested in things Melanesian, or in the topic that is being discussed
at a particular session. For further inquiries, contact Alan Rumsey in
Coombs room 7223, or at 6125-2365, email alan.rumsey at anu.edu.au