<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Please
be reminded these 2 seminars with Visiting Scholar Professor David B.
Hicks, Stony Brook University, US are on next week in Melbourne. best
wishes Sara Niner<br>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor Hicks’ specialities are kinship systems, oral
literatures, and ritual life of the people living in East Timor He has written
five books, Tetum Ghosts and Kin (1976; 1988; 2004), Structural Analysis in Anthropology
(1978), A Maternal Religion, Kinship and Religion in Eastern Indonesia (1984),
and Cultural Anthropology (1996 with Margaret A. Gwynne). In 1966-1967 he first
visited Portuguese Timor and undertook 13 months of field research with his
wife, Maxine Hicks, in the eastern region of Viqueque. The result of this
research was two doctorates from the University of Oxford based on two
dissertations (one on social organization and the other on ritual and belief)
and the publication of Tetum Ghosts and Kin in 1976.<span style="line-height:115%;font-size:13.5pt"></span></p>
<h1>National Imperatives, Local Values: the case of Timor-Leste</h1>
<h2>Anthropology, Centre for South East Asian Studies & Monash Asia
Institute, Monash University</h2>
<h3>Date Tuesday 16 Jun Time 4 – 6pm</h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:7.5pt">Location
Building H, Level 8, Room H8.05/6<br>
Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Rd (opposite caulfiedl Station) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 2015 Porfessor Hicks published <i>Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor</i>
which argues that during the 1974- 5 period the Timorese majority had little
understanding of political events which can be better understood in terms of
the contrast between the political culture of the capital Dili and the rest of
the country. From this he draws lessons about how transformations in governance
from the traditional to the legal can occur. The talk includes issues of not
just "governance" but also non-governmental themes including elements
of social hierarchy, gender, and religion</p>
<h1><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-weight:normal">Social Anthropology and
History: an ethnographic case study from Viqueque, Timor-Leste </span></strong></h1>
<h2>Institute for Social Research Swinburne University</h2>
<h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-weight:normal">Friday, 19 June 2015 Time:
12:00-1:00pm </span></strong><strong><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:9pt;font-weight:normal">Venue:
AGSE211</span></strong></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal">At a time when the frontiers separating the traditional
scientific and scholarly disciplines are being obliterated the occasion is apt
for a reconsideration of the relationships between social anthropology and its
sister disciplines such as political science, sociology, literary studies, and
the like. In my talk today I discuss the overlap between social anthropology
and history and make the case for revisiting the well-known contributions to
this topic made by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, who himself began his academic career
as a historian, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose advocacy of a structural
approach to the human domain might be thought to imply a anti-historical regard
for understanding social institutions. In demonstrating how diachronic and
synchronic perspectives may be combined in their respective ways in helping to
render institutions intelligible this talk examines some of the lessons learned
from several periods of fieldwork in Timor-Leste beginning in 1966 .</p><div><div tabindex="0" id=":37q"><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><span><font color="#888888">
</font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">Dr. Sara Niner</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)"> Lecturer & Researcher </span><br>
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