Call for Photos: ANU’s 2018 Anthropology Photography Exhibition (Due 2 July 2018)

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The Call for Photos is now open for the 2018 Anthropology Photography Exhibition. We are accepting submissions from ANU anthropology postgraduate students and staff members. Submissions can be emailed to anthropologyanu@gmail.com or uploaded via this dropbox link<https://www.dropbox.com/request/zTgqruoLr0wITke0bdIH> and must be made by Monday 2 July, 2018. Theme The 2018 anthropology photography exhibition will be an […]

Marie Reay Prize Awarded to Dayne O’Meara

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Congratulations to Dayne O’Meara, who has been awarded 2017 Marie Reay Prize in Anthropology. Dayne is a PhD candidate in CHL whose research focuses on the everyday lives of school children in the Sgaw Karen village in Northern Thailand. The prize awards $650 to assist students in the Department of Anthropology with the financial burdens of […]

Only two more sleeps until Kioloa!

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Hopefully all respective drivers and passengers have managed to get in touch with each other now, and have worked out a meeting time, place and most importantly somewhere to have dinner. Don’t forget to bring games, frisbees, musical instruments etc for the afternoon and evening entertainment. Also a camera if you like taking photos as […]

Friday Seminar (18 May): Hong Tran ‘Belonging to Karst Mountains: Hmong people’s ways of life in the Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark, Ha Giang province, Vietnam’

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Location: Milgate Room, AD Hope Building Time: 3pm, Friday 18 May Speaker: Hong Tran, CHL Abstract Dong Van Karst Plateau, which is situated in the northernmost point of Vietnam, is a unique limestone landscape. This place is considered the ‘homeland’ of the Hmong in Vietnam, where over 260,000 White Hmong live, having first settled there more […]

Wednesday Seminar (16 May): Holly High ‘Shit Calculation: Open Defecation Free Certification and the Sensation of Success in Laos’

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Coombs Extension, Room 1.13 9:30 – 11:00 am Holly High, University of Sydney For the last few years, I have been working with an ethnic Kantu village in Sekong Province, Laos. Politically, it is a ‘model’ village, the image itself of success. My question is: if Kandon village is a success, then what kind of […]

Upcoming Seminar (11 May): Justine Chambers ‘Moral Agency and Everyday Ethics amongst Plong Karen people of south-eastern Myanmar’

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PhD Final Seminar When: Friday 11 May 2018, 3-pm Where: Milgate Room of the AD Hope Building, ANU After decades of ethno-national conflict, military rule and economic stagnation, Karen people in south-eastern Myanmar are experiencing momentous social, political and cultural change. My thesis contends with questions of morality and goodness at the forefront of this experience. Drawing on sixteen months […]

Upcoming Seminar (7 May): ‘Long Journey Home: The Repatriation of Indigenous Remains Across the Frontiers of Asia’

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DATE AND TIME: Mon. 7 May 2018, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Add to Calendar LOCATION: National Museum of Australia-Visions Theatre, Lawson Crescent, Acton, ACT 2601 View Map From the late 18th century onwards Indigenous human remains were acquired by museums and private collectors. Early examples of Indigenous opposition to this practice, as well as attempts […]

Friday seminar (4 May): Franca Tamisari ‘Start from your own story, from your own experience?: On becoming an anthropologist: the genesis of one’s own research’

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Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope building Time: 3-5pm, Friday May 4 Speaker: Franca Tamisari, University Ca’ Foscari Venezia Abstract With his clear and compelling words, Keith Lapulung, a Yolngu leader, expressed one of the premises of a ‘new ethnology’, as identified by Ernesto De Martino (2002:86).  Criticising ahistorical approaches and ‘objectivity’ in anthropological descriptive accounts, as early […]