Month: November 2018

Pre-Fieldwork Seminar (23 Nov) by Saidalavi P.C.; Caste in Islam: Social Hierarchy among Muslims in Malabar, South India

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Time: 3 pm, 23rd November, 2018 Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building Abstract: Social hierarchy has generally been understood in South Asia within the framework of ā€˜casteā€™: a Hindu social system that classifies the population into groups based on the religious ideas of purity and pollution, commensal restrictions, ritual vocations and occupational specialisations. Scholars of […]

ANU Anthropological Alumni and Friends Reception at AAA meetings at San Jose

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As a friend of the ANU, you are invited to our modest reception at the AAA meetings this year: ANU Anthropological Alumni and Friends Reception This reception takes place at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in San Jose. Ā  Thursday 15 November 2018 6.15pmā€“7.30pm Fairmont San Jose, Regency Ballroom 1 170 S […]

Pre-Submission Seminar (9 Nov) by Simon Theobald: The Acoustics of a Perfect Public: Utopia and its Legacies in Mashhad, Iran

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Location: MilgateĀ Room, AD Hope Building Time: 3pm, Friday 9th November Abstract: In the decades since the 1979 Revolution, anthropological analysis of Iran, not to mention other regional anthropologies, have almost singularly emphasised ā€˜resistanceā€™ as a heuristic of analysis and a prevailing public mood, read as a response to the repression meted out by the Islamic […]