ANU Anthropology Seminar Series (2 Oct): John McCarthy ‘In Search of Social Protection: The Government of Poverty and the Evolution of Entitlements on Indonesia’s Rural Periphery’

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Please join us for our Anthropology seminar this week. Please see attached flyer and details below. Seminar details can also be accessed through the School of Archaeology and Anthropology?s website: https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au/events/search-social-protection-government-poverty-and-evolution-entitlements-indonesia-s-1 All welcome! Regards, Sverre Title: In Search of Social Protection: The Government of Poverty and the Evolution of Entitlements on Indonesia’s Rural Periphery Wed […]

ANU Anthropology seminar series (25 Sep): Justine Chambers ‘Defending Buddhism: Buddhist Nationalism and Morality Amongst the Karen in Myanmar’

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Please join us for this week’s Anthropology Seminar: Defending Buddhism: Buddhist Nationalism and Morality Amongst the Karen in Myanmar Dr Justine Chambers, ANU When: Wednesday 25 September 9.30-11am Where: Kambri Precinct Marie Reay 3.03, ANU Since independence, Myanmar’s military (and civilian) leaders have attempted to shape social morality in the image of Buddhist political ideologies […]

ANU PG Seminar Series (27 Sep): Chenyu Zong ‘Hairiness: The label of health in the consumption of hairy tofu’

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Please join us this Friday, September 27, for Chenyu Zong’s pre-fieldwork TPR. Details are below Hairiness: the label of health in the consumption of hairy tofu Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building #14 Time: 3pm-5pm, Friday, September 27 Speaker: Chenyu Zong In this thesis, I will be asking, how can we interrogate understandings and practices […]

ANU PG Seminar Series (20 Sep): Anthea Snowsill ‘A Tomato of the Floating World: Sociocultural, Ecological and Economic Assemblage on/in Myanmar’s Inle Lake’

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A Tomato of the Floating World: Sociocultural, Ecological and Economic Assemblage on/in Myanmar?s Inle Lake Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building #14 Time: 3pm-5pm, Friday, September 20 Speaker: Anthea Snowsill Abstract: In addition to being one of Myanmar?s most popular tourist destinations, Inle Lake is also the country’s largest tomato growing centre. As a cash […]

ANU Anthropology Seminar Series (18 Sep): Kirin Narayan on ‘Working with the Carpenters’ Cord: Stories in the Shaping of Ethnography’

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When: Wednesday 18 September 9.30-11am Where: Kambri Precinct Marie Reay 3.03, ANU The process of making ethnographic texts is sometimes described in terms of ‘crafting’ with particular ‘tools’. Might insights gained from actual craftspeople help us? Drawing on fieldwork among hereditary carpenters in Western India, I explore a key tool: the sutra, that refers both […]

ANU Anthropology Seminar Series (4 Sep): Noa Lavi ‘Developing relations: Rethinking Development, Intervention and Dependency Among Nayaka Forest Dwellers in South India’

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Dear Anthropology colleagues, Please join us for next week’s Anthropology Seminar: ‘Developing relations: Rethinking Development, Intervention and Dependency Among Nayaka Forest Dwellers in South India’ Speakers: Noa Lavi When: Wed 04 Sep 2019, 9.30–11am Where: Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Kambri/Room 3.03, Building 155, University Ave, Acton ACT 2601 ‘Dependency’ has long been described by welfare […]