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February 24 2010
January 07 2010
Research papers, Goldsmiths, University of London
The Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths is one of the newest in Britain, having been formally created in 1985. We are proud of what we have achieved since then, and in particular of the way that people in the Department - students, staff and researchers - have sought to broaden the frontiers of the discipline and to engage critically and creatively with the traditions of Anthropology in the contemporary world. We hope that the Goldsmiths Anthropology Research Papers will provide a platform to communicate some of the work that makes the Goldsmiths Department distinctive.December 01 2009
November 13 2009
November 12 2009
Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
Daniel Everett discusses the Pirahã and their language. The language has no words for numbers, no words for right and left and lacks any examples of recursion. This last trait forces us to rethink everything we thought we knew about language.
The discussion of the Pirahã language itself is excellent, but Everett's discussion of why endangered languages need to be preserved is absolutely fascinating. His recommendations for preserving endangered languages include preserving natives speaker's land and their heath. He also recommends studying and documenting these languages over a long period of time, as he has done with the Pirahã language.
From http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
More information on this seminar is available at http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/daniel-everett-endangered-languages-lost-knowledge-and-the-future/
1970 Frazer Lecture - Claude Levi-Struass on Myth and Ritual
1970 Frazer Lecture at Oxford University delivered by Claude Lévi-Strauss on November 19, 1970. Recorded at the Sheldonian Theatre and broadcast by the BBC on August 29, 1971 in a program presented by Michael Lane.
Program starts at 1:05 seconds.
2007 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture - Anthropology is Not Ethnography
This lecture took place on 14 March 2007
Professor Timothy Ingold, FBA, University of Aberdeen
Anthropology has been shrinking. Once an inclusive inquiry into the conditions of human life, it has increasingly turned inwards on itself. One reason for this shrinkage lies in the identification of anthropology with ethnography. Such identification leads us to think of observation as a means to the end of description. The lecturer will aim to show, to the contrary, how description not just literary but graphic and performative - can be re-embedded in observation. Overturning the relation between observation and description will enhance anthropology's potential to engage with biology, psychology and archaeology on the great questions of the origins and destiny of humankind.
Download the entire paper here: http://www.proc.britac.ac.uk/tfiles/825683A/154p069.pdf.
BBC Radio 4 - Anthropology at War
Mark Whitaker reports on the US army's embedding of anthropologists with combat brigades.
2007 Hopper Lecture - Mosse on Anthropology's Role in International Development
David Mosse, Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London (UK), delivered the 15th annual David Hopper Lecture at the University of Guelph on November 6, 2007.
Mosse explored the link between anthropology and international development, and outlined the critical role he believes anthropologists can play in these efforts.
The annual David Hopper Lecture is made possible through an endowment IDRC made to the University of Guelph in 1992 in honour of its founding president. This annual academic lecture on an international development issue is hosted at the University of Guelph.
Listen to the lecture online at http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-119208-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html.
[Note: The sound quality during the introductions is quite poor. To proceed to Mosse’s formal lecture, advance to the five and half minute mark (5:30)]
1991 Frazer Lecture - Godfrey Lienhardt on Frazer's Science and Sensibility
The Frazer Lecture on the legacy of James George Frazer, which Godfrey Lienhardt suggests is greater in the field of literature (through its influence on people like T.S. Eliot in 'the Waste Land’ than on the science of anthropology.
The James George Frazer Memorial Lecture for 1991 was delivered at the University of Cambridge by Godfrey Lienhardt on 5 March 1992, well after he had retired from the University of Oxford. The event was chaired by Dr. Alan Macfarlane and was filmed by Humphrey Hinton, using a video 8 camera. The lecture lasts about 45 minutes.
This podcast is the audio portion of the digitized video recording available online at https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/38
Interview with McKim Marriott, part 2 of 2
An interview with the American anthropologist McKim Marriott about his life and work, principally in India.
Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum and Ingrid Jordt on 14th June 2008, edited by Sarah Harrison and submitted by Alan Macfarlane.
Original files: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/214800
Summarized transcript: https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/214800/3/marriott.txt
Interview with McKim Marriott, part 1 of 2
An interview with the American anthropologist McKim Marriott about his life and work, principally in India.
Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum and Ingrid Jordt on 14th June 2008, edited by Sarah Harrison and submitted by Alan Macfarlane.
Original files: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/214800
Summarized transcript: https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/214800/3/marriott.txt
On Point: Claude Levi-Strauss
At the imperial dawn of the 20th century, there was the “civilized” world and the “savage” or “primitive” world, and one felt free to judge the other.
By the century’s end, the whole idea of primitive man as separate from civilized man was pretty well gone. And with it, the “savage mind.”
Much of the banishing was the work of the towering anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Levi-Strauss has died at 100 in his native France. We are all, he said, driven by deep myth and common structures of thinking — even to our own extinction.
This hour, On Point: The mind and work of Claude Levi-Strauss.
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss
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