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December 02 2009

olishaw
15:14

LongNow: Daniel Everett, "Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future"

Really cool talk about the knowledge lost as languages vanish. Pretty amusing, too. From http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/mar/20/endangered-languages-lost-knowledge-and-future/
Tags: lecture language knowledge longnow daniel everett endangered cultures babel
olishaw
15:12

Public Lectures and Events: podcasts - Podcasts - LSE

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November 12 2009

olishaw
09:10

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.
Tags: anthropology myth ritual levi-strauss frazer_lecture oxford lecture structuralism
olishaw
09:09

2003 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture: The Geography of Descent

This lecture took place on 11 November 2003 Professor Gillian Feeley-Harnik, University of Michigan Radcliffe-Brown proposed to make social anthropology into 'a natural science of society', a proposal that was controversial in his lifetime, and remains so now, especially in the study of kinship with which he is so closely associated. Anthropology originated in part to explain Darwin's Descent of Man (1871) in social terms. The purpose of this lecture is to explore the popular science and culture of descent in Darwin's time, focusing on his co-workers among the pigeon-breeders of London, in particular the silk-weavers of Spitalfields, and their concerns with the art of 'propagating life'. http://www.proc.britac.ac.uk/cgi-bin/somsid.cgi?page=125p311&type=header
Tags: darwin radcliffe-brown gillian_feeley-harnik british_academy lecture anthropology social_science pigeon london silk_weavers life
olishaw
09:08

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.
Tags: tim_ingold radcliffe-brown_lecture anthropology ethnography lecture british_academy
olishaw
09:08

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)]
Tags: david_mosse guelph soas david_hopper development anthropology lecture idrc
olishaw
09:08

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
Tags: james_frazer godfrey_lienhardt anthropology lecture frazer_lecture history golden_bough literature anthropological_ancestors
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