CU Social Anthropology Society

What anthropology can teach psychiatry about psychosis – the problem of hallucinations

Professor Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford University, Department of Social Anthropology.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

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Social Anthropology Research Associates Seminar, 22 Feb

Philippa Williams, Centre of South Asian Studies.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

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Social Anthropology Research Associates Seminar - "The social and linguistic construction of identity in the North Atlantic: the case of Iceland"

Please note that this talk starts at 5.30 and not 5.00

Stephen Pax Leonard, Trinity Hall.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Monday 08 February 2010, 17:30-19:00

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Social Anthropology Research Associates Seminar - "Nobody listens to the Colonel: An anthropological look at the Colombian army"

Ana Maria Forero Angel, Centre for Latin American Studies.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Monday 01 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum

Darwin and the Descent of Emotionally Modern Man: How humans became such "other-regarding" apes

For more information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/140/programme-0809.htm

Professor Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Department of Anthropology, University of California).

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Friday 10 July 2009, 16:30-18:00

Social Anthropology Post-Doc Seminar

Speaking of continuity: change, conversion and the anthropology of (Bidayuh) Christianity

Liana Chua, Gonville and Caius College.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Monday 08 June 2009, 17:00-18:30

Social Anthropology Post-Doc Seminar

Venice, Sinking and shrinking: from cosmopolitan capital to Disneyland

Joanna Kostylo, CRASSH.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Monday 01 June 2009, 17:00-18:30

Social Anthropology Post-Doc Seminar

Great Pitfalls of anthropology: ‘other people’ and ‘the supernatural’

Istvan Praet, Linacre College, Oxford.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Monday 25 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Social Anthropology Post-Doc Seminar

“The plural of anecdote isn’t data”: explorations in inter-disciplinary working practices

Diane Hinds, Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Engineering.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Monday 18 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Social Anthropology Post-Doc Seminar

Of Exotic Objects and Uncanny Encounters: notes on tourism, knowledge and anthropology (in Salvador)

Marta de Magalhães, Centre of Latin American Studies.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Monday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum

Gender and Parenting Culture: Intensive Fatherhood?

For more information: http://www.parentingculturestudies.org/seminar-series/seminar2/index.html

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Friday 03 April 2009, 09:30-17:30

Social Anthropology Post-Doc Seminar

Meditation and Monasticism: Making the Ascetic Self in Thailand

Dr Jo Cook, Christ's College.

Department of Social Anthropology, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 17:30-19:00