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SUMMARY:Professor Marilyn Strathern: Taking care of a concept: anthropolog
 ical reflections on the assisted society  - Professor Marilyn Strathern
DTSTART:20121113T173000Z
DTEND:20121113T184500Z
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Professor Marilyn Strathern will give the final lecture in a s
 eries of five lectures on Understanding Society. The series will culminate
  in a panel discussion at Kings Place on Tuesday 27 November 2012. \n\nAbs
 tract\n\nThis final lecture in the series takes on the issue of what seems
  one of the least appealing aspects of ‘society’\, as the term is used
  in common parlance\, namely its vacuousness\, and suggests what an anthro
 pologist might find interesting in that. Does the Big Society render the c
 oncept even more (as in bigger) vacuous? And if it does\, what might be so
 me of the consequences? The lecture questions both what might be taken for
  granted in an appeal to society and what it then means to promote it. If 
 indeed there is no such thing\, do these questions become more interesting
 \, or less so? It is a conundrum that is best approached from a wider stag
 e than ministerial pronouncements.
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgwick Site\, Sidgwick Avenue\, Cambridge\
 , CB3 9DA
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