Social Anthropology Post-Doc Seminar


2009-03-10 17:30: Meditation and Monasticism: Making the Ascetic Self in Thailand (Dr Jo Cook, Christ's College)

2009-05-11 17:00: Of Exotic Objects and Uncanny Encounters: notes on tourism, knowledge and anthropology (in Salvador) (Marta de Magalhães, Centre of Latin American Studies)

2009-05-18 17:00: “The plural of anecdote isn’t data”: explorations in inter-disciplinary working practices (Diane Hinds, Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Engineering)

2009-05-25 17:00: Great Pitfalls of anthropology: ‘other people’ and ‘the supernatural’ (Istvan Praet, Linacre College, Oxford)

2009-06-01 17:00: Venice, Sinking and shrinking: from cosmopolitan capital to Disneyland (Joanna Kostylo, CRASSH)

2009-06-08 17:00: Speaking of continuity: change, conversion and the anthropology of (Bidayuh) Christianity (Liana Chua, Gonville and Caius College)