The Anthropology Seminar Series
All seminars take place on Thursdays 1500-1700
In Edward Wright Building F61
and online
1 February 2024 Emily Ruiz Puerta, University of Groningen
A reconstruction of the historic walrus ivory trade.
8 February 2024 Ka-Kin Cheuk, University of Southampton
Money circulations and textile exports from China to Dubai through Indian diasporic connections
15 February 2024 Anne Allison, Duke University
Grieving One-self: Mortuary Care for Social Singles in Japan
22 February 2024 PhD student presentations:
Alice Cusan: “Unpacking the Collection: Ethnographic research exploring How Italian Museums Care for and Curate Human Remains.”
Faith Decontie: 'Indigenising Policy Practices'.
Chengen Li: 'Art Museums and the Making of Ethnography: Art as an Anthropological Methodology”.
Cristina Raluca-Douglas: 'Follow the dog: A more-than-human approach to institutional dementia care'
29 February 2024 Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, University of Aberdeen
Music, Protest and the Politics of Cultural Memory at the Día de la toma in Granada’
14 March 2024 Fernanda Pirie, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Law and the challenge of anthropological comparison
21 March 2024 Lotte Segal, University of Edinburgh
The Ties that bind - Weaving violence and belonging in the wake of torture
28 March 2024 Sabine Parrish, University of Aberdeen
“They eat biscuits so that they don’t go hungry”: London mothers’ aspirations and realities for family food practices
25 April 2024 Jeanette Lykkegård Nielsen,
Feeding the Gi’rgir: exploring life and death through human-reindeer-ancestor relations among the Chukchi in Northern Kamchatka
Please contact Johan Rasanayagam (johan.rasanayagam@abdn.ac.uk) or Maggie Bolton (maggie.bolton@abdn.ac.uk) if you need a link to connect to the seminar online