http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/ Latest news from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology en http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/rss_icon.gif http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/ 50 50 Latest news from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 14 May 2012 17:07:00 +0100 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2012/04/dr-donald-tayler-lecturer-curator-for-the-americas-at-the-pitt-rivers-museum-until-1998/?no_cache=1 We are sad to announce that Dr. Donald Tayler died quite peacefully on Monday 16 April at the John... kate.atherton@anthro.ox.ac.uk]]> School Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:52:00 +0100 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2012/04/evans-pritchard-lectures-2012-unwrapping-ancient-egypt/?no_cache=1 Dr Christina Riggs (University of East Anglia) will deliver the 2012 Evans-Pritchard Lectures... Unwrapping Ancient Egypt: The Shroud, The Secret and the Sacred Tuesday 24 April: Desecration Wednesday 25 April: Revelation Tuesday 1 May: Mummification Wednesday 2 May: Linen Tuesday 8 May: Secrecy Wednesday 9 May: Sanctity ]]> School Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:44:00 +0100 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2012/04/marett-memorial-lecture-2012-anthropologists-and-the-bible/?no_cache=1 Professor Adam Kuper (Fellow of the British Academy) will deliver the 2012 Marett Memorial Lecture... Anthropologists and the Bible The anthropology of religion has maintained an uneasy, often unacknowledged, usually one-sided dialogue with biblical scholarship. Classical anthropology set early Judaism in comparative perspective. Totem, taboo and sacrifice were taken to be core elements of a primal religion. Durkheim, the son of a rabbi, generalised the Old Testament concept of the sacred and made it the defining feature of all religions. More recently, structuralists developed broader conceptions of totem and taboo, and deployed new techniques in the analysis of biblical texts. This lecture reviews a century of debate. Followed by drinks at 6.00 pm.]]> School Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:35:00 +0100 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2011/11/the-origins-of-sociality-shultz-opie-atkinson-paper-published-in-nature/?no_cache=1 Read more about how this study adds to our understanding of the origins of human social behaviour... BBC news article.]]> ICEA ISCA Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:53:00 +0000 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2011/09/same-dphil-fee-waivers-announced/?no_cache=1 The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography invites applications for a maximum of three fee... School Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:52:00 +0100 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2011/09/dunbars-number-makes-the-colbert-report/?no_cache=1 Robin Dunbar's theory about gossip is making mainstream impact on TV. His work was referenced in... Big Bang Theory on C4 on 18th August. The limit of 150 friends a person can keep track of appeared on both the Colbert Report (US) (at about 6 mins 30) and QI.]]> School Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:46:00 +0100 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2011/09/amy-duffuor-to-be-awarded-a-future-leader-of-britain-award-by-powerful-media/?no_cache=1 Amy Duffuor, who graduated with Distinction from the final MPhil Migration Studies cohort this...  
About the award: http://www.powerful-media.com/news/?page_id=16
Scroll down to the bottom to see the little entry on the student list.]]> School Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:00:00 +0100 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2011/08/dunbars-number-makes-the-colbert-report-1/?no_cache=1 Robin Dunbar's theory about gossip is making mainstream impact on TV. His work was referenced in... was referenced in the opening sequence of the Big Bang Theory on C4 on 18th August. The limit of 150 friends a person can keep track of appeared on both the Colbert Report (US) [http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-august-9-2011-the-cars, (at about 6 mins 30)] and QI.]]> School ICEA Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:43:00 +0100 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2011/08/at-home-in-japan-telegraphs-top-five-exhibitions-in-london/?no_cache=1 The 'At Home in Japan' exhibition, curated by Inge Daniels at the Geffrye Museum of the Home, in... Telegraph (22 Aug) as one of the top five exhibitions to see in London this week.  The exhibition that accompanies her recent book The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home (Berg, 2010) will close on August 29. See also the Geffrye Museum for further details. ]]> School OUAS ISCA Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:09:00 +0100 http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/article/date/2011/08/clare-harris-curates-exhibition-generation-exile-exploring-new-tibetan-identities-in-hong-kong/?no_cache=1 Rossi & Rossi and Hanart Square co-present:- Kesang Lamdark and Palden Weinreb:Generation... Generation Exile - Exploring New Tibetan Identities Curated by Dr Clare Harris Hanart Square, 2/F Mai On Industrial Building, 17-21 Kung Yip Street, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong Exhibition from 5 September to 8 October, 2011
(Private View : Saturday, 3 September 2011, 3-6pm) Opening hours: (Mon – Fri) 10am - 6.30 pm (Sat) 10am -  6pm (Sun & PH) Closed Rossi & Rossi and Hanart Square are proud to co-present Kesang Lamdark and Palden Weinreb in Generation Exile - Exploring New Tibetan Identities.  Lamdark and Weinreb represent a new generation of Tibetans who have been educated and enculturated in the West.  What is familiar to Asian audiences is historical Tibetan culture and religion, but how the recent decades of diasporic experience and Western imagination have affected Tibetan culture in the global sphere remains to be properly explored. It is to the credit of Rossi & Rossi, a gallery long dedicated to the historical arts of the Himalayas, that this new and complex aspect of Tibetan art is now being introduced to Asian audiences. Much more information about the exhibition can be downloaded here.]]> School Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:24:00 +0100