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Plenary1
- Convenor:
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David Shankland
(Royal Anthropological Institute)
- Chair:
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Clive Gamble
(University of Southampton)
- Formats:
- Plenaries
- Location:
- BP Lecture Theatre
Opening and plenary.
Panel Plenary1 at conference RAI2012: Anthropology in the World.
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2012/p/1571
Short Abstract
The conference will be opened by David Shankland (Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute), Lissant Bolton (Keeper of Africa, America and Oceania Department, British Museum) and Clive Gamble (President of the Royal Anthropological Institute). This will be followed by plenaries by Lissant Bolton and Nigel Rapport.
Accepted papers
Session 1
Anthropology in the world, and the world in museums
Lissant Bolton
(British Museum)
Paper short abstract
The history of the relationship between anthropology and museums is well-rehearsed: over time museum-based anthropology has moved in and out of fashion in the wider discipline of anthropology. In the last several decades, a significant further element has been added to the mix: the increasing involvement of what are known as source communities in museum research and practice. Museums have become a site for the renegotiation of relationships between such indigenous groups and settler/colonial societies. These interactions intersect with both theory and ethnography in anthropology and invoke many kinds of moralities. They need themselves to be analysed anthropologically. I discuss these issues with some reference to the work of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre (in the south west Pacific).
Human nature: the premise and promise of anthropology
Nigel Rapport
(St. Andrews University)
Paper short abstract
The issue of human nature—what it is to be human—provides a prime site for ‘anthropology in the world’: a means to engage with debates beyond the academy and to show anthropology’s special contribution. It also provides a means to anchor a discipline whose ‘writing of the human’ encompasses the ethical and aesthetic as well as the scientific, the individually particular as well as the universally general, the personal alongside the social, cultural, historical, practical and biological.