ORIGINS: First Nations Theatre from around the World. David Milroy is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara in Western Australia and has been involved in theatre in for a number of years as a musician, director and writer. He has won numerous awards in Australia for his work in the theatre. Cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Depa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Milroy, David
Created:
2008-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
ORIGINS: First Nations Theatre from around the World. David Milroy is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara in Western Australia and has been involved in theatre in for a number of years as a musician, director and writer. He has won numerous awards in Australia for his work in the theatre. Cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Depa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Milroy, David
Created:
2008-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wall Street Corporate Culture: Investment Banking and the Making of Financial Crisis. Karen Ho is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent work is Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Duke University Press, 2009).
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ho, Karen
Created:
2008-11-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wall Street Corporate Culture: Investment Banking and the Making of Financial Crisis. Karen Ho is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent work is Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Duke University Press, 2009).
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ho, Karen
Created:
2008-11-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Making of Indigenous Culture: Neoliberal Multicultualism and Ethnogovernmentality in Post-Dictatorship Chile . As he examines the interrelationships of indigenous peoples in Chile, the Chilean government, NGOs, and other multinational organizations, Professor Boccara offers a critical look at governmentality as another form of state violence...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Boccara, Guillaume
Created:
2009-01-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Making of Indigenous Culture: Neoliberal Multicultualism and Ethnogovernmentality in Post-Dictatorship Chile . As he examines the interrelationships of indigenous peoples in Chile, the Chilean government, NGOs, and other multinational organizations, Professor Boccara offers a critical look at governmentality as another form of state violence...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Boccara, Guillaume
Created:
2009-01-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Two Hearts, Three Eyes, and Four Ears: Sami Theater and Heritage. Harriet Nordlund is a Sámi playwright and former Artistic Director of Beaivvá≈° Sámi Teáhter -- The Norwegian National Sámi Theatre Company and is currently the head of the Cultural Department within the council of Jokkmokk, Sweden, the center for the native Sámi people of Lule va...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Nordlund, Harriet
Created:
2009-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Three Decades of Financial Dominance and Crisis in the United States: A Talk on the Rise, Social Consequences, and Fall of Wall Street Investment Banks. To give context to the finance-led current crisis, Professor Ho will focus in particular on the takeover movement of 1980s as a key event that consolidated Wall Street's financial influence in t...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ho, Karen
Created:
2009-03-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Three Decades of Financial Dominance and Crisis in the United States: A Talk on the Rise, Social Consequences, and Fall of Wall Street Investment Banks. To give context to the finance-led current crisis, Professor Ho will focus in particular on the takeover movement of 1980s as a key event that consolidated Wall Street's financial influence in t...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ho, Karen
Created:
2009-03-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi. The voluntary death of a person, who -- often due to illness and old age -- requests to die at the hands of close relatives, has traditionally been explained as a form of suicide, resulting from the harsh living conditions in the Siberian North. This paper suggests an ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Willerslev, Rane
Created:
2009-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi. The voluntary death of a person, who -- often due to illness and old age -- requests to die at the hands of close relatives, has traditionally been explained as a form of suicide, resulting from the harsh living conditions in the Siberian North. This paper suggests an ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Willerslev, Rane
Created:
2009-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Air's Substantiations. This talk considers some of the acts and practices through which air has become a meaningful, knowable, and eventful substance in Hong Kong — as a medical fact, as a bodily engagement, as an international index, and as a medium of social difference. Tracking the activities of air as it moves across the edges, distinguish...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Choy, Timothy
Created:
2010-04-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Air's Substantiations. This talk considers some of the acts and practices through which air has become a meaningful, knowable, and eventful substance in Hong Kong — as a medical fact, as a bodily engagement, as an international index, and as a medium of social difference. Tracking the activities of air as it moves across the edges, distinguish...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Choy, Timothy
Created:
2010-04-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Autism, Meaning and the Bioethical Otherwise. Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, specializing in medical anthropology and the social study of science and technology. He is currently work...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew
Created:
2010-10-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Autism, Meaning and the Bioethical Otherwise. Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, specializing in medical anthropology and the social study of science and technology. He is currently work...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew
Created:
2010-10-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Florida Everglades: an Entangled Landscape. Laura Ogden discusses her research with alligator hunters in the Florida Everglades, in which she maps the entanglement between the natural and human worlds of bodies, geographies, biota and mythologies. Cultural Anthropologist Laura Ogden guides a rich historical and cultural exploration of the Fl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ogden, Laura
Created:
2010-01-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Florida Everglades: an Entangled Landscape. Laura Ogden discusses her research with alligator hunters in the Florida Everglades, in which she maps the entanglement between the natural and human worlds of bodies, geographies, biota and mythologies. Cultural Anthropologist Laura Ogden guides a rich historical and cultural exploration of the Fl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ogden, Laura
Created:
2010-01-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Virtual Body. Tom Boellstorff is one of a growing number of virtual anthropologists studying the interaction between the actual self and the embodied virtual one. In this presentation he argues that the presence of place makes the virtual body possible and is the crucial difference between email and webpages (like Facebook) and virtual words...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Boellstorff, Tom
Created:
2010-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Virtual Body. Tom Boellstorff is one of a growing number of virtual anthropologists studying the interaction between the actual self and the embodied virtual one. In this presentation he argues that the presence of place makes the virtual body possible and is the crucial difference between email and webpages (like Facebook) and virtual world...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Boellstorff, Tom
Created:
2010-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From the Frying-Pan to the Floodplain: Negotiating Land and Water in Chennai's Development. This talk seeks to show how the complex and changing landscapes of urban land and water are closely interwoven with the complex and changing landscapes of slum eviction and relocation in Chennai. On the one hand, this is a story of the making and remaking...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Coelho, Karen
Created:
2011-10-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
