3 new issues launched:
Issue: 6: Flirting with Boulders: Changing Configurations of Landscape in Yosemite National Park by Sally Ann Ness
Issue: 5: "I don't wan' it smooth, like salsa, I want a harsh sound bro": Negotiating a rap sound in Cuba by Bastien Birchler
Issue: 4: Girls’ 15-Year Birthday Celebration as Cuban Women’s Space Outside of the Revolutionary State by Heidi Härkönen
- The ASA is deeply concerned about the Government's withdrawal of the teaching grant for Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities in the UK Higher Education sector. Read commentary here from anthropologists on these cuts and related social issues that demand informed debate..
ASAFim is the part of our website featuring short ethnographic films for general viewing.
Read the latest Firth lecture online.
Everyday life and business as usual by Bob Jessop
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| ASA12 in Delhi: visa information is now posted. Registration now open. |
| ASA/HEA National Award for Excellence in Teaching Anthropology 2012: the ASA and the HEA welcome nominations for this award, which aims not only to reward individual staff or teams of staff, but also to raise the profile of learning and teaching activity in Anthropology. Two awards of £500 will be made. Read more. |
AGM: Friday 2nd March 2012, 1-2pm, at Manchester University. All members invited. It runs concurrently with the annual Teaching and Learning Event (see below). We hope you will be able to attend as your input and participation is greatly valued. Buffet lunch provided. Anthropology and The Student Experience, University of Manchester, Friday 2nd March, Arthur Lewis Building, 2nd floor Boardroom. See programme. |
Since the UK is hosting the IUAES World Congress for the first time since 1934 in August 2013, with ASA as one of its principal sponsors, the Association has decided to postpone its decennial congress, to be held in Edinburgh, until 2014, so as to maximise the British contribution to this global event. ASA itself will sponsor a series of panels and public lecture at the world congress. |
Breaking bubbles: anthropology for our future: an undergraduate symposium 3-4 March. Read more... |
Read the new ethics guidelines. The guidelines have been through a long process of revision and the amendments were ratified at the recent Extraordinary AGM in Lampeter. Read the minutes of that AGM. |
| Call for a collective response by anthropology academics to the Government's proposed cuts of teaching grant and education maintenance allowance as well as to the planned massive rise in tuition fees. Read more. |
Read the latest issue of Anthropology Matters:
Vol 12, No 2 (2010):
Anthropology Through Development:
Putting Development Practice into Theory. |
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