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Firth lectures

Firth Lecture

You can also read the various Firth lectures

2015: Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz
In the midst of disturbance: symbiosis, coordination, history, landscape

2014: Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge
Becoming enlightened about relations

2013: Lourdes Arizpe, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Arbitrating collective dreams: anthropology and the new worlding

2012: Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne
The transnational family as an aesthetic field

2011: Prof Tim ingold, University of Aberdeen 
Walking with dragons: an anthropological excursion on the wild side

2010: Prof Vincent Crapanzano, CUNY
Contortions of forgiveness: betrayal, abandonment, and narrative entrapment among the Harkis

2009: Prof Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Careers of the copy: simulating sites and monuments in colonial and post-colonial India

2008: Prof Janice Boddy, University of Toronto
Anthropology and the Civilizing Mission in Colonial Sudan

ASAonline articles

Completed articles will be posted here, both in PDF and html format. Still images will be placed in the PDF/html files, and video (in Quicktime format) will be linked to.

ISSN 2073-4158

0109

Issue: 9
Title: Nanotechnology, Anthropomorphic Matter and Human Machinery: An Exploration of the Longue Durée of Technological Vision
Author: Åsa Boholm, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Date: 08/11/2014
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0108

Issue: 8
Title: Cutting and covering up ethnographica: The culture of curatorship
Author: By Jeremy MacClancy, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Date: 04/09/2013
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0107

Issue: 7
Title: The Power and Limits of Numbers: An Ethnography of a Survey on Background Radiation and Health
Author: By Raminder Kaur, Department of Anthropology, Sussex University, UK
Date: 12/04/2013
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0106

Issue: 6
Title: Flirting with Boulders: Changing Configurations of Landscape in Yosemite National Park
Author: Sally Ann Ness, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, U.S.A.
Date: 26/01/2012
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0105

Issue: 5
Title: "I don't wan' it smooth, like salsa, I want a harsh sound bro": Negotiating a rap sound in Cuba
Author: Bastien Birchler, Institute of Anthropology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Date: 26/01/2012
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0104

Issue: 4
Title: Girls’ 15-Year Birthday Celebration as Cuban Women’s Space Outside of the Revolutionary State
Author: Heidi Härkönen, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki
Date: 26/01/2012
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0103

Issue: 3
Title: "I bury boxes, not bodies": identity, emotionality and natural burial
Authors: Mark Powell (Queen's University of Belfast), Jenny Hockey (University of Sheffield), Trish Green (University of Hull) and Andy Clayden (University of Sheffield)
Date: 20/01/2011
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0102

Issue: 2
Title: The Politics of the Dead: Living heritage, bones and commemoration in Zimbabwe
Author: Joost Fontein, Social Anthropology & Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh
Date: 10/08/2009
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0102

Issue: 1
Title: The human economy
Author: Keith Hart, Goldsmiths University, UK and School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban
Date: 12/06/2008
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