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WCAA organizes debates on the public image of anthropology
Junji Koizumi, WCAA's facilitator, and Joćo de Pina Cabral (a member of the Council's Advisory Board) are the convenors of the workshop "The Public Image of Anthropology", during the 9th Bi-annual Conference of the European Association for Social Anthropologists - EASA (Bristol, U.K. - September 18-21, 2006). The workshop revolves around the following question: why does there seem to be a problem with the public understanding of what anthropology is all about? "Transcending Postcolonial Conditions: towards alternative modernities" is the name of the conference co-sponsored by Anthropology Southern Africa, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and the Pan-African Anthropological Association. It will be hosted at the University of Cape Town, December 3-7, 2006. John Gledhill and Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (members of WCAA's Executive Secretariat) are the convenors of another session on the public image of anthropology. In Cape Town the debate will focus on how anthropologists engage the public sphere in different countries and how we might achieve new, and more supportive, public profiles as we contend with these other problems.
WCAA organizes debates on the public image of anthropology
Jul, 13 2006Author: Published by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Junji Koizumi, WCAA's facilitator, and Joćo de Pina Cabral (a member of the Council's Advisory Board) are the convenors of the workshop "The Public Image of Anthropology", during the 9th Bi-annual Conference of the European Association for Social Anthropologists - EASA (Bristol, U.K. - September 18-21, 2006). The workshop revolves around the following question: why does there seem to be a problem with the public understanding of what anthropology is all about? "Transcending Postcolonial Conditions: towards alternative modernities" is the name of the conference co-sponsored by Anthropology Southern Africa, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and the Pan-African Anthropological Association. It will be hosted at the University of Cape Town, December 3-7, 2006. John Gledhill and Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (members of WCAA's Executive Secretariat) are the convenors of another session on the public image of anthropology. In Cape Town the debate will focus on how anthropologists engage the public sphere in different countries and how we might achieve new, and more supportive, public profiles as we contend with these other problems.
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