Anthropology at Canterbury

Welcome to the first lecture of 2022 Anthropology Lecture Series:

Homicide in New Zealand:Patterns and Trends

given by Gretchen Perry

Time: 12:00pm Wed 8 June 2022
Location: Rehua 101

Anthropology and #MeToo: Reimagining fieldwork deals in the everyday ambiguous and intersectional, providing a space for discussion of the grey areas of s*xual propriety. Since 2017, when the term was mobilised spectacularly in the US ente...

The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information How an ancient Aboriginal memory technique may uncover the meaning behind archaeological sites across the globe are revealed in a new book, The Memory Code.

"There’s no need to reject how biologists define the s*xes to defend the view that trans women are women. When we look across the diversity of life, s*x takes stranger forms than anyone has dreamt of for humans. The biological definition of s*x takes all this in its stride. It does so despite the fact that there are no more than two biological s*xes in any species you’re likely to have heard of. To many people, that might seem to have ‘conservative’ implications, or to fly in the face of the diversity we see in actual human beings. I will make clear why it does not."

The existence of biological s*x is no constraint on human diversity – Paul Griffiths | Aeon Essays Yes, there are just two biological s*xes. No, this doesn’t mean every living thing is either one or the other

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/geological-anthropology

Geological Anthropology Geology has become a principal field and framework in the social sciences and humanities in the past decade to understand anthropogenic environme...

How chemo-ethnography puts chemistry in context New social science fields are exploring how chemists and chemicals affect society

Rather daft to rank, and methodologically problematic, but people love lists! ( integral to the success of Buzzfeed). Some great folk listed here, but plenty of deserving others who aren’t.

Top Influential Anthropologists Today Considered the best of the sciences and humanities, modern anthropology necessitates an interdisciplinary approach. Among them you will see anthropologists of every race and gender, exploring complex problems with innovative solutions. These scholars are teachers, mentors, and practitioners who work...

"A leading specialist on hunter-gatherers exposes Steven Pinker’s poorly-researched claims that humans have always been war-like.

Richard Lee also summarises decades of research on hunter-gatherers showing how they emphasise food-sharing, gender equality and cooperative childcare. Lee concludes that it was this sort of less aggressive and more cooperative social environment in our evolutionary past that permitted the long childhoods required for human brain growth."

Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution: New light on old debates - Richard B. Lee A leading specialist on hunter-gatherers exposes Steven Pinker’s poorly-researched claims that humans have always been war-like. Richard Lee also summarises decades of research on hunter-gatherers showing how they emphasise food-sharing, gender equality and cooperative childcare. Lee concludes tha...

One of the most influential anthropologists who reached audiences beyond academia. We are mourning his untimely passing.

The anarchist: How David Graeber became the left's most influential thinker Every once in a while, a thinker revolutionises the way we see the world and helps us reimagine the things we once took for granted. David Graeber, the anthropologist and bestselling author, whose unexpected death on 2 September at the age of 59 has shocked the international left, was such a rare cu...