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Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the first publication of the volume Anthropology and Autobiography (1992) edited by Judith Okely and Helen Callaway, AJEC 31(1) features an inspiring special issue devoted to this topic, then and now. Starting from the beginning, we learn about the appalling resistance Judith Okely faced when she suggested Anthropology and Autobiography as a theme for the 1989 ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK) Conference. The idea to include the experience of the fieldworker, his or her emotional reactions, and issues related to gender, age and race – in the research and later even the use of “I” in the writing – came from the ‘writing culture’ movement in the United States. This early resistance against reflexivity and autobiography in British anthropology can be understood as a generational intolerance of American intellectual influence. As Ernest Gellner (1988: 26) suggested in a review of Clifford Geertz’ Works and Lives: My own advice to anthropology departments is that this volume be kept in a locked cupboard, with the key in the possession of the head of department, and that students be lent it only when a strong case is made out by their tutors.

Beyond authorship and accountability? The ethics of doctoral research dissemination in a changing world

Discussion of ethics in doctoral training courses usually focuses on the initial stages of planning and conducting field research. Shifting attention onto the responsibility of the researcher to share their findings throughout the research process, we set out to consider how doctoral students can conceptualise and engage ethically with research dissemination in the broader context of the globalised knowledge economy. A comparative analysis of the ethical guidelines produced by BERA (British Educational Research Association) and ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) reveals that both are more concerned with the possible benefits or harm of dissemination to those directly involved in or affected by the research, and pay little attention to the ethical implications of multimodal and digital dissemination to unknown audiences. Drawing on the concept of research as a moral endeavour and the problematising of collaboration as an ethical issue within participatory and ethnographic research debates, we explore the implications for doctoral training courses. We argue that engaging students in discussion on dissemination can open a space to explore who benefits most from research undertaken.

Gênero de uma perna só

Neste artigo, Marilyn Strathern busca construir uma teoria visual melanésia focando nos efeitos de tipos particulares de exibição, tais como práticas que acompanham iniciações ou trocas cerimoniais, tendo em vista que nesses contextos há um investimento na manipulação das formas por parte das pessoas. A autora busca responder, a partir dos matérias melanésios, o que seria ver para essas pessoas e que tipo de corpo é engendrado por uma prática visual em que o que se vê é deliberadamente tornado incompleto.

Anthropologists Are Talking about Queer Anthropology

The following roundtable discussion took place at the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ biennial conference held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 31 July to 3 August 2014. It sprang out of the session ‘Whatever is happening to the critical study of sexual and gender diversity in anthropology?’ convened by Paul Boyce and Silvia Posocco, and a meeting of the European Network of Queer Anthropology (ENQA), which was founded in 2013 by Paul Boyce and Elisabeth Engebretsen. The aim of the discussion was to explore what we mean by a queer anthropology and what it can still contribute to the discipline some two decades after the emergence of queer theory in the academia. The discussion was recorded, transcribed and edited by Ethnos Co-Editor in Chief, Mark Graham

Engaging Anthropology and Art: 13th EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial Conference (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

Engaging Anthropology and Art: 13th EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial Conference (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

12th Biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

12th Biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

In Difficult Order: Anthropology, History, Politics, DisciplineDifficult Folk? A Political History of Social Anthropology. By David Mills. New York: Berghahn, 2008.

In Difficult Order: Anthropology, History, Politics, Discipline<i>Difficult Folk? A Political History of Social Anthropology</i>. By David Mills. New York: Berghahn, 2008.

Debates on Ethical Practice: A Perspective from the Association of Social Anthropologists

Debates on Ethical Practice: A Perspective from the Association of Social Anthropologists

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

Networking Visual Anthropology: The Trajectory of the Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists

The Visual Anthropology Network of the EASA was established in 1996. Since then its members have developed a series of conferences, and seminar and workshop meetings during and between conferences. Here I describe and analyze the development of the network, the role it plays in relation to other international and European Visual Anthropology associations and the trajectory of its theoretical and methodological interests over the last 8 years.

COSMOPOLITANISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY: Association of Social Anthropologists Diamond Jubilee Conference, University of Keele, 10-13 April 2006

COSMOPOLITANISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY: Association of Social Anthropologists Diamond Jubilee Conference, University of Keele, 10-13 April 2006

FACE TO FACE: Connecting proximity and Distance

‘Face to face: Connecting proximity and distance’, Eighth Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Vienna, 8–12 September 2004

ASA 2003: Communitas enters the academy

Fifth Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, University of Manchester, 14‐18 July 2003

Boundaries of Memory and Anthropology

The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practised today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution Sandra Wallman uses her experience of fieldwork in the Italian Alps in the 1970s to reflect on the essential fuzziness of our categorial boundaries--between then and now, us and them, participant and observer, etc. Professor Sandra Wallman has also done fieldwork in Lesotho, London, Turin, Uganda and Zambia. She has worked in the universities of Amsterdam, Bristol, LSE, Stockholm and Toronto. From 1993 to 1997 she was chair of the (GB) Association of Social Anthropologists. Widely published on a range of contemporary issues, her books include Take out Hunger (1969), Eight London Households (1984), Kampala Women Getting By (1996), and the edited volumes Perceptions of Development (1977), Ethnicity at Work (1979), Social Anthropology of Work (1979), and Contemporary Futures (1992).

Welcome Friends: Let's Proceed

To environmentalists: here's a valuable collection of anthropological perspectives 15 papers, outpourings of the 1992 conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists. Kay Milton calls the book 'a tentative step into unknown territory', yet it is a firm and affirmative response to two questions. First, can anthropology catch up with the environmental debate, overcome the domination of the natural sciences, in a field peopled already by sociologists, geographers and economists, to make the anthropological contribution to the search for a viable future? Second, is environmentalism a new aspect of human-environment relations, that playing field already so familiar to anthropologists? In Milton's introduction there are murmurs of concern for the

Adam Kuper (ed.): Conceptualizing society. (European Association of Social Anthropologists.) ix, 152 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £10.99.

Adam Kuper (ed.): Conceptualizing society. (European Association of Social Anthropologists.) ix, 152 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £10.99.

Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth Ethical Guidelines for Good Practice

Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth Ethical Guidelines for Good Practice

Not a Field Diary 'Anthropology at Home'- With the Association of Social Anthropologists

Not a Field Diary 'Anthropology at Home'- With the Association of Social Anthropologists

Still searching for urban anthropology

Abner Cohen, ed. Urban Ethnicity. London: Tavistock Publications. Association of Social Anthropologists, Monograph No. 12, 1974. xxiv + 391 pp. Tables, references, and index. $16.00. George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper, eds. Anthropologists in Cities. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. viii + 261 pp. Charts and bibliography. $6.95 (paper).

Roots for Social Anthropology

History and Social Anthropology Edited By I. M. Lewis. Pp. xxviii + 307. (Association of Social Anthropologists, Monograph 7.) (Tavistock: London and New York, August 1968.) 50s.