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Anthropology in the World
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John Marshall and the Ju/wa people of Nyae Nyae: a life's commitment
Watching the diplomats: unpacking diplomacy at the World Health Organization
Extensive policies, inward focus - 'going native' in the United Nations Security Council
Ambassador of Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic to Lebanon in the wake of civil war
How anthropology can inform gendered politics and diplomacy
Anthropology of cultural futures: decision-making participation in international negotiations on culture
Function and structure: engineering submissions to government departments
Occupation: museum
Introducing the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Developing an inclusive museum praxis: stakeholder communities and the National Museum of Ethnology
Communicating the contemporary Middle East in museums
Exhibiting complexity: 'Central Nigeria Unmasked'
Interactive documentary and public anthropology: scholarship, social activism, or ethnographic entertainment?
'A method never before adopted in New Zealand': H. D. Skinner's rearrangement of the Otago Museum's Maori Hall exhibition
Yoruba cosmology and it's relation to visual arts
At home in the museum - an experiment in 'living ethnography'
Exhibiting craftspeople, their crafts and practices
The challenges of conveying the embodied dimension of weaving knowledge
Exhibiting building-craft knowledge: the masons of Djenné
Promoting integration of anthropological research and legal practice in continental Europe: what lessons can be drawn from the English-speaking world?
The use of forensic anthropology in international criminal trials: exploring the synergy of anthropology and international law
Anthropologists, "raw data" and the production of evidence in the context of forced marriages
Courtroom sorcery: anthropology, uncertainty and the law
Truth and the politics of verification: making sense of the anthropology of expertise
Expert evidence in British asylum courts: the judicial assessment of evidence on ethnic discrimination and statelessness in Ethiopia
Anthropologists as providers of Country of Origin Information (COI) in the British asylum courts
Predicting the future: asylum and the prevention of torture
Ethnomodeling as an anthropological research concept on ethnomathematics and mathematical modeling
Non-literate Indian boat-builders: vernacular engineering and the rigor of reality
Activity systems of mathematics and mathematics education
Comparing use and learning of early maths skills in a first and a second language
Anthropology of space and the urban boundaries: a study centred in the communitarian education.
Applied anthropological research project on math, environmental science education in china's poverty and border minority regions
Anthropological approach to the concept of security
Consideration on anthropology and critical security studies in a globalized context
Visual ethnographies, conflict and security
The psychology of peacekeeping: one domain where political realism and critical security theory will meet
"The revolution continues worldwide!": emancipatory politics in an age of global insecurity
Anthropology and conflicts
Anthropological methods in counter-trafficking activities: analysis of criminal networks and victim-oriented approach
Linking security and anthropology studies: exploring a new security framework
The disappointment of ICH: which role for the anthropologist?
Training future heritage "managers": critical reflexions
Investigating cultural expressions at the margins of the Intangible Cultural Heritage-concept: theatre projects in migrant contexts under a heritage perspective
The "blue colour" conflict: negotiations over the preserving of heritage in Sapanta, Romania
The making of local intangible heritage: jewellery making in Valenza, Italy
The Moor's parade: political (in)correctness in the transformation of a Basque tradition
Negotiating culture: discourses on tradition and social change in Timor Leste
The International Journal of Intangible Heritage - Presentation
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Opening remarks and panel moderator
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Apply or be detached from public debate?
Engaged and/or engaging anthropology in Slovene post-socialist society: problems and posibilities
Fei Xiao Tong: Chinese anthropologist and public intellectual
The politics of concepts: from gender analysis to the political agenda
Anthropology in business: crossing the gap between capital and »human factor«
Anthropology in Cuba
The accredited forensic anthropologist
Conflicting expectations: the forensic identification of the missing in mass fatality incidents
An anthropological study of war crimes against children in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s
Craniofacial identification - forensic applications, efficacy and impact
Forensic anthropology and the use of museum collections
Age estimation in the living
Virtual forensic anthropology
Sex estimation and posterior probabilities: the example of the tibia
Identifying the missing: marrying forensic and social anthropology in the investigation of human rights violations in Guatemala and Afghanistan
Forensic anthropology in the search, location, recovery and identification of human remains from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the dictatorship that followed (1939-1975)
Response and responsibility: the power of the face in facial reconstruction
More than the skin deep: the use of tattoos in victim identification
Globalization, NGOs and their role in the development of marginal groups of South India
Cultural epidemiology: a chimera or productive friction?
The epidemiology of 'bird flu' in West Bengal, India
Narrating tuberculosis: a public health and anthropological reading
When science excludes the scientific: ethnographic notes on a process of disqualification of a potential treatment against rheumatic immune-diseases in Brazil
We can make judgements about best practice of infant rearing and parenting in different cultures. This is a vital issue in the context of the high Aboriginal infant mortality rate in Australia.
Responsibilisation of childhood obesity: exploring the roles of the individual and primary care providers
An anthropologist in the field: the role of anthropological research in health policy making in Guinea-Bissau
Anthropological perspective on chronic diseases
The challenges of teaching "health and illness anthropology" to students of health and life sciences programs
Public health practitioners as anthropologists - time to step off the verandah!
Using discourse analysis to explore the relationship between complementary and alternative medicine and biomedicine
Lithuanian verbal healing tradition: past, present and possibilities of the future
Medico-Ethnobotany of plants used by the nomads of Nara Desert, Pakistan
Anthropology and land claims: maps and films
New tools for new problems: some examples of how technologically facilitated collaborations between indigenous people and anthropologists can support indigenous claims to land and resources
Action anthropology in India: a study of Kovvada project affected tribals
Ban on begging in Senegal: unintended consequences
Discourses on HIV and AIDS and sexual cultural practices in Malawi: knowledge, policy and practice
Neither a development project nor a Catholic mission: working with competing moralities in Nepal
Participatory in theory, compliant in practice: can development be reframed?
The spaces between hope and despair
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Thicker description: experiments in representing multi-sited ethnography
Balancing between academia and the wider world: anthropology and journalism
"Think straight, talk straight": what anthropology students could learn from those wonderful folks who gave you Enron
"I'm no lady; I'm an anthropologist!": the anthropologist in the movies
'Suttonalia': a critical moment in public anthropology in Australia
Independent research, radical critique or political advocacy? Anthropology as expert testimony in Australian legal settings
Parallel talk: does anthropology speak to wicked policy issues?
Speaking to others: issues of anthropology's languages, audiences, and engagements
Making applied anthropology in East Timor
Toward an engagement-driven anthropology
The ultimate entrepreneur: 'making it' in a post-apartheid mining town
Indigeneity, environmentalism and resistance: mining and power structures in the northern Peruvian Andes
Between the enemy lines: resource extraction initiatives in the circumpolar Canadian North
Society and culture under the shadow of industry
Prosperity for all? Visions of social change in an oil field of uncertainty
Resettlement and the loss of "a sense of place"
Extractive activities, control ancestral territory and conflict rules: state and indigenous peoples
A review of anthropological approaches to the social impacts of mining at the Porgera, Papua New Guinea
The story of a poisoned gift: a 15 years delay for a gold extraction project and their impact on Rosia Montana's small community in Romania
Public secrets in public health? (Unknowing : knowledge ≠ knowledge : unknowing)
Telling the truth about stupidity: the anthropology of bêtise in the worlds of big science and global health: theoretical difficulties and institutional responses
When truth is already occupied
Knowledge alibis: philanthropy and the politics of expertise
Controlling control of parasites
Contested interpretations of "blood stealing" rumours
What kind of truth do medical researchers want from anthropologists and why are they so often angry about the result?
Between practice and academia: TB and its control
Gatekeepers confronting anthropology: public broadcasting and its critics in Malawi
Truth, intimacy and knowing: sexualities and the evasion of facts
On authorizing knowledge
Misunderstood, misrepresented, contested? Anthropological knowledge production in question
Turning smuggling into heritage: border tourism as a cultural challenge
The ethnic tourism in China's minority region: is the commodification of the Naxi's Dongba culture reconstructing the tradition in a positive way?
The tourismization of Ilha Grande
Tourism development and ownership conflicts in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain)
Hosts, guests and tourist arts on a sacred journey: contributions of Valene Smith and Nelson Graburn to the anthropology of tourism
How "natives" think: about tourists for example
Beyond cannibalism: encompassing tourists and other strangers in South Western Madagascar
Identity and belonging among tourists and fishermen at Atafona's beach in Brazil
Retiring in the midst of a tourist industry: everyday experiences of fantasy and reality in Bali.
Her own way: gender, tourism and transnationality in Brazil
Practices of the tourism industry at Madeira Island: an ethnography of hiking trails
''We are travellers, they are tourists'': from the point of view of Greeks travelling abroad
Nazaré - tourism and the invention of tradition
Documenting tourism in the Celtic periphery
Local and tourist representations in the Danube Delta Romania
Deconstructing community in local government
Analysis and counter terrorism
Communication problems between anthropological and governmental discourse and language
The journey to Mount Athos
The psychology of amulets
Online and offline virtual environments: imagination and the construction of sacramental space
The Ghost Dance in 2012: working on the inside of New Age tribal consciousness
Culture: to use or not to use as a health variable
The idea of anthropological research in relation to the Thai AIDS epidemic: the limitations of interdisciplinary collaboration and the adoption of anthropological research methods by other disciplines
Traditional mortuary rites in the South Fore: the role of ethnography in kuru investigations
Aids-fight reassembled: anthropology and the complexities of public health: a case from anti-Aids programs in post-socialist China
Anthropology confronts stress and trauma
In the study of Gypsies, Travellers or Roma, social anthropology may be plagiarised, ignored or offer profound transformation
Gypsy/Travellers in a post-industrial economy: exclusion adaptation and continuity
On the road and on the verge, behind horses
The dangerous strangers: Gypsies, pimps & anarchists in the formation of modern Argentina
The politics of ageing in Gypsy families
Performance in planning: Gypsy and Traveller identity and the construction of conflict
Anthropological insights into the effect of EU enlargement in 2004 on the construction of Roma in UK policy and consequences for local practices
Negotiating the pitfalls of communication between Czech Roma immigrants and service providers in England
Working in a hostile world - pass, deny or stand proud
Family and transmission among Roma migrants
Between invisibility and engagement: notes on studying state and Slovakian Roma migrants in Great Britain
Teaching Romani holocaust history in Romani: policy and praxis
Data on Roma in the digital archive of the Institute for Balkan Studies (SASA)
Roma/Gypsies and the transnational identity
Romani studies against anti-Gypsism? The uncertain anthropology
What to give in return? Suspicion in a Roma shantytown from Romania
Scottish Gypsy Travellers; connecting research, policy and practice for the benefit of service users and communities
Anthropology in the material world: the case of the rock paintings at Wyndham 3 and 4 (WYN 3 and 4) sites, Uttar Pradesh, India
Blowing in the wind: traditional knowledge, clean energies and awkward engagements in northern Colombia
Fishermen traditional knowledge: inmaterial cultural heritage?
Popularisation of science: reliable interpretation of local knowledge
Traditional knowledge studies and new model of world outlook
Using anthropology: indigenous/ local knowledge in development
How have community development approaches aided our understanding of "community building" for newly arrived Portuguese migrant workers in Great Yarmouth?
Social work and anthropology: Moroccan female immigrants in Spain
Dilemmas and contributions of anthropologists working for migrants in violent contexts
A gendered post-screening discussion of Maasai migrants
Making space for dialogue and critical reflection through work with diverse stakeholders on migration
Film screening
Subject to Change: strengths and struggles of using film to empower urban Maasai migrants
Migrant workers against institutions
Anthropological knowledge and advocacy to help migrants
Women and intercultural cities in Catalonia
Gurdwaras and British Sikh identity: the role of anthropology (-ists) in social cohesion and diversity in a case study of London's Sikh youth
Wild silk indigo textiles of West Africa: towards an ethnography of materials
The woolen blanket and its value(s)
Dressing (for) God: cloth as substance of Hindu consciousness in ISKCON
Peony and the rose: social change and fragrance marketing in China bath market
Agency and the XRF
Sustainability and the co-production of substances and citizens in the UK materials industry
Rediscovering Taiwanese bamboo
Green roofs: the materialization of nature and nature as a material
Anthropology in and of education
The diplomacy of anthropology
Anthropology goes to school: 50 years of teaching about other cultures
Learning to think anthropologically: an exploratory study of the A-level experience
Mutually beneficial possibilities for schools and the discipline of anthropology
The transformative potential of anthropology
Hosts before guests: thematic trends in the anthropology of tourism
Community-based ecotourism strengthening identity and economic development of the Somba ethnics in the North of Benin
Cross-cultural interpretations of heritage tourism: whose heritage? whose values?
Ethnorelativism and image diversification upon world travelling
The Lisbon Empire Square: tourism, local identity and globalization
Rethreading spiritual weave: can anthropology meet challenges and identity crisis amongst the immigrant Tibetans in India
The powerful presence of absence
'The Movement': mature students, Access courses and anthropology
From the local to the global and back again
Participatory action research in youth & community work
Teaching anthropology at AS/A2 level
Anthropology in the world, and the world in museums
Human nature: the premise and promise of anthropology
Selling complexity: the limits of anthropology applied
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