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  1. Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future

    Daniel Everett discusses the Pirahã and their language. The language has no words for numbers, no words for right and left and lacks any examples of recursion. This last trait forces us to rethink everything we thought we knew about language.

    The discussion of the Pirahã language itself is excellent, but Everett’s discussion of why endangered languages need to be preserved is absolutely fascinating. His recommendations for preserving endangered languages include preserving natives speaker’s land and their heath. He also recommends studying and documenting these languages over a long period of time, as he has done with the Pirahã language.

    From http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/

    More information on this seminar is available at http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/daniel-everett-endangered-languages-lost-knowledge-and-the-future/

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  2. 1970 Frazer Lecture - Claude Levi-Struass on Myth and Ritual

    1970 Frazer Lecture at Oxford University delivered by Claude Lévi-Strauss on November 19, 1970. Recorded at the Sheldonian Theatre and broadcast by the BBC on August 29, 1971 in a program presented by Michael Lane.

    Program starts at 1:05 seconds.

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  3. 2003 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture: The Geography of Descent

    This lecture took place on 11 November 2003

    Professor Gillian Feeley-Harnik, University of Michigan

    Radcliffe-Brown proposed to make social anthropology into ‘a natural science of society’, a proposal that was controversial in his lifetime, and remains so now, especially in the study of kinship with which he is so closely associated. Anthropology originated in part to explain Darwin’s Descent of Man (1871) in social terms. The purpose of this lecture is to explore the popular science and culture of descent in Darwin’s time, focusing on his co-workers among the pigeon-breeders of London, in particular the silk-weavers of Spitalfields, and their concerns with the art of ‘propagating life’.

    http://www.proc.britac.ac.uk/cgi-bin/somsid.cgi?page=125p311&type=header

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  4. 2007 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture - Anthropology is Not Ethnography

    This lecture took place on 14 March 2007

    Professor Timothy Ingold, FBA, University of Aberdeen

    Anthropology has been shrinking. Once an inclusive inquiry into the conditions of human life, it has increasingly turned inwards on itself. One reason for this shrinkage lies in the identification of anthropology with ethnography. Such identification leads us to think of observation as a means to the end of description. The lecturer will aim to show, to the contrary, how description not just literary but graphic and performative - can be re-embedded in observation. Overturning the relation between observation and description will enhance anthropology’s potential to engage with biology, psychology and archaeology on the great questions of the origins and destiny of humankind.

    Download the entire paper here: http://www.proc.britac.ac.uk/tfiles/825683A/154p069.pdf.

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  5. BBC Radio 4 - Anthropology at War

    Mark Whitaker reports on the US army’s embedding of anthropologists with combat brigades.

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  6. 2007 Hopper Lecture - Mosse on Anthropology’s Role in International Development

    David Mosse, Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London (UK), delivered the 15th annual David Hopper Lecture at the University of Guelph on November 6, 2007.

    Mosse explored the link between anthropology and international development, and outlined the critical role he believes anthropologists can play in these efforts.

    The annual David Hopper Lecture is made possible through an endowment IDRC made to the University of Guelph in 1992 in honour of its founding president. This annual academic lecture on an international development issue is hosted at the University of Guelph.

    Listen to the lecture online at http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-119208-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html.

    [Note: The sound quality during the introductions is quite poor. To proceed to Mosse’s formal lecture, advance to the five and half minute mark (5:30)]

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  7. What Makes Us Human: Part 1 - Others

    Are humans unique or do we just do some things a little better than other species? In the first of our two-part series on the nature of humanity: how the influence of others has shaped our evolution.

    Find out how baby talk gave root to human language and why social isolation can make us sick. Plus, the joke’s on us – new research says we’re not the only laughing species: meet your giggling gorilla cousins.

    And, what a writer’s visit to a chimp retirement center revealed about human discomfort with our animal ancestry.

    Dean Falk – Anthropologist at Florida State University and author of Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language John Cacioppo – Director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago and co-author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection Lori Marino – Biologist at Emory University Kathryn Denning – Anthropologist at York University Charles Siebert – Author of The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals Marina Davila-Ross – Psychologist at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K.

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  8. 1991 Frazer Lecture - Godfrey Lienhardt on Frazer’s Science and Sensibility

    The Frazer Lecture on the legacy of James George Frazer, which Godfrey Lienhardt suggests is greater in the field of literature (through its influence on people like T.S. Eliot in ‘the Waste Land’ than on the science of anthropology.

    The James George Frazer Memorial Lecture for 1991 was delivered at the University of Cambridge by Godfrey Lienhardt on 5 March 1992, well after he had retired from the University of Oxford. The event was chaired by Dr. Alan Macfarlane and was filmed by Humphrey Hinton, using a video 8 camera. The lecture lasts about 45 minutes.

    This podcast is the audio portion of the digitized video recording available online at https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/38

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  9. Interview with McKim Marriott, part 2 of 2

    An interview with the American anthropologist McKim Marriott about his life and work, principally in India.

    Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum and Ingrid Jordt on 14th June 2008, edited by Sarah Harrison and submitted by Alan Macfarlane.

    Original files: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/214800

    Summarized transcript: https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/214800/3/marriott.txt

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  10. Interview with McKim Marriott, part 1 of 2

    An interview with the American anthropologist McKim Marriott about his life and work, principally in India.

    Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum and Ingrid Jordt on 14th June 2008, edited by Sarah Harrison and submitted by Alan Macfarlane.

    Original files: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/214800

    Summarized transcript: https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/214800/3/marriott.txt

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