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Read more at: The Frazer Lecture: Professor Jane Guyer

The Frazer Lecture: Professor Jane Guyer

Monday, 17 October, 2016 - 17:00 to 19:00

Professor Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins University) Anthropological Recuperations: Intellectual and Social In honour of the 95th anniversary of the inauguration of the Frazer Lecture in 1921, after the Great War, taking inspiration from Mauss’s Essay on the Gift written in the same period, drawing from themes in my recent...

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Public Lectures

The Department of Social Anthropology has three public lecture series: The Frazer Lecture The Rivers Lecture The Strathern Lecture

Read more at: W.H.R. Rivers Memorial Lecture 2016: Professor Tanya Luhrmann

W.H.R. Rivers Memorial Lecture 2016: Professor Tanya Luhrmann

Monday, 18 January, 2016 - 17:00 to 19:00

Prof Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford University) Local theory of mind: why people experience the same god differently in different parts of the world The substantial achievement of the cognitive science of religion has been to demonstrate that evolved, “natural” qualities of our minds readily generate intuitions about...