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Auckland Hosts World Gathering Of Anthropologists
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
More than 400 anthropologists from around the world will gather at The University of Auckland in December as the Department of Anthropology hosts the largest anthropology conference to date in the southern hemisphere.
(via University of Auckland) For the first time, members of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth (ASA), the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAANZ) and the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) are combining their individual annual events to gather for a joint five-day conference dedicated to issues of ownership and appropriation.
World renowned anthropologist and forthcoming University of Auckland Hood Fellow Dame Marilyn Strathern will deliver the keynote speech, “Sharing, stealing and borrowing simultaneously”.
Professor Strathern’s speech, which doubles as her Hood Fellow public lecture, focusses on ephemeral forms of ownership, such as 'borrowing', and was partly inspired by the the way in which a particular Pacific Island invention appears to suggest new ways of thinking about property.
The Ownership and Appropriation conference will be hosted by The University of Auckland’s Department of Anthropology 7-12 December. For conference and registration details visit http://www.theasa.org/asa08/
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