We're looking for a one-year Teaching Fellow to start in August 2025. Come and join our team! We're receiving applications until 4th July.
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A great way to spend a sunny day of work, with great colleagues in a beautiful city. #anthropology
Social Anthropology Away Day 2025 ✨
Discussing our values, contemporary anthropology and what we love about our work in Edinburgh on the sun-kissed roof of the National Museum of Scotland.
#anthropology #edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social
Poster of Lotte Hoek’s inaugural lecture, ‘For an anthropology of the screen’.
This Friday, 9th May, we’re celebrating Lotte Hoek’s (@mediaautomatiek.bsky.social) promotion as Professor of Cultural Anthropology. She will give her inaugural lecture, ‘For an anthropology of the screen’. If you’re in the vicinity, please come and join us.
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We were so enthralled and delighted to hear Professor Jason De León speak about "Soldiers and Kings" last night!
Colleagues from Social Anthropology and beyond turned out in force to hear and learn from Prof. De León, including, l-r, our Drs. Alejandro Escalente, Grace Zhou and Jeevan Sharma.
Happening today!
Do join us!
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Seminar poster for Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab's paper.
Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab will present the final Social Anthropology Seminar of the semester:
“Woman Life Freedom: Visual Triggers of Iranian Feminism”
Chaired by the inimitable Dr. Lucy Lowe.
Join us!!! Friday 28th March, 3-5pm CMB seminar room 1.
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Last Friday, the brilliant Atreyee Sen gave a riveting account of women, digital scandals, moral surveillance, and the shifting labour market in peri-urban India. What a treat!
Photo of Chrystal Macmillan Building basking in the sun. With text: "We're chuffed to be ranked 17th in the world (and 5th in the UK)! " followed by three emoticons suggesting celebration/party time. *QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Anthropology
It's Friday and we're.... absolutely delighted that we're ranked 17th in the world (and 5th in the UK)!
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To know more about Grace and her work, check out her UoE page www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/grace-... and her website www.gracehzhou.com
Tombstone, Arizona. December 1906 Take my bones, girl soak them in brandy, when they gleam like the pearled vertebrae of some native creature--- coyote or her patient prey-wrap me in a fine silk brocade the color of our secret moon, of mutton-fat jade nursing at my wrists, of these side-sleeper hills at dawn (hills so close we might run and be free in them). Once, I offered pieces of myself to every man--my hands, my coins, my words-- I traded my name for honor and they called me Mary, like their placid goddess. Was she not matriarch to whores and wanted men too? Now, flesh scrubbed bare, I let this land claim me, this land that has stripped me down to my convictions: so plant me deep, girl, to feed my thousand sons and daughters. Root me here and here and here, into this hard dirt
between the ocotillo and creosote. When I burst into crop, gather my bounty.
And here's one of Grace's poems, titled 'The Burial of a Woman Known as China Mary'
Cover of Grace Zhou's poetry chapbook
We pinch ourselves, poet and anthropologist Grace Zhou has joined us in Edinburgh! Read her speculative poetics of repair in the beautiful poetry chapbook "Soil Called a Country" where she asks what it means to make a home as an immigrant in a settler colonial nation.
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Poster for Atreyee Sen's Seminar at the University of Edinburgh
“Unpacking a sacking: Moral outrage and female workplace precarity in peri-urban India” by Dr. Atreyee Sen
We look forward to welcome Dr. Sen to the Anthropology Seminar to discuss thee dynamics of moral surveillance of digitally literate, young professional women in India. Join us!
How do we learn what failure looks like? How do we learn how to live with it? What does it mean to fail one another? And how do we live well when everything falls apart?
Book cover of 'Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile' by Magnus Course
photo of Magnus Course
In case you've missed it, Magnus Course's gorgeous new book 'Three Ways to Fail' is now available from @pennpress.bsky.social:
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The award winning "Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas" opens with a chapter on protest movements and public film screenings by our colleague Lotte Hoek.
Vote of Faith is available from @fordhampress.bsky.social: www.fordhampress.com/978153150908...
Book cover of Maya Mayblin's book "Vote of Faith".
Maya Mayblin's latest book, Vote of Faith, is a richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil. Focused on the lives and loves of Catholic priests in the profane world of party politics, she asks: what does desire reveal about the nature of power?
#Anthropology #AnthroSky
Excited to visit Edinburgh in a few weeks!
There are three more Social Anthropology seminars coming up this semester in Edinburgh!
Don’t miss our brilliant speakers:
✨ Nafis Hasan (14/3)
✨ Atreyee Sen (21/3)
✨ Pooyan Tamimi Arab (28/3)
Fridays, 3-5pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, all welcome!
#anthropology @pooyan1983.bsky.social
Photo of Laura Jeffery and the new volume 'Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago'
Congratulations to Laura Jeffery & collaborators on the publication of ‘Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago’!
Watch Laura talk about her chapter, ‘Political and Legal Debates about Chagossian Ethnicity and Indigeneity’: edin.ac/41S9LGF
The volume is open access: edin.ac/3FfL1iW
Photo of Laura Jeffery and the new volume 'Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago'
Congratulations to Laura Jeffery & collaborators on the publication of ‘Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago’!
Watch Laura talk about her chapter, ‘Political and Legal Debates about Chagossian Ethnicity and Indigeneity’: edin.ac/41S9LGF
The volume is open access: edin.ac/3FfL1iW
Jason De León's photo
photo of young men beside a railway track
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling Thursday, 27 March 2025, 17.15 MacLaren Stuart Room, G. 159 Old College
In this Munro Lecture, Professor Jason De León will present stories from his recent book ("Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling") and examine the complicated relationship among transnational gangs, the human smuggling industry, and migrant desires for safety and well-being.
We're excited to host @jasondeleon.bsky.social's Munro Lecture later this month:
Soldiers & Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
27 March 2015, 17.15
MacLaren Stuart Room G. 159 Old College
This event is open to all: jasondeleon.eventbrite.co.uk
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There are three more Social Anthropology seminars coming up this semester in Edinburgh!
Don’t miss our brilliant speakers:
✨ Nafis Hasan (14/3)
✨ Atreyee Sen (21/3)
✨ Pooyan Tamimi Arab (28/3)
Fridays, 3-5pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, all welcome!
#anthropology @pooyan1983.bsky.social
Profile photograph of Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
We could not be prouder of our former Social Anthropology PhD student Dr. Amarasuriya, who was appointed Sri Lanka’s first woman prime minister in 24 years. She was sworn in on 24 September 2024. Her intelligence, integrity, and empathy, have since marked her tenure. #AnthroSky #Anthropology
Profile photograph of Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
We could not be prouder of our former Social Anthropology PhD student Dr. Amarasuriya, who was appointed Sri Lanka’s first woman prime minister in 24 years. She was sworn in on 24 September 2024. Her intelligence, integrity, and empathy, have since marked her tenure. #AnthroSky #Anthropology
Hello everyone! 👋 We're a bit late, but looking forward to posting here often and re(connecting) with you. In the meantime, please give us a follow and repost this. 😊 #AnthroSky #Anthropology
