April 21–25, 2013
Literary Anthropology
Stuart McLean, Co-Chair
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology and Global Studies
University of Minnesota
Andand Pandian, Co-Chair
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Johns Hopkins University
This advanced seminar examined the place of literary craft in contemporary anthropology, focusing attention on forms of transformative encounter provoked by the reading and writing of anthropological literature. The seminar was intended both as a forum for conceptual discussion and as an intensive workshop for the collaborative development of innovative forms of anthropological prose.
May 5–9, 2013
21st-Century Hunting and Gathering: Foraging on a Transitional Landscape
Brian F. Codding, Co-Chair
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Utah
Karen L. Kramer, Co-Chair
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Utah
Today’s foraging populations live on a transitional landscape, encountering and adapting to external impacts caused by local and global neighbors. This seminar explored answers to the question: Given all of the economic alternatives available to individuals in the 21st century, why do people around the world maintain hunting and gathering life-ways?
December 8–12, 2013
Faith-Based Charity and the Security State: Containing People and Finance in Risk Societies
Erica Caple James, Chair
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This advanced seminar explored how faith-based humanitarian activities challenge notions of secularism, as well as conceptions of risk and security, in cross-cultural contexts.