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‘Authorship in Art’ Lab held at the ASA21

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In March 2021 Rob Simpkins (University of Sheffield) and I (Iza) organized a lab at the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK online conference on Responsibility, hosted by the University of Aberdeen. The aim of the lab was to develop a comparative ethnographic approach to ideas of artistic authorship and responsibility. Participants jointly planned […]

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Decameron Relived

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  It is my pleasure to announce that Decameron Relived launched today on Cultural Anthropology.   As anthropologists we often tell stories in our work to introduce a setting, to illustrate a point, to “try to grasp the fragments of the real world” (Fassin 2014, 41), or to give readers a sense of what it […]

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Walking stories – methods on the move

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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the RAI2020 Anthropology and Geography conference and to present in a panel in the methods section. The panel, convened by Elizabeth Rahman and Shonil Bhagawat, entitled Walking stories: doing and making out and about explored ethnographic methods on the move. This was a fantastic opportunity to reflect on […]