The aim of this group is to open a window towards the discussion of death and its social and cultural implications.

This is a forum on educative practices, moments, systems, institutions (and their resistance), and those caught up in them as an object of anthropological inquiry. Includes traditional ethnographies of schools and related explorations beyond them.See More

To consider the life cycle as a whole and its principal stages and transitions.

This is a forum for anyone wanting to discuss issues of transgression. I am interested in sexual transgression but this is only one of the many remits of the discussion, use it for talking on transgression in art, economics, politics, academia, bodie

A forum to discuss how economic anthropology might be regenerated by taking advantage of new social forms such as this one.

Points of contact between core ideas in philosophy and anthropology such as comparative cosmology and ontology and the theorisation of subjectivity.

The aim of this group is to provide a space where philosophical, theoretical and ethnographic ideas about 'the secular' can be explored.

all kinds of talk about HIV, anthropology, and cross species infection/interaction... Ideal for folks interested in interrogating infected being in time

Where and how do we look in our endeavours to research and theorise identity?

For discussing queer anthropology in terms of theory, method, ethnography, and more.

A forum for considering issues relevant to the anthropological study of law and politics, in all of its myriad interpretations.

How do people heal from traumatic events? What roles do narrative, ritual, mythology, etc play in this process?