Open interdisciplinary conference encompassing anthropology, politics, sociology, literature and other aesthetic disciplines.Organised by the International Political Anthropology association; see 'www.politicalanthropology.org' Convenors; Tom Boland & John O'Brien (Waterford Institute of Technology)tboland@wit.e, or jfobrien@wit.ie, Inviting plenary and session papers. Deadline, Feb 3rd, 2012 See attached for detailsSee More

This conference focuses the social pathologies of contemporary civilisation, i.e. on the ways in which contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psycho-somatic syndromes are related to cultural pathologies of the social body and disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society manifest at the level of individual patients' bodies, and how the social & bodies politic are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. The…See More

There are many anthropology journals. Unfortunately, not all of them are read or heard of equally! This is a group for posting call-for-papers for all known and unknown journals, promoting the OAC's spirit of international cooperation.

As Victor Turner said, culture is a forest of symbols...

Reading, or writing a good fiction book can be culturally and politically immersive. Authors like Ursula K. Le Guin have literally created entire civilizations through the written word, and used them to explore many anthropological themes.

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

The aim of this group is to discuss issues of consumption through multiple perspectives, by investigating consumption as praxis, its relations to capitalism, historical developments and everydayness, ethnographic aspects...and more!

The organization and culture of anthropology; the organizations and cultures of anthropology.

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For all those who are interested in Theory of Media Anthropology and who want to share, connect and exchange about specific subfields that are not yet covered by other groups like Print Media, Radio, Telephone, Journalism, PR, Ad...add more!

OAC already has a group named Theory in Anthropology, a good place to discuss theories already embraced by anthropologists. This group is, instead, intended for discussion of theory found outside anthropology that anthropologists might find useful.

This conference focuses the social pathologies of contemporary civilisation, i.e. on the ways in which contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psycho-somatic syndromes are related to cultural pathologies of the social body and disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society manifest at the level of individual patients' bodies, and how the social & bodies politic are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. The…See More