The children of Vincentius
Seminar
Child separation has been thoroughly investigated in countries such as Canada and Australia, however, hardly anything concrete is known about the scope, policies and practices of child separation in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. Notwithstanding, the separation of children were at the heart…
Human Pairbonding: Reconciling the Major Paradigms in the Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences
Seminar
Many would agree on the usefulness of evolutionary theory for understanding our bodies. There is less agreement, however, regarding its usefulness for understanding human behaviour—and those who do see the value disagree on how it should be applied. Here, I compare and contrast the three major…
Bio Anth Double Header: Dr Samantha Yaussy & Dr Lucie Biehler-Gomez
Seminar
For this Bio Anth Seminar, we will be joined by TWO speakers, Dr Samantha Yaussy from Utah State University and Dr Lucie Biehler-Gomez from the University of Milan. Samantha and Lucie, who are bioarchaeologists, will each present an in-person talk. Dr Yaussy’s will present on “Intersectional…
Horseback Ethnography and Multispecies Intersectionality
Seminar
Feminist and multispecies anthropologies have de-centred those most visible, in order to appreciate the perspectives of those othered in society – but also in order to better understand society at large. This paper goes beyond de-centring the human towards de-centring another analytical focus: the…
Investigating skeletal frailty and resilience in ancient human populations
Seminar
Palaeopathological lesions imply an individual suffered from and survived life’s stressors sufficiently long to alter their skeletal or dentoalveolar structures. However, this interpretation can sometimes undermine the reality that observable skeletal lesions reflect adaptive, albeit degenerative,…
Book Launch The Five Million Year Odyssey & First Farmers 2nd Ed by Peter Bellwood
Book launch
Join us for the launch of The Five-Million-Year Odyssey and First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies, 2nd Ed by Peter Bellwood. The books are to be launched by Professor Grady Venville, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), ANU followed by a presentation by Peter Bellwood. There will be…
image/identity: explorations of identities through visual representations in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Seminar
The paper explores visual representations of identities (professed and attributed) over a century of turbulent history in the mountainous interior of Sulawesi, Indonesia--from the images of the 'headhunters' from early twentieth century scientific expeditions to the postings on social media by…