2022 Anthony Forge Lecture - Geontologies & Four Axioms of Existence, Where to Begin?
Lecture
Please note: The ANU continues to require mask wearing at indoor events on campus. Please bring your mask in order to attend this event, unless you have an exemption. This lecture asks how anthropology should ground its research agenda in the context of crumbling boundaries between Life…
Negotiating Plastic Elements: De-mythicizing Warriors and Plastics in Japan, the 1940s – 1970s
Seminar
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Japan is the second-largest producer of plastic waste. Most plastic waste is said to come from the household. The recent government policies have called for the cooperation of individual citizens to recycle and change…
The Semiotics of Human Cooperation
Seminar
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Starting from dialogical, interactive studies of human discourse, we identify and discuss six properties of human cooperation that have either been missed or have remained underappreciated in the literature on cooperation…
Waitetoke and other wetland cultivation complexes from the northern offshore islands of Aotearoa New Zealand
Seminar
Waitetoke and other wetland cultivation complexes from the northern offshore islands of Aotearoa New Zealand Ahuahu (Great Mercury Island) is a small 16 km2 island located approximately 6 km off of the Coromandel Peninsula of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Māori were drawn to the island…