The feeding ecology of Cat Ba langurs on Cat Ba Island, Vietnam
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The Cat Ba langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus) is one of the 25 most threatened primates in the world. The taxon is endemic to Cat Ba Island and there have only been a small number of studies published on the species. The overall goal of this PhD project is to answer questions about the species…
Put Your Mask On! Contractual Sociality at Work in the Pandemic
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For many Americans, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced them to re-evaluate how the workplace functions as a site of private government. In every workplace, there is a wide range of attitudes and responses to pandemic risk, and yet the workplace somehow has to convince everyone to coordinate…
The State-Issued ‘Identity Card’ as Visual Medium in Postauthoritarian Indonesia
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In the political environment that followed the authoritarian New Order in Indonesia (approx. ’65-‘98), various minority groups assert that access to bureaucratic forms of citizenship can provide protection from harm. During fieldwork in 2014-15 with transgender women in the cities of…
Wild Policy: a theory, method and activation
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In this talk, anthropologist Tess Lea will speak to her new book, Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention (2020, Stanford UP). The book does three key things: it explains why policy will never be ‘good’ in Indigenous Australia; it creates a new framework for thinking about…
The Evolution of the Osteobiography: Medical Curiosities to Integrated Human Microhistories
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About this Seminar First coined by forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow in the 1970s, the term “osteobiography” broadly refers to the reconstruction of key aspects of an individual’s identity from their skeletal remains. The concept has its roots in the hobbyist anthropology of 19th century medicos…
Whose 'Failed State?': Connecting Contemporary Law and Order Issues in Enga Province to Its Colonial Past
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Enga province in the highlands of Papua New Guinea faces numerous 'law and order' problems including election-related violence, the persecution of supposed witches, public disorder and violence by security guards around the Porgera gold mine, and that ubiquitous but poorly-defined phenomenon of '…
Founders and Settlers: Unpacking Indigeneity among the Higaunon Lumad in Mindanao
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In the Philippines, there is a stark disconnect between the static notion of indigeneity legalised by the state and the emic concepts employed by Indigenous peoples themselves. This talk explores indigeneity as operationalised by the Higaunon of Mindanao, one of the island’s many Lumad or “…