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Needham’s review of Paul Veyne’s ‘Did the Greeks believe in their myths?’

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Mon, 17 Aug 2015

This post is a continuation of my thoughts in my previous post… Now to Needham’s review of Veyne’s book. The review is short, and much is taken up with flattering comments on Veyne’s style, but overall the conclusion is negative—he characterises...

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Announcing: Ignorance Studies Listserv

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Sun, 26 Jan 2014

Anthropology of Ignorance I’ve set up a JISCMail mailing list for discussion of the social scientific study of ignorance. The list will be publicly archived. To subscribe or contribute, click HERE. Get in touch with me if you have any questions.

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Speaking Ethically Across Borders Conference: Registration Open!

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Wed, 11 Dec 2013

Registration is now open for the conference: Speaking Ethically Across Borders: Interdisciplinary Approaches 8-10 January 2014 CRASSH, University of Cambridge With lectures by: Michael Lambek (Toronto) and Simon Coleman (Toronto). Including...

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Cultures of Belief — post-print version of article

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Wed, 10 Apr 2013

As promised, here’s a post-print version of my Cultures of Belief article, which was published in Anthropological Theory. cultures-of-belief-post-print The text is identical to the journal version, but the formatting is different — this is the...

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Cultures of Belief – New paper out in Anthropological Theory

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Wed, 10 Apr 2013

I’ve just had a new paper out in Anthropological Theory — this is behind a paywall, I’ll make a post-print version available through this website soon for those who don’t have access to the journal through an academic library. The paper is titled...

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CRASSH Project: Speaking Ethically Across Borders

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Fri, 07 Dec 2012

I am currently a research fellow at CRASSH, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, at Cambridge University. One of the things I’m working on is an interdisciplinary project on ‘Speaking Ethically Across Borders’....

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GDAT 2012: Debating “neoliberalism”

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Wed, 05 Dec 2012

On Saturday I had the pleasure of taking part in GDAT, an annual debate on anthropological theory hosted by Manchester University. GDAT, the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, was started in the late 80s by Tim Ingold, and has been...

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Cultures of Ignorance: CFP, 17th World Congress of the IUAES, Manchester 2013

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Thu, 31 May 2012

Jenny Diggins (Sussex) and I have just issued the following call for papers for a panel on the anthropology of ignorance, to be held at the IUAES Congress in Manchester next summer. Feel free to get in touch if you’re considering submitting a...

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The Anthropology of Ignorance

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Tue, 17 Apr 2012

High, C., A. Kelly & J. Mair (2012). The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach High, C., Kelly, A., Mair, J. (eds.) 2012. The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach. New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. A new...

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