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Transformations: The art of recycling, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (until Autumn 2001). South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PP, tel. +44 1865 270927 (reviewed in AT 16, 4, 2000)

Catching the spirit: Representations of vodou spirits in contemporary Haitian art, the october gallery (12 Oct - 11 Nov), (24 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AL, tel. +44 (0)20-7242 7367; open Tues-Sat 12.30-5.30pm) (see news)

23-27 Oct International Society of Ethnobiology, 7th International Congress. Athens, GA. Contact John R. Stepp and Rebecca Zarger, Dept of Anthropology, U of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; rstepp@uga.edu , http://guallart.dac.uga.edu/ISE

25-28 Oct Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, 28th Annual Meeting, Burlington, Canada. Contact: Charles Fitzgerald, Dept of Anthropology, McMaster U, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; fitzgerl@mcmaster.ca , http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/CAPA/capa.html

26-29 Oct Social Science History Association's 25th annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Criminal justice, family & demography, migration & immigration, education, and women & gender. Contact: The Conference Registrar, Indiana University Conferences, 110 One City Centre, Bloomington, IN 47404. Tel. +1 812 855 4661; http://www.ipums.umn.edu/~ssha/

2-3 Nov International Congress of Anthropology Students, Lisbon. Contact: 8th International Congress, Av. das Forças Armadas, Edifício ISCTE, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal; tel./fax: +351 217903940; anthropology8@hotmail.com ; http://www.iscte.pt

6-7 Nov Urbanisation in Oceania organized by the Centre for the Contemporary Pacific, Australian National University. Details from Greg Rawlins, Centre for the Contemporary Pacific, Rm 4207, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, Canberra ACT 0200, tel.: +61 2 6249 3098, fax.: +61 2 6249 5525, Email: ccp@coombs.anu.edu.au , http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccp

15-19 Nov American Anthropological Association, 99th Annual Meeting, San Francisco,CA. Theme:Public face of anthropology. Contact AAAMtgs Dept, 4350 NFairfax Dr, Suite 640, Arlington,VA 22203-1620, USA; tel. 703 528 1902 ext. 2, jmeier@aaanet.org , http://www.ameranthassn.org/

20 Nov-1 Dec Gender, reproductive health and fertility, and Culture, psychology and psychiatry. Two-week intensive executive course. Amsterdam Master's in Medical Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel. +31 20 525 4779; amma@pscw.uva.nl

24-26 Nov Postgraduate Workshop : The anthropology of change, London School of Economics and Political Science. Contact: Anthropology of Change Workshop, Dept of Anthropology, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE; Anthrochange@lse.ac.uk , http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/anthropology/Anthrochange.htm

27 Nov -1 DecInternational Workshop on Tourism, 2nd Meeting. Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Theme: Social, cultural, economic and ecological implications of tourism in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Deadline for abstracts: 1 Nov 2000. Contact Johannes Maerk, Dept of Social Anthropology, U of Quintana Roo, C.P. 77010 Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico; fax (+ 52-983) 50332, joma@balam.cuc.uqroo.mx

29 Nov RAI HENRY MYERS LECTURE Prof. Jan Assmann,Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, University of Heidelberg. On Funerary rites in ancient Egypt, 6 pm (note: change of time), Gustave TuckTheatre, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1. Admission free. Refreshment afterwards.

30 Nov-1 Dec Food in the Pacific and Asia organized by the Centre for the Contemporary Pacific, Australian National University. Details from Greg Rawlins, Centre for the Contemporary Pacific, Rm 4207, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia; tel. +61 2 6249 3098, fax +61 2 6249 5525, ccp@coombs.anu.edu.au , http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccp

4 -15 Dec Culture, care, chronic illness and disability and Children, health and well-being: A cultural perspective. Two-week intensive executive course. Amsterdam Master's in Medical Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel. +31 20 525 4779; amma@pscw.uva.nl

6 Dec RAI HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE. Prof. Pierre Bourdieu, Collège de France, Paris. Participant objectivation: Breaching the boundary between anthropology and sociology - how? Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1, 6 pm. Admission free without ticket. Refreshment afterwards.

8-9 Dec [change of date] Auf der Suche nach Identitäten: Volk-Stamm-Kultur-Ethnos is an international conference on significance and praxis of ethnic ascription in archaeology held at the University of Leipzig. For details contact: Prof. S. Rieckhoff, Rieckhoff@rzuni-leipzig.de or Dr. Ulrike Sommer, usommer@sfb417.uni-leipzig.de

13-15 Dec 2001 Innovation, creation and new economic forms: Approaches to intellectual and cultural property. Conference to be held at University of Cambridge, organised by Cambridge-Brunel research project 'Property, transactions and creations: New economic relations in the Pacific', www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/ptc.htm. Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2001. Contact Dr Melissa Demian, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF; tel. +44 1223 762341, fax +44 1223 766291, email mad21@cam.ac.uk

16-20 Dec RAI Seventh International Festival of Ethnographic Film, hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. For more detail, see back cover and the dedicated web page: http://www.therai.org.uk/film/festival2000.html

23-24 Feb Asceticism and power in the Asian context. Organized by the Royal Asiatic Society and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Abstracts deadline: 1 Sep 2000. Contact Rupert Cox for Far East (106207.2000@compuserve.com ), Peter Flugel for S Asia (pf@cix.co.uk ), or Gustaaf Houtman for SE Asia . Royal Asiatic Society, 60 Queen's Gardens, London W2 3AF, http://www.therai.org.uk/anthcal/asianasceticism.html

26 Feb -27 Mar Luis Montaine Physical Anthropology Symposium. Havana, Cuba. Contact Margarita Carmenate, Secretary of the Symposium Committee; montane@comuh.uh.cu , fax 537-32-1321, 537-33-5774

7-9 Mar Education in the Pacific organised by the Centre for the Contemporary Pacific, Australian National University. Details from Greg Rawlins, Centre for the Contemporary Pacific, Rm 4207, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia; tel.: +61 2 6249 3098, fax.: +61 2 6249 5525, ccp@coombs.anu.edu.au , http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccp

9-18 Mar Cinéma du réel, the 23rd International Festival of Ethnographic and Social Documentation, Paris. Submission deadline: 1 November 2000. BPI - Centre Georges Pompidou, 25 rue du Renard, 75197 Paris Cedex 04, France; tel +33 1 44 78 44 21, fax +33 1 44 78 12 24; cinereel@bpi.fr ; http://www.bpi.fr

19-23 Mar Science and shamanism. First International Congress, Palm Springs, California. Contact: Michael Ripinsky-Naxon, Centre for Shamanism and Consciousness Studies, PMB 504, 44489 Town Center Way Suite D, Palm Desert, CA 92260-2723, USA; congress@csacs.org , http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/CAPA/capa.html

30 Mar -2 Apr Anthropological perspectives on rights, claims and entitlements, Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) of the UK and Commonwealth, Annual Conference, University of Sussex , England. Contact Richard Wilson, AFRAS, Univ Sussex, Falmer, E Sussex, BN1 9SJ, UK, tel +44-1273-606755, R.Wilson@sussex.ac.uk , www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/anthrop/asa2001

2-6 May Culture, difference, inequality. American Ethnological Society, Canadian Anthropological Society, and The Society for Cultural Anthropology, Joint Annual Meetings at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Proposals deadline: 1 Feb 2001. Contacts: AES: Ida Susser, Hunter C, 695 Park Ave, NY, NY 10021, USA, idasusser@aol.com ; CASCA: John Galaty, CASCA/2001, Dept of Anthropology, McGill U, 855 Sherbrooke St West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T7, casca2001@po-box.mcgill.ca ; SCA: Michael Silverstein, Dept of Anthropology, U of Chicago, 1126 East 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637-1580, USA, m-silverstein@uchicago.edu . Meeting website: http://casca2001.mcgill.ca

15-17 Sep 16th Annual Pakistan workshop. Rook How, Lake District, England. Theme: Economy and power of Pakistan, Pakistani Diaspora and Muslims of South Asia. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 Jun 2001. Contact Steve Lyon, Dept of Anthropology, Eliot College, U of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NS, UK ; s.m.lyon@ukc.ac.uk , http://anthropology.ac.uk/PakWorkshop2001

28 Nov-2 Dec American Anthropological Association, 100th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Submission information in the January 2001 AN and posted on www.aaanet.org. Contact AAA Meetings Dept, 4350 N Fairfax Dr, Suite 640, Arlington, VA 22203-1620, USA; 703/528-1902 ext 2, jmeier@aaanet.org

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