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December 2004 Special Lectures in 2005. We are pleased to announce the election of Professor Peter Ucko, Professor of Comparative Archaeology and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at UCL, as 2005 Huxley Memorial Lecturer and Medallist; and of Dr Miguel Alexiades, currently Research Fellow at the University of Kent, as 2005 Curl Lecturer. Venue and dates of both events tba. Visiting Scholars Programme at The RAI Collection. The RAI is now able to act as academic host to a small number of Visiting Scholars for short periods of research using the RAI Collection (archival, photographic and film material). Research visits must be individually arranged with the RAI. Prospective Visiting Scholars must supply academic credentials and must arrange their own travel, accommodation and funding; the RAI can provide limited space and appropriate supervision subject to capacity. It may be possible to arrange linked access to research facilities elsewhere in London. Enquiries should be addressed to the RAI office, and are particularly welcome from scholars outside the UK. Consultation on human remains. The RAI has
responded to an invitation by the UK Dept of Culture, Media and
Sport to participate in the consultation exercise on Care of historic
human remains: the report of the Working Group on Human Remains
(the Palmer Committee Report). We hope to publish part or all
of the RAI response when issues of confidentiality have been resolved. Holiday closure. The RAI office will close on Tuesday 21 December and reopen on Monday 3 January 2005. We wish all AT readers a restful holiday and successful New Year. October 2004 New publishing contract and more services for Fellows, Members and Student Associates. On 15 September 2004 a new contract was agreed and signed between the RAI and Blackwell Publishing. This brings significant financial benefits to the RAI, and will enable us to extend the range and standard of our services to Fellows, Members and Student Associates. Access for all Fellows to the full text of RAI publications archived in JSTOR will continue. All Fellows, Members and Student Associates continue to be entitled to a 25% discount on Blackwell publications. From 2006, an additional (fifth) issue of the JRAI will be published. This will be distributed free to all Fellows and subscribing libraries as part of the subscription package. A call for proposals for the first special issue in 2006 is published in this issue of AT (see separate announcement). New Committees go to work. Three new Committees set up under the RAI’s Strategic Review, the Publications Committee, Committee for Anthropology in Secondary and Further Education (known as the Education Committee) and Manuscripts and Archives Committee, are actively pursuing their respective briefs. The Publications Committee, chaired by Professor Wendy James, will oversee the JRAI Special Issue series from 2006 (see above) and is developing further new initiatives for RAI publications across the board. The Education Committee, chaired by Professor Brian Street, is examining strategies to promote the presence of anthropology in pre-university education, as an examination subject and as part of general curricula. The MS and Archives Committee, chaired by Professor Tom Selwyn, is building policies for the enhancement, use and conservation of the RAI’s important archive and manuscript holdings, which together with the film and photo libraries now form part of the RAI Collection. The 2004 Huxley Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern of Cambridge University on Wednesday 8 December 2004, at 6.00pm in the University College London Chemistry Auditorium, Christopher Ingold Building, 20 Gordon St, London WC1. Professor Strathern’s title is ‘A community of critics?’ There will be a reception afterwards in the North Cloisters of UCL; all welcome. RAI Fellows, Members and Student Associates – come and use your Library! The Anthropology Library at the Centre for Anthropology, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10.00-16.45, Thursday 12.00-19.00. Closed weekends and Bank Holidays. Since the re-opening in May this year (following relocation), there has been encouraging interest in the Library from the academic community, RAI subscribers and others. There is a larger reading area than was possible at the former Museum of Mankind, with a large number of books available for browsing on open shelves. A selection of current periodicals is housed in the reading area and self-service photocopying facilities are also available. The Library is for reference, but RAI Fellows may borrow books and journals donated by the RAI. The Library staff look forward to welcoming you. The 2004 Leach-RAI Fellowship, hosted by the University of Sussex, has been awarded to Dr Peter Luetchford. Dr Luetchford was awarded his PhD from Sussex in 2002, for a thesis on ‘Risk, trust and Fair Trade: Coffee in Costa Rica’. His project for the Fellowship is entitled ‘Fair Trade and a global commodity: Coffee in Costa Rica’. It will generate anthropological insight into the preferred trade deals offered by northern NGOs to producer groups in the south. By documenting ethical and political commitments in the economy, the research will open up discussion on the relation between local and global processes and ethical ideas in economic, political and cultural life. Subscriptions for 2005. The RAI Council has decided on the following individual subscription rates for 2005:
August 2004 Annual General Meeting, Presidential Address and Special Film Event. By kind invitation of Dr André Singer and West Park Pictures, the 2004 AGM will be held in the Debating Chamber at County Hall, Riverside Building, London SE1 7PB at 4.00pm on Wednesday 15 September. All are welcome; only RAI Fellows may vote. For the detailed AGM agenda, please see the insert included in this mailing of AT and advertised on the RAI website. After the AGM, at approximately 5.00 pm, Professor Wendy James, retiring President of the RAI, will deliver her Presidential Address entitled ‘Anthropology and the imagination of difference’. At approximately 6.15, following a short break to enable newcomers to join, we will welcome the celebrated film-maker John Marshall, winner of the Basil Wright Prize at the 2003 RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, who will present his prizewinning film The Kalahari family and lead a short discussion. All are welcome; refreshments will be served afterwards. We hope that as many as possible, whether Fellows or not, will attend the whole afternoon and evening programme, and that Fellows in particular will participate in the affairs of the Institute at the AGM. The programme has, however, been planned to allow those unable to be present throughout, to enter and leave at any point. Please note that parking is not possible in the vicinity of County Hall. Annual Report. The Annual Report for 2003 has been published and is being sent to Fellows with this issue of AT. Patron’s Medal. The Patron’s Medal is awarded by the Council of the RAI to honour outstanding service to the Institute and/or to anthropology. We are pleased to announce the award of the Medal in 2004 to Mr Niel Sebag-Montefiore, retiring Honorary Treasurer of the RAI. The presentation is expected to take place at the AGM. Rivers Memorial Medal. The Rivers Memorial Medal is awarded annually, at Council’s discretion, for a recent body of work which, as a whole, makes a significant contribution to the discipline. We are pleased to announce that the 2004 Medal has been awarded to Dr Chris Stringer FRS, of the Natural History Museum, London. The presentation is expected to take place at the AGM. The 2004 Henry Myers Lecture will take place on Monday 20 September at 6pm in the Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh St, London WC1. The Lecturer is Professor Wendy Doniger of the University of Chicago. Prof Doniger’s title is ‘The mythology of self-imitation in passing: Race, gender and politics’. All welcome; refreshments will be served afterwards. The 2004 Huxley Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern of Cambridge University on Wednesday 8 December. Title: ‘A community of critics?’ Venue and time to be announced. Ninth RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film. The Festival will be held in Oxford from 18 to 21 September 2005, following on from the Centenary Celebration of the Oxford University Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) which runs from 15-18 Sept. The host department is ISCA, and the Festival is being organised in association with Oxford Brookes University. Other associated bodies may be added. The rules and conditions of entry will be published on the RAI website from 15 September 2004. For more information please contact by . The RAI Collection: Photographic, film and textual resources in anthropology. Provisionally referred to (AT June 2004) as the Resource Centre for Visual Anthropology, the RAI Collection is now operational and welcomes visitors and enquiries. For details please see separate announcement in this issue of AT. JRAI and AT are scheduled by end this year to move to the Editorial Manager online manuscript tracking service provided by Aries Systems (http://www.editorialmanager.com). More details in the October AT issue and in the Notes to Contributors of both journals. Summer office closure. The RAI office will close on Monday 23 August and reopen on Tuesday 31 August. June 2004 Annual General Meeting and Presidential Address. By kind invitation of Dr André Singer and West Park Pictures, the 2004 AGM will be held in the Debating Chamber at County Hall, Riverside Building, London SE1 7PB at 4pm on Wednesday 15 September. All are welcome; only RAI Fellows may vote. The detailed programme of the AGM, together with the Annual Report for 2003, will be sent to Fellows with the August 2004 issue of AT, and will be advertised on the RAI website. Professor Wendy James, retiring President of the RAI, will deliver her Presidential Address immediately after the AGM. At approximately 6pm, following a short break, the celebrated film-maker John Marshall, winner of the 2003 RAI Basil Wright Prize for ethnographic film, will present his film The Kalahari Family, and lead a discussion. All are welcome; refreshments will be served afterwards. Any changes to the above programme will be announced in the August issue of AT and on the website. We hope that as many RAI Fellows as possible will attend the AGM and participate in the affairs of the Institute. All those interested, whether Fellows or not, are welcome to join the programme at any point. The 2004 Henry Myers Lecture will take place on Monday 20 September at 6pm in the Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh St, London WC1. The Lecturer is Professor Wendy Doniger of the University of Chicago. Professor Doniger’s title is: The mythology of self-imitation in passing: Race, gender and politics. Refreshments will be served afterwards; all are welcome. The 2004 Huxley Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern of Cambridge University on Wednesday 8 December; venue, time and title to be confirmed. We are delighted to announce that the 2003 Curl Essay Prize has been awarded to Professor Jeremy MacClancy for a paper entitled The literary image of anthropologists. Dr Susan Bayly, Hon Editor of the Journal of the RAI, will step down in September 2004 on completion of her term of office. She will be succeeded by Glenn Bowman of the University of Kent at Canterbury. The RAI thanks Dr Bayly for her outstanding contribution to the academic excellence of the JRAI, and welcomes Glenn Bowman to the Hon Editorship. Three of the new committees recommended as part of the Strategic Review are now in place and have begun their programme of work. The Publications Committee, chaired by Professor Wendy James, will monitor and co-ordinate the RAI’s publications as a whole, develop new publication activities where opportunities exist, and advise Council on strategic and policy questions concerning publications. The Committee on anthropology in secondary and further education, chaired by Professor Brian Street, will develop strategies and actions to disseminate knowledge and awareness of anthropology among pre-University and FE students and their teachers and advisers. The Manuscripts and Archives Committee, chaired by Professor Tom Selwyn, will develop means of broadening research access to, and usage of, the RAI’s textual collections, their integration with the visual (film and photo) collections, and collaborative projects with other institutions nationally and internationally. Readers of AT wishing to make proposals or comments to any of these Committees are welcome to send them to the relevant Committee Chair, c/o the RAI Director. RAI Resource Centre for Visual Anthropology. The RAI’s manuscript and archive collections have been removed from their former location at Burlington Gardens, and are now housed at 50 Fitzroy St where the nucleus of the new resource centre is taking shape. The RAI archivist, Photo Librarian and Film Officer, supported by other staff, are working intensively on projects to integrate related parts of the collections, and to develop facilities for access by researchers and all who may be interested. Further details will be published in AT and on the website. British Museum Centre for Anthropology. The new Centre for Anthropology, incorporating the Anthropology Library, opened officially on 10 May. Services to RAI Fellows and other readers are now in place. We thank Fellows for their patience during the closure period. The inevitable inconvenience of this is well compensated by the much improved facilities and environment of the new Library. Office and staff news. Amanda Vinson has succeeded Martin Parkinson as Office Manager. The RAI office will be closed from Monday 23rd to Tuesday 31st August inclusive. April 2004 Annual General Meeting and Presidential Address 2004. The provisional date for the AGM and Presidential Address is Wednesday 15 September; venue and time to be confirmed. The Henry Myers Lecture will take place on Monday 20 September; venue and time to be confirmed. The 2004 Lecturer is Professor Wendy Doniger of the University of Chicago. Professor Doniger’s title is ‘The mythology of self-imitation in passing: Race, gender and politics’. The Huxley Memorial Lecturer and medallist for 2004 is Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern of Cambridge University. The lecture will be given on Wednesday 8 December; venue, time and title to be confirmed. We are pleased to announce that the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology for 2002 has been awarded to Professor Caroline H. Bledsoe of Northwestern University for her book Contingent lives: Fertility, time and aging in West Africa, published by University of Chicago Press. Professor Bledsoe wishes it to be known that the prize will be shared with Fatoumatta Banja, who made significant contributions to the book. The Wellcome Medal, awarded biennially for research in anthropology as applied to medical problems, will be awarded in 2004. The medal rules are currently under discussion between the RAI and Wellcome Trustees, and are expected to be published in the June 2004 issue of AT. The deadline for applications and nominations will be 30 November 2004. RAI Centre for Visual Anthropology: preliminary announcement. We are delighted to announce that generous grants received from the W.B. Fagg Charitable Trust and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research enable the RAI to embark on the first stage of a project to create a national Centre for Visual Anthropology in which the Institute’s photographic, film, archive and manuscript collections can be conserved and made available for scholarly research in an integrated form. The collections will initially be housed at 50 Fitzroy Street, in space that is being vacated to make this possible. More information will be published in future issues of AT. The RAI's Photo Library invites Fellows to submit photographs from fieldwork or other research suitable for inclusion in the RAI Annual Report 2003. Up to five photographs may be submitted, and the deadline is Monday 21 April. For details please contact Arkadiusz Bentkowski on +44 (0)20 7387 0455; email: Staff news. Iside Carbone has replaced Christian Dahm as Indexer at the Anthropological Index Online. Max Carocci will take study leave for several months in 2004; Florentina Badalanova will be Acting Senior Indexer over this period. Martin Parkinson is leaving the RAI to pursue new interests; his successor as Office Manager will shortly be appointed. Re-opening of the Anthropology Library at the British Museum. The new Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum, incorporating the Anthropology Library, will open to the public on Monday 10 May. By special arrangement, from Tuesday 13 April RAI Fellows will be able to use the Library during the hours 10.00 am to 4.45 pm Monday to Friday. Because all arrangements may not be fully in place over this period, anyone wishing to visit is advised to phone the Library beforehand on +44 (0)20 7323 8031 February 2004 None published.
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