Welcome to the Royal Anthropological Institute
Welcome to the home page of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, a scholarly association dedicated to anthropology in all its many fields and applications.
Wellcome Medal 2016
The RAI is please to announce that the Wellcome Medal for 2016 has been awarded to Dr Elizabeth Hallam for her book Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed.
RAI Student Conference
RAI Pop-up Student Conference
14 September 2018
University of Bristol
Where are we going? Reflections on the future of human beings and the anthropological disciplines
The annual RAI Student Conference returns for 2018 as a one-day conference at the University of Bristol. We welcome submissions for papers, posters and audio/visual material from students of all levels, and from all fields – social/cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, biological/evolutionary anthropology and material culture/archaeology. Submissions from related interdisciplinary approaches also welcome.
Deadline 30 July 2018
RAI Awards
2018 Rivers Medal - Dr Madeleine Reeves
2018 Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize - Professor Claire Smith
2018 Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World - David Lan
2018 President's Life-time Achievement Award - Professor David Parkin
2019 Curl Lecturer - Dr Oliver Harris
2019 Huxley Memorial Lecturer - Professor Chris Hann