Our third year student Bobine Notenboom has been awarded a studentship through the SeNSS (South East Network for Social Sciences) Doctoral Training Partnership scheme to pursue a Master’s and Doctoral dissertation for her project titled ‘The Sacred Volcano and the Extremely Large Telescope: Structural Violence and Conflicting Notions of Pollution at Mauna a Wākea, Hawai’i’. Read More…
Category: social anthropology
The anthropology of facial hair
In our first year Key Skills in Anthropology module, students are introduced to the fundamental academic skills necessary to succeed in university and post-university employment. As part of the course, students are asked to write an essay on the topic of hair from a social and biological anthropological perspective. This week we are featuring a Read More…
Anthropology of Life & Death: Conceptions of life and death amongst Hawaiians
As part of our third year Anthropology of Life & Death module, students explore the question of life, in its broadest sense, from a variety of anthropological perspectives. This week, we are featuring a student essay from the module by Bobine Notenboom. Bobine’s bio: I am a third-year anthropology student from the Netherlands. Throughout my Read More…
Being Human: The anthropology of menstruation
As part of our first year Being Human module, students write an essay where they consider social and biological anthropological perspectives on a key topic in anthropology. This week, our featured essay is by Vlada Sosis. Vlada’s bio: I am a first year anthropology student, originally from Ukraine. After I finished a Fine Arts degree Read More…
Katerina Hatzikidi’s talk on quilombo heritage politics in Brazil
On 6 December 2021, Dr Katerina Hatzikidi (University of Tübingen, University of Oxford) presented a fascinating talk titled ‘Moulding collective identities: Reflections on quilombo heritage politics in Brazil’ in our Anthroehampton seminar series, which is now available for viewing below.
James Davies’ new book ‘Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis’
James Davies’ new book Sedated has just been released with Atlantic Books. In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of Read More…
CRESIDA seminar by Ayaz Qureshi on valuing stigma in Pakistan’s HIV prevention
On 17 March 2021, Dr Ayaz Qureshi from the University of Edinburgh presented a webinar in the CRESIDA seminar series titled ‘NGOs and valuing stigma in Pakistan’s HIV prevention’. A recording of the talk is below.
Alt. Vibes Online Festival
‘Alt. Vibes! A Spring in the step around Roehampton’ is a University of Roehampton, Wandsworth Council and community supported initiative funded by the Research England Strategic Priorities Fund. In lieu of a planned parade through Alton Estate and the University of Roehampton campus, this is an online performance featuring university partner the World Heart Beat Read More…
CRESIDA seminar by Dr Giovanna Capponi on the multiple meanings of wild boar in central Italy
On 4 February 2021, Dr Giovanna Capponi from the University of Roehampton and CEFRES/Charles University in Prague presented a webinar in the CRESIDA seminar series titled ‘What does a wild boar mean to different people? Managing human-wildlife conflicts in Central Italy’. Abstract Wild boars, increasing in numbers and even in size, have been recently at Read More…
Zakynthos’ Navagio beach: Staged tourism, lazy tourism or dark tourism?
In our second year Cultural Politics on Tour module, students are introduced to the fundamental academic skills necessary to succeed in university and post-university employment. As part of the course, students are asked to write an essay on the topic of hair from a social and biological anthropological perspective. This week we are featuring an essay by Read More…
