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University of Cambridge

• Olivier Allard: Laziness and Stinginess. Moral values and social dynamics among the Warao
• Ross Anthony: A centre at the margin: notes on a city in north-west China
• Françoise Barbira-Freedman: Shamanic networks in western Amazonia
• Tim Bayliss-Smith: WHR Rivers' Ideas about Magic, Medicine and Religion
• Frank Bille: Mongolian ethnicity. Idealisations and forceful inclusions
• Frank Bille: Monumentality and the Colossal: On the seductiveness of totalitarian architecture
• Stéphane Breton (École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): Non-fiction Film and the Ethnographer: The Northbound Journey of a Melanesianist
• Marc Brightman (Oxford and Geneva): Maps and clocks in Surinam
• Ludek Broz: On animal self-sacrifice in contemporary Altai
• Carole J. Brown-Leonardi: Notions of Property: Migration and traditional boundaries in the Deh Cho region
• Manduhai Buyandelger: Trouble with Female Shamans in Mongolia
• Bernard Charlier: Hunting the wolf for 'wind horses'in Mongolia, and revealing the individual
• Giovanni da Col: The view from somewhen: cosmological ethics, perspectivism and fortune among Yunnan Tibetans
• Paul Connerton: Seven types of forgetting
• Ven Vajira Dehiwela: Aspects of the dhamma in Sri Lanka (Ven Vajira Dehiwela is a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka and a former field assistant of Piers Vitebsky)
• Sabine Deiringer: Organising documents, polities and history: The Native Hawaiian Re-Organization Act
• Mary Douglas: Witch hunts and modern wars in Africa
• Susan Drucker-Brown: Witchcraft and Hubris in Ghana
• Rebecca Empson: Making mobility: separation and containment in northeast Mongolia
• Janne Flora: Loneliness, suicide and reincarnation in Greenland
• Janne Flora: Qivittoq: Encounters with the undead in the Greenland wilderness
• Johanna Gonçalves: Pathway metaphors in Yanomami medical thought
• Leila Gordon, with Janne Flora and Olga Ulturgasheva: Round table on young people's suicide in the UK, Greenland and Siberia: different causes, different senses of family, destiny and personhood? (Leila Gordon is a psychoanalytical psychotherapist specialising in adolescent suicide prevention)
• Vanessa Grotti: Individual relationships: Trio and missionary perspectives on the sociality of conversion in northeastern Amazonia
• Yarjung Gurung: Using anthropology and archaeology to retrace my trance soul-flight on the ground: would I find my land of the dead if I went to Tibet or Mongolia? (Yarjung Gurung is a shaman from the Annapurna region of Nepal)
• Hannelore Hägele: Clothed with splendour and majesty: Light and colour in religious statuary
• Jan Hennings: The Honour of Peter the Great and the 'Defect of the British Constitutions'
• Paolo Heywood: Towards a Topography of Love: Discursive Chronotopes of the Russian "Mail-Order Bride" Industry
• Holly High: Fear, Desire and the State in Laos
• Mette High: Mongolian ideas about excessive drinking
• Martin Holbraad: What is truth? Problems of divination and anthropology in Cuba
• Martin Holbraad: Revolución o muerte: Self-sacrifice and the ontology of Cuban revolution
• Jens Ivar-Nergård: Ghosts and Psychiatrists in Sapmi
• Rev Tim Jenkins: The Anthropology of Christianity: situation and critique
• Rev Tim Jenkins: Grimm's tale 'The Queen Bee' - an investigation of the problem of magic
• Prudence Jones: The Triple Universe: Mesopotamian stratification and the Graeco-Roman Moon Goddess
• Prudence Jones: The Path, daughter of the great gods: possible Near Eastern influences on the Greek goddess Hekate in the Archaic age
• Bruce Kapferer: Sinhalese exorcism and Kubrick's 2001: 'A Space Odyssey'
• Chris Kaplonski: Forgetting the lamas: the politicization of death in post-socialist Mongolia
• Adeel Khan: Humour in the Islamic University classroom
• Lena Khlinovskaya-Rockhill: State-induced migration to the Russian North: identity, homeland and imagination
• Katya Krausová (Portobello Media, London): Traces of Cultural Memory of the Jewish Community of Slovakia
• Evelyn Landerer: Walking with Reindeer: new experiences of place and movement
• Alexandra Lavrillier: 'Spirit charged' humans and animals among the Evenki of southeastern Siberia
• Galina Lindquist: Neo-shamanism in Russia and Sweden
• Jialing Luo: Hutong: a Disappearing Historical Neighbourhood in central Beijing
• Robert MacFarland: Becoming One with the Universe and Walking the Harmonious Path
• Jonathan Mair: Buddhism beyond good and evil: Morality and the ethics of self-cultivation in Inner Mongolian Buddhism
• Jonathan Mair: Süjüg: faith in Inner Mongolian Buddhism
• Emilie Maj: Mammoths and the government in Yakutia
• Mireille Mazard: Ghosts of Ritual on China's Tibeto-Burman Frontier
• Shane McCorristine: Spirits of Place in Arctic Exploration, 1818-45
• Nick Megoran: Representations of Central Asia in film
• Nick Megoran: Middle East Apology Tours: Evangelical Christians and the First Crusade of 1096-99
• Carlos Mondragon: Ovens and persons in Vanuatu
• Carlos Mondragon & Johannes Neurath: Shifting Ontologies: Rethinking transformation and reciprocity in Mesoamerica and Melanesia
• Andrew Moutu: Returning to the origin in the time of Naven (Papua New Guinea)
• Chloe Nahum-Claudel: Mutually predatory relationships between spirits, fish and humans among the Enawene of Brasil
• Vladimir Orlov: Metaphysics of death in the music of Russian Symbolism
• Irene Peano: Property and people: some reflections on human trafficking
• Catherine Pickstock: Christian liturgy and the senses
• Anastasia Piliavsky: Adjudication without dispute resolution among thieves in Western India
• Monosi Raika (Sora elder, Tribal India): How I led my people into Christianity sixty years ago and now have mixed feelings
• Rev Marcus Ramshaw: Devising a eucharist for young Goths
• Madeleine Reeves: Clean fake: authenticity and contingency in migrant Moscow
• Madeleine Reeves: Military violence and stately im-personation in Kyrgyzstan
• Madeleine Reeves: Mourning, violence and political community in Kyrgyzstan
• Hugo Reinert: Bio-power and necro-availability: the slaughterhouse as sacrificial altar in north Norway
• Susanna Rostas: Conchas, Candles and Flowers in the Creation of the Concheros' Religiosity
• Luís Guilherme Resende de Assis: Brasilian Antarctic scientists and their cosmologies
• István Sántha & Tanya Safonova: Stories about Evenki people and their dogs: communication through sharing of contexts
• Sarah Shneiderman: Himalayan Origin Myths and Myths of Originality: Thangmi Gurus, Activists and the Power of Orality
• Janet Soskice: The un-namability of God
• Richard Spaul (In Situ theatre company): Seven archetypes for becoming a different person
• Katie Swancutt: Magical efficacy, fortune and time in two contrasting Mongolian villages
• Diane Thompson: The Memory of Sacred Places in Dostoevsky' s 'Brothers Karamazov'
• Dr Thomas Thornton: Environmental Change and Marinescapes: A Tlingit Perspective
• Mark Turin: Mother Tongues and Language Competence: The shifting politics of linguistic belonging in the Himalayas
• Olga Ulturgasheva: The patient reindeer as trope for human: how a child learns to be a person
• Olga Ulturgasheva: Ontological clash of afterlives: Why Siberian Natives can't engage with the ghosts of Russian Gulag prisoners
• Olga Ulturgasheva and Shane McCorristine (Conveners): Ghosts and Apparitions in the Field. With Contributions by: Donatas Brandiskaukas (Kaunas), marc Brightman (Oxford), Gilly Carr (Archaeology), Vanessa Grotti (Oxford), Ivan Peshkov (Poznan), Katherine Swancutt (Oxford), Piers Vitebsky (SPRI), Kostas Zorbas (Democritus University of Thrace / SPRI)
• Minna Opas: Christianity and epistemological uncertainty in the Peruvian Amazon
• Nikolai Vakhtin & Stephen Pax Leonard: Languages and Forms of Expression in the Arctic: urgent issues of endangerment
• Laur Vallikivi: The silence of the reindeer and the conversion narrative of the Baptists
• Aparecida Vilaça: Perspectivism: human and animal souls in Brasil
• Aparecida Vilaça: Eating the dead: funerary cannibalism among the Warí (with film)
• Piers Vitebsky: Repeated Returns and Special Friends:from mythic first encounter to endless historical change
• Piers Vitebsky: Dreams of love and death
• Piers Vitebsky: Dancing with alphabet worshippers
• Rev Fraser Watts: Levels of Religious Meaning: Applying 'Interacting Cognitive Subsystems' to Religion
• Rane Willerslev: God on trial: thoughts on sacrifice
• Lee Wilson: The Anthropology of the Possible: the Ethnographer as Sceptical Enquirer
• Michael Yorke: Eunuchs: India's third gender
• Astrid Zimmermann: Eating money in Mongolia
• Kostas Zorbas: Post-socialist unhappiness and an epidemic of cursing in Tuva
• Kostas Zorbas: Resorting to sorcery: filling in for the failure of judicial redress in Tuva

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