Event overview
Dr Joost Fontein, University of Edinburgh
Joost is an Africanist and social anthropologist interested in the political imbrications of landscapes, things and materialities. He did his doctoral fieldwork in southern Zimbabwe, exploring the politics of heritage and landscape around the internationally renowned site of Great Zimbabwe. This thesis won the ASA UK Audrey Richards Prize in 2004, and a monograph entitled The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested Landscapes & the Power of Heritage was published by UCL Press in 2006.
Find out more about Joost's research:http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_anthropology/fontein_j
About the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths:
Goldsmiths' Department of Anthropology is consistently at the forefront of critical anthropology, public engagement, visual practice and theory. The Department Seminar Series is open to staff and students and provides a forum for exploring the diversity of contemporary anthropological work. We invite exciting speakers from around the world each week to present their research. The diversity and significance of contemporary anthropological research is reflected through the series.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Mar 2013 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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