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abstract The paper describes a developing sociological and psychoanalytic approach to the study of 20 London families in the early 1950s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the presence of anthropological reports and data in the National Archives at Kew in England. Preservation of unpublished materials in the archive that provide some interesting sidelights on the history of anthropological studies in Great Britain; Proliferation of items relating to anthropology in the Colonial Office papers; Relationship between anthropologists and government officials in the country.

Highlights the anthropology and genomics workshop at the University of Durham in England. Encouragement of anthropologists to present papers on genomics-related topics to a small invited audience to respond to the themes and issues raised; Discussion of the global and transnational dimensions of genomics; Exploration of human cloning within Sri Lanka's Theravada Buddhist tradition.

This article presents ethnographic research with in situ seed savers and seed activists in London. Unpicking the knotty relations between kinship, place, and generation among seed savers and their seeds, this article focuses on how the intrinsic and extrinsic get woven through generations and how the situ or environment of an entity is (and is not) recognized in its identity and multispecies kin relations. I argue that thinking about seeds and the worlds in which they grow suggests that they are not only embedded in their environments, but also embody their environments. If seeds bring with them their worlds, then they are inherently malleable, so seed savers are concerned about how commercial seed breeding and ex situ conservation denatures seeds' embodied relationships with their environments and, with that, their inherent intergenerational malleability. [seed saving, multispecies kinship, generation, environment]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information on a workshop by the Centre for Anthropological Research on Childhood, Youth, and Education (CARCYE) held at the Brunel University in Middlesex, England on December 5-6, 2011 is presented. Topics include the association of anthropology and schooling, development of children's skills despite the absence of formal school education, and value of egalitarianism. The workshop featured several individuals including David Lancy, Aude Michelet, and Ditte Strunge Sass.

Information about several papers discussed at the conference entitled "21st-Century Anthropology: Global Process and Power," held at Rhodes House in Oxford, England on June 28-29, 2007. The conference has focused on the aspects of anthropology. Among the speakers include Thomas Eriksen, Gerhard Anders, and David Gellner.

European conference on fieldwork for graduate students and junior researchers, will be held at the University of Oxford, from December 17-19, 2003. This conference on anthropological fieldwork organized by the Oxford University Anthropological Society and Anthropology Matters, drew over 70 postgraduate students from more than 25 British and European universities. There were 36 papers addressing a variety of issues and methodological problems, dominant among which were questions of place and ethical issues. Ethical issues were also raised in accounts of research in conflict situations. In her keynote lecture Judith Okely argued that textbooks and methodology courses often leave the people underprepared for the complexity of life and learning "in the field."

The article focuses on the debate on Anthropological Theory in Manchester, England on November 6, 2010. The discussion was debated by Casper Bruun Jensen and Morten Pedersen as the defenders and James Leach and Gillian Evans as the challengers. Jensen argued that regardless anthropology invents relation, still it is their task to invent them. However, Leach disagreed on invention concept due to conflicting facts in intelligence, power, and control. Furthermore, voting favors the negative side.

The article highlights the Interior Insights conference, organized by Alison Clarke and Inge Daniels of the Center for the Study of the Domestic Interior, Arts, and Humanities Research Council, held at Royal College of Art in London, England on November 24-25, 2005. The event convened people from a wide range of disciplines from the worlds of architecture and design and anthropology.

Highlights the Applications of Anthropology seminar at the Loughborough University in England on March 31 and April 1, 2003. Presentations summarizing the history of the distinctions between the pure academic and 'impure' applied spheres in social anthropology; Nature of anthropological allegiance; Anthropologists engaged in applied activities.

Information about the "Past Bodies," symposium which was part of a series of meetings sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Leverhulme Research Programme at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge, England is presented. It featured studies of the human body in the past and discussed the challenges of interdisciplinary research.

I begin this article with a brief history of the use of “the normative” in anthropology, starting with Kant and concluding with discussion of the concept within theories of practice. This is followed by an account of an ethnographic study of blue-jeans wearing in North London. The importance of becoming ordinary is exemplified in that study by migrants’ experience of being comfortable in blue jeans. I argue that jeans are the first postsemiotic garment, an antithesis to identity. I end by considering the challenge represented by the concept of “the ordinary” for anthropology's foundational presumption of the normative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the 10th International Forum United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization and World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress at the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies in Newcastle, England. Discussion of the cultural landscapes in the 21st century; Participation of 230 delegates from 51 countries; Theme of the event.

Whilst historians’ perceptions of the social organization of early-modern England have recently been dichotomized– perceived from either national or local levels– both interpretations rely on sources that are inherently very rhetorical in their representation of self and others. Is there another way of approaching local social relations? Perhaps there is much to be appreciated by a return to questions of social interaction, in particular at that most basic level of how people addressed each other, demonstrating social distance and closeness, exclusion and inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Financial markets and information technologies are key issues for contemporary social theory and the anthropology of globalization. Drawing on fieldwork in Chicago and London, I examine the interplay between processes of technological rationalization and the situated actions of traders in two financial futures markets-one that operates on open-outcry pit technology and the other process online. Both technologies represent the market in numbers. Traders use these symbols to read and interpret the market. Yet each technology configures numbers differently. The technologies influence traders' practices by shaping this basic unit of financial knowledge, [finance, globalization, knowledge, numbers, technology, United States, England] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the ethnographic methods employed for a doctoral study focusing upon heritage tourism and English national identity. It explains the fundamental principles behind the research and how the field work was conducted. In addition, it examines the issues of practicality which emerged during the research process and discusses how these were resolved. The article concludes by highlighting the importance of ethnography as a tool for understanding and interpreting visitor behaviour. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first two professors of sociology in England thought their major research task to be to examine the writings of historians, anthropologists and others in order to write comparative and evolutionary histories of mankind. The first wave of expansion of sociology after the war changed this emphasis. Small scale studies, using detailed primary, sources, traced short-term developments in a selected area of interest. Studies of' the here and now dominated sociology for some time. Twenty years later a second wave changed the emphasis again towards theoretical speculation, although the concept of time now held primary place, just as it had before the war. Historical sociology nevertheless languished until the impact of second-wave feminism, with its emphasis on women having been hidden from history, gave it an impetus which promises much in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the workshop on the academic application of anthropology in multi-disciplinary departments held at the London Metropolitan University in England on April 27, 2005. Number of participants from across Great Britain and from France; Topics discussed, which include the procurement of anthropological research to solve problems in business and organizations.

Conference reviewed: Fieldworks: Dialogues between art and anthropology: Tate Modern, London, 26–28 September 2003 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents anthropology-related developments in the United States. Announcements of conferences organized by the Cambridge Bioethics Group, University of Kent, German Ethnological Society and the Department of Social Anthropology; Utilization of Dutch East India Company's programme to preserve and study the mutual heritage that the Netherlands share with many countries in Asia and South Africa; Lectures.