Anthropology

[close] Inspired by all the different ethnographies we in the Cultural Anthropology Programme at Victoria University of Wellington are reading, we have started an ethnography book club. The goal is to read and discuss an ethnography every two months. We invite all those interested in ethnography (students, anthropologists, writers) to join us. Cultural Anthropology staff will select and read an ethnography over the two-month period, then discuss the ethnography during the last week of the second month. We will post some questions to get started in thinking about the book. Where possible we will also invite the authors to join us in our online conversations. We will meet in person at Victoria University of Wellington for our discussion during the last week of the second month. If this sounds like something you are interested in, you are welcome to join us in person and/or participate in our online conversation. All welcome!

[close] This is the list of prospective books. Any member may add to it.

[close] bleh; add books you wanna read

[close] A book about cultural differences ... The place Bailey’s Gym, Los Angeles, California—6am—the fall of 1999… From a bourgeois neighborhood in Beirut to the schools of the streets of Europe and the United States, the story takes you on a journey of self-exploration and transformation that goes through weight rooms, boxing rings, libraries and the stock market. Relentless, unconventional and independent; these successive experiences yield immense benefits for personal development. Your life is not set in stone, it’s a gift for which the first page is carved in your DNA and the rest is yours to pen. When history fades pale next to our daily trials and tribulations, survival comes from a boundless, insatiable thirst for learning, social justice, as well an iron will for breaking up with tradition, and walking the unbeaten trails drawing our prints in the dust and mud we all come from... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbX6rqjKLgg8sSXeEM6vJw?view_as=subscriber&gl=US&fbclid=IwAR0t_I-vWnOsh_JI_Y7_nMPXaxj8zqFeIXhynVZTNvSs1QtdMImLgq1dSnA