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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Jun 13

We're looking for a one-year Teaching Fellow to start in August 2025. Come and join our team! We're receiving applications until 4th July.

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Teaching Fellow (Social Anthropology)

We are looking for a full time Teaching Fellow with experience in social anthropology to contribute to UG and PG courses in the Social Anthropology Subject Area.

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Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · May 15

A great way to spend a sunny day of work, with great colleagues in a beautiful city. #anthropology

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · May 15

Social Anthropology Away Day 2025 ✨

Discussing our values, contemporary anthropology and what we love about our work in Edinburgh on the sun-kissed roof of the National Museum of Scotland.

#anthropology #edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · May 15

Social Anthropology Away Day 2025 ✨

Discussing our values, contemporary anthropology and what we love about our work in Edinburgh on the sun-kissed roof of the National Museum of Scotland.

#anthropology #edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · May 7

This Friday, 9th May, we’re celebrating Lotte Hoek’s (@mediaautomatiek.bsky.social) promotion as Professor of Cultural Anthropology. She will give her inaugural lecture, ‘For an anthropology of the screen’. If you’re in the vicinity, please come and join us.

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Poster of Lotte Hoek’s inaugural lecture, ‘For an anthropology of the screen’.

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 28

We were so enthralled and delighted to hear Professor Jason De León speak about "Soldiers and Kings" last night!

Colleagues from Social Anthropology and beyond turned out in force to hear and learn from Prof. De León, including, l-r, our Drs. Alejandro Escalente, Grace Zhou and Jeevan Sharma.

Professor De León before his talk, with Social Anthropology Colleagues.

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 27

Happening today!

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 10

We're excited to host @jasondeleon.bsky.social's Munro Lecture later this month:

Soldiers & Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
27 March 2015, 17.15
MacLaren Stuart Room G. 159 Old College

This event is open to all: jasondeleon.eventbrite.co.uk

@uoe-sps.bsky.social

photo of young men beside a railway track

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 17.15
MacLaren Stuart Room, G. 159 Old College

In this Munro Lecture, Professor Jason De León will present stories from his recent book ("Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling") and examine the complicated relationship among transnational gangs, the human smuggling industry, and migrant desires for safety and well-being.

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 26

Do join us!
@uoe-llc.bsky.social
@edincollegeofart.bsky.social
@technomoralfutures.bsky.social
@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
@iashedinburgh.bsky.social

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 26

Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab will present the final Social Anthropology Seminar of the semester:

“Woman Life Freedom: Visual Triggers of Iranian Feminism”

Chaired by the inimitable Dr. Lucy Lowe.

Join us!!! Friday 28th March, 3-5pm CMB seminar room 1.

@pooyan1983.bsky.social

Seminar poster for Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab's paper.

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 26

Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab will present the final Social Anthropology Seminar of the semester:

“Woman Life Freedom: Visual Triggers of Iranian Feminism”

Chaired by the inimitable Dr. Lucy Lowe.

Join us!!! Friday 28th March, 3-5pm CMB seminar room 1.

@pooyan1983.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 24

Last Friday, the brilliant Atreyee Sen gave a riveting account of women, digital scandals, moral surveillance, and the shifting labour market in peri-urban India. What a treat!

Photo of Atreyee Sen being introduced by Lotte Segal

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 21

It's Friday and we're.... absolutely delighted that we're ranked 17th in the world (and 5th in the UK)!

www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

Photo of Chrystal Macmillan Building basking in the sun.

With text: "We're chuffed to be ranked 17th in the world (and 5th in the UK)! " followed by three emoticons suggesting celebration/party time.

*QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Anthropology

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 20

To know more about Grace and her work, check out her UoE page www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/grace-... and her website www.gracehzhou.com

Grace H. Zhou | School of Social and Political Sciencelogo

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 20

And here's one of Grace's poems, titled 'The Burial of a Woman Known as China Mary'

Tombstone, Arizona. December 1906

Take my bones, girl
soak them in brandy,

when they gleam like the pearled
vertebrae of some native creature---

coyote or her patient prey-wrap
me in a fine silk brocade

the color of our secret moon,
of mutton-fat jade nursing at my wrists,

of these side-sleeper hills at dawn
(hills so close we might run
and be free in them).

Once, I offered pieces of myself to every
man--my hands, my coins, my words--

I traded my name for honor and they called
me Mary, like their placid goddess.

Was she not matriarch to
whores and wanted men too?

Now, flesh scrubbed bare,
I let this land claim me, this land

that has stripped me down
to my convictions: so

plant me deep, girl, to feed
my thousand sons and daughters.

Root me here and here
and here, into this hard dirt

between the ocotillo and creosote.
When I burst into crop,

gather my bounty.

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 20

We pinch ourselves, poet and anthropologist Grace Zhou has joined us in Edinburgh! Read her speculative poetics of repair in the beautiful poetry chapbook "Soil Called a Country" where she asks what it means to make a home as an immigrant in a settler colonial nation.

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 19

“Unpacking a sacking: Moral outrage and female workplace precarity in peri-urban India” by Dr. Atreyee Sen

We look forward to welcome Dr. Sen to the Anthropology Seminar to discuss thee dynamics of moral surveillance of digitally literate, young professional women in India. Join us!

Poster for Atreyee Sen's Seminar at the University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 14

In case you've missed it, Magnus Course's gorgeous new book 'Three Ways to Fail' is now available from @pennpress.bsky.social:

www.pennpress.org/978151282656...

@uoe-sps.bsky.social

How do we learn what failure looks like? How do we learn how to live with it? What does it mean to fail one another? And how do we live well when everything falls apart?

Book cover of 'Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile' by Magnus Course

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 13

The award winning "Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas" opens with a chapter on protest movements and public film screenings by our colleague Lotte Hoek.

Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social · Mar 7

Published during the 2024 uprisings in Bangladesh, I was distracted when A Screen in the Crowd came out, narrating earlier moments of protest, digitally enabled crowds, and the large public screen.

Then Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas won the Aruna Vasudev Award for Best Book on Asia! 🎉

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 13

Vote of Faith is available from @fordhampress.bsky.social: www.fordhampress.com/978153150908...

Vote of Faith

A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglementsWhat does desire have to reveal about the...

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 13

Maya Mayblin's latest book, Vote of Faith, is a richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil. Focused on the lives and loves of Catholic priests in the profane world of party politics, she asks: what does desire reveal about the nature of power?
#Anthropology #AnthroSky

Book cover of Maya Mayblin's book "Vote of Faith".

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Jason De León @jasondeleon.bsky.social · Mar 10

Excited to visit Edinburgh in a few weeks!

Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 10

We're excited to host @jasondeleon.bsky.social's Munro Lecture later this month:

Soldiers & Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
27 March 2015, 17.15
MacLaren Stuart Room G. 159 Old College

This event is open to all: jasondeleon.eventbrite.co.uk

@uoe-sps.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 7

There are three more Social Anthropology seminars coming up this semester in Edinburgh!

Don’t miss our brilliant speakers:

✨ Nafis Hasan (14/3)

✨ Atreyee Sen (21/3)

✨ Pooyan Tamimi Arab (28/3)

Fridays, 3-5pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, all welcome!

#anthropology @pooyan1983.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 11

Congratulations to Laura Jeffery & collaborators on the publication of ‘Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago’!

Watch Laura talk about her chapter, ‘Political and Legal Debates about Chagossian Ethnicity and Indigeneity’: edin.ac/41S9LGF

The volume is open access: edin.ac/3FfL1iW

Photo of Laura Jeffery and the new volume 'Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago'

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 11

Congratulations to Laura Jeffery & collaborators on the publication of ‘Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago’!

Watch Laura talk about her chapter, ‘Political and Legal Debates about Chagossian Ethnicity and Indigeneity’: edin.ac/41S9LGF

The volume is open access: edin.ac/3FfL1iW

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 10

We're excited to host @jasondeleon.bsky.social's Munro Lecture later this month:

Soldiers & Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
27 March 2015, 17.15
MacLaren Stuart Room G. 159 Old College

This event is open to all: jasondeleon.eventbrite.co.uk

@uoe-sps.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 7

There are three more Social Anthropology seminars coming up this semester in Edinburgh!

Don’t miss our brilliant speakers:

✨ Nafis Hasan (14/3)

✨ Atreyee Sen (21/3)

✨ Pooyan Tamimi Arab (28/3)

Fridays, 3-5pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, all welcome!

#anthropology @pooyan1983.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Social Anthropology @socanthedi.bsky.social · Mar 7

We could not be prouder of our former Social Anthropology PhD student Dr. Amarasuriya, who was appointed Sri Lanka’s first woman prime minister in 24 years. She was sworn in on 24 September 2024. Her intelligence, integrity, and empathy, have since marked her tenure. #AnthroSky #Anthropology

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