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<h2><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Swinburne Institute for Social Research - Seminar Series</span><span style></span></h2>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Presenter: Professor David Hicks, Stony Brook University</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Title: Social Anthropology and History: an ethnographic case
study from Viqueque, Timor-Leste </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Date: Friday, 19 June 2015 </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Time: 12:00-1:00pm </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Venue: AGSE211</span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">At a time when the frontiers separating the traditional
scientific and scholarly disciplines are being obliterated the occasion is apt
for a reconsideration of the relationships between social anthropology and its
sister disciplines such as political science, sociology, literary studies, and
the like. In my talk today I discuss the overlap between social anthropology
and history and make the case for revisiting the well-known contributions to this
topic made by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, who himself began his academic career as a
historian, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose advocacy of a structural approach to
the human domain might be thought to imply a anti-historical regard for
understanding social institutions. In demonstrating how diachronic and
synchronic perspectives may be combined in their respective ways in helping to
render institutions intelligible this talk examines some of the lessons learned
from several periods of fieldwork in Timor-Leste beginning in 1966 by examining
how archival documents and published materials may be conjoined with
ethnographic research. The talk firstly describes the background to the first
period in the field; then considers the extent to which archival and secondary sources
were used during that first period of field research; and finally consider how
the use of archival and secondary sources during the later periods of field
research compared with the initial period.</span></p>
<p style="margin:7.5pt 0cm;line-height:15pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Professor David Hicks</span></strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)"> is Professor of
Anthropology at Stony Brook University and Life Member of Clare College,
University of Cambridge. He holds Doctor of Philosophy Degrees from the
University of Oxford and the University of London and his scholarly
specializations lie in the fields of politics, oral literature, ritual,
Indonesia, and Timor-Leste, in both countries of which he carried out field
research. In East Timor this has amounted to more than thirty months since
1966. His field research has resulted in publications that include the books,
Tetum Ghosts and Kin (2004), Structural Analysis in Anthropology (1978), A
Maternal Religion (1984), Kinship and Religion in Eastern Indonesia, Cultural
Anthropology (with Dr. Margaret A. Gwynne), Ritual and Belief: Readings in the
Anthropology of Religion (2010), and Rhetoric and the Decolonization and
Recolonization of East Timor (2015), as well as essays that have appeared in
the American Anthropologist, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society,
the Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Oceania, Anthropos, and
Sociologus, in addition to many anthologies. He is the translator, from the
Portuguese, of Peoples of Timor, People of Timor: Life, Alliance, Death (1993).
Professor Hicks has received grants and fellowships from, among other
organizations, the United States Institute of Peace, the National Science
Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the
American Philosophical Society; has been a resident scholar at the Rockefeller
Foundation’s Vila Serbeloni in Bellagio; a Visiting Professor at Clare Hall in
the University of Cambridge; a Visiting Professor at the University of
Göteborg; and a Fulbright Scholar. Email: <a href="david.hicks@stonybrook.edu">david.hicks@stonybrook.edu</a>.
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