Anthropology

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has received the Huxley Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the highest British distinction in anthropology. He was recognized "for his outstanding contribution and conceptual leadership" in medical anthropology, the anthropology of the state, and humanitarian and critical moral anthropology.

On May 3, 2018, Veena Das, Academic Trustee for the Institute's School of Social Science, will deliver a talk titled "Meaning and Metaphor: How to Receive Thoughts from an Elsewhere," which will center on the ways in which the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular can find a way to be open to other intellectual traditions.

João Biehl and Adriana Petryna, former Visitors in the School of Social Science, and Arcadio Diaz-Quinones will discuss Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming at 6:00 p.m. on March 28 at Labyrinth Books. The book is a field-changing collection...

Jonathan Benthall of the Times Literary Supplement reviews Punir: Une Passion Contemporaine (Seuil, 2017), by Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science. The work, he writes, "testifies admirably to the power of...