Anthropology Guest Lecture, Dr. Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin, Tuesday, February 2nd, 3-4:20 p.m. in PAS 1229

[Allyson Rowat]

The UW Department of Anthropology will be hosting a lecture by Dr. Neil
Whitehead, Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University
of Wisconsin at Madison, entitled Ethnography, Torture and Epistemologies of
Conquest, on Tuesday February 2, 3:00 pm to 4:20 pm in PAS 1229, as part of
its 2009-10 Guest Lecture Series.  All welcome to attend.

 

"Our current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already provoked anguish
within anthropology as to the rights, duties and ethical responsibilities of
ethnographers embedded in military combat units, especially as in the case
of Human Terrain   Systems - a program administered by for-profit military
contractors. This talk examines the epistemologies of terror and
counter-insurgency linking the colonial tradition of ethnography with the
modern practice of torture."

Neil L. Whitehead is Professor & Chair of Anthropology at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.  He is author of numerous works on the native peoples of
South America and their colonial conquest, as well as on the topics of
sorcery, violence, sexuality and warfare.  His latest works include a new
edition of Hans Staden's sixteenth century account of captivity and
cannibalism among the natives of Brazil (Duke 2008) and essays on terrorism,
torture and cyber-sex.  He is currently studying the cultural aesthetics of
sex and violence, the emergence of digital subjectivities and the
possibilities for a post-human anthropology.
http://wisc.academia.edu/NeilWhitehead 



 

Allyson Rowat

Department Secretary (Undergraduate & Graduate) 

Department of Anthropology (PAS 2012) 

University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West 

Waterloo, ON, Canada  N2L 3G1

(519) 888-4567, ex. 32520

 

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