{"id":5140,"date":"2020-07-16T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2020-07-20T16:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:40:37","slug":"professor-joao-pina-cabral-publishes-new-book-on-anthropological-trajectories-out-of-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/07\/16\/professor-joao-pina-cabral-publishes-new-book-on-anthropological-trajectories-out-of-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jo\u00e3o Pina-Cabral publishes new book on anthropological trajectories out of Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, the Social Anthropology Seminar Series held throughout each semester within the School of Anthropology and Conservation organised a series of conferences dedicated to examining what, in the long term, is behind an anthropological vocation. The School invited a number of colleagues that had undertaken their PhDs in Oxford in the early 1980s &#8211; at a time when anthropology was under attack by the newly elected Thatcher government &#8211; and, despite this, led creative and successful anthropological careers across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the papers presented turned out to address the major theoretical challenges that were being announced at the time and can be broadly categorised under the term &#8216;After Society&#8217;: that is, they embody a critique of the atomistic and sociocentric background assumptions that were dominant in the social sciences throughout the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5141 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2020\/07\/After-Society.jpg\" alt=\"Front cover of the book After Society: Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford featuring facade of an Oxford College\" width=\"150\" height=\"236\" \/>These have now been compiled together and published in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/Pina-CabralAfter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>After Society: Anthropological Trajectories Out of Oxford<\/em><\/a> by Berghahn Books in July. The volume is edited by Professor of Social Anthropology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/552\/pina-cabral-joao-de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jo\u00e3o Pina-Cabral<\/a>, alongside Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2761\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2761\/bowman-glenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glenn Bowman<\/a>, who both organised the Seminar Series that provided the inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, the Social Anthropology Seminar Series held throughout each semester within the School of Anthropology and Conservation organised a series of conferences dedicated to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/07\/16\/professor-joao-pina-cabral-publishes-new-book-on-anthropological-trajectories-out-of-oxford\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":3204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,6600,159350],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}