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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

June 07, 2023

The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biological anthropology, evolutionary anthropology, social anthropology, cultural anthropology, visual anthropology and medical anthropology, as well as sub-specialisms within these, and interests shared with neighbouring disciplines such as human genetics, archaeology and linguistics. It seeks to combine a tradition of scholarship with services to anthropologists, including students.

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Founded1871; 152 years ago (1871)
TypeCharitable organisation
Registration no.England and Wales: 246269
Location
Coordinates51°31′26″N 0°08′23″W / 51.523786°N 0.139802°W / 51.523786; -0.139802
President
The Baroness Black of Strome
Websitewww.therai.org.uk

The RAI promotes the public understanding of anthropology, as well as the contribution anthropology can make to public affairs and social issues. It includes within its constituency not only academic anthropologists, but also those with a general interest in the subject, and those trained in anthropology who work in other fields.

History

The institute's fellows are lineal successors to the founding fellows of the Ethnological Society of London, who in February 1843 formed a breakaway group of the Aborigines' Protection Society, which had been founded in 1837. The new society was to be 'a centre and depository for the collection and systematisation of all observations made on human races'.

Between 1863 and 1870 there were two organisations, the Ethnological Society and the Anthropological Society. The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1871) was the result of a merger between these two rival bodies. Permission to add the word 'Royal' was granted in 1907.

Individuals seeking full Fellowship status are usually required to be proposed by current Fellows who personally know the potential member. Fellowship in the institute is primarily for notable scholars who have professional or academic achievement in the field of the study of humankind or the social sciences. Fellows are elected by the RAI Council, and are entitled to use the honorific post-nominal letters FRAI.

Publications

The Institute publishes three journals:

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, formerly Man, is a quarterly journal with articles on all aspects of anthropology, as well as correspondence and a section of book reviews. The Journal provides an important forum for 'anthropology as a whole', embracing social anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology and the study of material culture. A Special (fifth) issue was inaugurated in 2006. The Special Issue appears annually, is guest-edited or single-authored, and addresses different themes in anthropology from year to year.

Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology. It is committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine and development; as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines.

Anthropological Index Online was launched in 1997. The Index is an online bibliographic service for researchers, teachers and students of anthropology worldwide. Access is free to individual users; institutional users (except those in developing countries) pay an annual subscription. Major European and other languages of scholarship are covered, and new material is added on a continuing basis.

The Indian Antiquary was published under the authority of the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1925 to 1932.

RAI Collection

The RAI has a unique reference and research collection comprising photos, films, archives and manuscripts.

The photographic library consists of over 75,000 historic prints, negatives, lantern-slides and other images, the earliest dating from the 1860s. The photo library illustrates the great diversity and vitality of the world's cultures as well as the history of photographic image-making itself.

The RAI is actively involved in developing ethnographic film and video, as a mode of anthropological enquiry and as an educational resource. It has an extensive collection of videos, copies of which are available for sale for educational and academic purposes. Films can be studied and previewed onsite.

The archive and manuscript collection spans a period of over 150 years, providing a unique historical record of the discipline and of the Institute itself. Much unpublished textual and visual material entrusted to the RAI over the years is held in the manuscript collection, which is being conserved and catalogued on a continuing basis.

Access to the RAI Collection is free to all RAI Fellows, Members, Student Associates and all undergraduate students by prior appointment. Others may visit the Collection on payment of an access fee.

The RAI has a close association with the British Museum's Anthropology Library, which incorporates the former RAI Library given to the Museum in 1976. The Library is located within the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum, and is effectively Britain's national anthropological library. All may use the Library on site; RAI Fellows may borrow books acquired by the RAI.

Awards

Huxley Memorial Medal

Main article: The Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture

The Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture was established in 1900 in memory of Thomas Henry Huxley to identify and acknowledge the work of scientists, British or foreign, distinguished in any field of anthropological research. The highest honour awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute, it is awarded annually by ballot of the council. The recipient delivers a lecture which is usually published.[1][2]

Rivers Memorial Medal

The Medal was founded in 1923 by the Council of the Institute in memory of its late President, William Halse Rivers, originally for 'anthropological work in the field'. However, in the 1960s the rules were amended to reflect anthropological work in a broader sense. The Medal shall be awarded for a recent body of work published over a period of five years which makes, as a whole, a significant contribution to social, physical or cultural anthropology or archaeology. Recipients[3] include:

RAI events

From time to time, the RAI runs lectures, workshops and other special events on topical issues. Its International Festivals of Ethnographic Film, run every two years in partnership with UK universities and other hosts, are a recognised part of the international ethnographic film calendar. Competitions for the Film Prizes attract entries from film-makers throughout the world.[4]

FRAI (Fellowship of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

This is a prestigious fellowship in the discipline of Anthropology worldwide. Fellows are elected by the Council of the RAI through a rigorous process.

Presidents

The President of the RAI were generally elected for a two-year period:[5]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture: Prior Recipients", Royal Anthropological Institute, accessed 31 March 2012
  2. ^ Huxley Memorial Lectures (A115), Royal Anthropological Institute, accessed 31 March 2012
  3. ^ "Rivers Memorial Medal Prior Recipients" Royal Anthropological Institute, Accessed 23rd Feb 2014
  4. ^ Meloni, Greca N. (2019). "16th RAI Film Festival 2019 | Bristol (UK), 27–30 March 2019". Anuac. 8, 1: 259–261. doi:10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3798.
  5. ^ "Presidents". Royal Anthropological Institute. 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  6. ^ Brabrook, Edward (1915). "Frederick William Rudler, I.S.O.; b. July 8th, 1840, d. January 23rd, 1915; aet.75". Man. Royal Anthropological Institute. 15: 33.

External links

  • The Royal Anthropological Institute
  • Discover Anthropology Outreach Programme
  • London Anthropology Day
  • RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film

June 07, 2023
royal, anthropological, institute, great, britain, ireland, long, established, anthropological, organisation, learned, society, with, global, membership, remit, includes, component, fields, anthropology, such, biological, anthropology, evolutionary, anthropolo. The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland RAI is a long established anthropological organisation and Learned Society with a global membership Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology such as biological anthropology evolutionary anthropology social anthropology cultural anthropology visual anthropology and medical anthropology as well as sub specialisms within these and interests shared with neighbouring disciplines such as human genetics archaeology and linguistics It seeks to combine a tradition of scholarship with services to anthropologists including students Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandFounded1871 152 years ago 1871 TypeCharitable organisationRegistration no England and Wales 246269LocationLondon W1Coordinates51 31 26 N 0 08 23 W 51 523786 N 0 139802 W 51 523786 0 139802PresidentThe Baroness Black of StromeWebsitewww wbr therai wbr org wbr ukThe RAI promotes the public understanding of anthropology as well as the contribution anthropology can make to public affairs and social issues It includes within its constituency not only academic anthropologists but also those with a general interest in the subject and those trained in anthropology who work in other fields Contents 1 History 2 Publications 3 RAI Collection 4 Awards 4 1 Huxley Memorial Medal 4 2 Rivers Memorial Medal 5 RAI events 6 FRAI Fellowship of the Royal Anthropological Institute 7 Presidents 8 See also 9 Notes 10 External linksHistory EditThe institute s fellows are lineal successors to the founding fellows of the Ethnological Society of London who in February 1843 formed a breakaway group of the Aborigines Protection Society which had been founded in 1837 The new society was to be a centre and depository for the collection and systematisation of all observations made on human races Between 1863 and 1870 there were two organisations the Ethnological Society and the Anthropological Society The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1871 was the result of a merger between these two rival bodies Permission to add the word Royal was granted in 1907 Individuals seeking full Fellowship status are usually required to be proposed by current Fellows who personally know the potential member Fellowship in the institute is primarily for notable scholars who have professional or academic achievement in the field of the study of humankind or the social sciences Fellows are elected by the RAI Council and are entitled to use the honorific post nominal letters FRAI Publications EditThe Institute publishes three journals Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute formerly Man is a quarterly journal with articles on all aspects of anthropology as well as correspondence and a section of book reviews The Journal provides an important forum for anthropology as a whole embracing social anthropology archaeology biological anthropology and the study of material culture A Special fifth issue was inaugurated in 2006 The Special Issue appears annually is guest edited or single authored and addresses different themes in anthropology from year to year Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology It is committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education medicine and development as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines Anthropological Index Online was launched in 1997 The Index is an online bibliographic service for researchers teachers and students of anthropology worldwide Access is free to individual users institutional users except those in developing countries pay an annual subscription Major European and other languages of scholarship are covered and new material is added on a continuing basis The Indian Antiquary was published under the authority of the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1925 to 1932 RAI Collection EditThe RAI has a unique reference and research collection comprising photos films archives and manuscripts The photographic library consists of over 75 000 historic prints negatives lantern slides and other images the earliest dating from the 1860s The photo library illustrates the great diversity and vitality of the world s cultures as well as the history of photographic image making itself The RAI is actively involved in developing ethnographic film and video as a mode of anthropological enquiry and as an educational resource It has an extensive collection of videos copies of which are available for sale for educational and academic purposes Films can be studied and previewed onsite The archive and manuscript collection spans a period of over 150 years providing a unique historical record of the discipline and of the Institute itself Much unpublished textual and visual material entrusted to the RAI over the years is held in the manuscript collection which is being conserved and catalogued on a continuing basis Access to the RAI Collection is free to all RAI Fellows Members Student Associates and all undergraduate students by prior appointment Others may visit the Collection on payment of an access fee The RAI has a close association with the British Museum s Anthropology Library which incorporates the former RAI Library given to the Museum in 1976 The Library is located within the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum and is effectively Britain s national anthropological library All may use the Library on site RAI Fellows may borrow books acquired by the RAI Awards EditHuxley Memorial Medal Edit Main article The Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture The Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture was established in 1900 in memory of Thomas Henry Huxley to identify and acknowledge the work of scientists British or foreign distinguished in any field of anthropological research The highest honour awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute it is awarded annually by ballot of the council The recipient delivers a lecture which is usually published 1 2 Rivers Memorial Medal Edit The Medal was founded in 1923 by the Council of the Institute in memory of its late President William Halse Rivers originally for anthropological work in the field However in the 1960s the rules were amended to reflect anthropological work in a broader sense The Medal shall be awarded for a recent body of work published over a period of five years which makes as a whole a significant contribution to social physical or cultural anthropology or archaeology Recipients 3 include 1924 A C Haddon 1925 C G Seligman 1926 Edward Westermarck 1927 Sir W Baldwin Spencer 1928 Sidney H Ray and Emil Torday 1929 John Henry Hutton 1930 Bronislaw Malinowski 1931 Reverend E W Smith 1932 Melville Williams Hilton 1933 Brenda Seligman 1934 Gertrude Caton Thompson 1935 A M Hocart 1936 Peter H Buck 1937 Edward Evan Evans Pritchard 1938 Dorothy Ann Elizabeth Garrod 1939 Isaac Schapera 1940 Raymond Firth 1941 Diamon Jenness 1942 James Philip Mills 1943 Beatrice Mary Blackwood 1944 James Hornell 1945 J Eric Thompson and Audrey I Richards 1946 Ian H Hogbin 1947 Meyer Fortes 1948 Verrier Elwin 1949 C von Furer Haimendorf 1950 S F Nadel 1951 R F Fortune 1952 L S B Leakey and Monica Wilson 1953 Donald F Thomson 1954 Max Gluckman 1955 M N Srinivas 1956 Daryll Forde 1957 Phyllis M Kaberry 1958 E R Leach 1959 J A Barnes 1960 J C Mitchell 1961 Hilda Kuper 1962 H Lehman 1963 Derek Stenning 1964 Adrian Mayer 1965 Victor Turner 1966 Philip Gulliver 1967 Philip Mayer and Nigel A Barnicot 1968 Mary Douglass and Eric Higgs 1969 Joseph Sidney Weiner 1970 Rodney Needham 1972 John d A Waechter 1973 S J Tambiah 1974 David Francis Pocock 1975 J R Goody 1976 Andrew Strathern and Marilyn Strathern 1977 Peter Ucko 1978 Phillip Tobias 1979 Colin Renfrew 1980 Abner Cohen 1982 Elizabeth Colson 1983 Maurice Bloch 1984 Alan Macfarlane 1985 David Parkin 1986 John Blacking 1988 Alfred Gell 1989 Tim Ingold 1990 C G Nicholas Mascie Taylor 1991 Dan Sperber 1992 Ladislav Holy 1993 R W Wrangham 1994 Michael Herzfeld 1995 Simon Harrison 1996 Ray Abrahams 1997 James Carrier 1998 Nicholas Thomas 1999 Caroline Humphrey 2000 Adam Kuper 2002 Maurice Bloch 2003 Robert Hugh Layton 2004 Chris Stringer 2005 Clive Gamble 2006 Paul Sillitoe 2007 Andrew Whiten 2008 Daniel Miller and Brian Morris 2009 Wendy James 2010 Stephen Shennan 2011 Robert Foley 2012 Nigel Rapport 2013 Phyllis Lee 2014 Trevor Marchand 2015 Chris Hann 2016 Ruth Finnegan 2017 Dan Hicks 2018 Madeleine Reeves 2019 Maria Martinon Torres 2020 Judith OkleyRAI events EditFrom time to time the RAI runs lectures workshops and other special events on topical issues Its International Festivals of Ethnographic Film run every two years in partnership with UK universities and other hosts are a recognised part of the international ethnographic film calendar Competitions for the Film Prizes attract entries from film makers throughout the world 4 FRAI Fellowship of the Royal Anthropological Institute EditThis is a prestigious fellowship in the discipline of Anthropology worldwide Fellows are elected by the Council of the RAI through a rigorous process Presidents EditThe President of the RAI were generally elected for a two year period 5 1871 72 John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury 1873 74 George Busk 1875 76 Augustus Pitt Rivers 1877 78 John Evans 1879 80 Edward Burnett Tylor 1881 82 Augustus Pitt Rivers 1883 84 William Henry Flower 1885 88 Francis Galton 1890 91 John Beddoe 1891 92 Edward Burnett Tylor 1893 94 Alexander Macalister 1895 97 Edward William Brabrook 1898 Frederick William Rudler 6 1898 1900 Charles Hercules Read 1901 02 Alfred Cort Haddon 1903 04 Henry Balfour 1905 06 William Gowland 1907 Daniel John Cunningham 1908 09 William Ridgeway 1910 Herbert Hope Risley 1911 12 Alfred Percival Maudslay 1913 16 Arthur Keith 1917 18 Charles Hercules Read 1919 20 Everard im Thurn 1921 22 W H R Rivers 1923 25 Charles Gabriel Seligman 1926 27 Harold John Edward Peake 1928 30 John Linton Myres 1931 33 Thomas Athol Joyce 1933 35 Edwin W Smith 1935 37 Herbert Spencer Harrison 1937 38 Hermann Justus Braunholtz 1939 41 Alfred Reginald Radcliffe Brown 1941 43 Hermann Justus Braunholtz 1943 45 John Henry Hutton 1945 47 Herbert John Fleure 1947 49 Cyril Daryll Forde de es nl 1949 51 E E Evans Pritchard 1951 53 James Philip Mills 1953 55 Raymond William Firth 1955 57 FitzRoy Somerset 4th Baron Raglan 1957 59 John Alexander Fraser Roberts 1959 61 Audrey Isabel Richards 1961 63 Isaac Schapera 1963 65 Joseph Sidney Weiner 1965 67 Meyer Fortes 1967 69 Maurice Freedman 1969 71 Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison de 1971 75 Edmund Ronald Leach 1975 77 Christoph von Furer Haimendorf 1977 79 Glyn Edmund Daniel 1979 83 Michael Herbert Day 1983 85 Adrian Curtis Mayer 1985 87 Jean La Fontaine 1987 89 Michael Banton 1989 91 Eric Sutherland 1991 94 Ernest Gellner 1994 97 Roland Littlewood 1997 01 John Davis 2001 04 Wendy James 2004 07 Alan Bilsborough 2007 11 Roy Ellen 2011 14 Clive Gamble 2014 18 Andre Singer 2018 present The Baroness Black of StromeSee also EditList of anthropology awardsNotes Edit Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture Prior Recipients Royal Anthropological Institute accessed 31 March 2012 Huxley Memorial Lectures A115 Royal Anthropological Institute accessed 31 March 2012 Rivers Memorial Medal Prior Recipients Royal Anthropological Institute Accessed 23rd Feb 2014 Meloni Greca N 2019 16th RAI Film Festival 2019 Bristol UK 27 30 March 2019 Anuac 8 1 259 261 doi 10 7340 anuac2239 625X 3798 Presidents Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Retrieved 11 February 2018 Brabrook Edward 1915 Frederick William Rudler I S O b July 8th 1840 d January 23rd 1915 aet 75 Man Royal Anthropological Institute 15 33 External links EditThe Royal Anthropological Institute Discover Anthropology Outreach Programme London Anthropology Day RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland amp oldid 1139307974, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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