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✨Tues Mar 31, 18:30 (UTC London)🌔
Anne Monk and Jacob Seagrave
Young Engels and the politics of the encounter

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LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

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Anne Monk and Jacob Seagrave explore how the young Friedrich Engels' 'The Condition of the Working Class in England' provides a neglected model of ‘communist ethnography’, a politically committed form of longterm investigation that has critical implications for the practice of anthropology today.

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Radical Anthropology

By reading the text through the parallel histories of investigation as experimented with by both communist revolutionaries and professional anthropologists alike in the 20th century – detouring through examples like Mao’s Hunan Report and Evans-Pritchard’s The Nuer – we...

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Radical Anthropology 19h ago

we will delve into issues such as the politics of the encounter, the role of the intellectual and the meaning of difference. We will argue that a renewed dialogue between Marxism and anthropology can speak to problems of socialist politics today.

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Radical Anthropology 19h ago

Jacob Seagrave is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics researching agricultural cooperatives in Andalucía, Spain. Anne Monk is a graduate medical student at the Warwick Medical School.