MaxCam Centre

The Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change. Dedicated to pursuing ethnographic research in fields of urgent concern to humanity

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

🚨 Join us for the CRASSH annual lecture with Professor Gina Neff!
'The Cost of #Data: Making Sense in #DigitalSociety'⁠
Can new kinds of data help us live better lives and solve big social problems?
🗓️ 19 Oct at 5pm⁠ BST, with @MCTDCambridge
ℹ️ ➞ https://t.co/fsWwD6SEXb

[David Henig @henigdavid]

'Where is the Good in the World? Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy', our manuscript coedited with @AnnaStrhan and Joel Robbins @MaxCamCentre has been handed over to production @berghahnbooks 🥳 @AnthroUtrecht #Anthropology #Anthropologyofvalue #socialtheory

[BerghahnAnthropology @BerghahnAnthro]

New volume in the Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy series!
WORK, SOCIETY, AND THE ETHICAL SELF: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era | Edited by Chris Hann
Learn more: https://t.co/gO0mUCAhFC #AnthroTwitter

[Oceania @OceaniaJournal]

Collective identification with an orphan exemplifies a Korowai pattern akin to what Ferguson calls ‘declaring dependence’, an act that Rupert Stasch identifies as having complex power. More here: https://t.co/JwfNI7K99X

[Gonçalo Santos 江紹龍 @gdsantos_]

NEW publication with Yichen RAO, Jack L. XING, and Jun ZHANG on capitalism, freedom and overwork in China. Please check out chapter 6 of the Max Planck volume edited by Chris Hann 👇https://t.co/t0xyLCin4L
Get 50% discount with code HAN254 until Oct 31st 2021 #China #overwork

[Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo]

"... #ethnography offers a different way to approach #ethical and practical questions about what makes #care good or effective in different cultural contexts..."

New #OpenAccess entry on Care by @P_McKearney (@Cambridge_Uni) & @meghaamrith (@mpimmg)
https://t.co/CJAyk8IQA8

[Oceania @OceaniaJournal]

NEW! Rachel E. Smith describes how ‘independence’ and ‘(inter)dependence’ have been used to distinguish different modes of personhood and exchange in Vanuatu. Read more here: https://t.co/Ye2bD3EsXq

[BerghahnAnthropology @BerghahnAnthro]

At the forefront of this series are the approaches to these connections by anthropologists, whose explorations of the local ideas & institutions underpinning social and economic relations illuminate large fields ignored in other disciplines.
Learn more: https://t.co/FH3Gq1zgEM

[Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks]

Now Available!
WORK, SOCIETY, AND THE ETHICAL SELF: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era | Edited by Chris Hann
Learn more: https://t.co/l32vJxOYpa #AcademicTwitter

[Oceania @OceaniaJournal]

NEW! Rachel E. Smith presents two case studies – kava cultivation and seasonal work in New Zealand – to examine ‘self-reliance’ as articulation of aspirations for development and citizenship in Vanuatu. Read more here: https://t.co/Ye2bD3mS5S

[MaxCam Centre @MaxCamCentre]

50% off with offer code HAN254 until 31 October

[BerghahnAnthropology @BerghahnAnthro]

Now Available!
WORK, SOCIETY, AND THE ETHICAL SELF: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era | Edited by Chris Hann
Learn more: https://t.co/8HGowhgrpc #AcademicTwitter

[JRAI @TheJRAI]

Review article: 'Revisiting diffusion: power, personhood, and the post in Eurasia' by Chris Hann: https://t.co/lkCrvMAZhi
@MaxCamCentre

[MaxCam Centre @MaxCamCentre]

50% off with offer code HAN254 until 31 October!

[MaxCam Centre @MaxCamCentre]

New book emerging from @MaxCamCentre conference on work, ethics and freedom. Feat @dme_project @JFLenhard @irajkov and many more w/ intro from Chris Hann @maxplanckpress free to download https://t.co/jdhPQssVpW

[MaxCam Centre @MaxCamCentre]

New book emerging from @MaxCamCentre conference on work, ethics and freedom. Feat @dme_project @JFLenhard @irajkov and many more w/ intro from Chris Hann @maxplanckpress free to download https://t.co/jdhPQssVpW

[BerghahnAnthropology @BerghahnAnthro]

Now Available!
WORK, SOCIETY, AND THE ETHICAL SELF: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era | Edited by Chris Hann
Learn more: https://t.co/8HGowhgrpc #AcademicTwitter

[Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller]

Very cool volume on dependence in Oceania:

[Talking as Cure? @TalkingasCure]

Blog 2: 'Anthropology, Psychology and IAPT: Some Comments on Ethnography' by @DrBruun of Cambridge Social Anthropology Department: https://t.co/3TnJJvzGQX #anthrotwitter

[BerghahnAnthropology @BerghahnAnthro]

Now Available!
WORK, SOCIETY, AND THE ETHICAL SELF: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era | Edited by Chris Hann
Learn more: https://t.co/8HGowhgrpc #AcademicTwitter

[MaxCam Centre @MaxCamCentre]

Professor Atul Shah draws on his background as a Jain to argue that we need a healthier relationship with #finance @BBCRadio4 https://t.co/K83tNFAGC7

[MaxCam Centre @MaxCamCentre]

Rachel Smith's article discusses the keyword 'self-reliance' in Vanuatu; its genealogy in Pan-African and decolonization movements, and how it continues to articulate visions of development and citizenship at national and 'grassroots' community levels.

[Oceania @OceaniaJournal]

NEW Special Issue! Authors address the topic: has ‘real’ independence been achieved in the Pacific? Do Oceanic societies valorise interpersonal interdependence more than their former Western colonisers? Available through Open Access. More here: https://t.co/LsyO7Pushx