Ellie Reynolds, University College London The following is an exploration of the materiality and meaning of HIV positive semen for a group of gay men who engage in two behaviours: bugchasing and giftgiving. Bugchasing is the desire for, and active pursuit of, HIV infection; giftgiving is the attempt to infectContinue Reading
Marta Rosales ESCS and CEMME FCSH/UNL, Professor Filomena Silvano CEMME FCSH/UNL (scientific coordinator) Domestic consumption practices, colonialism and transcontinental migration experiences of a group of Portuguese and Goan families. This project aims the study of the domestic consumption practices of a restrict group of families of Portuguese and Goan originsContinue Reading
Mylene Mizrahi mylenemizrahi@terra.co.br Here in Rio a very popular genre of party are the funk balls, that happens on weekend nights, most of the time in sport courts in clubs that are kind of decadent. Each of these parties gather thousands of youngsters, coming from their homes up on theContinue Reading
Christine Chastain, UCL In the 1970s, in the small town of Falmouth, Mass., USA, an experimental, sustainable community was formed called Alchemy. This project was funded by government grants and allowed its members to explore such exotic concepts like hydroponic vegetable growth, composting, contained, sustainable systems, etc. Members were soContinue Reading
Dr. Fanny Wonu Veys, Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art In September 2006, I worked closely with the Tonga Traditions Committee, whose employees were recording the best they could all the events pertaining to the funeral of King Tupou IV. King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV ofContinue Reading
Fabio Gygi, PhD Student, Anthropology, University College London and University of Tokyo My project is concerned with accumulation of things, attachment to things and with what psychiatrists call ‘hoarding’. My initial interest was whether by reformulating a psychiatric concern with deviance in terms of material culture, a broader understanding ofContinue Reading
An Exploration of Its Presence in a European Periphery Magda Craciun, PhD Student in Material Culture, University College London e.craciun@ucl.ac.uk A widespread phenomenon, re-production is morally and legally contested and combated, culturally derided, and socially dismissed as belonging to the lower social strata. I am interested in approaching it inContinue Reading
Mukulika Banerjee, Anthropology, UCL This week, reportage of the mid term US elections seems to devote almost equal coverage to the Democrat re-capture of the Congress and the close race to finish in the Senate as it did to malfunctioning electronic voting machines. Indiana and Ohio were singled out forContinue Reading