Anthropologists at Gregynog

13.06.2011

Anthropology staff and students from the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology recently traveled to the University of Wales' conference centre at Gregynog Hall near Welshpool. The magnificent stately surroundings provided an ideal location for the colloquium that saw a combination of papers from staff, undergraduates and postgraduates contributing to theme of ‘Relationships’.

Papers included:

Melanie Long sharing her fieldwork experience amongst bee keepers in ‘What’s all this buzz about bees?’. Fenella Eason discussing the experience and performance of pet bereavement and Pauline Bambrey exploring the problems of belonging to a community as an anthropologist

Staff contributed with:

Dr Sam Hurn looking at the ritual expression of fox hunting performance in Wales and Luci Attala speaking on the healing properties and the meanings of ayahuasca induced hallucinations as understood by the Ashaninka of Peru. Also included was a film and workshop discussion session.

Feedback from this year’s colloquium has been particularly positive. Moving from campus to a conference environment inspired noteworthy inter-level dialogue between students, a channel of communication which encouraged the creation of remarkable new dissertation ideas for some of the students. It is hoped that this event will become an regular one and complements the School's History Colloquium that also sees staff and students in dialogue with other history students and academics from across Wales.

Further Information

Luci Attala

l.attala@tsd.ac.uk

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