Social Anthropology is a humanistic discipline located within the Social Sciences. As such, it provides a means of exploring culture as a global and comparative phenomenon, and of examining the linkages between culture and society. It offers a powerful critique of racism and all other forms of social and cultural intolerance and a valuable critical perspective on the role of power in a wide range of topics: gender, local governance, the promotion and preservation of heritage, ethnic relations, and property issues, to name just a few. The speaker has done research in southern Europe (Greece and Italy) and southeast Asia (Thailand) and thus has a comparative perspective, which he will use to illustrate the talk. He will suggest that Social Anthropology, even for those who are not contemplating careers in this field, can be a rich source of humane understanding and a bridge between the other social sciences and the artistic and literary disciplines.
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