J.J. Bachofen Lecture: “One World Anthropology”
In the J.J. Bachofen Lectures the Department of Ethnology engages fundamental questions of the field. The event on March 18, 2016, centers around a core principle of anthropology: the affiliation of human beings to a single, collective world.
11 February 2016
Humans belong to one fundamentally open world and not to separate, closed communities. Every life, then, is both an exploration into the possibilities this world offers and a contribution towards its ongoing formation. This core principle of anthropology constitutes the topic of this year’s Bachofen Lecture at the University of Basel. The British anthropologist Professor Timothy Ingold of the University of Aberdeen talks about the “One World Anthropology” and its critical implications on March 18.
Following a body of thought from Basel
The lecture series follows the tradition of the important anthropological thinker Johann Jakob Bachofen to question existing discourses from scratch. In his main work Mother Right he challenged gender relations and broke with the established consensus. The questions that Basel-born Bachofen asked are still relevant to this day, even though the way they are answered has changed.
Correspondingly, the annual J.J. Bachofen Lecture asks fundamental questions of Ethnology anew. Professor Ingold’s lecture on a collective world takes place on March 18 in the “Alte Universität” at 5:30 pm. Admission to the event is free and following it there will be an aperitif.
J.J. Bachofen Lecture 2016 – «One World Antropology», March 18, 2016, Alte Universität, Rheinsprung, 4051 Basel, 5:30pm. Aperitif afterwards.
