From 12th July 2012 to 8th October 2012 B. Telban was a Research Scholar at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. During his affiliation he held lectures in both anthropology and linguistics. The invited lecture at the linguistic workshop "The Grammar of Knowledge" in July 2012 deals with ways of speaking, the creation of knowledge, hearing and seeing, and mirativity, and argues for a connection between names/words and touch. It has been published in 2014 in Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon (eds.), The Grammar of Knowledge: A Cross-linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 260277.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 36844589“I want Albania to be like Europe” was the sentence often heard in the media and political discourse and daily talk of Albanian people after the fall of communist regime in 1991. Nowadays, when more than two decades have passed from the fall of communism the term Europe as an idea and as a place is still present in peoples’ daily conversations. They often use it as a synonym for European Union (EU) which pertains to modernity, social and economic development and general well being. This guest lecture questioned how peoples’ feelings of uncertain and unsure present are replaced with their hopes and expectations for a better future envisioned in Albania’s accession to EU. In line with Reed’s definition of waiting as the integral part of future directionality of the hopeful moment, their wait for accession could be interpreted as an indeterminate position which gives them hope and faith for a better future. This presentation will address dimensions of hope and waiting in Southern Albania and argue that these “methods of knowledge” are the ways in which people think and vision the future.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 37326381Within the Viva Mexico festival, organised by Cankarjev dom in 2009 I. Šprajc prepared a photographic exhibition "Maya Culture", which presented the results of archaeological surveys accomplished under his direction in the central part of the Yucatan peninsula in southeastern Mexico. As a professional consultant he also participated in the organization of the exhibition “Pre-Columbian Mexico: Eternal Life: Archaeology of Western Mexico”, and contributed, for the accompanying publication, the introductory text about the cultures of prehispanic Mexico. I. Šprajc has presented the results of his research during the last years in a number of public lectures in Slovenia and abroad.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 29701165Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 34365229Relief Visualization Toolbox was produced to help scientists visualize raster elevation model datasets. We have narrowed down the selection to include techniques that have proven to be effective for identification of small scale features. It is intended for users of different areas who use and analyse data derived from heights or relief morphology. The tool has been widely established among archaeologists worldwide. RVT is free to download from http://iaps.zrc-sazu.si/en/rvt#v with corresponding guidelines.
F.06 Development of a new product
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