Category: People

Helga Vierich lived with Kua hunter-gatherers of Botswana for the better part of two and a half years and then went on to do a further six months in a drought consultancy that included them while Botswana went through the worst drought of its history in 1979. Richard Lee was her thesis supervisor.

Tam Burn Dean is an actor, cultural producer and activist currently based in Glasgow. He has taken part in a wide range of activities about Robert Burns over the years, not least as singer of the Burnsian band The Bum-Clocks https://vimeo.com/374426738 https://thebum-clocks. bandcamp.com/track/tree-o-liberty.

Ann Gollifer is a British-Guyanese visual artist. She moved to Gaborone, Botswana in 1985 where she worked for the Department of National Museum and Monuments until 1987 and then entered the printing and publishing sector. She was mentored by Alec Campbell then Director of the National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone and also by Sandy Grant,…

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Valentina Zagaria is a post-doctoral fellow at the Central European University (CEU) as part of the Striking from the Margins team and an associate fellow of the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis. She is currently carrying out fieldwork on the intimately political aspects of Libyan women’s lives while in long-term or intermittent…

Pauline von Hellermann is an environmental anthropologist and political ecologist, who came to Anthropology via History and Development Studies. After completing her PhD at Sussex in 2005 and two postdocs at Sussex and York, she joined Goldsmiths as a lecturer in 2011. She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2018-2021) for the project Red Gold:…

Felix Padel is an activist-oriented anthropologist educated in Oxford and Delhi Universities. His main books include ‘Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape’ (1995/2010), ‘Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel’ (with Samarendra Das, 2010) and ‘Ecology, Economy: Quest for a Socially Informed Connection’ (with Ajay Dandekar and Jeemol Unni, 2013).…

Abbey Page trained as an anthropologist, first at the University of Durham for her BA in Social and Biological Anthropology and then MSc in Medical Anthropology at University College London. She completed her PhD in Biological Anthropology in 2016, specialising in the cooperative childrearing, health and reproduction of a hunter-gatherer population in the Philippines called the…

Dave Robinson lectures in anthropology at the University of East London. He is a specialist in the social life and traditions of the Maori people of New Zealand.

Jackie Walker is a black, Jewish activist and author, a founding member of Jewish Voice for Labour, a defender of Palestinian rights, a longstanding campaigner against racism and the former Vice-Chair of Momentum, the left-wing movement in the British Labour Party. Author of the acclaimed family memoir Pilgrim State (Sceptre, 2008), she has recently staged…