Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
13 June 2007 repeat 17 June 2007
CORRIDORS Rachel Hurdley, Research Associate at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences, talks about the findings of her latest research into what she calls ‘the power of corridors’. Rachel conducted her research in the ‘Glamorgan’ building in Cardiff, it is a very grand former local authority building now housing two university departments and has a lot of corridors along which many academics have their offices. She followed people during their working days to find out what takes place informally in corridors, and the part they play in the life of an institution.
MARGARET MEAD & MARY DOUGLAS Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Adam Kuper to discuss the varied lives and contrasting ideas of two renowned anthropologists of the twentieth century, Margaret Mead and Mary Douglas.
Additional information:
Rachel Hurdley, Research Associate QUALITI, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Rachel Hurdley’s ethnographic research is called The Power of Corridors and has not yet been published.
Adam Kuper, Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University and Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Academia Europaea
Culture: The Anthropologists' Account Publisher: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition ISBN-10: 0674004175 ISBN-13: 978-0674004177
To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead Margaret Mead (Author), Margaret Caffrey (Editor), Patricia Francis (Editor) Publisher: Basic Books Inc.,U.S ISBN-10: 0465008151 ISBN-13: 978-0465008155
