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Sydney | Anthropology | Ghassan Hage | Culture | December 2009

Anthropology and the passion of the political. Ghassan Hage

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Ghassan Hage is an internationally acclaimed thinker, both as an academic and an arresting public intellectual. In this Inaugural Distinguished Lecture for the Australian Anthropological Society, he looks at the function of anthropology today. He asks, what is the discipline's potential to help us understand, and be, 'other than what we are'? Ghassan Hage has held many prestigious visiting professorships including at Harvard University, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the University of Copenhagen and the American University of Beirut. He is now based at the University of Melbourne. State Library of NSW, December 2009

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Australian Anthropological Society

Duration: 28m 3s