15h Annual Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern Lecture

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In-Person
Date: November25,2025
Location: Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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The 15th Annual Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern Lecture will be given by Dr Ludovic Coupaye in the Auditorium, Pembroke College (Trumpington Street), at 17:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025. Dr Coupaye conducted his fieldwork among the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea. His interlocutors carefully cultivate large yams which they handle as art objects. The subsequent monograph, Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea (Berghahn, 2013), pioneered a non-anthropocentric approach to the study of artefacts. Since then, Coupaye’s work has centred artefacts, contributing to the anthropology of technicity and technical objects that brings Francophone and Anglophone anthropology into dialogue.

Participants & Organizers

University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology(Organizer, Host)

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Social Anthropology at Cambridge is a leading centre globally in anthropological teaching and research. Both in the UK and beyond, a large number of anthropologists teaching in major university departments received their doctoral training here, and the current faculty members are engaged in some of the most innovative frontline research in the human and social sciences today.