Interview with Robert Paine

Interviewed by Piers Vitebsky on 8th July 1986; filmed by Julian Jacobs - 1 hour 14 minutes in length. Robert Paine reviews his life as an anthropologist - his training and fieldwork with the Saami nomands of Norway in the 1950's; the inception of the Anthropology Department at Bergen and his l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paine, Robert, Vitebsky, Piers, Jacobs, Julian
Format: Moving Image (Video)
Language:English
Published: 2004
Subjects:
intellectual colonialism
Philosophy
Bergen
Norway
Paine
Newfoundland
saami
Online Access:http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/714
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Summary:Interviewed by Piers Vitebsky on 8th July 1986; filmed by Julian Jacobs - 1 hour 14 minutes in length. Robert Paine reviews his life as an anthropologist - his training and fieldwork with the Saami nomands of Norway in the 1950's; the inception of the Anthropology Department at Bergen and his later move to St John's Newfoundland; themes of welfare and 'nanny' colonialism, the difficulties of advocacy in Anthropology; his later interest in Israel, meta-history and memory; closing with memories of Oxford in the late 40's and those he worked and studied with there.

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