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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Format: | Moving Image (Video) |
Language: | English |
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2004
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Online Access: | http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/714 |
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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