Hage on Anthropology and the Passion of the Political

Ghassan Hage is an internationally acclaimed anthropologist, both as an academic and an arresting public intellectual. Below is his December 2009 Inaugural Distinguished Lecture for the Australian Anthropological Society, where he talks about the function of the anthropological project today. Hage asks, what is the discipline's potential to help us understand, and be, 'other than what we are'?

Anthropology and the Passion of the Political

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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.

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