EASA new website

Category: Film

Winner of the 2009 Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize: Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, 'Je ne suis pas moi-même' explores the world of African antiquities and the contradictions in a European art market hungry for new tribal objects. Where do the African masks come from? What journey do they make before their unveiling in fancy galleries or art collections in Europe? Who determines their value? © Alba Mora & Anna Sanmarti (film distributed by the RAI)Ethnographic film, and visual anthropology more generally, have a well-established position within the discipline’s mainstream. The RAI acts as contact point in the UK for information, networking and advice in visual anthropology, organises film screenings and lectures, and provides a base for international visitors. In addition it supplies a service based on the acquisition, hiring out and sale of ethnographic films, videos and DVDs for educational and academic purposes. The RAI’s ethnographic film library is one of the world’s largest and most important. New titles are added on a continuing basis to both the sales and the archive reference holdings. All films submitted for inclusion are screened by the specialist Film Committee, guaranteeing a standard of excellence unparalleled elsewhere. Growing numbers of film company researchers and broadcasters now consult the RAI film materials. RAI Film Festival is held biennially.

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  • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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    Anthropology for all

    The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world’s longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense.

    RAi Membership:

    • Print and online subscriptions to the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)
    • A special Fifth Issue of the JRAI
    • Print and online subscriptions to Anthropology Today (AT)
    • Online access to the entire back files of both Journals, up to 5 years before the current year, through JSTOR
    • The right to borrow up to 10 books from the Anthropology Library, in person or by post, when in the UK
    • Access to the Anthropology Library’s online resources via EZproxy
    • Free access to the RAI archives by appointment
    • Free or reduced-rate admission to RAI events
    • Voting rights and eligibility for election to the RAI Council and Committees
    • 35% discount on Wiley publications

    Ready to become a member?

    Look up our options for membership and fellowship

    Or email us directly.

  • Wellbeing

    Wellbeing

    It’s all about the voice. What it means to activate and enjoy your voice – freeing up patterns it can weave in script, speech or sound. How we transform, express and align ourselves with the greater story of Life.

    I’m fortunate to have a voice that helps provide food and shelter for my offspring, so whether it’s training, performance or therapy you’re after, that’s where the money goes.

    Aged 23, I was diagnosed with a large brain tumour – a young musician who’d moved to London. Singing, writing and performing helped me through my parents’ divorce in childhood, and my brain injury as an adult (see ‘Brains On Toast’ Theatre show and ‘The Brain Tumour Song’ ). I got into Audiobook narration just in time for lockdown, when it became tricky to do sound healing face to face.

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  • Writing for SEO

    Identify which keywords are relevant to EASA in general, use those terms on introductory pages, ie Home and About. Identify which terms are relevant to topical pages such as Networks  – write introductions containing those terms.

    1. Define broad topics which are covered by EASA, such as Ethnology and Anthropology.
    2. Defines sets of keywords which belong to each topic.
    3. When creating menu labels, links, page/post introductions and excerpts, use these keywords.
    4. Perform a running analysis of how these terms are being used to direct Search Engine traffic to EASA.

    Networks and other topical sections

    Write introduction texts to each page, ie Network, which contains keywords related to this topic.

    Example: Anthropology of Mining home page: “Resource extraction” “Minerals”.

  • Networks

    Key Questions:

    • How can Network editors get access to publish their own content within the site?
    • Which networks seem inactive in terms of home page update?
    • How can content from external network media (website and social media) be incorporated?
    • How to identify which networks’ pages should be brought over to the new site.

    EASA has ca 60 networks. A quick review shows that the home page of some of these have not been updated for over a year:

    • Sacral Healing and Communication network,
    • Multimodal Ethnography Network
    • Future Anthropologies Network (FAN)
    • Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia, (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China) (AMCE), 
    • Anthropology of Security Network,
    • Anthropology of Religion,
    • Anthropology of Mining Network, 
    • Anthropology of Food Network,
    • Anthropology of Children and Youth Network (ACYNet),
    • Anthropology and Social
    • Movements
    • Africanist Network
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    Recommendation: identify “inactive” networks by viewing internal EASA pages, social media and external websites. Find out if they can be revived.

    Recommendation: If the network has external website, they can be invited to move this to the EASA site, keeping their current look. We have unlimited options for setting up different templates within one site. Network editors can have access to edit and post within their section, livening up the EASA site and in return saving on hosting and maintenance.

    Recommendation: Where the network prefers to publish their news on an external site or social media channel, integrate the posting of news and events from this external source to the EASA Events calendar and the network news section.

    Recommendation: If the network has reasonably active Facebook page, then this should be embedded on the network’s EASA home page. 

    For our proposals on how to manage network content, see content management.

  • Content Management

    How can content be published by embedding other channels such as Facebook, Twitter and RSS, or giving Network editors access to publish their own posts.

    Media officer / NomadIT

    NomadIT are happy to manage the publishing and editing of content as we are currently doing.

    We we would also be more than happy to share resources for how EASA could manage content themselves, and we already have very useful resources for how to do so – for which we have received great feedback from other clients.

    We recommend that EASA makes use of designated Network editors where possible. These editors will create and edit content for their respective networks. Below follows a suggestion of how this can be done. This framework can also be used for designated editors for other sections of the website, such as “Policy and Letters” or “Publications”.

    Network editors restricted to their Networks

    Let editor for a nework, ie Anthromob only edit and create posts and pages in “Anthromob” category
    – Publishpress does this for $79/year. Has a useful checklist to see that everything is in place before publishing (ie excerpt and featured image)

    • Posts can be set to pending, as in pending review by site admin before publishing. This will be useful in several scenarios, ie a) general quality and relevance control, b) adding another category “news” to a post, so it will show display in news widgets (ie home page) as well as Anthromob news. c) the new posts is about an event – site admin will then create an event in Events calendar as a follow-up task.

    Social Media Feeds

    Where there is an active social media channel for a Conference, Network, Journal, this can be pulled into any relevant page, to auto-create dynamic content.

    RSS Feed

    If the journal or book series, has a rss feed, this can be embedded into the website. The same goes for any netwrok-related publication with a rss feed.

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