Table of Contents

Kirsten Hastrup: Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos: emergent ethnographic subjects c. 1900 (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology)
Matthew Bevis: Edward Lear's lines of flight (Chatterton Lecture on Poetry)
Jane Ginsburg: 'All the world's knowledge': Universal authors' rights (British Academy Law Lecture)
Ian Deary: An intelligent Scotland: Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson and the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947 (Joint BA/British Psychological Society Lecture)
Judith Brown: The end of Empire in India revisited (Raleigh Lecture on History)
Michael Cook: The appeal of fundamentalism (British Academy Lecture)
David Denison: Parts of speech: solid citizens or slippery customers? (Philological Society Lecture)
Arne Westad: Ronald Reagan and the re-constitution of American hegemony (Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture)
Mark Mazower: The Greek War of Independence in a global era (Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American History)
Nicholas Cook: Between art and science: music as performance (Aspects of Art Lecture)
Andrew Pettigrew: Can leaders make a difference to organisational performance? (Sir John Cass's Foundation Lecture)
Colin Renfrew: The sanctuary at Keros: questions of materiality and monumentality (Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture)
Richard Parish: Imitations of Christ in 17th-century France: Some attendant difficulties (Lecture in Modern Languages)

About the Author

Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.

Simon Frith is Tovey Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh.