A series of six lectures by Professor E. Evans-Pritchard
4-Fieldwork and the Empirical Tradition
The speaker is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford University. In the course of these weekly lectures he is surveying the growth, the present position, and the applications of this field of knowledge. These lectures are being given in the Hall of the Royal Society of Arts, London.
In this lecture Professor Evans-Pritchard shows how fact and theory are interrelated. He illustrates this theme and the tradition of empiricism in English anthropology from the early anthropological work of explorers, missionaries, and administrators, through early professional fieldwork, to the work of Malinowski and his pupils. Present-day research and the training necessary for fieldwork are set forth-the hard discipline to which a modern anthropologist must submit himself. The speaker ends by trying to evaluate how correct an anthropologist's observation and interpretation can be.
Next lecture: Saturday
Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by G. Adami and R. Simoni
English adaptation by R. H. Elkin
(Continued in next column)
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Répétiteur, Leo Wurmser
(Walter Midgley broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator of Covent Garden Opera Trust; Gwent Lewis of the Carl Rosa Opera Company)
The action takes place in Pekin in legendary times
'Act 1
Outside the walls of the Imperial Palace
Talk by W. A. Stewart
Historically Britain is renowned for her roast beef and as the home of livestock that has spread across the pastures of the New World. This evening, on the eve of Smithfield Week, W. A. Stewart traces the development of beef cattle in Britain and describes the part it plays in present-day world economy.
Act 2
Scene 1: A pavilion in the Imperial Palace
Scene 2: The square outside the Imperial Palace
' The Latest Phase '
A talk by Anthony Blunt on the work of these artists In the arts and crafts
An exhibition of Picasso ceramics, lithographs, and gouaches is to be seen at the New Burlington Galleries
Act 3
The Palace Gardens, near Turandot's apartment
' Orchestra '
A poem for dancing
Read by Michael Redgrave
Presented and produced by R. D. Smith
Piano Trio in E flat, Op. 100 played by the Loveridge-Martin-Hooton Trio:
David Martin (violin)
Florence Hooton (cello)
Iris Loveridge (piano)
by Norman Baynes
First of a series of four talks
Norman Baynes , Emeritus Professor of Byzantine History in the University of London, speaks of the rise and fail of the ' city of the world's desire ' on the Bosphorus, and of the historical traditions that contributed to the great power of the Byzantine Empire.
Five Sonatas
L. 449. in B minor; L. 474, in F;
L. 433, in F; L. 205, in C;
L. Supp. 27, in G played by Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord)
