Part of the National Library of Australia 'Winter Tales' series in association with the Australian Women’s Archives Project.

“Anthropology is a stance on life” Professor Emerita Diane Bell declares as she takes listeners on a fast-paced journey of her past 40 years working as an anthropologist in Australia and the USA. Diane has written on land rights, women’s rights, religion and the environment. She contested a proposal to build a bridge to Hindmarsh Island, which would have destroyed a Ngarrindjeri women’s sacred site in South Australia, ran for the federal seat of Mayo, turned her hand to fiction and blogs and campaigned to protect the Murray Darling river system. Can there be retirement for a feminist anthropologist? “Too much work remains” says Diane.

Cost: $15 with afternoon tea served.

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