# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Young Engels and the politics of the encounter 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Drawing on shared research, in this talk Anne Monk and Jacob Seagrave explore how the young Friedrich Engels' 'The Condition of the Working Class in England' provides a neglected model of ‘communist ethnography’, a politically committed form of long-term investigation that has critical implications for the practice of anthropology today. By reading the text through the parallel histories of investigation as experimented with by both communist revolutionaries and professional anthropologists alike in the 20th century – detouring through examples like Mao’s Hunan Report and Evans-Pritchard’s The Nuer – we will delve into issues such as the politics of the encounter, the role of the intellectual and the meaning of difference. We will argue that a renewed dialogue between Marxism and anthropology can speak to problems of socialist politics today.

Jacob Seagrave is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics researching agricultural cooperatives in Andalucía, Spain. Anne Monk is a graduate medical student at the Warwick Medical School.   

Jacob and Anne speak
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 230, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Invite link 
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/95285541412?pwd=LjI5yIagplvPmFXVwSnLbDbV1xUiep.1
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- **country**: United Kingdom
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- **full address**: UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street,London, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: Radical Anthropology Group (https://allevents.in/org/radical-anthropology-group/384155)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
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