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Association of Social Anthropologists Decennial
Conference July 14-18 2003.
This is a second call for papers for the panel
New Methods in the Anthropology of Science, Technology
and
Medicine - Postgraduate Perspectives.
We have now teamed up with Anthropology Matters to
hold this panel with the result that papers presented
at the panel will be published in a special edition of
the Anthropology Matters on-line journal.
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Using the anthropology of science and technology as
its focus this panel wants to aks what contributions
post-graduate researchers can make to the
introduction, application and evaluation of new
research methods? It also aims to provide a platform
to present papers, exchange ideas and engage in
stimulating discussions.
During the last decade anthropology as a discipline
has undergone a considerable expansion and
reorientation, both geographically and in terms of its
research interests. The demand for new approaches to
the subject and new methods of research was an
important corollary of this change. The methodological
challenges faced by anthropologists conducting
research in science and technology included questions
such as how to study dispersed, or virtual
communities? How to study ‘up’? How to follow
decentralised networks? Or how to engage with other
approaches to research, science or technology in the
context of fieldwork, to name but a few? The search
for answer introduced the discipline to new methods
such as Actor-Network Theory, multi-sited
ethnographies, the anthropological study of a
technology and the use of a technology itself, such as
email or the Internet, as a research tool.
Fro the purpose of this panel we would like to hear in
what ways have those new methods affected your
research? What were your experiences as an
anthropologist in the field and in what ways have they
influenced the choice of your methods or your final
analysis? Do you think post-graduate researchers can
make a distinct contributions to the methodology used
in anthropology?
Though all papers dealing with some of the issues
above are welcome, we would be particularly interested
in contributions that are situated outside the
boundaries of Western Europe or North America, or
research that has applied some of the aforementioned
methods innovatively outside the context of the
anthropology of science and technology.
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Any postgraduates who would like to get involved by
presenting a paper please send a 200 word abstract by
the new deadline of 20 December 2002 to any of the
email addresses listed below.
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