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From: Amiria Henare [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 September 2004 11:51
To: Susan Keeping
Subject: Conference announcement
Dear Sue,
I would be most grateful if you could circulate this conference announcement to
staff and graduate students as soon as is convenient.
Thank you very much for you help,
Amiria Henare (Cambridge)
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THINKING THROUGH THINGS:
Theorising artefacts in ethnographic perspective
A one-day workshop / symposium at the University of Cambridge
16 October 2004
Speakers: Keith Hart, Ludmilla Jordanova, Daniel Miller, Marilyn Strathern,
Rebecca Empson, Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, James Leach, Tim Lewens, Morten
Pedersen, Adam Reed, Chris Wright.
What would an artefact-based anthropology look like if it were not about
material culture? And what could it offer disciplines that continue to separate
'things' from the meanings that attach to them? 'Thinking Through Things'
initiates a renewed interdisciplinary debate about knowledge, social life and
materiality with fields that place artefacts at the centre of inquiry.
This conference aims to explore how the study of artefacts, broadly conceived,
can offer theoretical insights and analytic affordances not available through
other means. In so doing, it offers a challenge both to disciplines that treat
materiality as something on top of which sociality is elaborated, and to those
which restrict their enquiries to the study of discourse and behaviour as if
these were fundamentally immaterial. Instead of supporting the growth of
subdisciplines dedicated to material culture, then, the conference seeks to
reposition artefact-based research at the heart of anthropology among other
social sciences and humanities.
further information + registration ( 10 students, 15 full) @
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/
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Dr Amiria Henare
Assistant Curator in Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Downing Street
Cambridge CB2 3DZ
Tel: (01223) 333 516
FAX: (01223) 333 517
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