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Questions of Evidence: Ethnography and Anthropological Forms of Knowledge
27-28 January 2007
CRASSH and King's College, Cambridge
Please find a brief conference description below. Further information,
including a provisional programme and downloadable booking form, can be
found at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/ethnography.html.
Because places are very limited and we have already had quite a lot of
interest in this conference, you are advised to book as early as possible.
We look forward to seeing some of you there!
Timm Lau, Liana Chua and Casey High (organisers)
This conference aims to provide a platform for ethnographers to critically
evaluate the nature, constitution, forms and uses of 'anthropological
evidence'. Ethnographic research now has at its disposal new means of
gathering new kinds of data, which may stem from technological changes (the
global spread of new media and their consumption), significant shifts in
intra- and international boundaries, as well as an increased focus on
interdisciplinary methods and theories. In the process, anthropologists
have had to critically assess the use of 'encompassing' explanatory models -
abstractions like 'culture', 'religion' and 'identity' - in and through
their ethnographic work. This conference will present ethnographic research
that critically engages such overarching models, as well as explore recent
innovative contributions to the recurring question of 'evidence' within
anthropology.
Keynote speakers for this event are Dr. Rita Astuti (LSE) and Prof. Marilyn
Strathern (Cambridge).
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