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CALL FOR PAPERS
16th Congress of the IUAES
Kunming, China
July 2008
*Palestine**: An anthropologically imagined site*
**The aim of the panel is to discuss the anthropological practices that
focus on Palestine. By anthropological practices I mean the textual and
ethnographic patterns that dominate the construction of 'Palestine' as an
imagined generative anthropological site. While engaging critically with the
current problematics of writing 'Palestine' anthropologically, the
discussion will also aim at exploring new directions in anthropologically
engaged research on the colonial condition in 'Palestine', and based on
that, extended comparatively to other neocolonial sites.
Since the Intifada of 1987, the volume and quality of the anthropological
literature on Palestine has taken a new direction. In contrast to the
classical pre- 1987 studies, when the major focus was on macro-politics and
histories of Palestinian society (hence the scant amount of anthropological
monographs), in the new literature the voices and practices of ordinary
Palestinians have become the major focus of the anthropological practices.
As in similar cases, this turn in anthropological research is hybrid,
conflictive, multi-layered, and at times overladen with politics at the
expense of scientific critique.
The panel will be structured along three main axes: the historical,
theoretical, and methodological aspects of the anthropological literature on
Palestine. Each proposed presentation has to address one or more of these
axes. The proposal should be limited to 250 word and submitted to following
email address by October 15, 2007: [log in to unmask] .
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