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CALL FOR PANEL PAPERS
ASA 2012:Arts and aesthetics in a globalising world
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 3rd-6th April 2012
CFP: Aesthetics of the body and healing in a globalising world
This panel seeks to explore aesthetic dimensions of different healing
systems as they intersect and/or relate to the aesthetics of embodied
experiences of health and illness. In the current anthropological
literature, some attention has been paid to the way in which aesthetics
associated with different healing treatments contribute to the healing
process by affecting the embodied experience of the patient. In
particular, how does engaging the patient's sensesaesthetics (odors,
colors, sight, music, and all kinds of sensory stimuli) affect the
embodied experience of the patient? Conversely, we also seek to explore
how certain aesthetics of the body intersect with these wider systems of
healing including biomedical technologies, and consider the wider
implications of such intermingling of the body and body politic. For
example, how might modes of bodily visibility be pragmatically managed
by patients and healers in response to different healing systems and / or
as a consequence of illness? Finally, in what ways might globalizing
medical practices impact the specific aesthetics of bodily materialities
and local systems of healing in nuanced and unexpected ways? We invite
contributions from ethnographic research that deals with the embodied
experience of patients on these two fronts, offering critical reflection
upon the ways in which aesthetics of healing systems and/ or aesthetics of
the body in illness speak to wider variants of well being in a globalising
world.
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To submit a proposal for this panel or to find out more, please follow
this link to the appropriate page on the ASA's website:
(http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1287)
Submissions need to be made before 7 December.
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