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*Call for paper proposals- DEADLINE 5TH JANUARY 2014*
ASA14 Decennial: Anthropology and Enlightenment
19-22 June 2014
The Surgeons' Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
*Repositioning health, illness and the body: the challenge of new
theoretical approaches to medical anthropology*
*Convenors:*
Simon Cohn (University of Cambridge)
Rebecca Lynch (University of Cambridge)
*Summary*
This panel addresses to what extent a number of Enlightenment distinctions
have inescapably shaped medical anthropology, and whether they have
hindered, as well as enabled, its progress. It asks whether approaches from
STS and the 'ontological turn' are useful to overcome the entrenched
dichotomies.
*Long Abstract*
This panel will ask if such classic distinctions as those between
nature/culture, self/other, mind/body are merely entrenched cultural
repertoires of Western post-Enlightenment, and to what extent have they
inescapably shaped the development of medical anthropology and related
research. It will explore whether approaches from STS and the 'ontological
turn' might be particularly useful to interrogate this issue, by helping us
circumvent such things as the illness/disease distinction as well as
placing the materiality of the body at the centre of analysis. A radical
reconfiguration not only rejects drawing on assumed categories but places
the body and matters of health and illness as inherently contingent on
specific contexts. However, for many anthropologists, such approaches feel
limited by their apparent lack of engagement with subjective experiences
such as emotions, beliefs, distress and desires. Some of the questions this
panel may address are therefore:
- How might material-semiotic and ANT approaches challenge our
considerations of the body and disease, and what do examples of this
approach imply for the study of health and illness more broadly?
- Can these approaches reinvigorate medical anthropology without letting
go of things we regard as integral to the discipline?
- How do these also help us to think through work on health and illness
that aims to engage with non-anthropologists? (for example, when our work
is 'applied'?)
- How can a strong commitment to multiple realities allow for such ideas
as rationality, empathy and intimacy which suggest commonalities?
Paper proposals should consist of:
* a paper title
* authors/co-authors
* a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
* a long abstract of fewer than 250 words.
All paper proposals must be submitted via the conference website although
you are welcome to email us directly for informal queries (Simon:
[log in to unmask], Rebecca: [log in to unmask] ). Proposal
abstracts should be submitted through:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2679. More
information on the conference more broadly is available at:
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa14/ .
The call for papers is now open and closes on 5th January 2014.
Best wishes,
Simon Cohn & Rebecca Lynch
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