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We invite further submissions to the following EASA 2014 Panel on reading
and understanding the anthropology of previous generations. We are
interested in exploring ways of making such work live (or not) in the
production of contemporary anthropological knowledge.
The deadline for submission is 27/02/2014
Edward Simpson (SOAS): [log in to unmask]
Peter Berger (University of Groningen): [log in to unmask]
What to do with 'old' anthropology? Zeitgeist, knowledge and time
Short Abstract
Are the works of previous generations of anthropologists simply redundant?
Contextual footnotes? Disciplinary history? If not, then what sorts of
collaborative relationships can we have with 'old' anthropology?
Long Abstract
This panel will ask how we should conceptualise and dwell amidst the
anthropology of our ancestors. How can we collaborate with previous
generations of anthropologists - living or dead - and relate to the work
they produced?
Anthropology has matured as a discipline to have written histories,
ancestors and identifiable phases of particular theoretical fashion. But
what kind of knowledge is the 'old' anthropology of the twentieth century?
What should we do with it? How are we to understand and relate to it?
Within the discipline, some scholars stress a paradigm of innovation,
newness and excitement, believing that the discipline should endlessly
regenerate itself. Others rather stress continuity and the seemingly
inescapable heritage of colonial forms of knowledge production and
practices. Either way, the 'old' anthropology of the twentieth century has
become little more than footnotes and a set of background references to
things that happened before the present. Is that all it can be?
We invite papers on any intimate collaboration between contemporary
researchers and 'old' anthropology. Themes may include 'restudying' the
same locations, revisiting ideas and theories, using old field notes or
diaries, as well as more general conceptualisations of the production of
knowledge across time.
EASA Panel: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2983
Dr Edward Simpson, SOAS
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