Hello,
Please note that the call for papers closes on the 15th of February. Please consider submitting your paper to our panel by this date.
We invite submissions to our panel at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) conference. The conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 15-17 July 2015.
Title: Bodily Entanglements: Sensorial and Material Productions of the Social
From new reproductive technologies to selfies on Facebook, an enmeshment of the social and material increasingly alters our bodily relationships with the world. This transformation of patterns of relationality between humans and non-humans has prompted rich ethnographic encounters and representations. Our starting point is to trace technologies that alter relations to the body, and material objects which become the body and vice versa. Anthropologists have discussed how objects affect social relations and how bodies or bodily senses have consequences for the social world. However, the entanglement of the body and the material as a way of being in the world has not been extensively discussed. Such joint bodily practice with non-humans suggests the creative capacities of socio-material entanglement. We focus especially on creative capacities of bodies — taken in relation to the non-human world — as sensing and feeling with objects in navigating social relations. We welcome papers that take into account and combine theoretical developments in the areas of human-material relationships, bodies and material culture. While theoretical perspectives may be drawn from anthropology or any other cognate discipline, preference will be given to papers based on rich ethnographic data.
Contributors to this panel are encouraged to expand on the following questions:-
– Consider the entanglement of human and non-human in practice to further our understanding of classic anthropological themes, such as kinship, religion and economy.
– Discuss how certain objects are charged with the sensorial to make real the social.
– Describe ways to explore how the role of the emotions might be understood through the sensory and material realms.
– Explain methods for ethnographic practice which advance understandings of creative capacity for sensing and/or feeling bodies with objects.
Submit via the link below. Please put panel number P7-02 in the panel field. Please send me an email also with your intention to submit. Note the deadline is 15 February 2015.
http://socanth.tu.ac.th/iuaes2015/call-for-papers/
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Regards,
Benjamin Hegarty and Shiori Shakuto-Neoh (School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University)
http://socanth.tu.ac.th/iuaes2015/2014/10/p7-02-bodily-entanglements-sensorial-and-material-productions-of-the-social/
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