ASA 2016 DURHAM 4-7 JULYConvenors Chloe Nahum-Claudel (Pembroke College,
University of Cambridge) [log in to unmask]; Rupert Stasch (University of
Cambridge) [log in to unmask] Abstract This panel explores diverse forms
of state and non-state political encounter, in which adversaries attend
reflexively to self-other divides of autonomy, language, institutional
scale, and manipulability of impressions, in efforts to forge a common
future.Long Abstract In a neglected article, Lévi-Strauss (1949) suggested
that the appropriate Western analogue to Nambikwara treatment of foreigners
is to be found not in our concept of warfare (which tends to be total) but
in 'the arts that we ourselves place at the service of foreign diplomacy'.
Framed openly as the artful management of relations with others in the
absence of very much linguistic and social common ground, 'diplomacy' seems
a promising concept through which to bridge the ethnographic turn in the
anthropology of the state (which has powerfully relativized notions of
sovereignty, democracy and citizenship), and the opening up of the horizons
of political thought that has been characteristic of the study of non-state
or anti-state societies (e.g. Clastres 1977; Scott 2009).Uniting
anthropologists working in state-saturated contexts with others working at
distant frontiers or at interfaces between state and non-state social
agents, the panel invites papers that seek to expand the purview of
political anthropology through close attention to diplomatic strategies and
styles. These could include, among other possibilities: considerations of
hospitality, feasting and ritual means of incorporating adversaries; the
orchestration of encounters and appearances through performance and
gestural expression; skills of dialogue, greeting and oratory; gift,
tribute and debt relationships which negotiate relative status and
sovereignty; and strategies like blockade, parry and stand-off, by which
adversaries test one another in ways which expose, while they also contain,
a threat of violence.

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4391

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