Call for Papers: IUAES 4-9 May 2016, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Please consider submitting a paper proposal to our panel: Magic in contemporary settings of
knowledge, practices, and the senses: interrelations with science and religion
Short abstract:
This panel considers magic in a highly complex contemporary world of knowledge, practices, and the
senses. Focusing on the interrelations between magic and other knowledge/practices such as science
and religion, we try to reconsider anthropological theories on knowledge, practices, and the
senses.
Panel keywords:
knowledge,magic,practice,religion,science,the senses
Long abstract:
What kind of significance does magic have in the contemporary world? Is magic an outdated focus of
research in anthropology today? This panel aims to explore the position of magic in contemporary
knowledge/practice settings including science and religion to demonstrate that magic is still
‘good to think with’ in these settings. Here knowledge/practice encompasses both knowledge and
practice and includes the dimension of belief and the senses. In the contemporary world, magic is
remarkable for its coexistence with or adjacency to ‘other’ knowledge/practices such as science,
biomedicine, school education, and religion. While the anthropological studies on the relationship
between magic and modernity, which prospered in the 1990s mainly in the field of Africa, focused
on globalization, capitalism, and nation-state, these studies paid little attention to science.
Moreover, in contrast to the ‘magic and modernity’ approach, which took ‘modernity produces
magic’ as its premise, we will examine how ‘magic produces modernity’ as well. That is to say,
modern knowledge/practices such as science, biomedicine, school education, and religion are often
performed in everyday life through a process in which magical knowledge/practices are invoked.
Magical knowledge/practices sometimes also sharpens the sensory experiences of science and
religion, and science and religion can exist in the contemporary society without contradicting the
sensory dimensions of magical knowledge/practices. This panel thus engages with magic in order to
reconsider anthropological theories on knowledge, practices, and the senses.
Convenor: Junko Iida (Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare)
Co-Convenor: Makito Kawada (Seijo University)
The deadline of abstract submission is 29 February.
http://iuaes2016.com/congress-panel/panel-29-09-2015-160143-junko-iida/
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