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CFP IUAES2016: Panel on Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology as/and Science: Addressing contemporary instrumentalist threats to the Humanities

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Dear colleagues,



Apologies for cross postings etc.



This is a last call for papers for a panel at the IUAES Inter-Congress in Dubrovnik in early May.



Panel Title:

Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology as/and Science: Addressing contemporary instrumentalist threats to the Humanities



Short abstract:  Anthropology and other Humanities are threatened by governments’ developmentalists asserting that they are not scientific disciplines. Can arguments that anthropology is a useful science simultaneously convince and be consistent with contemporary arguments that there are multiple anthropologies?



Keywords: anthropology, ethnology, science, threats to humanities, multiple anthropologies



Full panel abstract:  Early social and cultural anthropologists and ethnologists regarded their disciplines as sciences that systematically gathered information about diverse cultures and societies and formally analysed it comparatively and structurally. Moreover, various social-cultural anthropologists, particularly some in colonial and settler contexts, insisted that their work was scientific which, with hindsight, it seems they did to counter colonial administrators’ critiques of their work for threatening the colonial enterprise. Recently, particularly since social-cultural anthropology’s interpretive turn, governments at various levels have lumped these disciplines together with various others in the humanities, and rubbished them as useless for ‘societal betterment’ – ostensibly because they are not scientifically objective, not properly evidence based, not statistical in their analyses. The critique has generated various public responses from the disciplines’ practitioners.

The panel seeks two kinds of papers relating to the critique. The first is papers focused on the character of anthropology and ethnology as presently practised and how one might argue that their methods reveal them to be as much scientific as those of the so-called hard sciences, albeit differently so. The second is papers concerned with the kinds of arguments mounted in response to current threats to the disciplines and the humanities in general, and the extent to which those manage to reflect contemporary arguments that globally anthropology and ethnology are characterised by their own multiplicity and heterogeneity. Put differently: can responses to critiques that anthropology fails as a science succeed if they reflect an argument that there are many socially-positioned anthropologies drawing on multiple epistemologies?



If you are interested in submitting a paper or poster abstract, please go online, register, and follow the instructions at:

http://iuaes2016.com/submit-paper/



Full details of the panel can be found at http://iuaes2016.com/congress-panel/panel-29-09-2015-123617-andrew-mugsy-spiegel/



Deadline: 29 February 2016



Best wishes

Mugsy Spiegel



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Andrew D Spiegel PhD

Emer Assoc Professor in Anthropology

University of Cape Town

P O Rondebosch

7701 Cape Town

South Africa



Treasurer, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

Member, Advisory Board of World Council of Anthropology Associations







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