The panel "Re-enchantment, ritualisation, heritage-making: processes of
tradition reconfiguration in Europe: historical and ethnographic examples"
is now open to paper submissions.
It will take place in Göttingen, during the SIEF 2017 13th Congress, 26-30
March 2017 and Sharon Macdonald will be our discussant.
Please, do not hesitate to submit your proposal by 7 november 2016 and feel
free to contact us if you need any information.
Here is the link to the congress site: http://www.siefhome.org/
congresses/sief2017/index.shtml
Convenors
- Alessandro Testa (University of Vienna) email
- Cyril Isnart (Institut d'Ethnologie Méditerranéenne, Européenne et
Comparative) email
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Discussant Sharon Macdonald
Short Abstract
Re-enchantment, ritualisation, and heritage-making are some of the concepts
social scientists can use nowadays to better understand the dynamics of
cultural transformations in late-modern societies. The panel aims to open
new interpretative paths to question such dynamics in Europe.
Long Abstract
The aim of this panel is to gather and discuss historically and
ethnographically informed papers about the symbolic, political, and
religious reconfiguration of European "traditions" in the broad emic and
etic senses of the word.
Invention (Hobsbwam and Ranger dir. 1988), revitalisation (Boissevain dir.
1992), commodification (Comaroff and Comaroff dir. 2009), bureaucratisation
(Herzfeld 1992), and ʻpast presencingʼ (Macdonald 2013) are among the main
concepts social scientists use to interpret and understand the dynamics of
cultural transformations in late-modern societies. We have chosen to focus
on alternative paradigms, i.e. re-enchantment, ritualisation, and
heritage-making, which can open the discussion up to the symbolic and
sensitive dimensions of cultural dynamics.
The panel also aims to rethink the theoretical scope and significance of
these notions vis-à-vis the more classical concepts that link culture to
economics or politics. This will be done on the basis of the sources and
evidence informing the ethnographic and historical case studies presented
in the papers. How are magic and supernatural powers publicly experienced?
How can the ritualisation of a craft interweave with its commodification?
What place do individuals' sensations and feelings have in the construction
and demonstration of cultural commons?
Speakers are encouraged to present cases from rural as well as urban
contexts. Papers problematising both institutional/well-established and
new/unofficial religions, crafts, food, monuments, as well as
representations of nature are welcome. We also invite potential speakers to
present not only examples of UNESCO heritage-making or NGO development
policies, but also others concerning local, regional, or national groups
and associations.
Propose paper
<http://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2017/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4967>
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