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**Apologies for Cross-posting** *CFP: Deceit in language: lies, jokes and play in Amazonia* 56th International Congress of Americanists (ICA) Salamanca, Spain, July 15th - 20th 2018 Call For Papers Dear All, We are very pleased to invite you to send contributions to our panel at the next 56th ICA entitled “*Deceit in language: lies, jokes and play in Amazonia*”. The *deadline* for proposals is *October 20**th** 2017. * To send a submission, please go to http://ica2018.es/anthropology/ and click on *“Send presentation to this symposium”* right next to our Panel’s title. Outline Jokes and lies are present not only in daily lives amongst Amerindian groups but also in narratives of the formation of the cosmos, myths of the origin of humanity and ontological propositions. Figures of deceit such as the trickster (Lévi-Strauss, 1958, 1993; Radin, 1987) are present in narratives that depict emotionally charged moments which reveal the importance of deceit as a fundamental mode of understanding and awareness in Amerindian thought (Basso, 1988). This prominence of deception also hints at a set of underlying assumptions about language and communication (Robbins 2001; Blum 2005), where it is not necessarily the truth value of an utterance that is the basis for intersubjective understanding. For this panel, we invite scholars working in Amazonia, but also in other parts of the Americas, to look at the relationship between language and deceit in every day conversations, moments of play, deliberate and non-deliberate acts of deceit, narratives and myths in which deceit is a major component. What image of language and linguistic practice comes out of utterances that directly involve some form of deceit? How does the focus on jokes and play relates to local understandings of what is truthful and what is not? These are some of the questions that the papers will address in this panel, which focuses mainly on Amerindian groups but is open to other social settings in the Amazon. Please circulate widely. Many thanks, Guilherme Orlandini Heurich (UCL) & Jan David Hauck (UCLA) -- British Academy Newton International Fellow Department of Anthropology University College London ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************