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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Cultural Negotiation: the Dialogue between Rituals and Globalisation
Panel to be held at the ASA09 Conference (Bristol, UK, 6-9 April 2009)
Convenor
Maria Alcantara (University of Sao Paulo) [log in to unmask]
Short Abstract
This panel has a interdisciplinary approach: we are studying what the ethnic
religion is dialoguing of the globalization process, our focus is the ritual
process and its transformation.
Long Abstract
This panel has the objective of analyzing the transformation of rituals of
indigenous communities as they enter a dialogue with western societies. Our
approach is interdisciplinary: we conceptualize tradition as the entity that
suffers many transformations, but there is a structuring and structured
nucleus, and it is within this picture that we will analyze the ritual, besides
studying what the ethnic religion is in face of the globalization process. It is
only by means of the dynamic of this ritual process that we will understand
how the influence of occidental society is able to transform certain cultural
symbols. Therefore, we need to identify the ethnic cultural symbols that are
brought into negotiation with others, and how this dynamic occurs, resulting in
a type of cultural hybridism. In light of this conceptualization, this panel has
as its primary objective to analyze the changes of the indigenous rituals
considered traditional, especially in Latin America. We will draw on examples
primarily from interaction with Christianity, but welcome studies look at, for
example, the influence of archaeological heritage or nationalism in this ritual-
building process.
Paper proposals (paper title, a 300-character abstract, and a 250-word
abstract) must be submitted online at:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa09/panels.php5?PanelID=542
The deadline for proposing a paper is 6 February 2009.
Paper proposers need not be members of the Association of Social
Anthropologists.
For further information on submitting an abstract please visit:
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa09/papers.htm
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