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CALL FOR PAPERS
For the inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage
Studies on the topic of "Re-theoretisation of heritage" in Gothenburg,
Sweden, 5-8 June
(http://www.science.gu.se/infoglueCalendar/digitalAssets/1775484548_BifogadFil_Conference_Announcement_ACHS%202012_Third_CALL.pdf),
we seek contributions to the following panel. Please send a title and
abstract of no more than 250 words to both convenors by 28 January.
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Critical Heritage Studies: The Ethnographic Perspective
Anthropologists, as well as cultural geographers and sociologists, have
assembled a considerable body of ethnographic work on cultural heritage.
Through methods such as participant observation, interviews, and
multi-sited research, they have investigated how people live with
heritage and how heritage institutions, professionals, and interpreters
go about their daily business. They have been particularly interested in
the articulation of conscious self-representation and not-so-conscious
everyday practices, including the resistant and subversive ones. Yet
more than anything else perhaps, they have documented the sheer variety
of voices and interests surrounding heritage: professional heritage
managers, custodians, spokespeople, owners, practitioners and all those
who are affected by, or hope to profit from, heritage and heritage
policies in one way or another. Ethnography therefore allows for richer
analysis, detailed narratives, and deeper probing of heritage matters,
both of the celebratory discourse of official institutions and of those
very critical analyses in the social sciences and humanities that take
the exclusionary and exploitative effects of heritage for granted.
In this panel, we wish to take stock of the ethnographic approach to
heritage. What is to be gained by ethnographic research that cannot be
achieved through other methods, and further, where are its limitations?
In which specific ways is ethnographic research combined with other
methods, and which combinations are most productive? In research
settings, how do heritage ethnographers position themselves vis-à-vis
researchers trained in other academic disciplines, and furthermore as
'experts,' when any pronouncement on heritage and its effects will
impact communities, stakeholders, and laypeople deeply committed to the
heritage in question? We invite contributions grounded in ethnographic
experience in heritage research, but also broader reviews of the field
and its methodological, political and moral aspects.
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, North Dakota State University
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Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
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