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Please note the following call for papers for LD14 Disjunctions of
Deathscapes at the IUAES 2013. The CFP closes on Friday 13 July 2012.
*http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1508*
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17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences,
Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds August 5th-August 10th, 2013
http://www.iuaes2013.org/
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Disjunctions of deathscapes: ways of suffering, dying, and death
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Disjunctions of deathscapes regards what people expect about death and
dying as compared to what actually occurs—before, during and after death. A
transnational social abrogation of agency through death in care confronts
social policy and raises questions of social responsibility, ethics and
justice.
The last two decades witnessed a massive expansion of the death literature,
yet the importance of death in social theory was eclipsed by the
elucidation of cultural difference. The notion "disjunctions of
deathscapes" unites phenomenology with practice, to ask what do people
expect about death, as compared to what actually occurs—before, during and
after death. "Deathscapes" itself is defined in material terms to reference
the paraphernalia of death: graveyards, ossuaries, tombstones, and
crematoriums, and now includes death websites. More broadly, "deathscapes"
may be defined as a cognitive frame, mentality, or ideology, regarded
through agency, practice, religion, rituals and rites de passage. Where in
the past people may expect to die at home in the care of their families,
nowadays we anticipate death in care homes under the custody of strangers
employed by private organizations or the state. This dramatic
cross-cultural and historic alteration in the ways of death is global.
Papers may explore suicide, euthanasia, mega-death, cancer, murder, burial,
rejuvenation, the funeral business, bereavement, grief, loss, supplication,
and the aesthetics of death. The purpose of the panel is to engage the
various transnational ways, places, and sites in which death currently
occurs, and to harness the insights gleaned to a critique of contemporary
social policy, theory and practice. At the outset, we must ask: of what is
the social body capable to offset suffering in the termination of life?
What special problems does death in the transnational world raise, where
different nations mandate different rules, customs and practices?
If you would like to participate, click here Propose a
Paper<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=1508>
The website requires a title (200 characters) a short abstract (300
characters) and a long abstract (250 words).
Any questions or issues please feel free to email myself or Dr. John Moss <
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Doug
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Dr. D. S. Farrer
Anthropology Program Coordinator
Associate Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts & Social Sciences
University of Guam
Guam USA 96923
Tel: 1 671 735 2812
University of Guam Anthropology:
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