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Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting.
5th ECAS conference in Lisbon, Portugal
27th June – 29th June 2013
Panel:
"Migration reconsidered in the light of 'pollution'"
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1767
Convenors:
Kate Fayers-Kerr (University of Oxford)
Sophia Thubauville (Frobenius-Institute, Frankfurt)
Please make your paper submission via the online form until 16th of January
2013.
<http://cea.iscte.pt/ecas2013/cfp.shtml>
http://cea.iscte.pt/ecas2013/cfp.shtml
Short Abstract
The panel wants to inquire into the ties between theories of migration and
pollution. Migration brings along difficulties and hardship for people.
Arriving in a new location they are "in between". Occupying this liminal
status individuals and collectives may be seen as dangerous or impure.
Long Abstract
Movement and migration of people has always been an anthropological topic.
Such a focus may be on the cyclical movement of nomadic people, or on the
marrying off of girls, or related to transnational migration in a globalized
world. Migrating from one place to another brings along various difficulties
and hardships for people. Arriving in a new location they are in a state of
"in between" being out of their customary social, cultural, ecological and
economic environment. Occupying such a liminal status individuals are often
considered dangerous or impure outsiders. Migrating people themselves, on
the other hand, may also be wary of their new environment and treat a new
ecological resources and new people as possible sources of pollution and
danger. However, every liminal status comes to an end, often accompanied by
certain rituals or ceremonies. These rituals may become central to all
subsequent generations. Through such rituals or ceremonies
outsiders/newcomers are integrated into their new environment and by the
same way things that seemed dangerous at first can be incorporated.
The panel wants to inquire into the mentioned connections between theories
of migration and pollution and welcomes papers from various fields such as
anthropology of religion, medicine, gender or migration studies.
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Dr. Sophia Thubauville
Frobenius-Institut
Grüneburgplatz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: +49 (0)69 798 33240
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