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Sorry for repeat posting. This time with link for the submission of abstracts.
*CFP for 'Skulls, faces and being human' panel*
Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth
ASA2014: Decennial Conference
Edinburgh
19th-22nd June 2014
Deadline for paper abstract submission is *5th January 2014.*
*Paper abstracts of 250 words* maximum *submitted via the web link below*.
None members and students are welcome to submit a paper abstract to our
panel. For further information see:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2653
Papers invited from social and cultural anthropologists,
archaeologists, forensic anthologists, museologists, historians etc.,
anyone with an interest in skulls and the ways we and others interpret
skulls.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Drs John Harries and Joost Fontein
(Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh)
*Panel Summary:*
Amongst the anatomical collections of the University of Edinburgh is
the skull of the 16th-century Scottish scholar and poet George
Buchanan. It has been with the University from its founding and on
display since the early 19th century. At that time it was supposed
that the skull bore a likeness to the face of the living Buchanan and
that the genius of the man could be found in the very substance of
bone: the thinness of his skull being distinguished from the thickness
of the skull of an "idiot". This illustrates something of how during
the Scottish Enlightenment notions of humanness were often elaborated
through emerging technologies of comparative anatomy and forensic
investigation. The skull, lying beneath the face and encasing the
brain, had a peculiar status within this nascent scholarship: nothing
was deemed to hold more of who we are or to reveal more of the
qualities of a living person.
This panel invites papers exploring the significance of skulls and
faces in diverse contexts, whether these be skulls collected and
studied by 19th, 20th and 21st century anatomists and anthropologists
or those handled differently by different peoples at different times
and for very different reasons. As we particularly want to examine
relationships between the materialities of bone and flesh and notions
of humanness, we encourage submissions which consider this
relationship "symmetrically" and focus on how these ideas are
elaborated in affective, sensory and technological engagements with
the bones that once lay beneath the face.
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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