Dear all,
we are looking forward to receiving paper proposals for this panel on the current state and future of anthropological knowledge.
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2016
More about the panel below or on the conference website: http://iuaes2016.com/congress-panel/panel-30-09-2015-150125-klavs-sedlenieks/ <http://iuaes2016.com/congress-panel/panel-30-09-2015-150125-klavs-sedlenieks/>
Information on how to submit and abstract: http://iuaes2016.com/call-for-papers/ <http://iuaes2016.com/call-for-papers/>
More about the conference: http://iuaes2016.com/ <http://iuaes2016.com/>
With best regards
Klavs Sedlenieks
Paul Agnidakis
Panel title:
What do anthropologists know?
Panel short abstract:
In the world that increasingly demands answers and solutions anthropology risks being left on thin ice if it is not able to start providing some. We invite to analyse what we already know, what we may know and to discuss techniques for promoting and providing new knowledge-making for anthropology
Panel Text:
Anthropology has a long history, situating it among the oldest contemporary social sciences. However, looking back to the accomplishments of the discipline, are there many “things” that we know for sure? Are there ideas, discoveries and phenomena that after more than a century of intensive research anthropologists can put to rest as thoroughly understood? While the beginnings of the discipline were rooted in the interest in the “human condition” and attempts at answering some fundamental and pressing questions regarding that “human condition” it is not clear whether we can now put some topics to rest and move on to understand something more. All too often anthropologists find themselves in a situation where they form part of a post-modern trend or process of re-inventing and re-using “old” perspectives and methods, though placing them in “new” contexts and using them in “new” social and cultural phenomenon. Alternatively old knowledge and theories may get dismissed as “inaccurate”, culturally, socially and politically constructed or biased without getting any meaningful replacement. This raises questions about potential development of theories-methods-research fields within anthropology. In the world that increasingly demands answers and solutions anthropology risks being left on thin ice if it is not able to start providing some. The panel invites to analyse what we already know, what we can build upon, what we may know and to discuss techniques for promoting and providing new knowledge-making for anthropology
Panel Convenor:
First Name
Klavs
Last Name
Sedlenieks
Title
Dr.
Institution
Riga Stradins University
City
Riga
Country
Latvia
Panel Co-Convenors:
Author - #1
First Name
Paul
Last Name
Agnidakis
Title
Dr.
Institution
Uppsala universitet
City
Uppsala
Country
Sweden
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