*Tristes Tropiques *& the Magic of Anthropology
In a time of travel bans, global crises, and crystallization of the
traveler, migrant, and the native in addition to the over determination of
movement, this panel revisits Claude Lévi-Strauss's *Tristes Tropiques* to
consider the place of travel, field sites, time, space, and memory in
movement in thought, experience, the self, and transformation.
James Boon calls *Tristes Tropqiues* an "anti-ethnography," "a
remembrance," a "re-discovery of subjectivity", and the "breakdown of
dualisms in empirical observation" (1972). It asks us whether travel and
discovery is possible in this day and age as we have imagined. Doing away
with the idea of objective narratives of travel in search of form, the
text, composed of fragments and reminiscences, due to a 15 year interlude,
is a set of affective and vibrant scenes that question the singular
reliance of a field as a privileged space of insights and the singularity
of data.
*Tristes Tropiques* is Lévi-Strauss's poetic expression of his
structuralist thinking, disfiguring what we come to know as distinct modes
and mediums of expressions such as experience, thought, subjectivity,
field, and travel. Searching for the depths of human psychic expressions,
he journeys to understand the spatial divides necessary for novel
expressions, but also the drive for monolithic desires.
This panel revisits Claude Lévi-Strauss’s *Tristes Tropiques *to consider
perennial questions of the field, travel, transformation, and the
transmission of knowledge. Anthropologists, working in many fieldsites have
long considered their movement in space, time, and social and spiritual
hierarchy in addition to their ability to both receive (and to be received)
in an attempt to transform as tools, interpreters, filters, fillers, and
transmitters. Whereas the heightened political climate may seem to present
a slew of supposed novel obstacles that will shift the way knowledge,
bodies, and thought move through borders, *Tristes Tropiques* invites us to
re-experience our contemporary moment as an ongoing return to the
dialectics of expansion and isolation and the people caught in between,
interpolated by the politics of the habituating and comporting field.
*We invite individual submissions in the form of 250-word abstracts. Please
send submissions to [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> no later
than April 10, 2017. *
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