Dear Colleagues,


An invitation and friendly reminder that there are less than 4 weeks to
propose a paper for the *Art, Materiality and Representation *conference
hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute at the British Museum and
SOAS 1-3 June 2018! The call for papers will close* 8th January 2018*.


We invite papers for our panel P070: *Apprenticeship: Illuminating Persons
and Places through Shared Practice and Performance.*


*This panel looks at the mentorship-apprenticeship relationships of
researcher-apprentices studying with master craftspeople.*


*—How and what can the practice-based apprenticeships teach us about the
persons and places we study? *


*—How can the bonds and empathy of mentor-apprentice transform
anthropological inquiry?*


*—How can apprenticeship lead to more collaborative research? *


*We invite panelists to explore these, among other problematics arising in
direct-apprenticeship experience or observed study of apprenticeship
dynamics. See short and long abstracts below.*


To submit a proposal, please send a title, a short summary of up to 300
characters and an abstract of 250 words via the online form by 8 January
2018 at:
https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6128.

Thank you for your consideration. Informal enquiries are also welcome to
emails below:


Sincerely,


Michele Feder-Nadoff (El Colegio de Michoacán): [log in to unmask]

Elishka Stirton (University of Aberdeen): ekmstirton

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*Short abstract*

Mentor- apprenticeships with skilled craftspeople illuminate the somatic
ethos of their social-aesthetic environments. The bonds of
mentor-apprentice also can transform anthropological inquiry into
collaborative ecological engagement. We invite participants to explore this
close inter-folding.


*Long abstract*

Apprenticeship has formed the basis of recent forays into embodied
practices—such as, arts and crafts— , deeply informing ways of working
anthropologically. Although apprenticeship has been addressed before in
anthropology, it is often thought of as a type of social contract or
methodological prescription in exchange for codified knowledge. Newer
decolonizing approaches towards apprenticeship-ethnography challenge
objectivist imperatives by proposing integrative anthropologies that mesh
theory with practice, and persons with/in places. In this topological field
researchers and subjects interact horizontally in real-time rhythms of
tension and discourse. We invite panelists to explore apprenticeship
histories with/in the correspondences of shared making. What stories can be
heard? What debates can be had? What powers can be revealed?


How are theory and practice meshed by makers and their apprentices? How can
the intimacy and empathy of apprenticeship— of learning with people
side-by-side— become a collaborative form of research? What may it mean to
receive rather than to take; to offer rather than to give?

How do we converse collectively with materials? What can flows and their
ruptures, diversions and disjunctures illuminate? What can judgements about
finishing and not-finishing teach us about making in a certain place and
how to be a person precisely there? How can apprenticeship make
anthropologists and anthropology more somatically attentive and engaged,
able to listen to the stories of makers, materials, and environments? How
can this give visibility to oral histories and informal epistemologies? How
might this contribute to the future of an empathically engaged somatically
attentive anthropology?


Michele A. Feder-Nadoff Ph.D.
*"Se hace camino al andar." * *- *Antonio Machado

*Artista-Antropóloga *
55 5139 3764
http://www.michelefeder-nadoff.com
https://colmich.academia.edu/MFederNadoff

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