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H-ASIA March 29, 2011 CFP AAA Panel: Oppositional Histories ****************************************************************** From Ian Wilson <iawilson@syr.edu> I would like to submit the following call for this up-coming year's AAA. Oppositional Histories: Contentious Uses of and Engagements with the Past Seeking Paper Proposals for American Anthropological Association (AAA) Meeting. Conference to be held from November 16-20, 2011 in Montreal, Canada. E-Mail Initial Proposal Abstract by April 8th to iawilson@maxwell.syr.edu Panel to be submitted by April 15th. Oppositional Histories: Contentious Uses of and Engagements with the Past The past is an important resource in the continual transformation and re-creation of all types of communities. Social actors variously use and engage this resource through diverse types of practices, including writing formal historiography, holding public commemorations, performing and creating works of art, and engaging in more informal modes of storytelling and discussion. Often within a single social field or overlapping social fields, a number of actors, either individuals or organizations, are engaged in multiple projects, sometimes concerted and sometimes contradictory, of creating and re-creating social groups, demarcating boundaries between groups, and rethinking broader structures of relations between social groups that involve drawing upon and/or reworking conceptions of the past. In this call for papers for a panel for this year's meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), I am hoping to hear from scholars who have conducted ethnographically grounded considerations of how one or more sets of actors engage with and/or use knowledge and conceptions of the past in order to establish or unsettle, affirm or question, or otherwise rethink particular community formations and their place within the present. Orientation within this broad problematic may shift and develop as a result of submitted abstracts. Thank you, Ian Wilson iawilson@maxwell.syr.edu PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology Syracuse University Syracuse, New York ****************************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/
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