Az antropológus szakma legnagyobb európai szervezete, a European Association of Social Anthropologist szeptemberben tartotta kilencedik biennális konferenciáját az angliai Bristolban. A konferencia címének - Európa és a világ - megfelelõen azt a célt tûzte a résztvevõk elé, hogy az antropológia és az etnográfia módszereivel vizsgálat tárgyává tegyék napjaink legfontosabb társadalmi és politikai folyamatainak egyikét, az Európai Unió bõvítését, illetve terjeszkedését és viszonyát az Unión kívüli világhoz, a spontán népességmozgás folyamatait, és az európai társadalmak átalakulását a bevándorlás következtében.
Részlet a konferencia témáját kijelölõ felhívásból:
Theme
Europe and the World, the specific title of our gathering, provides us with an opportunity to reconsider these ideas close to home and far away: Europe, inevitably, has set part of the epistemological background of our everyday working lives, and, has both for good and for bad, had profound wider influence. The rest of the world, the recipient and the partner in this exchange, may watch, interact, protest, suffer and readapt. We invite you to consider this from the point of view of your fieldwork, writing, analytical perspective, and experience.
From this plethora of possibilities, delegates are invited to consider some of the following further specific areas, upon which there will be invited workshops. Amongst these are 'Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Persons'; 'The Black Atlantic'; 'Diasporas and Migrant Labours'; 'Unification of Europe'; 'Museums and the Colonial Past'; 'Medical Anthropology, Europe and the World'; 'Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter Revisited'; 'Ambivalent Europeans'. There will also be three plenary sessions, on 'Markets and Cultures'; 'Colonial Legacies'; and 'Diffusion, Religion and Secularism' respectively, and a round table specifically on 'Eastern Europe as a field of anthropological enquiry'.
A munka négy plenáris szekcióban és 102 párhuzamos szekcióban zajlott négy napon keresztül. A plenárisok Európa birodalmi múltját, az európai multikulturalizmus válságát, a transznacionalizmus jelenségeit, vallásosság új formáit egy szekularizált környezetben tárgyalták. Érdekes kerekasztal beszélgetést hallhattak a résztvevõk az antropológiai oktatás és kutatás kelet-európai intézményesítésérõl, és az ott dolgozó kutatók esélyeirõl, lehetõségeirõl a nyugat-európaiak által dominált akadémiai és publikációs piacon. A beszélgetést Michal Buchowski kezdeményezte és vezette. Részt vettek benne mások mellett Michael Stewart és Kürti László is.
Az alábbiakban az összes szekció címét tartalmazó táblázat található.
Lelõhelye: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/easa06_panels.php
IW01 Refugees, asylum seekers and 'irregular migrants' in Europe: regional and local responses
IW02 Writing anthropology: genres and cultural translation
IW03 Reassessing the Black Atlantic
IW05 European unification: anthropological perspectives
IW06 Museums, anthropology and the representation of the colonial past
IW07 Medical anthropology, Europe and the world
IW08 Anthropology and postcolonialism
IW09 Encounter with Michael Banton
W001 Transgression as method and politics in anthropology
W003 Feeling and curing: senses and emotions in medical anthropology
W004 Europe in Africa – Africa in Europe: Borut Brumen Memorial
W006 Ethnographies of medical encounters between Europe and Asia
W008 The self as ethnographic resource
W010 Comparing local Thatcherisms
W011 Super-diversity in European cities and its implications for anthropological research
W012 Changing economies and changing identities in post-socialist Eastern Europe
W013 Understanding media practices
W014 Anthropology and the politics of multiculturalism (a friendly merger of W014 & W030)
W015 Muslim diaspora, Euro-Islam and the idea of the secular
W017 Problems of continuity and change
W018 Bringing Europe down to earth: reconfigurations of politics and development
W020 Peace and conflict studies in anthropology
W021 Responses to insecurity: securitisation and its discontents
W023 Towards an anthropology of medically unexplained symptoms
W024 Transferring anthropological methods, theory and experience to applied health research
W025 Refractions of the secular: localisations of emancipation in the contemporary world
W026 Attributing meaning to health and illness: the interaction between the local and the global
W027 Anthropological perspectives on biopolitics and sovereignty in Europe and the world
W028 Spirits going global: translocal aspects of spirit beliefs and practices
W029 Anthropology of citizenship(s): comparing conceptions and analysing changes from Europe
W031 New perspectives on 'European' Christianity
W032 Public knowledge: redistribution and reinstitutionalisation
W034 Europe and the War on Terror
W035 The everyday life of revolutionary movements
W036 Rethinking ritual kinship
W037 Investigating the city spectacle in a globalising world
W038 Turning back to the 'Mediterranean': the Mediterranean Voices project
W039 New mediators: culture, policy and practice in electronic governance and government
W040 Reflexive transformation and religious revitalisation: perspectives from Southeast Asia
W042 European discourse gone global: shaping the lives of people worldwide and being shaped by them
W043 European integration: an anthropological gaze
W044 Futurities, on the temporal mediation of landscapes.
W045 Locating flexibility in Europe and the world
W046 Bringing local knowledge into development: progress, problems and prospects
W047 Understanding welfare and well-being in a globalised world
W048 Reflecting on reflexive anthropology
W050 'Odysseus on the Shore of Ithaca': contemporary return migrations
W052 Childhood between kinship and the state: changing practices and ideologies of care
W053 Westernising gender regimes? Discourses and practices in Eastern Europe
W054 Informal child migration and transnational networks of care
W055 The public memorialisation of death: spontaneous shrines as political tools
W056 Lived Europes – lost Europeans?
W057 Formal and informal economies in a global world
W058 Moral journeys: manifestations of certainty and uncertainty across Europe
W059 Landscapes for life: integrating experiential and political landscapes
W060 Strategic uses of colonial legacies in postcolonial encounters
W062 Dance, Europe and the ethnographic encounter
W063 Ethnographies of non-state governance: socialities, orders and expertise
W064 The idea and the image of Europe in the world
W065 Cultures of voting: ethnographies of the secret ballot
W066 Different manifestations of identities and space in a global context
W067 Transnational religious networks and their European emplacement
W069 Emotional attachments in a world of movement
W070 Transitions: movements in space and time
W071 World Anthropologies Network: transforming the terms of the conversation
W072 Changing approaches to fieldwork in India in the age of globalisation
W073 Applied anthropology: the old and the new
W074 Neither here nor there: locating and identifying Europe
W075 The internationalisation of African-American religions
W077 The theory and practice of European kinship
W078 When the worst happens: anthropological perspectives on crises and disasters
W082 Anthropology of biopolitics and moral choices
W083 Early European women anthropologists
W084 Global migration and the borders of Europe
W086 The global character of minority questions in the new Europe
W087 The loss of cosmopolitanism
W088 One hundred years of European anthropology in and on the Middle East: 1900-2000
W091 Ethnographies of knowledge
W092 Learning as context, process, imagination, virtuality, emotion and cognition
W093 Culture, context and controversy
W094 Migration and cultural change in Europe
W095 A WCAA debate: the public image of anthropology
W096 Cinema, mind, world: toward a new methodology in the uses of cinema for anthropology
W097 Anthropology and genetic disorders: patients, technologies, cultures
W098 Policy and practices of health care in a migrant context
W100 Eastern Europe as a field of anthropological enquiry (roundtable)
(F. M.)