'Dis-ease with Post-modern Anthropology: anthropologists facing towards the 21st century'

Anxiety is widespread within Anthropology over the nature and contribution of the discipline in a post-modern era at the beginning of a new century. This 'dis-ease' has manifested itself in a distrust of the concept of culture, the role of subjectivity and the relationship between ethnography and ideology. Increasingly, research has adopted a post-modern turn: evoking experience through multiple voices, prose and poetry. Perhaps new directions may be found in critical approaches to post-modernity and post-modernism. This Conference seeks to foster debate around the nature of current theory by drawing from a variety of perspectives. Anthropological, social-scientific, philosophical and, particularly, psychoanalytical and psychological contributions are welcome. Papers should focus on: (1) subjectivity and post-modernity; (2) the history of Anthropology; (3) the concept of culture; and, (4) what is post-modern Anthropology?

The Venue

LSB College is a private education institution in the heart of Dublin City offering a comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and diplomas. The Department of Anthropology teaches in all major sub-fields and, since last year, delivers a one-year Master's Degree in Anthropology.

Please send abstracts of 200 words to Dr. David Slattery, Tel: +353 - 1 - 6794844, Fax: +353 - 1 - 6794205 or Email: Dean@LSB.ie, to arrive before 1 June 1999