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2008 MESA Panel on Festive Culture
| Location: | United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-02-12 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-01-31 |
| Announcement ID: |
160683 |
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For the 2008 MESA Annual Meeting in Washington DC (November 22-25), I am seeking abstracts to organize a panel that examines the politics or politicization of festivals and/or celebrations in the Middle East. This panel will consider manifestations of festive culture at macro- and micro-levels of everyday life, both historically and contemporarily. I invite abstracts for papers address the following or related ideas:
• How festive practices and traditions are formed in the Middle East;
• In what ways the festive culture and practices temper the differences in the Middle East;
• How festive culture and practices alleviate or irrigate divergences in the Middle East;
• How festive culture and practices contend or maintain normative values across contexts, societies, and time periods;
• How forms of celebration are deployed tactically to achieve particular ends in the Middle East.
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