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CFP Conference 'Things and Spirits: New Approaches to Materiality and Immateriality'
| Location: | Portugal |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-05-17 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-02-18 |
| Announcement ID: |
174189 |
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This conference is aimed at exploring new ways of approaching the tensional and intimate connections between ‘things’ and ‘spirits’ across distinct practices and epistemologies. In recent decades, ‘materiality’ has gained wider currency and centrality in social sciences and anthropological theory. A growing number of scholars in the anthropology of religion, material culture studies, and science and technology studies have been reexamining the partition between humans, material objects, and immaterial entities, along with the ideas of agency, evidence, and materiality itself. We will take as a point of departure that what counts as “things” and “materiality”, what counts as “spirits” and “immateriality”, and, still, what counts as “agents” are issues to be determined empirically. We thus invite anthropologists, historians, and students of science, technology, and material culture to address the arrangements of things and spirits by engaging with empirical material.
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Ricardo Roque
Instituto de Ciencias Sociais
Universidade de Lisboa
Av. Prof. Anibal Bettencourt, 9
1600-189
PORTUGAL
Email: ricardo.roque@ics.ul.pt
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