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The Anthropology of Corruption as Forgery
International Political Anthropology Conference
University College Cork, Ireland, 11-12 February, 2011
| Conference Date: | 2011-02-11 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-01-15 |
| Announcement ID: |
182142 |
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The Anthropology of Corruption as Forgery
International Political Anthropology Conference
University College Cork, Ireland, 11-12 February, 2011
For further information, please visit the journal website:
www.politicalanthropology.org (or http://www.ipa3.org)
The conference aims at bringing together scholars from the broad area of the social sciences and the humanities, including but not restricted to anthropology, sociology, philosophy, political science, art history and archaeology, and focuses on the theme of integrity, corruptness, and forgery. It will reflect on the growing problem posed by forgery or the falsification of one’s own character, which then shapes one’s attitudes, opinions, and perspectives on the world. Forgery, understood in this sense, undermines personal integrity, as it alters values by reordering and rearranging them, evacuating their meaning, given that the copy stands indiscriminately for anything and for everything, and eventually offering a corrupted version as the model to be imitated by others. The distinction between the original and the copy was central for Plato’s anthropological philosophy, thus underlining the need to re-connect classical and modern social and political thinking, in particular anthropological philosophy and social and cultural anthropology.
The conference will focus in particular on the political anthropological aspects of forgery: its multiplicative and regressive character, the manner in which it contributes to the steady, almost irreversible, though unintended decomposition of the political body, eroding its meaning and substance, destroying its wholeness and shape. In this sense forgery implies cumulative errors in social learning (Jack Goody, Gregory Bateson, René Girard); forgery is corruption in the sense of changing the meaning of social interactions (Michael Herzfeld, Hastings Donnan); forgery means trickery and double thinking at every level of society (Paul Radin, Lewis Hyde, Carl Kerényi, Richard Sakwa, Elemér Hankiss).
Contact person: Dr. Agnes Horvath, Chief Editor, International Political Anthropology:
ipa.amf (at) gmail.com.
Please, send in abstracts no longer than 300 words.
Deadline: January 24th, 2011.
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