conference panel

[Mary Bucholtz]

The following is a forwarded announcement of a conference panel for the
American Anthropological Association meeting. Please reply to John Clark,
not to me or th list.

Thanks,

Mary Bucholtz
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I am putting together a panel for AAA 2000
entitled *Claiming the Center*, focussing on how  the *center*
is claimed and achieved  as white, male, heterosexual, oral/aural,
able-bodied etc. through global and local textual and interactional
practices. How is the "unmarked marker" status of whiteness, inter alia,
claimed and resisted through processes of centering and othering? How
are these same processes masked so as to attribute a timeless and
natural centered-status to these same groups? Finally, how are these
processes resisted and unmasked in global and face-to-face interaction?

If you're interested in being a part of it, please let e-mail me ASAP.

John T. Clark
Professor Linguistics/English
California State University, Chico
jtclark at csuchico.edu
(530) 898-5453