REMINDER Call for papers open until Aug. 31 for Arawakan symposium at ICA 2012

[Frank]

Dear all,

this is a reminder of the call for papers for the interdisciplinary 
symposium "Arawakan linguistic and cultural identities", to be held at 
the 54th International Congress of Americanists (ICA), in Vienna, 
Austria, July 15-20, 2012.

The deadline for submitting proposals for papers is August 31, 2011. 
Please find below a description of the symposium and information on how 
to submit proposals through the ICA's online system. Please feel free to 
contact the coordinators Frank Seifart (frank_seifart at eva.mpg.de) and/or 
Françoise Rose (francoise.rose at univ-lyon2.fr) should any questions arise.

Best wishes,

Frank Seifart
Françoise Rose


Arawakan linguistic and cultural identities

Arawakan (or Arawak), one of the great linguistic families in South 
America, continues to pose intriguing research questions for 
linguistics, anthropology, and related disciplines. Due to the 
remarkable expansion of the family throughout much of South America and 
the Caribbean, Arawakan people and languages have come into contact with 
numerous, genealogically unrelated peoples and languages, often forming 
multilingual cultural areas, some of which can be considered true 
linguistic areas. This symposium provides a forum for dialogue between 
specialists on Arawakan languages and peoples. The main goal is to 
better characterize Arawakan languages and cultures as being made up of 
traits inherited from a common ancestor on the one hand, and contact 
with non-Arawakans on the other hand. We aim at interdisciplinary 
dialogue, involving linguists, historians, anthropologists and 
archeologists. We particularly welcome (but do not restrict this call 
to) proposals for papers that contribute to a better understanding of 
the history of the Arawakan expansion. Such contributions may be based 
on large-scale comparisons involving many languages or groups, but may 
as well be on a local scale, i.e. focusing on individual languages or 
groups in the context of their local contact situations and/or close 
genealogical relatives, from any Arawakan language or group.

Pending final approval, the following talks have been scheduled in this 
symposium:

- Frank Seifart: Arawakan linguistic inheritance vs. areal influence: A 
case study on Resígaro
- Alf Hornborg: Pre-Columbian Ethnogenesis: Understanding the Arawak 
Expansion in Terms of Socio-cultural Processes rather than Biogeography
- Françoise Rose: Historical hypotheses on the dialectal situation of 
Mojeño
- Swintha Danielsen: The “valency split” within the Arawakan language 
family
- Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and Manuela Fischer: Max Schmidt y la expansión 
Arawak: problemas y perspectivas desde la arqueología
- Michael Heckenberger: Southern Amazonian Arawak, indigenous histories, 
domesticate landscapes and ethnogenesis
- Robin M. Wright: The sacred traditions of Kuwai among northern 
Arawakan peoples and their multiple implications for linguistic 
differentiation by gender, shamanic specializations, and inter-ethnic 
hybridity

We invite proposal for further papers dealing with any (combination of) 
the following topics:

- linguistic and cultural characteristics of Arawakan languages/peoples 
(description, comparison or reconstruction)
- Arawakan and non-Arawakan interactions
- classification: dialects, languages, subgroups, and Arawakan as a whole
- Arawakan within regional cultural and linguistic areas

The working languages of this symposium are English, Spanish, and 
Portuguese

To submit proposals (of 1,000-2,000 characters) for papers please use 
the online form available at 
http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/proposal-submission, 
specifying symposium number 654.

Note that participants may present up to two papers, in two different 
symposia of the ICA

The deadline of submission of proposals for papers is August 31, 2011

-- 

Frank Seifart
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 341 35 50 325
Home page: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/seifart/home.php
Corpora: http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/center



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