<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear all, <br><br></div>Please see the panel abstract below. We are searching for two or three more papers for the Society for Psychological Anthropology meetings in Boston in April (see the website) <a href="http://www.aaanet.org/sections/spa/?page_id=1338" target="_blank">http://www.aaanet.org/sections/spa/?page_id=1338</a>. As the panel is about talk, people on this list may be interested. <br><br></div>Please let me or Christine know as soon as possible if you are interested. We would like to receive abstracts by Sunday January 18th. <br><br>--<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">We’ve purposely left this abstract a bit
vague, in order to see what kinds of papers others may be interested in
presenting, at which point we will write a much more specific panel
abstract. </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">SPA Panel Abstract: </span></b><span>Violent
Talk and the Negotiation of Social Experience</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">In anthropology, talk about violence is
often taken at face value, as reflecting traumatic violent experience and
suffering. In such accounts, discourse about violence is taken as
essentially referential, as describing past experiences. But people may talk
about violence for many different reasons—to joke, transform relationships, and
express complex sentiments. Such discourse, moreover, may or may not reflect
actual violent experiences. For example, in both Morocco and the Marshall Islands,
children and adults talk a lot about the graphic violence they have witnessed,
perpetrated, or been subjected to, and yet this talk often does not seem to
correspond to actual behavior. In Morocco, there is also a lot of humor
and joking infused into these accounts, and quick transitions between playful
and angry affect, which complicates these less than straightforward
accounts. In the Marshall Islands, children use physical imagery to
organize power hierarchies and engage in imaginative play.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">This panel explores how talk about
violence structures relationships and experience in unexpected ways. We
welcome papers that consider violent discourse using semiotic, psychoanalytic,
and other theoretical approaches. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Please submit an abstract to Elise Berman
<a href="mailto:eberman@uncc.edu" target="_blank">eberman@uncc.edu</a> and Christine El Ouardani </span><a href="mailto:Christine.ElOuardani@csulb.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Christine.ElOuardani@csulb.edu</span></a><span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> by Sunday January 18<sup>th</sup>. </span></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<br><div><br>-- <br><div><div><div><div dir="ltr">Elise Berman, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br>
UNC Charlotte | 249 Barnard<br>
9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223<br>
Phone: <a href="tel:704-687-5099" value="+17046875099" target="_blank">704-687-5099</a> <br>
<a href="mailto:abgonzal@uncc.edu" target="_blank">eberman@uncc.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.uncc.edu" target="_blank">http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/</a></div></div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Elise Berman, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br>
UNC Charlotte | 249 Barnard<br>
9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223<br>
Phone: 704-687-5099 <br>
<a href="mailto:abgonzal@uncc.edu" target="_blank">eberman@uncc.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.uncc.edu" target="_blank">http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/</a></div></div>
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