<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Please circulate. Apologies for cross-posting.</span><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font color="#000000">*************************************************************</font></span></div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div>CFP for the 2015 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Denver,</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Conference theme: “Familiar/Strange”</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Session: Maternal “Instincts”: An Anthropological Inquiry into </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Intimate Maternal Relationships</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">This session will explore the scope of contemporary maternal </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">relationships as vehicles of social and cultural reproduction, as well </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">as sociocultural change. The study of women’s social networks and </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">matrifocal kinship systems are a familiar domain of </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">anthropology. Yet the study of maternal relationships offers a rare </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">opportunity to deconstruct definitions of “mother” and investigate the </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">ways in which intimate maternal relationships influence, are </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">affected by, and reflect social and cultural change.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">This session invites papers representing anthropological research </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">from all four fields on maternal relationships. The category “maternal </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">relationship” is flexible and may include, but is not limited to:</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Biological mother-daughter, mother-son relationships</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Adoptive mother-daughter, mother-son relationships</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Fictive kinship relationships identified as maternal</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- In-law relationships</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Caregiver relationships</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Childbirth and postpartum doulas as “substitute” grandmothers</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Please email a 250 word abstract to Melanie A. Medeiros (SUNY Geneseo,</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="mailto:medeiros@geneseo.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">medeiros@geneseo.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">) by March 6, 2015. Feel free to email any</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">questions you may have before the deadline.</span></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature">Melanie A. Medeiros, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Anthropology<br>SUNY Geneseo<br>Office: Bailey 106<br>Phone: 585-245-6269<br>Email: <a href="mailto:medeiros@geneseo.edu" target="_blank">medeiros@geneseo.edu</a><br><br></div></div>
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