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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">American Anthropological
Association / Canadian Anthropology Society joint conference</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Vancouver, Canada</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">November 20-24, 2019</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Routes and
Checkpoints: Practically Realizing Ethnography’s Theoretical Promises</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Organizers: Perry Wong and Hannah McElgunn, PhD Candidates, Anthropology, University of Chicago</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Discussant:
Trevor Reed (Arizona State University)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Ethnography as a practice and the fraught
histories of anthropology’s disciplinary formation have both emerged as
increasingly significant means and domains for explicitly re-negotiating
contemporary political horizons. Insights from STS and allied ethnographic
approaches that have sought to realistically portray Earth and Biophysical
Sciences as situated social practice, decolonizing critiques of anthropological
knowledge, and Bakhtinian insights about voicing and genre, among others, have
contributed to current Anthropological Theory, but what have these ideas
contributed to the development of current anthropological research practices, particularly
ethnography, and how, exactly? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">We are interested in opening the door to more
pragmatically-theorized and realized Anthropology in terms of the roles and
rituals that academic anthropologists perform “in the field,” in writing, and
in the classroom.</span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"> </span><span style="color:black">But rather than prompt re-evaluation of <i>other </i>anthropologists,
we ask how accumulated bodies of anthropological expertise inform <i>your</i>
work, contemporarily, concretely and operationally. The current era of
ethnographic experimentation was brought about in part through retrospective
consideration of how Ethnography was differentially constructed as one of
professional Anthropology’s keystone genres against other “anti-genres” like
the missionary travelogue, the literary novel, the personal diary, and then
later conventionalized and purified to fill a slot in an ever more disciplined
bibliographic edifice, in the process foreclosing other kinds of intertextual
chains and citational practices. Taking these critical conversations to their
practical conclusions, we ask not how these occlusions came to be, or how they
continue, but rather: <i>What modes of
intertextuality and citation might open up these borders, re-opening long
closed routes of communication and brokering the establishment of new kinds of
checkpoints? </i>Following ongoing discussions about how historical modes of
anthropological field research and writing seem to silence or misrecognize or
reduce the subjects of Anthropological knowledge as mere objects of Science, we
ask: <i>How do you yourself collaboratively
elicit, record, curate, and share new information, or re-new archival materials
to constructively address old occlusions? </i></span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">We approach these issues as anthropologists who
have found themselves following in the footsteps of multiple generations of
previous fieldworkers, and more particularly, as inheritors of legacy materials
and institutional arrangements that we ourselves would not seek to produce.
While our own projects deal with the Native American languages, we are
interested in fostering collegial dialogue across other subdisciplinary and
regional foci, because we believe these questions are of a fundamental
sociocultural nature and do not belong only to experts and specialties. Our
interest is rather to chart how anthropological knowledge informs the actual
practices, products, and institutional arrangements of contemporary
anthropological research projects as a way to conceive a more contemporary
anthropological ethics. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We welcome proposals for
papers that are actively theorizing and implementing revised versions of old techniques
of anthropological field research, knowledge production and distribution, and
institutional arrangements. Please send a proposed abstract of 250 words to
Perry Wong (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:perrywong@uchicago.edu">perrywong@uchicago.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">) and Hannah McElgunn (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:mcelgunn@uchicago.edu">mcelgunn@uchicago.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">) by March 28th. Accepted
papers will be notified by April 1st in advance of the AAA/CASCA deadline for
beginning submissions through the online portal by April 5.</span><br></div>