27.1565, Calls: Anthropological Ling/USA

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Subject: 27.1565, Calls: Anthropological Ling/USA

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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:20:45
From: Deina Rabie [drabie at utexas.edu]
Subject: American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

 
Full Title: American Anthropological Association 
Short Title: AAA 

Date: 16-Nov-2016 - 20-Nov-2016
Location: Arlington, VA, USA 
Contact Person: Deina Rabie
Meeting Email: drabie at utexas.edu
Web Site: http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1578 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

Prayer, Poetry, and Song: Cultivating Religious Sound in a Secular World

In a world that seems increasingly beset by friction between religious and
secular factions and among religious subgroups themselves, the ways in which
religious identities are cultivated come under increasing scrutiny. In
contradistinction to the modern, rational and secularist project that
prioritizes the eyes and mind over the other senses, this panel seeks to
examine the ways in which sound, poetics, and verbal art anchor religious
practices that, in turn, become sites of communal constitution and political
contestation. One mode of competition, for example, is through the creation of
soundscapes, like the Islamic aṭhān or call to prayer, that index and
represent groups within a socio-political space. Another is through the use of
congregational song and poetry to mark communal ritual practice as well as a
subversive means of political protest. A final example is the deployment of
pop songs, rewritten as religious protest songs by groups like the Westboro
Baptist Church, and the countering use of intentional silence and laughter by
secularists at public demonstrations.

Accordingly, the panel seeks to address the following questions: How do sound,
song, and poetics create the infrastructure of community making? In
pluralistic spaces of public dissemination, in what ways are sonic religious
interpellations taken up as intended, and in what ways are they taken up for
senses in which they are not intended (Spadola 2014)? How do embodied
practices signal the different ways public deployment of religious sound is
taken up? Moreover, how does the iteration of these ritual moments (Derrida
1971) become sites of continual group making and remaking (Latour 2005)? What
kinds of affective relationships are generated through such practices? How do
the practices of listening, cultivated inattention (Larkin 2014), singing, and
silence index competing ideologies and create sites of contestation between
religious and nonreligious entities and different religious groups? 

Dr. Emilio Spadola, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University
is the confirmed discussant on this panel.


Call for Abstracts:

Abstract length: 

No more than 500 words

Abstract format:

Attachment (word document)
Email : drabie at utexas.edu

Important Dates:

Abstract Deadline: 7 April 2016
Notification of acceptance: 11 April 2016

Conference link:
http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1578




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