Linguistic Anthropology Digest V1 #1005

Fri Feb 28 04:07:19 UTC 2003

Rachel,

Are you still looking for participants for your proposed panel for this
year's ASA meeting?
If so, I'll send you a description of a topic I'm interested in.

Thanks,

Margaret Buckner
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
Southwest Missouri State University
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65804
(417) 863-2139

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> CFP: Visual & Verbal in African Commerce (African Studies 2003)
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> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:24:49 -0500
> From: "Rachel R. Reynolds" <rrr at drexel.edu>
> Subject: CFP: Visual & Verbal in African Commerce (African Studies 2003)
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> Hello everyone.
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> The CFP below pertains to Africa and new African diasporas, so my
apologies
> to those on the list whose work is not in those areas...
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> Rachel
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> Call for Panel Participants, African Studies Association Annual Meeting,
> Oct. 30-Nov. 2, Boston, 2003
> Panel Title: The Noise in the Market: Visual and Verbal Meaning in African
> Commerce
>
> "The desire to cheat and the refusal to be cheated are the cause of the
> noise in the market." -- Yoruba Proverb
>
> We invite abstracts that explore the social, material and meaningful
> practices that underscore business in Africa and its New Diaspora. We
> anticipate contributions that are theoretical, historical and/or data
> driven. In particular, we ask what are the contemporary permutations of
> visual and verbal meaning derived from African practices in commerce? What
> metaphors and dominant discursive genres run through how business practice
> is articulated and carried out? What are the subtle and elusive ways in
> which matters such as mores, ethos and affect figure into commercial,
> financial and political relationships? How are these matters crafted and
> re-contextualized through visual and verbal means, and how are they
> interpreted in cross-cultural contexts? What new social meanings arise
> through the changing structures of the market and society in African
> contexts? Contributions should examine the semiotic and/or rhetorical
> (including visual, oral and aural) dimensions of business conducted
between
> or with Africans, on the continent and in diaspora. Theoretical
> implications might involve examining accumulation and circulation in the
> contemporary neoliberal moment, in order to better understand how
> increasing globalization of African markets has led to a transformation in
> how people express their relationship to goods, services and finance. We
> seek scholars from diverse regional and disciplinary backgrounds to
> contribute papers relating to the changing meaning of African business
> exchange in historical, transnational and diasporic perspective.
>
> Co-Organizers:
>
> Beth Anne Buggenhagen
> University of Chicago
> babuggen at uchicago.edu
>
> Rachel R. Reynolds
> Drexel University
> rrr28 at drexel.edu
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> Rachel R. Reynolds
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Culture and Communication
> Drexel University
> 3141 Chestnut Street
> Philadelphia, PA  19104-2875
> tel (215) 895-0498
> fax (215) 895-1333
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> Hello everyone.<br><br>
> The CFP below pertains to Africa and new African diasporas, so my
> apologies to those on the list whose work is not in those
> areas...<br><br>
> Rachel <br>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
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> _______________<br>
> Call for Panel Participants, African Studies Association Annual Meeting,
> Oct. 30-Nov. 2, Boston, 2003 <br>
> Panel Title: The Noise in the Market: Visual and Verbal Meaning in
> African Commerce <br><br>
> "The desire to cheat and the refusal to be cheated are the cause of
> the noise in the market." -- Yoruba Proverb <br>
>  <br>
> We invite abstracts that explore the social, material and meaningful
> practices that underscore business in Africa and its New Diaspora. We
> anticipate contributions that are theoretical, historical and/or data
> driven. In particular, we ask what are the contemporary permutations of
> visual and verbal meaning derived from African practices in commerce?
> What metaphors and dominant discursive genres run through how business
> practice is articulated and carried out? What are the subtle and elusive
> ways in which matters such as mores, ethos and affect figure into
> commercial, financial and political relationships? How are these matters
> crafted and re-contextualized through visual and verbal means, and how
> are they interpreted in cross-cultural contexts? What new social meanings
> arise through the changing structures of the market and society in
> African contexts? Contributions should examine the semiotic and/or
> rhetorical (including visual, oral and aural) dimensions of business
> conducted between or with Africans, on the continent and in diaspora.
> Theoretical implications might involve examining accumulation and
> circulation in the contemporary neoliberal moment, in order to better
> understand how increasing globalization of African markets has led to a
> transformation in <br>
> how people express their relationship to goods, services and finance. We
> seek scholars from diverse regional and disciplinary backgrounds to
> contribute papers relating to the changing meaning of African business
> exchange in historical, transnational and diasporic perspective. <br>
>  <br>
> Co-Organizers: <br>
>  <br>
> Beth Anne Buggenhagen <br>
> University of Chicago <br>
> babuggen at uchicago.edu <br>
>  <br>
> Rachel R. Reynolds <br>
> Drexel University <br>
> rrr28 at drexel.edu<br><br>
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> Assistant Professor<br>
> Department of Culture and Communication<br>
> Drexel University<br>
> 3141 Chestnut Street <br>
> Philadelphia, PA  19104-2875<br>
> tel (215) 895-0498<br>
> fax (215) 895-1333<br>
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