[Fwd: Call for Abstracts: KAS Spring Meeting]

[ndumas at berkeley.edu]

Please encourage your students to submit! This could be an enlightening
discussion with more linguistic anthropologists involved.  Best, Nate

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Subject: Call for Abstracts: KAS Spring Meeting
From:    "Kroeber Anthropological Society" <kroas at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 
  Wed, November 29, 2006 11:37 am

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Please forward to all anthropology department lists, thank you.


Call for Abstracts

"Covering New Ground: Methodology, Ethics, and Field Research"

At the recent "Asian Tourisms" conference in Singapore, Nelson Graburn
heard many contributors, faculty, and especially graduate students
complain that they never had any training relevant to their fieldwork.
What does this mean for graduate students about to enter the field, or
those recently returned from field experiences marked by unforeseen
negotiation, compromise, and adaptation? Negotiating permissions both
before and in the field, often within plural ethical frameworks, affects
research methodology as much as it is a method in and of itself.

How is this performed? What unforeseen permissions, ethical compromises,
and subsequent methodological adaptations were encountered, for which
pre-fieldwork training was irrelevant? How were obstacles overcome? How
did research methodology adapt, and how was the resultant fieldwork
experience instructive in ways relevant to junior graduate students about
to enter the field?

KAS invites abstract submissions from graduate students recently returned
from the field, addressing methods, ethics, and permission, as experienced
during their research. We welcome abstracts that address each category
individually or interactively.

Selected abstracts will form the basis of the Kroeber Anthropological
Society's Spring Meeting, "Covering New Ground: Methodology, Ethics, and
Fieldwork," on Saturday, February 17, 2007 in Kroeber Hall. Advanced
graduate student papers will be followed by discussions and responses led
by junior graduate students about to enter the field.

Abstract Deadline: Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Email abstract submissions to: E-mail: kroas at OCF.berkeley.edu

Kroeber Anthropological Society
Department of Anthropology
232 Kroeber Hall
University of California, Berkeley





-- 
Nate Dumas, M.A.
Doctoral Student, Linguistic Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley

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