CFP: AAA/SLA Session "Circulating Discourses of Past and Present: Linguistic Anthropology and History"

[Leila Monaghan]

Call for Papers:  AAA/SLA Session:



Circulating Discourses of Past and Present:  Linguistic Anthropology and
History



History traditionally was part of linguistic anthropology but in more recent
years much of the focus of the field has been on close analysis of specific
events rather than ideas of the past and historical patterns. This panel
aims to bring many notions of history back into circulation within the field
of linguistic anthropology and will explore the connections between language
and history from multiple viewpoints.  Papers already in the session include
work on the ethnohistory of colonial Mexico and the history of linguistic
anthropology.



Papers should focus on analyses of language and discourse within an
(ethno)historical context and the invocation of historical concepts within
specific ethnographic discourses.

Regional areas and/or historical time
periods are open.  Papers might include attention to contemporary
anthropological approaches to historical linguistics, language and
historically hegemonic discourses, language and archeology, the linguistic
study of historical texts, or the historical lineage of ideas in linguistic
anthropology itself. All should share an understanding of the power of the
circulation of ideas of history and the past.



Please submit 200 word abstracts to Jacqui Messing (jmessing at cas.usf.edu)
and Leila Monaghan (Leila.Monaghan at gmail.com) by March 15.

-- 
Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Anthropology
University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming