[Linganth] CFP 2015 AAA Session: Maternal “Instincts”: An Anthropological Inquiry into Intimate Maternal Relationships

[Melanie Medeiros]

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CFP for the 2015 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in
Denver,
Conference theme:  “Familiar/Strange”

Session: Maternal “Instincts”: An Anthropological Inquiry into Intimate
Maternal Relationships

This session will explore the scope of contemporary maternal relationships
as vehicles of social and cultural reproduction, as well as sociocultural
change. The study of women’s social networks and matrifocal kinship systems
are a familiar domain of anthropology. Yet the study of maternal
relationships offers a rare opportunity to deconstruct definitions of
“mother” and investigate the ways in which intimate maternal relationships
influence, are affected by, and reflect social and cultural change.

This session invites papers representing anthropological research from all
four fields on maternal relationships. The category “maternal relationship”
is flexible and may include, but is not limited to:

- Biological mother-daughter, mother-son relationships
- Adoptive mother-daughter, mother-son relationships
- Fictive kinship relationships identified as maternal
- In-law relationships
- Caregiver relationships
- Childbirth and postpartum doulas as “substitute” grandmothers

Please email a 250 word abstract to Melanie A. Medeiros (SUNY Geneseo,
medeiros at geneseo.edu) by March 6, 2015. Feel free to email any
questions you may have before the deadline.


Melanie A. Medeiros, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
SUNY Geneseo
Office: Bailey 106
Phone: 585-245-6269
Email: medeiros at geneseo.edu
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