[Linganth] AAA roundtable on reading the ancestors

[King, Dr Alexander D.]

Dear Colleagues,

I know that this is late in the season, but my colleague Richard Handler and I are trying to put together a second round table of reading from the ancestors. The abstract is below. Right now we just need people to sign up as participants. Abstracts are not needed. The plan would be to have people talk for about 10 minutes, including reading some key passages from an intellectual ancestor.

Please let me know if you would like to join us.

best wishes,
Alex

VOICING THE ANCESTORS: READINGS IN MEMORY OF GEORGE STOCKING

This roundtable is convened in memory of George Stocking, the esteemed historian of anthropology who died July 13, 2013. A scholar of commanding knowledge, George revitalized anthropology's present and future by teaching us to think about our discipline's past with an anthropological attention to the lives and situations of our intellectual ancestors. George famously described the historian's craft as the excavation from the archival record of “juicy bits,” those revealing remarks or passages that can be shown to encapsulate larger disciplinary themes and tensions, when imaginatively set in context. In this roundtable, each presenter will read a passage consisting of one or two paragraphs from a significant historical text of her or his choice, and then comment on its historical context, its ongoing theoretical importance, and its meaning for the presenter. Our aim is to create a forum where working anthropologists can re-connect to disciplinary ancestors who have been intellectually, ethically or politically formative for them and for our discipline.

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