[Linganth] CFP – Deceit in language: Lies, jokes and play in Amazonia @ ICA 2018

[Jan David Hauck]

**Apologies for Cross-posting**


*CFP: Deceit in language: Lies, jokes and play in Amazonia*

56th International Congress of Americanists (ICA)

Salamanca, Spain, July 15th - 20th 2018

Call For Papers


Dear All,


We are very pleased to invite you to send contributions to our panel at the
next 56th ICA entitled “*Deceit in language: lies, jokes and play in
Amazonia*”.


The *deadline* for proposals is *October 20**th** 2017. *


To send a submission, please go to http://ica2018.es/anthropology/ and
click on *“Send presentation to this symposium”* right next to our Panel’s
title.


Outline


Jokes and lies are present not only in daily lives amongst Amerindian
groups but also in narratives of the formation of the cosmos, myths of the
origin of humanity and ontological propositions. Figures of deceit such as
the trickster (Lévi-Strauss, 1958, 1993; Radin, 1987) are present in
narratives that depict emotionally charged moments which reveal the
importance of deceit as a fundamental mode of understanding and awareness
in Amerindian thought (Basso, 1988). This prominence of deception also
hints at a set of underlying assumptions about language and communication
(Robbins 2001; Blum 2005), where it is not necessarily the truth value of
an utterance that is the basis for intersubjective understanding. For this
panel, we invite scholars working in Amazonia, but also in other parts of
the Americas, to look at the relationship between language and deceit in
every day conversations, moments of play, deliberate and non-deliberate
acts of deceit, narratives and myths in which deceit is a major component.
What image of language and linguistic practice comes out of utterances that
directly involve some form of deceit? How does the focus on jokes and play
relate to local understandings of what is truthful and what is not? These
are some of the questions that the papers will address in this panel, which
focuses mainly on Amerindian groups but is open to other social settings in
the Amazon and beyond.


Please circulate widely.


Many thanks,

Guilherme Orlandini Heurich (UCL) & Jan David Hauck (UCLA)
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