[Linganth] CFP AAA panel on ethnopoetics

[Nora Tyeklar]

Dear all,

In a last-minute effort before Sunday's deadline, we are urgently seeking
panelists to join our panel on ethnopoetics for the upcoming AAA meeting
taking place in November. A draft of the panel abstract is included in this
email below and attached as both a Word document and PDF.

If you are interested, get in touch as soon as you can.

Please circulate widely!

Thank you for considering!

Your co-organizers,

Dr. Jenny Van der Aa (jennylouisevanderaa at protonmail.com)
Dr. Nora Tyeklar (nora.tyeklar at maine.edu)


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Draft panel abstract:

*Voicing ethnopoetics: A poetics of praxis*

Voice as an analytical heuristic has gained momentum after the recent
passing of two of its major proponents, Dell Hymes and Jan Blommaert. A
number of special issues (Juffermans & Van der Aa 2013; Kroskrity & Webster
2013) have appeared since and have theoretically moved the field of
ethnopoetics in new directions. With an array of empirical and
methodological contributions in recent years (Moore 2013, 2019; McAllister
2024), ethnopoetics remains a theoretical framework relevant to the
analysis of voice.

Ethnopoetics, as theory and method, offers multiple ways for analyzing
voice. As one of the pioneers of ethnopoetics research Dell Hymes was
concerned with the recovery of voice in reconstructed texts to show how
different groups produced knowledge, often deviant from hegemonic norms,
via conditions of empowerment (Hymes 1981, 1996). Dennis Tedlock described
ethnopoetics as “a decentered poetics” for hearing non-Western voices.

As the field of ethnopoetics has developed over the past fifty years, so
have the analytical tools and methods used to assess and the ways in which
sociolinguists, folklorists, and anthropologists apply them to their data.
Research in ethnopoetics originated in the study of Native American verbal
art (Hymes 1982; Tedlock 1983; Webster & Sherzer 2015), with scholarship
conducted in many areas of the world with a variety of groups (see
Abu-Lughod 1985; Caton 1985; Graham 1995, 2000; Kataoka 2012; Rumsey 2006;
Wilce 1998). Moreover, Jan Blommaert (2006) offers applied uses of
ethnopoetics as a “useful tool for tracking ‘local’ patterns of
meaning-making in narrative” especially for a variety of encounters where
cross-cultural narrative performance is the basis for the communicative
exchange. Scholars doing ethnopoetic research reveal the cultural logics of
communicative interactions through the indexical patterns present.

In this panel, we revisit ethnopoetics as praxis. We bring together
linguistic anthropologists and anthropologists of poetics to track and
consider the various forms of ethnopoetics scholars use for analyzing
voice. In what new ways does ethnopoetics research remain central to issues
in linguistic and cultural anthropology? What emerging analytical tools and
practices of translation and transcription do scholars use to understand,
represent, and recognize marginalized voices “with appropriate fidelity to
their artfulness” (Kroskrity & Webster 2013) and voice? What potential for
ethnopoetic modes of analyzing voice come into view? How can we voice
ethnopoetics as praxis central to current anthropological research?

-- 
Nora Tyeklar, PhD
*Post-Doctoral Scholar for DEI Initiatives *

*University of Maine at Augusta*
46 University Drive
Augusta, ME 04330
207-621-3282
www.uma.ed <http://www.uma.edu/>u <http://www.uma.edu/>
nora.tyeklar at maine.edu <pamela.macrae at maine.edu>
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