[Bilimsel Haber] CONF./CFP- Student Ethnography Conference, March 24, Bishkek

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Nathan Light <light_n@mail.auca.kg>


CONF./CFP- Student Ethnography Conference, March 24, Bishkek

Call For Papers

Announcement of Student Conference on Culture

Theme: 'Empirical Culture in Central Asia: Innovative Ethnographic 
Studies of
Daily Life'

Where: American University - Central Asia

When: Friday, March 24, 2006

Deadline: Submit papers by March 15, 2006.  Acceptance by March 20.

We invite submissions of papers for a one-day conference that will 
highlight new
issues and approaches in ethnography in Central Asia. We encourage 
ethnographic
research on people's lived experiences, in order to show how customs and
traditions work in practice and process. Neglected aspects of Central Asian
culture include dreams and dream interpretation, verbal practices 
(blessings,
prayers, toasts, curses, announcements, suyunchu), divination (gadalka,
tolgochu), inviting the newlyweds (otqo kirguzu), jokes and anecdotes,
superstitions, work practices in the home and outside, crafts and cooking
techniques, health ideas and practices. We are asking for studies of such
practices as forces shaping people's lives. How do people explain why 
they learn
and embrace certain practices and not others, and how do they discuss 
them with
each other, change them and otherwise fit them into their lives? How do
practices get integrated into distinctive personal and community 
repertoires?
How do people deal with social conflicts and differing demands about 
practices?

We discourage papers that reify customs, traditions or practices as separate
from their contexts as parts of people's lived experience. We will also
avoid papers that speculate on the origins, evolution, or institutionalized
interpretations of such practices.

Power Point presentations with sound and images are encouraged.

Languages accepted for papers: English, Russian, Kyrgyz

Benefits of participation:

  - Receive certificates for participation

  - Publication on AUCA website

  - People whose papers are accepted will be invited to audit anthropology
classes at AUCA

Please submit completed papers by March 15, to:

Conference Working Committee
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Archeology
American University--Central Asia
205 Abdumumonov Street
720040 Bishkek
Kyrgyzstan

Tel: (996 312) 66-11-18
Email submissions to: caa@mail.auca.kg



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