[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: The Carnal and the Intangible (3/15/07; AFS/FSAC, 10/17/07-10/21/07)

[Gonul Pultar]

Call for papers
The Carnal and the Intangible: Mediations, Expressions, Hybrids

Proposed panel for the AFS/FSAC 2007 annual meeting on
"The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"
October 17-21, Hilton Hotel, Quebec City, Canada.


Substance or metaphor, fetish or taboo, from the sin of the flesh to the 
Word made flesh, from the object of desire to the object of disgust: 
such is the word "flesh," allusive and elusive. Without confining our 
reflections to any specific meaning or connotation, we wish to think 
about carnality as an transitional locus of mediations and hybridities 
between the Self and the World. Beyond the materiality of the body, lies 
the sensorialiity (or sensuality) of the flesh which objectifies in all 
their varieties the subjectivities of existence, according to their 
cultural specificities.

In regard to the cultural practices and traditions included in the 
UNESCO Convention for the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage 
(rituals, beliefs, customs, music, festivals, storytelling, cuisine and 
traditional knowledge), we invite proposals that explore their carnal 
dimension involved in the staging and transmission of these practices 
and traditions. More specifically, we wish to inquire how they make 
sensible the links between bodies and communities. The living character 
of intangible cultural heritage might thus be approached as a constant 
incarnation of knowledge, essential for its transmission and 
actualisations: a Word made flesh. In view of the risks of cultural 
mummification involved in the process of patrimonialization, it becomes 
relevant to question the politics of heritage as they might lead to an 
idealization, hence a disincarnation of these practices and traditions, 
or, conversely, to generate new reincarnations that produce another 
array of sensibilities.


Some possible themes:

Material flesh and metaphorical flesh: aspects of carnality in 
intangible cultural heritage

The (visual, tactile, savory, aural, olfactory) sensorialities of 
intangible cultural heritage

Memory and cultural heritage: incarnations, disincarnations, reincarnations




In accordance with the AFS electronic registration form 
(http://www.afsnet.org/annualmeet/index.cfm), proposals must include a 
short abstract (75-100 words) and a long abstract (350-500 words). 
Please submit your proposals by March 15, 2007 to Vincent Auzas and Van 
Troi Tran at: tran.auzas at gmail.com

As you submit your abstracts, please indicate if you have audiovisual 
needs (overhead projector; DVD/VHS player etc.)

Any incomplete or late proposal will be dismissed.

V.Troi Tran
Doctorant en ethnologie
Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine ethnologique
Département d'histoire
Université Laval
ÉHESS

30 rue de Grenelle
75007, Paris
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