post-modern
world.
Panel Organiser: Cara Krmpotich, Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology,
University of Oxford
Papers exploring the role of kinship within discourses of globalisation,
post-colonialism/de-colonisation, transationalism, and/or the production of
power are being sought for a panel for this year's CASCA meetings.
Panel Abstract:
This year's CASCA meetings question anthropology's relationship with
transationalism, globalism, de-territorialisation and the production of
power. Yet, for all the headway anthropology has gained by moving beyond the
confines of culture areas or recognising the place of indigenous people
within global and post-colonial processes, we need to also ask how these new
perspectives confront, challenge or support the historic source of
power in many
of these locations: kinship. Not wanting to conflate tradition with
authenticity, this panel raises the element of kinship as a means of tracing
change and continuity within cultures and within anthropology as a discipline.
It asks how family can be articulated within community and/or anthropological
discourses as a legitimate mode of political, economic, and social power.
Possible venues to explore include how success in the transnational art market
filters down to the production of local power? How kinship's role in the
production of power has been affected by the emergence of band councils and
pan-Indian political organizations? How the notion of "community" as an agent
for action and a source of belonging alters the roles of kinship? Or how
technologies such as Facebook, Bebo, WikiNative or the use of radio to
broadcast
potlaches influence family interaction?
Interested contributors should email the panel organiser with questions and/or
abstracts: cara.krmpotich@seh.ox.ac.uk
