15.-16. 10.2009 Poznan, Poland
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University is proudly celebrating its 90th anniversary of its establishment. As a part of this commemorations we announce a conference at which we would like to address several issues falling with the domain of what is broadly understood as the anthropology of Europe.
We would like to ask you to contribute to at least one of the thematic sections listed below. Please sent abstracts by the end of 15 July 2009
Thematic sections:
1. ‘Anthropology of Europe’ in general and comparative perspective: contemporary research challenges
Multiplicity of research approaches in the unity of the discipline: ‘local’, ‘regional’ and ‘national’ anthropologies in Europe and how they can be integrated in world anthropologies?
2. Similarities and differences in doing anthropology ‘at home’ and ‘abroad’
What and how problems are raised? What are techniques of research used, theoretical paradigms applied and text genres used? Are conclusions drawn from various ethnographies compatible? What was/is your reading of local/foreign scholarship? To what extent you have used it and cited it in your
own publications?
3. Hierarchies of knowledge
What are the relations between local and external anthropological/ethnological traditions in practicing anthropology in Europe? What are the local implications of global interdependencies in the domain of anthropological knowledge? What kind of correlations can be seen between European
ethnology/anthropology of Europe and ‘universal’ anthropology?
More information: http://etnologia.amu.edu.pl/anthropology_of_europe/index.html