Anthropological Perspectives: Past, Present and Future. Panel R001 at conference EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe.

Salma Siddique (Participant)

Social Anthropology

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Description

Anthropological Perspectives: Past, Present and Future
Convenors:
Aleksandar Boskovic (University of Belgrade)
Virginia Dominguez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Chair:
Salma Siddique (University of St Andrews)
Discussant:
Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo)
Format: Roundtables
Time zone: UTC+1
Sessions: Wednesday 22 July, 14:00-15:45
Anthropological Perspectives: Past, Present and Future. Panel R001 at conference EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe.
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8386
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Short abstract:
This Roundtable will open some important questions about the shifting roles of ethnography. Drawing on their own research experience, participants will offer their views about new horizons for understanding anthropology's future predicaments.

Period	22 Jul 2020
Event type	Conference
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

contemporary world
Anthropological Perspectives
future predicaments
globalisation
Anthropocene

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As our discipline makes itself increasingly relevant in contemporary world, this Roundtable will open some important questions about the shifting roles of ethnography, but also different topics that are of concern for anthropologists today. What is the future of anthropology? How have new concepts (like the "Anthropocene") or some old ones (like "globalization") influenced contemporary research topics? Is anthropology closer to humanities or to social sciences (the question especially interesting for former Eastern Europe)? Drawing on their own research experience, as well as the research traditions they come from, the participants of the Roundtable (Kirsten Hastrup, Adam Kuper, Maja Petrović-Šteger and João Pina-Cabral) will present summaries of the changing perspectives of social anthropology, as well as offer their views about new horizons for understanding anthropology's future predicaments. Accepted papers: