Conversations in the Lobby 2109: (Gendered) vulnerabilities and fieldwork SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Saturday, 29 June, 9:30-10:30, WMW Forum Organizers and chairs: Elizabeth Ewart and Laura Graham. Fieldwork, and especially the intensive, immersive, long-term fieldwork characteristic of doctoral research, is often said to be transformative. It changes us and the way we...
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Special Meetings SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Rebuilding collections for the Museu Nacional de Rio: How European museums can collaborate Thursday, 27 June, 13:50-15:30 WMW DG18 Chair: Claudia Augustat, Weltmuseum Wien The workshop will present the plan of reconstruction of digital ethnographic collections for the Museu Nacional de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the...
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Debate SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Policy Setbacks and Rights Reversals faced by Indigenous Brazilians under Bolsonaro and how to Fight Back WMW Forum (Friday 28 June 2019, 18:50-20:20) Organizers and Chairs Clarice Cohn, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil William H. Fisher, College of William and Mary, USA Right wing president Bolsonaro...
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Keynote Lecture 2019 Mismatches: Museums, Anthropology and Amazonia SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Anne-Christine Taylor, professor emeritus, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Over the past decades, museums, particularly the large Euro-American ethnographic museums, have had trouble developing adequate presentations of Amazonian cultural productions. To some extent, this...
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Photo Exhibition The Forest of Mirrors SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Stine Krøijer University of Copenhagen WWM (open area of the Museum) Friday June 28, 10:40-11:40. Chair: Gabriele Herzog-Schröder, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München Forest of Mirrors is a photo exhibition consisting of 6 images, 3 short texts and one video (Point of view, 4 min), which the...
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Poster presentations SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Poster session 1 Friday, 28 June, 9:30-11:10 WMW, Ground floor (location 5) Chair: Diana Rosas Riaño, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sarunas Jomantas. Interethnic Enjoyment, Myth and Materialism Social antagonisms within capitalist societies are steeped between a ‘logic of fantasy’ mystifying objective appearances, and a capitalist ‘logic of...
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