[ecrea] Call for Papers - Anthropology of Storytelling

Call for Papers for
Panel - Anthropology of Storytelling,
Theme - Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design
Conference - ASA14: Anthropology and Enlightenment, 19-22 June 2014 in Edinburgh
Deadline - 5th January 2014

Summary
This panel asks for papers that explore (and practise) providing anthropological insight for mainstream audiences using storytelling as a rhetorical device. Possibilities may include ethnographically rich descriptions, fictional stories inspired by ethnographic research or playful interventions.  All submissions should seek to engage and captivate participants.

Info/Propose a paper here:http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2773
Contact if any queries here:(Jessica.symons /at/ postgrad.manchester.ac.uk)

Long Abstract
To what extent is a sense of beauty stimulated through rich description and a capturing of the imagination?  Insights are lost through an author's inability to captivate their audience.  Movements gain momentum through leaders' ability to inspire action.  Religions gain power through orators' depiction of glorious enlightenment.  The sensuous frisson that accompanies a good tale has a resonant and mobilising force.

Working with creativity as a strategic response to "dealing with the unknown, the uncertain in our lives" (Borofsky 2001:69) allows for everyday creativity but also for significant moments. "Yet there is a sense in which artistic creation, rooted as it may be in the negotiated and partial practices of "flow" in everyday life, also achieves itself by standing out from that background of fluid improvisation of forms and becoming a foreground that crystallises into a new shape" (Strathern and Stewart 2009:xii).

Stories provide shape to the flow of life and ethnography is perfectly situated to throw forms of many kinds.  We are interested in what happens when the story takes hold and emerges as an independent crystallisation of ethnographic experience.  Furthermore, what happens if anthropologists allow a fictive element to lead their output rather than just obscure identities of informants?

This panel asks for papers that explore (and practise) providing anthropological insight for mainstream audiences using storytelling as a rhetorical device. Possibilities might include ethnographically rich descriptions, fictional stories inspired by ethnographic research or playful interventions.  All submissions should seek to engage and captivate participants.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Jess
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Jessica Symons
PhD researcher in Social Anthropology
University of Manchester
(jessica.symons /at/ postgrad.manchester.ac.uk)<mailto:(jessica.symons /at/ postgrad.manchester.ac.uk)>
07984747796


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