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Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
WORKSHOP
Performing Indigeneity
20 – 21 January 2012
Organiser:
Joseph Long
MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
PROGRAMME
Friday, January 20: First Workshop Day
– All welcome –
9.00 Registration
Session 1 Chair: Joseph Long, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
9.30 Joseph Long
MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Introduction to the Performing Indigeneity Seminar
09.50 Beth Conklin
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
EthnoTechnovangelism: performing indigeneity and fostering solidarity through
movement and music in Brazil
10.20 Fiona Magowan
Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
Canvases of Emotion in Motion: reconsidering indigeneity as performative
politics in suburban Australian Aboriginal art
10.50 Coffee and tea break
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Venue: SMALL SEMINAR ROOM (Friday) and SEMINAR ROOM in the Guest House (Saturday) of the MPI for
Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Session 2 Chair: Nicolas Ellison, EHESS, Toulouse, France
11.10 Marine Carrin
EHESS, Toulouse, France
The Performance of Indigeneity and the Politics of Representation: the case of the
Santals in central India
11.30 David Anderson
University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Discussant response to three papers, followed by open discussion
12.00 Lunch break
Session 3 Chairs: Barbara Bodenhorn, University of Cambridge, UK and Alexander King,
University of Aberdeen, UK
13.00 Joseph Long
MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
Stimulus paper ‘Staging, Framing and Presentation: theatrical metaphors and
performative practices’, followed by open discussion
14.00 Nicolas Ellison
EHESS, Toulouse, France
Stimulus paper ‘Indigeneity and Ecological Relations’, followed by open discussion
15.00 Coffee and tea break
15.20 Discussant responses to the session and open discussion
Discussion time: 70 minutes
19.00 Dinner at Alchimistenklause
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Venue: SMALL SEMINAR ROOM (Friday) and SEMINAR ROOM in the Guest House (Saturday) of the MPI for
Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Saturday, January 21: Second Workshop Day
– Closed Session, Invited Speakers Only –
Session 1 Chair: Joseph Long, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
9.30 Introduction to the day
9.45 Discussion of written papers
Barbara Bodenhorn, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Of Beauty Pageants and Eskimo Dancing: between audience and participation
Susanna Rostas, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Performing Indigeneity: the Concheros’ dancing of the indigenous in
Mexico City
Alexander King and Hiroko Ikuta, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Performing Indigeneity through Traditional Dance across Beringia: the value of
culture in the production of persons in Kamchatka and Alaska
10.45 Coffee and tea break
Session 2 Chair: Susanna Rostas, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
11.00 Discussion of written papers
Joseph Long, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
Ritual, Performance and National Autonomy in Cisbaikal Buriat Communities
Colin Scott, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
From Coral Reef to Courtroom: indigenous ecology and the expression of rights in
the Torres Strait
Nicolas Ellison, EHESS, Toulouse, France and Luz Maria Lozada, James
Hutton Instiute, Aberdeen, UK
Dancing plants, growing humans: the performance of identities and ontologies in
Totonac cultiviation and ritual dance
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Venue: SMALL SEMINAR ROOM (Friday) and SEMINAR ROOM in the Guest House (Saturday) of the MPI for
Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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12.00 Lunch break
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
13.00 Planning for Performing Indigeneity edited volume
Tropes and terms – how do we make our papers speak to one another?
How far do we wish our papers to cohere theoretically?
Drawing out key themes and potential for dividing the work into
sections
14.30 Coffee and tea break
14.45 Pitching the volume
Intended readership, debates we wish to address, publication
venues, titles
18.00 Dinner at Fünf Elemente
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Venue: SMALL SEMINAR ROOM (Friday) and SEMINAR ROOM in the Guest House (Saturday) of the MPI for
Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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