Panel: 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 [𝐇𝐀𝐂𝐀-𝐇𝐎𝐀𝐍]
SIEF2023 16th Congress “Living Uncertainty”
Deadline: 𝟏𝟎 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑
#𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬🖍
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Panel: “𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 [𝐇𝐀𝐂𝐀-𝐇𝐎𝐀𝐍]”
SIEF2023 16th Congress “Living Uncertainty”
Deadline: 𝟏𝟎 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑
Uncertainties can arise from major crises such as environmental disasters, economic upheavals, as well as wars and pandemics. They can also proliferate in everyday crises and conflicts, emerging from large and small ruptures in the web of life. As such, uncertainties prompt epistemological questions and methodological quandaries in the hopes to understand, make sense, and reshape our worlds. Today-as yesterday-anthropology thrives, as Susana Narotzky puts it, “at the point of conflict, where things ‘go wrong’, where there is loss, or anger, or pain” (Narotzky 2023, in preparation). Our panel explores lessons to take from our disciplinary pasts dealing with different uncertainties and their implications for our disciplinary futures. How did uncertainties, great and small, in daily life and long durées, affect the development of ethnographic issues in different political and research contexts? What methods did socio-cultural anthropologists and folklorists develop for dealing with uncertainties and to what success? If fieldwork itself can be conceptualized as the way ethnographers used to engage with uncertainties, how was it uniquely deployed in national traditions? Which methods of dialogue, documentation, data collection, but also engagement and commitment of the researcher in the context of study were used? What specific research traditions did emerge in concurrence and/or after the affirmation of Malinowskian classical fieldwork? How can these differing responses help us understand and represent the worlds we operate in diversity? With such questions and more, we want to shed light on alternative disciplinary models and practices that are capable of elaborating different ways of approaching crisis in current times.
Conveners: Fabiana Dimpflmeier (‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University of Chieti-Pescara); Hande Birkalan-Gedik (Goethe Universität); Katre Kikas (Estonian Literary Museum); Konrad Kuhn (University of Innsbruck)
