ASA2014: Anthropology and Enlightenment

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Enlightenment's third pillar: solidarity and solidarity economies

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Exploring 'atmospheres': an anthropological approach?

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Architects of utopia

P05

'True religion' and the anthropology of the Scottish Enlightenment

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Reflections on moral sentiments within the anthropology of development

P07

Reason and passion: the parallel worlds of ethnography and biography

P08

Tobacco and Enlightenment

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Re-membering transnational living heritages

P10

Imaginaries of home

P11

Infectious disease and wealth: exploring the links between tuberculosis and the political economy

P12

Being, being human, and becoming beyond human

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Meetings: procedure and artifacts of modern knowledge

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Skulls, faces and being human

P16

The 'evidence' of death: necrographic accounts on death perspectives

P17

Repositioning health, illness and the body: the challenge of new theoretical approaches to medical anthropology

P18

The anthropology of connections: ethnography, archive and language in the work of Professor Tristan Platt

P19

Political subjectivities in resource-rich authoritarian countries

P20

New immortalities: anthropological reflections on the procurement, transformation and use of human cadaveric tissue

P21

Invisible hands: alternate modes of prosperity, wealth and well-being

P22

Health and wellbeing in post-war Europe: the contentious issue of abortion

P23

Humanity at sea: hybridity and seafaring

P24

Objects, persons or property? Revisiting human-animal relations in the Andes, Amazonia and the American Arctic

P25

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Force, change and readjustment: weather and energy

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Nationalism, democracy and morality: a historical and anthropological approach to the role of moral sentiments in contemporary politics

P27

A world of goods and the wealth of nations: anthropologies of export

P28

ICTs, biopolitics and health: making and unmaking bodies and persons in a world of globalised telecommunications

P29

Rituals of development: the magic of a modernising project

P30

The uncertain bodily relations of contemporary economic practice

P31

"Indigenous" space and local politics

P32

Perfection: histories, technologies, cosmologies

P33

Facing outwards: anthropology beyond academia (a panel convened by the ASA's Apply Network)

P35

Light as material culture, experience and practice

P36

What is (religious) Enlightenment? Kant, freedom and obedience in religion today

P38

Moral certainty and ambiguity in research: anthropology's enlightenment legacies and the politics of ethnography

P39

'Alternative' beauty in 'alternative' communities, scenes and subcultures

P40

Ethnographies of waiting

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Social anthropology and human origins

P42

Difference in an interconnected world

P43

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A tartan imaginary: cultural identity through the looking glass of the 'Scottish' second sight phenomena

P44

After development: critical aesthetics of past futures

P46

Global Christianity: remaking social worlds in South and Southeast Asia

P47

Risk, value, ethics: the political logics of transnational finance and medicine

P49

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Commercialization, experimentation and health in low-resource countries: pharmaceuticals, collaborations and global philanthropy

P50

Social animals and us: anthropomorphism and animal utopias

P51

When means and ends coincide: beyond 'utility'

P52

Art, politics, ethnography

P53

Educated youth in search of enlightenment in South Asia (and beyond)

P54

Road biographies

P55

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Ruined bodies and aging buildings: architecture, oblivion, decay

P56

Towards a gendered economic anthropology/ towards a gendered critique of political economy

P58

The enlightening museum: anthropology, collecting, encounters

P59

The place of 'place' in wellbeing scholarship

P60

Between the mediation of diversity and the diversity of mediations: considerations on contemporary world circulations, belongings and contours

P61

In the name of progress, disease control and elimination: medical research, global funds and local people

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Religious life and medical traditions

P63

Economic wealth and mental health: questioning the paradoxes

P64

The failed utopia: 'enlightening' the contradictions of christianisation, secularisation and civilisation in the Americas

P65

Linking the moral and the political economy in the European periphery

P66

Community, belonging and moral sentiment: is to belong to be a moral person?

P67

Anthropology in and of education: implications for representations of human nature

P68

Made to measure: measurement, anthropology and the enlightenment

P69

Designing death: fashioning ends of life and beyond

P70

Virtue in the marketplace

P71

Anthropologies of Buddhism and Hinduism

P72

Anthropology of storytelling

P74

Power, desire and social contract: power's aftermath in the contemporary world

P75

Postcolonial perspectives on the Enlightenment and ethics (World Council of Anthropological Associations Ethics Taskforce)

P77

Anthropology and the post-enlightenment person

P79

The best of 'Ideas in Movement': papers from the RAI Postgraduate Conference

Plen01

Does eliminating disease produce wealthy nations?

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Beauty, order, harmony and design

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Natural religion

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Can we have our nature/culture dichotomy back, please?

Plen06

Moral sentiments: finding again anthropology's moral voice and vision

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