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P26


Let anthropology draw: towards an alternative sense-making 
Convenor:
Deniz Coral (University of Minnesota)
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Discussant:
Manuel Ramos (ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon)
Format :
Panel
Sessions:
Thursday 8 April, -
Time zone: America/Chicago

Short Abstract:

This panel welcomes proposals on anthropological sense-making, research, and writing in light of drawings made by researchers, research interlocutors, or both. How can drawings allow us to engage with an embodied and affective ethnography based on “being-in-common” (Nancy 2000)?

Long Abstract:

Anthropological endeavors have long used drawings as critical windows for exploring diverse worldviews, feelings, emotions, imaginations, and subjectivities regarding how researchers and research interlocutors place themselves in the world (Causey 2017; Guillemin 2004; Hendrickson 2010; Ingold 2011; Martin 1994; Pandolfo 1997; Taussig 2011). In light of these endeavors, this panel invites scholars to ponder anthropological sense-making, research, and writing. It welcomes proposals that challenge the conventional understanding of participant observation and think through embodied and affective ethnography that emerge from the intersections and divergences between conceptualizations of drawings as “anthropological data,” a “research method,” and a way of ‘seeing, experiencing, and interpreting the world.”

The panel aims to invoke provocative discussions based on but not limited to these questions: how do drawings illuminate the interrelationship between researchers and research interlocutors within the intersubjective milieu of the ethnographic research, which is already embedded in multi-layered and perpetually changing power dynamics? To what extent do drawings make space for recounting the incoherent, discontinuous, ephemeral, and the imponderable in ethnographic writings and conceptualizations? How can drawings shape our ethnographic research and writing by undermining or fostering familiar ways of narration and forms of authorship? Can drawings help us bridge the gap between psychoanalysis and anthropology regarding intimacy, transference, desire, and unconscious? Last but not least, how can drawings enable us to unsettle the creation of knowledge that reproduces domination and hierarchy and allow us to reconsider anthropological research and writing based on “being-in-common” (Nancy 2000)?

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 8 April, 2021, -