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EASA Conference 2008 Experiencing diversity and mutuality

Workshops

This page lists all the accepted workshops. Click on the arrows to expand to view details of the workshop, or click on the workshop titles to see the individual workshop pages.

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 IW01 Mobility: frictions and flows

 London: nowhere, in particular

 The politics of mobility: ideology and instrumentality

 Mobile culture and immobile anthropology: towards an anthropology of the roads and flows

 Towards a phenomenology of flying

 Travelling through mobilities

 'Co-opportunistic' mobility: experiencing social housing in London

 The tensions between mobility and stasis in two contexts of super-diversity

 Living on constantly transfer

 Rethinking panopticism: biometric security, surveillance and the state

 'Morocco is a prison!' Culture of migration and imaginary mobility among young Moroccans

 Mobile perspectives/perspectives on mobility: anthropological entanglements with competing contexts

 IW02 Rethinking the body: biotechnology and sociality

 "Checking the askaries (guards) of my body": testing for HIV and living with CD4 counts and viral loads in Uganda

 'My baby is killed when I breastfeed': challenges of selves and sociality in a context of mother to child transmission of HIV in East Africa

 Embodied biographies of heritable breast cancer risk: (re)making the female body amidst medical, religious and social discourses

 Living and working in spite of antiretroviral therapies: HIV between control and resistance

 Sonographic images of anomalous fetal bodies: tracing cultural mediations

 The 'bio-social' dynamics of breast cancer genetics: comparisons between the UK and Cuba

 Transplant anxieties: discourses about bone marrow/haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

 IW03 Liminal Europe

 Neglected interdisciplinarities: the Balkans, gender, and historical anthropology

 Writing Europe: the dialogue of 'liminal Europeans'

 A man can die but thrice: anthropology of death through Lacan

 Remembering socialism and "post-socializing" the West

 Dis-closing encounters: European public space, cultural diversity, and the Slovenian EU presidency

 Local community on the 'peripheries of Europe': between sociology and anthropology

 Heroic past versus un-heroic present: the politics of memory and its discontent

 "Europeanization" in Istria: differences between official and private discourse

 "In Spain I am like every one else - simply a Bulgarian immigrant": the flexibilization of identification and the double-naming strategy of Bulgarian Muslims in Spain

 Extracting one's past from a grey future: nostalgia in post-1989 Romania

 Moral and religious re-education of Russia

 Lady in Pink. Different aspects of one color in the direct selling organization in Poland

 IW04 Ethically sensitive researches in anthropology

 Face to face behind bars: ethical fragilities in the researcher - prisoner relationship in a Greek prison for women

 Ethical dilemmas in ethnographying medical visit

 Some ethical considerations regarding recruting subjects through media solicitation

 "You're the only one I will tell it to …" - researcher in a difficult situation: questions about fieldwork methodology

 Life stories as reserach and didactic activity

 Friendship as the relationship between researcher and researchee: ethical doubts

 Being sensitive and discreet when dealing with honour and good name

 Problem of data privacy protection of research subjects

 Ethics and the inevitability of bias in research on nuclear issues in India

 IW05 Local encounters with the global: diversity of anthropological fieldwork approaches in globalization studies

 A 'nested' and 'perspectivistic' way of understanding the global - local nexus

 «Liquid truth»: How the story of a demolished Bedouin village in Israel travels around the world

 Crossing boundaries: conversion to and within Islam in a local Belgian and globalizing context

 Ethnography matters: multisited research, cultural hierarchies and their ethnographic methods

 From "flows" back to actors: why "the local" is no longer a place for anthropology

 Mediatized local: media reshaping the local and the local response to media impact

 Researching fakes, practicing anthropology out of the corner of the eye

 IW06 Connecting peace and violence: zones, transgressions and causes

 Governing social relations internationally: the legal management of conflict

 Zones of peace and violence or a general state of exception?

 Interactions and ambiguity of notions of war and peace in a colonial context

 Potentia and presentia: on the dynamics of peace and conflict in Bissau

 Developing Africa and Europe: the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda and the war/peace business in the global shadows

 IW07 Empires and differences

 "This is not the end of history": re-negotiating civil society and anti-capitalist activism in postsocialist Serbia

 17th century ethnography: Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor

 Actors and agency in the situation of rebellion

 Cyber as space, cyber as conversation: setting up virtual empires

 Nigerian video film cultures

 Rethinking the unthinkable: dignity and solidarity in the time of neoliberalism

 The Georgian-Abkhazian ceasefire line: an edge of the Russian "empire"?

 IW08 World in Europe

 A lost Roma tale: ethnocentric versus xenocentric attitudes in the Gârcini Roma community

 Sustainability and folk culture: some features in contemporary life

 Rituality: a form of hidden ritual

 Migrants and their traditions in Moscow megacity

 Aligning indigenous leadership and development in an African context

 Storytelling for peace-building and sustainable cultural diversity

 The archetypal ‘language of light’ from ethnical tradition to modern technology

 Asian life style programme in Hungary (the impact of Yoga on everyday life)

 Integrating traditional and modern knowledge of malaria among the Sabaot of Mount Elgon in Kenya

 Healing femininity - balancing energies

 IW09 Changing global flows of anthropological knowledge - a WCAA-EASA workshop

 Fluent perceptions: beyond centres and peripheries in the global production of anthropological knowledge

 Rethinking the centre: thoughts about insiders and outsiders from a peripheral university in a 'central' location

 Now that we are Europeans are we better off?

 Social anthropology: smuggling biased knowledge around the world?

 No local debate, no global impact: German anthropology since the 1980s (and a bit before)

 Mutuality and reciprocity in situations of marked inequality: dilemmas of and concerning US anthropology in the world

 Towards a doubly rooted cosmopolitan anthropology

 Ships passing in the night? Interdisciplinarity, East-West relations and commoditization of knowledge in anthropology of post-socialism

 Intricate relations between Western anthropologists and postsocialist ethnologists

 W001 Ethical consumption: consumers and producers, markets and ethics

 Introduction

 Consuming producers, producing consumers: Costa Rican households and the ethic of self-provisioning

 Re-inventing food: ethics and politics of tradition

 "Trade not aid": cleansing relationships

 One supersize does not fit all: flap versus Mac in the ethics of personal consumption

 Narratives of concern: beyond the 'official' discourse of ethical consumption

 How can one eat or farm organic without "living organic"? Ethnography of values and practices of Belgian organic producers and consumers

 On the challenges of signaling ethics without stuff: stories of sustainable and conspicuous non-consumption

 The challenges of chocolate: an examination of the ethics of consuming and producing chocolate

 W002 Markets, kinship and morality

 The dialectics of economy

 Hunting in the Alentejo (southern Portugal): the social and spatial outcomes of 'care' and 'selfishness'

 'We, the Congolese, we cannot trust each other': trust, norms and relations among traders in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo

 The moralities of markets: petty trade and merchant associations in the margins of the formal economy in Peru

 The notion of embeddedness and its relevance in modern market economies

 Paying for parenthood: money and kinship in assisted reproduction

 Asymmetric flows of support among siblings and its limits: some evidence from current rural China

 Kin-group characterisation and competition for local resources in rural Yakutia

 Markets and moralities in Danish housing cooperatives

 European kinship and the emotional economy

 Private enterprise and the ethos of the collective era in China: the case of a Chinese craft industry

 Lace or string: the moral conundrums of entrepreneurship

 The market logic of illegality in southern Italy

 'Great transformation' of agrarian tolerance in post-peasant Eastern Europe

 Moral economies in a modern world: kinship, morality and power among the Boatmen of Varanasi (Banaras), India

 Stressed responsible subjects: market, state and moral obligation and the paradoxes of the economy

 W003 Towards an anthropology of decision making

 Decision making in context: a case of Swedish rail planning in practice

 Heating Swedish houses: a discussion about the nature of change, household decision-making, and the prospect of reaching a national target

 Hidden power: who makes farm decisions?

 Participatory democracy as a 'social drama': deconstructing public involvement procedures in Swedish city renewal

 Re-localization and the process of decision making in a Sugpiaq community

 The significance of role, status, and authority in decision making processes among social workers

 Vision meets muddle: : an investigation of how vision statements affect decision making in a Swedish municipality

 W004 Mobility, transnational connections and sociocultural change in contemporary Africa

 Miners and taxi drivers in Benin: the emergence of new moral fields in informal settings

 Slavery and emancipation in the haalpulaar society (Mauritania): the influence of migrants of servile origin on social renogotiation

 FRONTIERS OF MOBILITY, LIMITS OF CITIZENSHIP: POLITICAL MEANINGS OF MOBILITY FOR SOME FULANI GROUPS IN MAURITANIA

 Saharian "borderline"-strategies: transnational mobility of Tuareg (Ishumar) between Niger, Algeria and Libya

 Here and there: presence and absence among Hausa migrants in Belgium and urban Niger

 "Nerves!": struggling with immobility in The Gambia

 Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian migrants

 The 'CUDA' associations in West Cameroon : between autochtony and transnational virtual communities

 Africans in Moscow: foreign churches as a factor of socio-cultural adaptation or non-adaptation

 Dynamics of migration and development cooperation between Sub-Sahara-Africa and Germany

 Socio-cultural and political change in a transnational group: the Konkombas (Ghana/Togo)

 Transnationalism and social mobility through the performing arts in Senegal

 W005 Reflecting on reflexivity in anthropology and social science

 Cosmopolitan reflexivity: towards a transmodal analysis of rituals

 Intercultural borderlinking, intersubjectivity and self-knowing

 Perfect praxis in Aikidō - take II: a reflexive body

 Reflexive anthropology and social activism

 Ritualization and the reflexive critique of scientism

 The ethic of being wrong: Levinas in the field

 Where is anthropology when you need it?

 Wittgenstein and the ethical reflexivity of anthropological discourse

 W006 Sustainable cultural diversities in Europe

 Comparison of open/heterogeneous - closed/homogeneous local systems in dealing with diversity: London

 Differences among European students in motivation to learn: a cross-cultural study

 Politics of identity: Saxon-ness without Saxons in a Transylvanian town

 Sustainable cultural diversity and mutuality: the case of Slovenia

 Towards sustainable diversity in the city of Bratislava

 We and others in process of migration

 W007 Staging sport and celebration: the power of play

 Articulating the "powers of sport": Canadians and the discursive construction of American athletic scholarships

 The aesthetics of skiing in the birth of a nation: the case of Slovenia

 Revolutionary blasts: the politics of passion within the celebration of home runs in Cuban baseball

 Celebrating charity through sport

 Scenery in motion: the event of Laugavegur ultra marathon, Iceland

 Sport: in the search for immortality

 National identity and global awareness in two major football tournaments

 Globalization and the contestation of identities in football

  Football and the domestication of money: mimetic strategies of Maskoy people in the Paraguayan Chaco

 Le phénomène sportif en Afrique soudanienne: the sports phenomenon in western Africa

 Football fandom as a factor behind cultural differentiation: a case study on Sarajevo and Zeljeznicar fans in Bosnia and Herzegovina

 W008 What makes popular piety popular?

 Divination and Islam: existential perspectives in the study of ritual and religious praxis in Senegal and Gambia

 Postponing piety in urban Burkina Faso: discussing ideas on when to start acting as a pious Muslim

 Going to the mulid: street-smart spirituality in Egypt

 Offerings to sacred fish: a popular sacrificial site in Burkina Faso

 Expressions of popular piety at the shrine of Santa Maria delle Grazie: the construction of Padre Pio's sanctity

 Quand des femmes et des réfugié-e-s fabriquent des saints: genre, religion et mémoire à Lesvos (Grèce)

 Nationalism and Catholicism: The cult of Mary as a mass movement and private piety in Poland

 Consumption and the Islamic revival in Egypt

 W009 Marginality, nationalism and citizenship

 The cultural politics of shopping and the fashioning of "modern" Albanian subjectivities in the Republic of Macedonia

 Crafting cosmopolitanism: the production of postmodern trends in the global regionalist culture of the Italian Nordest

 A nostalgic expression of Kurdishness in humorous popular culture

 "Loud and clear": The G2 second generations network in Italy

 W010 Looking, seeing and being seen: connecting and controlling through visual representation

 Challenging the gaze: art biennales as global places

 Happy interactivity or hidden distinction: contact zones in the field of contemporary art

 Black, white and red all over? An anthropology of book fairs

 Exposed to (in)visibility: the strategies of production of parallel knowledge in the work of Tadej Pogačar

 Indigenous self-representation: Native American contemporary art and native curating

 Teens cultures and their representations

 Island Magic: Tourism and the Dialectics of Self-imaging in La Reunion

 The warrior-shepherd signifier: locations and meanings of highland Cretan photographic subjects

 Image & text: (in)visible connections in visual representation of Irish travel advertisement

 W011 Body and soul: on corporeality in contemporary religiosity

 Transforming the Soul of Music into Bodily Practice: Tone Eurythmy's artistic principles and their relation to underlying structure

 Re-enchanted bodies: the significance of the spiritual dimension in Danish healing rituals.

 Between the Self and the Other: the interpretation of bodily experiences

 Body and soul in the occult imaginary in the contemporary Central African Republic

 "I want to feel the Camino in my legs": trajectories of walking on the Camino de Santiago

 Becoming sacred: revelation and agency in East Java, Indonesia

 The Sikhs' bodies: a case of embodiment and ostentation of religious identity

 The body in "Giglio Feast" in Nola and in Williamsburg

 Embodying the Holy Ghost: incorporation and time within a Nigerian Pentecostal church in the Netherlands

 Metaphor, image and change: the body in a missionary and development endeavour

 Holding the saint in one's arms. Miracles and exchange in Apiao, southern Chile

 Anxious bodies, performing selves: Greek Orthodoxy in inter/action

 To heal the sick is to heal oneself: the body as congregation

 W012 'West' and 'East'. Dreaming, writing, imagining, and practicing Europe

 Entre le 'West' et le 'East': le concept de l'Europe centrale

 One step forward, two steps back: Serbian path to Europe at the beginning of 21 century

 Sensible memories, embodied borders: an ethnographic research on family resemblances in Warsaw

 The inner Border: frontiers, structural nostalgia and cultural intimacy in Topolo/Topolove (Natisone River Valley, Udine, Italy)

 The Integration of "East" and "West": Slovene Eurocrats and shifts in European identity within the institutions of the European Union

 The Westernised law and the local conditions: the case of informal area in Tirana's suburbia.

 W013 Experiencing calamity - expressing the unthinkable

 Practising morality at times of crisis: Palestinian boundary-making during the intifada al aqsa

 Banal Millenialism: images of the end of the world among Old Colony Mennonites.

 Dreaming conspiracies: experiencing the law in post-Soviet Chechnya

 Contesting disaster: politics of memory and oblivion in Santa Fe, Argentina

 Heroes, massacres, and Svetskava Street 12: remembering the war in Kosovo

 W014 From medical pluralism to therapeutic plurality: medical anthropology and the politics of diversity, knowledge, and experience from multiple perspectives

 Alcohol, crack and therapeutic effects of Santo Daime in homelessness

 Singing sorrow: from emotional attitude to emotional dysfunction

 Cultural sensitive introduction of HIV/AIDS prevention by initiation ritual of rural girls in Mozambique

 The use of traditional medicine as an observation during fieldwork in Brazilian Amazon

 Cancer patients and complementary and alternative medicine in Turkey

 Thai massage as a therapy: suffering and healing among the Thai urban middle class

 Trajectories in pain

 Noisy hearts: auto-auscultation and sound in illness experience

 Experience of disability in South Africa

 Gender as a trigger for medical pluralism: differing experiences of madness among Moroccan Berbers

 Chinese acupuncture in Norway: experiencing traditional Chinese acupuncture in the context of a biomedical evaluation

 Medical plurality and experiential dualism: a Brazilian case study

 Traditional and complementary medicines in Istria: intertwining or paralleling?

 From ignorance to stigmatization: changing faces of medical pluralism

 Is some training worse than no training? The problem of empathy in multi-cultural care

 Studying HIV-AIDS in Cartagena-Colombia: dealing with competing knowledge

 Medical pluralism in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: relations between biomedicine and complementary medicines in the context of political and socio-economic transition

 The attitude towards official medicine and local healing practices among Polish inhabitants of Pojana Mikuli village in southern Bucovina, Romania.

 W015 Diversifying anthropology: politics of research or research in politics?

 Seeing beyond ethno-racial classifications at South African universities: an anthropological intervention

 The concept of mutuality and diversity in the socialist and post-socialist period: the Museum of African Art, Belgrade

 Caught between acronyms: HTS, AAA and the politics of ethics

 Whither the political party?

 W016 Intercultural mobilities in tourism context: migrants, tourists, new residents and local population

 Discursive aspects of long-term tourism in Spain: the case of Norwegian visitors

 Challenges and opportunities for involvement with host communities among Nordic long-term visitors and expatriates in Costa Blanca

 Perception of tourist through the eyes of local residents

 Are gender roles and ethnicity influenced by tourism in Central Himalaya?

 New geographies of belonging in the Greek island borderlands

 W018 Mutuality and difference in multireligious local communities: the politics of neighbourliness

 "What's the difference what's my nation or religion?"

 Being a Muslim in Poland: the Polish Tartar case

 Inter-confessional sociability in a West African village: the Example of Gêba, Guinea-Bissau (West Africa)

 Metaphorical kinship and religious identity: changing politics of neighbourliness in the Hinterland of Guinea and Liberia

 Muslims and Christian holy places as a strategy of coping with differences

 Shared shrines and the construction of local identities in the Balkan and Anatolian world

 Spaces of separation and of integration: identities and symbolism in the evolution of post-war Mostar

 W019 The anthropology of the United Nations

 The local negociations of the global status of « orphaned and vulnerable children », in the nigerien muslim context

 Nora's new job: UN coordination in practice

 Stalling and speeding: ways of speaking at WIPO's intergovernmental committee on cultural property

 Evolving pasts: the anthropologisation of UNESCO World Heritage

 Grounding international organizations and indigenous rights in Peru: an anthropological perspective

 Transparency and the global gaze: the UN and the problem of social accountability

 W020 The anthropology of drug policy: a way to diversify the field of drug studies?

 Treatmentality: a new approach to the policy and practice of drug use treatment

 The anthropology of drugs: a modest European proposal

 Social and cultural dimensions of case management - aspects of control in drug treatment

 Anthropology of drug policy: how does it fit into already existing drug policy research?

 W021 'Soft law' practices, anthropologists and legal scholars

 Introduction: the rule of Soft Law

 From "Hard" to "Soft" affirmative action: racial diversity and the use of global policy metaphors in the Brazilian private sector

 Soft Law in a time of culture: EU bureaucrats and intercultural dialogue

 CSR as soft regulation: perspectives of using CSR to improve work environment in small companies

 Soft Law for serious crimes: the duty to remember and the liberty of history

 From Soft to Hard law: international minority rights instruments and the drafting of a bill of rights for Northern Ireland

 W023 For a sceptical anthropology?

 Scalar selves: narratives, interviews and the responses of informants

 Theorising diverse understandings of mental disturbance in Khayelitsha, South Africa

 The anthropology of the possible: the ethnographer as sceptical enquirer

 For an anti-literalist anthropology

 Reflexive scepticism and familiar ethnographic objects: finding something to say in the network

 Ghosts, maths and ethnographic practice

 The ontological cocktails in everyday theology: forms of transcendence in two Christian traditions

 The troubled histories of a stranger god: Tagaro and Christianity in North Pentecost, Vanuatu

 Making and unmaking gods

 W024 Mutuality and memory: encounters in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cities

 Bethlehem past and present: memories of a lost community

 Opening up files: adjudication of Egyptian Jewish claims in Cairo

 Now and then: expressing social time in the refugee camp

 Of rhythms and refrains in contemporary Damascus: natality and naitivity

 The art of memory in Mediterranean Croatia

 Euro-Mediterranean arts and heritage on the southern Italian stage

 Re-establishing mutuality

 W025 Elite strategies of distinction and mutuality

 Emerging ethos: ethnographic notes on "success" in contemporary Brazil

 Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of labour and national elite Batswana women

 National aspirations, local commitments: elite funerals in Northern Ghana

 White skin colour and elite distinction on the island of Mauritius

 From an exclusive elite to nation-builders: the various faces of creoledom in Guinea-Bissau

 The Kolkata intellectuals and elite identity

 Debating leadership and legitimacy in Timor Leste

 Social strategizing within an urban elite in Morocco

 The politics of conviviality: traditional rural elites and the local state in Southern Mozambique

 The power of mutuality: authority and legitimacy among traditional and state elites in Southern Ghana

 Multiparty politics and the (re)production of political elites in Cameroon: the case of the South-West Elites Association (1990-2007)

 W026 Imagining and constructing "terrorism" and "war on terror"

 From the cultural construction of terrorists to the social production of antagonism: why social conflict is irreducible to diversity

 Purifying "Hezbollah": the entanglement of diverse forms of expert knoweldge on "terrorism" in Lebanon

 Creating enemies in the War on Terror: the reinforcement of essentialized cultural difference through "legalized" torture

 W027 Sounding ethnography: mutuality and diversity in musical life

 Sounding ethnography: mutuality and diversity in music

 Bass nature and the mutuality of creative ecologies in dubstep music (London UK)

 Spontaneous results of an organised musical experience: a residency of Arab and British musicians in the United Kingdom

 Anthropologists in the opera: professional engagements and private inclinations in musical life

 A public square, a stadium, a theatre: experiencing the nation through popular music in Croatia

 The discourse of 'musical quality' among jazz musicians in Athens

 Smooth jazz, transnationalism and jazz's mobile representations

 W028 Being human, being migrant: dealing with memory, dreams and hopes in everyday life

 Behind the iron fence: exploring difference and marginality in Ljubljana

 Drawing back the curtains: everyday processes of inclusion and exclusion among newly arrived refugees in rural Denmark

 Fantasy and vulnerability: women histories of forced migration

 Ruptured lives and reconfigured identities: the impact of foreign domestic work on the lives of migrant women in Canada

 Imagination of Iranianness

 "Although I have a Jordanian passport…" memories and dreams of Palestinian refugees in Jordan

 Human aspirations, migrant experiences: articulations of love, loss and the future in Japan

 Dreaming of 'home' and 'belonging' in transnational families: generational views on 'return'

 The work of memory among African immigrants in Lisbon

 Being human, being Tamil: exploring Tamil refugees' sense of identity and agency

 Social mobility and personhood among Caribbean migrants

 Everyday creativity in exile: case studies of two Afghan refugees in Athens

 W029 African Christianities in Europe: the politics of religious recognition

 Pure cosmopolitans? Keeping community in an international Pentecostal student church

 Letters from the Azores: building an African Church in the Diaspora

 The second Adam's generation: on doing and undoing boundaries in an African based Christian Fellowship in Germany

 African Pentecostalism in Brussels: reconfiguration of gender relation and sexuality in diasporas

 Contrasted public recognitions of the "Celestial Church of Christ" and the "Nouvelle Jérusalem" in Brussels

 Closer to Africa or to Rome? Syncretism and religious practice in Portuguese Umbanda and Candomblé

 W031 Children, youth and religion: visions of mutuality and diversity across generations

 Children and youth as diversity managers: religion, ethnicity and gender in Swiss schools

 Moral upbringing by the state: the 'Orthodox Culture' concept in Russian public schools

 Striving for survival: children of Jehovah's Witnesses in eastern Germany

 Remembering "tribal lessons" in Church today: mutuality and diversity on mount Kilimanjaro

 "Letters to the editor": youth, Islam, and media in Turkey

 Socializing Islam among young British Muslim women across various contexts

 Learning to be Jewish: moralities of intergenerational exchange and regeneration in a pluralistic Jewish day school

 Armies of children: Catholic children and adults in the US, 1925-1975

 W032 Processing trauma in (post-)conflict societies

 'Slouching towards Bethlehem,' processing trauma through the site of trauma

 Visualizing the unseen scars and silent narratives of torture

 Silencing distressed children in the context of the war in Gulu: an analysis of its cause and its health consequences

 Engendering suffering in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: an anthropological investigation of the construction of categories of gender and suffering in psychosocial practice in the West Bank

 War trauma and aftermath: PTSD in Croatian psychiatry

 Eloquent bodies: responses to violence in northern Sri Lanka

 Trauma into triumphalism: affective registers of Serbian Orthodox monastics

 Violence, trauma and identity in Somaliland: a biographical approach

 W033 Anthropology of policies and ideology of capitalism in the EU

 Frames: toward an ethnography of the EU policies on protecting and valorising cultural heritage

 Heritage, ecology and authenticity in the Catalan Pyrenees

 A proper viewpoint for a valued landscape: analysis of the urbanisation of heritage in the neoliberal city

 The New Berlin, the contribution of the spirit of capitalism in the reshaping of the city

 Ideology and the citizen: an ethnography of concepts and praxis in socialist and post-socialist/capitalist Albania

 W034 Anthropologies of university reform: restructuring of higher education - anthropological perspectives

 Anthropologies of university reform: an introduction

 Reforming New Zealand's universities: reflections on the production of academic subjects

 "Indigenizing" or "interculturalizing" universities in Mexico: an ethnography of the local appropiation of globalized diversity discourses inside the "Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural"

 Excellence in stupidity

 Trials and tribulations of reformation: prologue to the futures of Turkish university education

 Disentangling power and discourse: the case of master and "servant" in Serbian higher education reform

 Student struggles at a struggling institution: the case of University of Limpopo, South Africa

 International students, consumption and marketing in higher education: student responses in the UK

 University reform made liveable

 The Neo-liberal Economisation of Austrian Universities: Conditions for Teaching Anthropology and Anthropological Research

 Snowball effect: the consequences of the introduction of the university reform for the undergraduate anthropology courses at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"

 The location of innovation: webs of academic relationships and web-based learning

 W035 Indigenous, autochthonous and national identities? Strategic representations, political struggles and epistemological issues (atelier bilingue - anglais et français)

 Identités indigènes, autochtones et nationales ? Représentations stratégiques, luttes politiques et enjeux épistémologiques

 Emergent indigeneity in the first world: the case of Catalonia

 Boundary crossing and ethnic passing: the negotiation of Fulbe identities in Northern Cameroon

 From 'the Europe of the regions' to the European Champion League: the electoral appeal of populist autochthony discourses in Flanders

 Struggles over indigeneity in Kerala

 La reformulation d'une contestation identitaire à l'épreuve de la globalisation: l'exemple kabyle.

 Terre Mère, territorialité et identité indigène à Kuna Yala (Panama)

 Australian Indigenous identity between self-determination, integration and reconciliation

 Autochtonie et décentralisation: perspective comparative dans des villes moyennes d'Afrique de l'Ouest

 "Today, I am no Mutwa anymore"- Local reverberations of national unity discourse in present-day Rwanda

 (Auto)essentialisation des différences culturelles ou comment peuples et Etat jouent à cache-cache

 The revolutionary state, its opponents and the dilemmas of indigenous identities: dominant discourses and their consequences in Venezuela

 Legitimacy on stage: discourse and knowledge in environmental review processes in Northern Canada

 L'identité ethnique "examinée": le cas des expertises anthropologiques sur les terres indigènes en Brésil.

 Europe and the epistemological bias behind discourses of indigeneity

 W036 Moralities of nature

 "Love from the roots": the natural laws of family in FamilY Constellation Therapy

 'Social Darwinism', examining the anthropological foundations of Peter Singer's ethics

 Imagining society: some issues in contemporary Norwegian bio-politics

 International adoption and the construction of a "good" kinship: ethics, justice and truth

 Interpenetrations of nature and morality: the case of nocturnal seminal emissions in medieval theological thought

 Moralities of nature: kinship, religion and sciences of reproduction

 Nature, technology, and morality

 Regulating assisted procreation: the Italian case

 Science and religion in traditional Indian medicine

 Some specificity in the observation of nature: folk traditions in weather forecast

 W037 Medical anthropological fieldwork: ethical and methodological issues

 "Shipibo-Konibo traditional medicine": the impact of anthropologist's (stupid) questions on an indigenous group's self-perception

 Investigate the informal market of pharmaceuticals in Cotonou (Benin): between suspicion of treachery and fears of witchcraft

 Anthropology of pain and suffering: ethical issues

 From medical research to anthropological research: the case of participants' consent in rural West Africa

 Applying Ethics to Research Reality: Responsibility, Mutuality, and Participation in the Field

 Ethical implications of an anthropological approach of suicide

 Facing the opposition between PEPFAR's (President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief) aims and the EOC's (Ethiopian Orthodox Church) followers living with HIV/AIDS aspires

 W038 Twenty years of teaching visual anthropology: where are we and how did we get there?

 EIDOS: ways of knowing

 Spatial montage, mutuality and diversity: new possibilities for ethnographic film-making

 Teaching "the visual" in an undergraduate course of words

 The new generation of visual anthropologists

 Visual Ethnography Basics (VEBweb), a web-based teaching package

 W039 Violence expressed

 Thinking through violence and impunity: trauma, memory and silence among Yup'ik peoples of western Alaska

 Ordinary daily social violence in Africa: an offspring of urban anomy and normative confusion

 The cultural production of violence among Mafiosi

 Speaking blood: expressions of sexual violence in Guadeloupe

 On secrecy, myth and violence in Eastern Turkey

 Impunity and the lexicon of victim precipitation in "peacetime" Guatemala

 Three years after the terrorist attack: emotions, memory and politics in Beslan

 Interpreting politicial violence in post-civil war Lebanon, 1989-2007

 City of fear: everyday life strategies and tactics for coping with street violence in Recife

 Discursive strategies: how Israeli soldiers explain what they do and why they do it

 Narratives of Violence: temporality, corporality and justice

 Talks of refugees': African asylum claimants in Israel.

 Anfal and Halabja expressed in diaspora: narrations of violence twenty years after genocidal processes against Kurds in Iraq

 W040 Anthropological perspectives on the establishment of new medical technologies

 Aesthetic triage: cosmetic surgery as an experimental medical technology in Brazil

 Surplus materials from humans as a commodity in research

 Anthropological assessment on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Lesotho

 The implementation of pre-symptomatic genetic testing in Austrian genetic counselling services

 W042 Relations that money can buy: negotiating mutualities and asymmetries in local and translocal social fields

 Relations men can buy through brideprice payment: an example from the Island Pura in the Alor-Pantar-Archipelago (Eastern Indonesia)

 Wedding "GIFTS": entrance-Fee or generosity? Interests, sentiments and mutuality

 The meaning of money for Ukrainian migrant women

 "They are ungrateful!" Cape Verdean notions of transnational obligations

 "Give them money to sustain me": ambigiuties of Cameroonian male redistribution

 Shaping money and socialities in the realm of encounters between foreign tourists and Cubans/jineteros

 Domestic workers and the morality of money and family care

 W043 Alien confinement in Europe: field perspectives

 Abjects into subjects: games of control and eesistance in a retention centre for deported foreigners in contemporary France

 An ethnography of the migrants landing: the case of Lampedusa (Italy)

 Asylum seekers and refugees in Portugal: field perspectives concerning psychical and mental health

 Border zones and alien detention in France

 Control, pity and illicitness: Seeking asylum in Czech refugee camps

 Fieldwork behind bars: researching alien confinement in French prisons

 Laughter and subversion in « retention place»

 The hanging status of asylum seekers: the limbo of temporary residence

 Trapped in the asylum space, lost in the waiting time: everyday experiences of asylum seekers in French reception centers

 W044 Anthropology and engagement

  Norwegian academic anthropologists in public places

 Challenging romology as anthropological engagement

 Doing ethnography and getting involved: reflections from researching immigration, exclusion and resistance

 Ethnography as engagement: synergies of academic knowledge and advocacy in an indigenous land claim (Tupinambá of Olivença, Brazil)

 Excerpt from the diary of a circumstantial activist: engagements and predicaments in studying global migration

 First and foremost we must understand: research among the Roma in the Czech Republic

 W046 The power of identities and differences in Latin America

 On the significance of German identity and whiteness for Argentinians of German descent in Buenos Aires

 The making of political discourses and practices in an Argentinean slum

 The doing of identity through economic and ritual activities in Cusco, Peru

 Indigenous identity in times of globalization

 Identity formation among Afro Brazilian capoeira teachers in a transnational context

 W047 The new Europe: the politics of recognition, inclusion and exclusion

 The poet on the bridge in the "biblical land": art, ideology and borders in the Republic of Macedonia

 "Public" diplomacy and the politics of carrots and sticks: "international community" press conferences in post-conflict Macedonia

 Ethnography on "socially marginalized groups: a community-based study on most at-risk adolescents in regards to HIV/Aids/STI In Macedonia

 Envisioning place, change and the 'nation-state' on the peripheries of Europe

 The high wall and the narrow gate: Albanian borders at the margins of europe

 Re-defining markers and re-conceptualisation of the Lithuanianness

 “Excluding Europe”: national(ist) politics and narratives of (dis)placement in greater Belgrade after Kosovo's independence

 The iconography of memories in contemporary Estonia and Slovenia

 W048 A matter of trust: anthropological explorations into an old concept

 Distrust: negotiating women's agency within a fundamentalist Catholic milieu in Poland

 Informal relations and trust: the case of Polish migrant women in Italy

 Can we trust them? Schengen enlargement and security discourse

 Fieldwork experiences of trust and distrust in Croatia

 W049 Audio-visual representation and cultural diversity

 The making of 'Hearing and Touching Leuven': blindness and multi-sensorial experience in cities

 Collaborating on the production and trade of images of cultural diversity of the Rift Valley

 Capturing public space: context and consequence in visual practices

 Narration of triumph or narration for triumph: Morteza Avini's war documentary film

 The interactive village: a re-configurable digital ethnography

 Ways of seeing, ways of filming: theory and practice in visual anthropology

 W050 Studying anthropologists in war and conflict zones: spies and freedom fighters, scholars and advocates

 "War in particular offers exceptionally favorable opportunities for surveying foreign racial material" (Otto Reche (1879-1966), 1944)

 The suspicious anthropologist: elaborating on my mother's Holocaust

 Rethinking Somalia and the role of anthropologists

 Cycles of success and failure in advocacy

 The "microcosm" of a refugee project in Syria on the brink of the Iraq war

 Anthropology, governmentality and the peace process in Ireland

 W051 Migrants' pathways to health care: access barriers and patterns of resilience and mutuality

 No hope for healing at home: AIDS, emigration, and the search for health

 Stress resulting from cultural dissonance as an underlying cause of out-migration from Senegal to Europe

 "I will kill myself if they deport me": negotiating citizenship at a mental health consultation in Canada

 Caught in the multicultural riddle: discursive frames of Turkish/Kurdish-speaking psychotherapists in Germany

 Badanti: immigrant women as caregivers to Italian elderly

 Flexibility and friction: conflicts in UK/Spanish health tourism and medical migration

 Teaching and experiencing diversity: the minor programme Global Nursing as part of the nursing studies at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Nursing

 W052 World(s) of bureaucrats

 Turkish Europeanization and the cultures of EU lobbying in Brussels

 Transparency/visibility and dissimulation/opacity in a street level bureaucracy, the Portuguese Police

 Police agents face prostitues: a singular case of bureaucratic relationship? From registers of interaction to the exercise of the police power.

 Dis-locating the state from the border post: reflections of doing ethnography with bureaucrats on Romania-Serbia border

 Innovative bureaucrats: analyzing the working practices of bureaucrats

 Training Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe: Constitutive Bureaucratic Imaginaries in Turkey

 Instances of bureaucracy: the meeting format as a shaper of the decision making process

 Playing it safe or going all out in Brussels: how national bureaucrats do European business

 "Pioneers of integration"? "Old" and "new" Europe in the European Commission's bureaucracy

 W053 Fragile transitions: from coexistence to the emergence of hatred, a comparative approach between Southeast Asia and South-East Europe

 Confessional communities in Greece and violence: analyzing the "anti-Catholic syndrome" during the Yugoslavia's crisis

 From coexistence to violence: towards a typology of exchange processes in South Thailand

 Greek Orthodox and Muslim communities: from coexistence to the exchange of population

 Staging difference: dynamics of religious othering among Catholics and Muslims in West Flores, Eastern Indonesia

 Afraid of the Minaret? Ethnographic elaborations on the semiology of illustrated arguments

 Questions of scale: violence, insecurity and community in Kei (Eastern Indonesia)

 Violence, empathy, and the ethnography of fakes

 W054 Neoliberalism and diasporas (roundtable)

Only papers that have been accepted by workshop convenors will be shown here.

 W055 Critical perspectives on the persistence of 'culture talk' in the making of Europe

 A cosmopolitan Europe? On the politics of culture talk in the rescaling of governance in the EU

 Entangled cultural hegemonies in central Europe and beyond

 Governance of or through culture: cultural policy and the making of Europe

 Culture across cultures: social boundaries and mutuality in a Western Macedonian village

 Religion as legal culture: secularism and eeligious minorities in EU and Turkey

 Intangible hertitage governance, cultural diversity, ethnonationalism

 Old toxic wine in new bottles or new poison? Migrants hostile discourses in The Netherlands in the light of ethnicity and diversity

 W057 Flexible capitalism: new forms of mutuality and diversity at work?

 "The corrosion of character" revisited: flexible work in practice

 From 'mutuality' to 'precariousness': a case-study in the Portuguese call-centre industry

 Stress-management in the flexible work-ethic

 Lean management as a cultural system: ideology as common sense

 Corporate social responsibility and employees in Ireland

 Mutuality and flexibility at work

 Work, reciprocity and migration: rebuilding biographies in the changing realm of work

 And who is ever going to break a lance for free lancers?

 Discourses on diversity and identity produced by leading London companies

 Training for flexibility: discourses and practices of international student travel

 From employed to 'employable': An ethnographic case study of 'conceptual inflation' in HR policies and practices

 W058 New trends in regional visual ethnography

 Visual ethnography as an emancipatory act

 Twenty years of filming in the Southern Banat: so what?

 On some problems of shooting films with multiethnic communities

 Visual research of lullabies and soothing rituals in Slovenia

 Functionality, accessibility and communicativeness as essential specifics of ethnographic film in SEM

 Trends in Macedonian visual anthropology

 From the 'staged folklore' to the ethnographic filmmaking

 A brief overview of the new ethnological film in Macedonia

 A local community and a photographer - a photographer and a local community

 W059 Experiencing borders and boundaries in the post-socialist Southeastern Europe (SEE)

 "We don't sell our country!" Property restitution and identity politics in postsocialist Romania

 Elections in Sarajevo: images of boundaries, borders and walls

 Newborn citizens in a post-Soviet landscape

 Spies, fugitives and illegal immigrants: defining the limits of legitimacy at the Greek-Albanian border

 Studying migration in the Greek-Albanian border region: tHeoretical and methodological issues

 The 'hidden stories' of Lussìn families: emotions and the transmission of discourses of identity among the Italian minority of Lošinj / Lussino, Croatia

 W062 Challenges of local and regional cultural politics in Southeast Asia

 A tale of two celebrations: the Kadazan harvest festival (Sabah, East Malaysia) as a site of struggle

 The revival of the community house (guol) among the Katu of Central Vietnam: empowerment or impoverishment?

 Ethnic minorities in Vietnam in official discourse: the case of Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

 The cultural politics of good governance: crisscrossing articulations of the global and the local in Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia)

 Translocal identities in the Indonesian Malay world

 Islam and empowerment: challenges for young Indonesian Muslim women

 Migration recycled: Vietkieu and the construction of the Vietnamese modernity

 Ethnicity in upland Southeast Asia: a systems theory approach

 An ethnography of culture-identity switch in North Burma

 W063 Migrations: of borders, crossings and ambivalent identities

 A propos of the statute of purity of blood in the Society of Jesus (1593)

 Reproduction between species in Amerindian cosmologies

 "Pure" and "mixed" in nationalist discourse: immigrants and "xarnegos" in the sixties and seventies in Catalonia

 Sephardim in modern Spain: between nationalism, antisemitism y and philosephardism

 Black African heritage in Spain: the forgotten migration

 Between various homes: considering ambivalent identities of Slovene returned emigrants and their descendents through the notion of home

 Crossing religious borders and identities in Denmark and Brazil: a comparative perspective

 The making of a "wantok": (post)colonial social categories and ambivalency of identities among Okapians in Port Moresby

 W064 Interpreting religious diversity: conversion, syncretism and religious practice

 "Black Madonna" versus "White Madonna": spiritual feminist pilgrimages in France and the changing significances attributed to dark Madonna statues

 Gorovodu in Bénin and Togo: between "syncretism" and "traditional religion"

 Kitui "culture" as the Other of the modern monoliths: development, religion and the obscure material culture of Andu Manthi

 On conceptual analogy: a new analytical approach to religious syncretism - a case study from Alaska

 Polish Lutherans between "Catholic" state and evangelical movements

 Religious diversity in the Western Himalayas and in Western Tibet: Tibetan Buddhism, Bon religion and 'local' religious traditions and the function of spirit possession/trance-mediums

 The "church of Sakalava": towards the construction of religion by a Malagasy social setting

 The blurring of religious boundaries: Sekrenyi and Christmas among the Christian Angami

 The syncretism of Christian Orthodoxy and black magic in Macedonia: everyday ritual practice and ritual avoidance of the contamination of the body

 W065 Routing knowledge through persons

 Inspiring knowledge

 Describing knowledge roads in Vanuatu

 Gaps in Knowledge? Ethnographic practice, addition and collaborative endeavour

 Invisible families - imagining relations in families based on same-sex partnerships

 Visions of modernity: re-routing knowledge through people and things in a large scale resettlement project

 Digital afterlives: human remains in interactive formats

 the eleventh hour: climate crisis, obviation and retirement

 W066 Millenarian dreams in the postsocialist world: new ideologies of success and transformation of the self in contemporary eastern Europe

Only papers that have been accepted by workshop convenors will be shown here.

 W067 Brother- and sisterhood in anthropological perspective

 'Wagon brothers, wagon sisters': symbolic and actual siblingship in a situation of life crisis

 Obligation, care, and struggle for personal freedom: siblings within the matrilineal Akan

 Sisters and marriage in Shona society, Zimbabwe

 "The brother is a trap": rethinking brother-sister relationships in a Lebanese town

 What is a brother? A discussion about the notion of brother in the Tajik context

 A brother as saviour: siblings and family in Bénin

 W069 Law matters: mapping legal diversity

 Peasant lawyers, law activism and the morality of politics in China

 Constitutionalism in an insurgent state: plurality and the rule of law in Bolivia

 Getting a divorce in Spain: legal pluralism, gender and migration

 Discord and judicial divorce in the Damascus and Marrakesh Muslim family courts: a comparative evaluation

 Legal diversity within and beyond the scope of the state: faith-based dispute management in Canada in the aftermath of the shari'a law dispute in Ontario and its repercussions in Morocco

 Tortured ethics: doubt and commitment in the UN human rights system

 Global order in the making: the local production of international criminal law

 National law and policy-making in the shadow of international institutions

 Legal pluralism in the wild: rules of encounter and their effects on imaginings and practices of wilderness

 Between custom, Islamic and Algerian laws: diya (blood-money) in the perspective of legal pluralism

 Transforming traditions: myths and stereotypes about traditional law in a globalizing world

 W071 Media, technology, and knowledge cultures: anthropological perspectives on issues of diversity, mutuality and exclusion

 Everyday technologies of Indian film: Bollywood meets Tibet in exile

 Portuguese voices abroad: representations, discourses and agendas of a migrant TV Show

 Indigenous media technology production in Northern Ontario, Canada

 Getting bored: mobile phone use among Romanian teenagers

 Media technologies at home: how urban poor (culturally) consume mass media?

 Second Life, second body: a microethnographic analysis of nonverbal communication in the "Second Life" virtual environment

 "Everything is changing" - on digital imaging practices by amateur photographers

 W072 Mutuality at a distance - transnational social space

 Integration and transnational practices

 Identities and transnational migratory spaces: female migrants from the former Soviet Union in Slovenia

 Elderly women with Ingrian background across the Finnish-Russian border: the questions of identity, belonging and mutual care.

 The systems of mutual assistance among the Africans in moscow

 Leavers and stayers discuss returning home

 "Welcome to the FoE family": the constitution and maintenance of mutuality at a distance in a transnational community

 Liquid lives: migration in the times of globalisation

 Cambodian refugees and naturalization

 W073 Questioning the 'quiet revolution': demographic change and modernity

 Culture, state and the fertility transition in rural South China

 Narratives in parent's organisations of adoptive families in Spain: between commodities and gifts, market and kinship

 Opposing the 'quiet revolution': the way to have children and university education

 The invisible families

 W074 Imprints of dreaming

 Assessing the reality of dream images: a true-false quiz in New Guinea

 Gold mining and the mirroring of dreaming and waking life among the Hamtai-Anga of Mount Kaindi, Papua New Guinea.

 Dreams and culture: the contents of dreams-sharing communication in modern Slovenia

 Dreaming, Islam and the Ahmadiyya Muslims in the UK

 The role of night dream incubation (Istikhara) in contemporary Islamic public life

 Dreaming up futures: dream omens and magic in Bishkek

 Dreaming and the Other

 Dreams as a communication method between the living and the dead

 W075 The fall of cultural man: some proposals for an anthropology less cultural and more natural

 Different by nature

 Anthropology, historical and natural science of culture

 Mind, self and society: a critical view about the contemporary naturalistic way to conceptualize the identity group and the human nature

 The naturalness of the difference, the politics of culture: some notes on Indian thought and practice

 The borderline between humanity and animality: when categories are used as onthologies

 The human nature in question: the re-naturalization of human being?

 W076 Children and migration in Europe: between new citizenships and transnational families

 Refugee children's status in the Norwegian welfare state and role in their family

 Children, immigration policy and citizenship - Norway as case

 With near and distant kin: growing up in transnational families

 Parenting transnational children

 Disruptive continuities in time and place: informal care of children in the Finnish-Russian borderland

 Circulation of Russian children in the process of migration: in and between

 Learning for precarity: identities and strategies of precarious adolescents with immigrant background

 Children and migration in Switzerland: coping with mutuality and diversity in Swiss schools

 Ethnic identity and acculturation process: Bosnian immigrant adolescents in Croatia

 Immigrant girls and boys: navigating between the ideal student

 Learning positions as future citizens at primary school: diverse conditions of incorporation for the children of immigrant families in the Catalan coast

 W077 Care, welfare and mutuality: anthropological perspectives on shifting concepts, boundaries and practices

 Re-thinking social security, welfare and the privatization of care

 Ageing in diverse social contexts and the challenge of comparison

 Between formal and informal care: the permeable boundaries of home and care for older people

 “In the best interests of the child”: the Intergenerational legacy of past indigenous child welfare policies in Australia

 Volunteers wanted! Emerging discourses of care, gendered citizenship and the self in the Czech non-profit sector

 Poverty relief as neoliberal education

 The conceptual framework of social workers

 The production of social security in a rural Russian context: an agenda for research

 Intergenerational care under the condition of vulnerability: the case of urban Burkina Faso

 W078 Mutuality's margins: contesting cosmopolitanism in the rescaled city

 Bi-cultural politics in a cosmopolitan city: Latinos' experiences in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand

 Resisting mutuality: multiculturalism and the controvery about the white working classes in Britain

 The "cosmopolitanisms" of (Moldovan) postsocialist domestics in Istanbul and their Turkish employers

 Precarious labour, legal ambiguity and contested cosmopolitanism in Moscow's migrant construction brigades

 Urban child soldiering: boys' armies, urban cosmopolitanism and new cultures of violence in Indian slums

 Cosmopolitanism at the margins of tolerance

 W079 Globalising neighbourhoods or tradition-based parallel societies? Studying migration and cultural diversity in rural areas

 "Even our village is part of Europe": rural lives on Europe's eastern fringe

 Being an “outsider” and being a woman: a study of social transformation in the Catalan Pyrenees

 A good place to live or a good place to leave? Young people and migration decision making in rural Austria

 Diversity in the mind: rural homestayers and their perspectives of the world out there

 “Honour and shame” on the move: sexualities and multicultural tensions in an Austrian town

 African migrant networks in Germany

 Integration between the poles of cultural difference: the intersectionality of Islam and gender in the Tyrolean municipality of Telfs

 Contested integration: local policies and responses in small-town Germany

 W080 Diverse and shared publics: politics of entitlement and commemoration

 Spaces of transition? Trajectories of juvenile assertion in urban Côte d'Ivoire

 The role of public square in the formation of public sphere: the case of Romania in early post-communist period

 Then and now: the temporal structures of the transmission of republican attachments

 Route of conflict and tradition: commemoration parades in Belfast

 Identities, sexualities and commemorations: public space and sexual dissidence

 The changing memory landscape of the East European provincial city: the case of Gliwice and the recovery of a multicultural past

 Post-socialist transformation and monument-building in a Slovakian town

 Valentin Vodnik, 'the first Slovenian poet'

 W081 Modern institutions in a 'cross-cultural' perspective - ethnographies of adaptation and code-switching

 Institutions and ethnoscapes: the BBC World Service Tamil and Sinhala services amidst the Sri Lankan civil war

 Acceptance and resilience towards the EU institutional culture model

 Changing conceptions of personhood in contemporary Turkey: an upper middle class school ethnography

 Modern institutions in a cross-cultural perspective: the case of a feasibility study in Vanuatu (South Pacific)

 Doing research in a "Romani NGO": dilemmas of involvement

 A Moslem institution in a Hindu world and in a modern and secular state

 A double play: 'translating' between the discursive practices of anthropology and Chinese media corporation

 W082 It's gone - an anthropology of loss

 Manufacturing loss: evasion and nostalgia in a German industrial town

 A history interrupted: social identity and cultural change in modern Palestine

 Individual and collective appropriations of loss in post-war Bosnia

 Becoming parent through loss

 Narratives of temporality in the making of a vanishing landscape

 The loss of wheeler craft

 From land to landscape: from tangible to intangible; recognising a sense of loss and grief

 Men who have sex with men and the loss of future

 W083 Homecomings in transnational age: visible projects, forged practices?

 "Homecoming" and "home" revisited: the case of co-ethnic "return" migrations

 Coming home to the world: the remaking of Bosnian village life

 Diasporic homecomings beyond the ethnic lens: encounters in post-Soviet Armenia

 Homecoming as Heritage: Idioms of Return in the Rebuilding of Protea Village, Cape Town

 Return migration and homecomingd - sorting out the difference

 Roots-migrants: the second generation 'returning' home

 W085 Performing copyright: the politics of creative practice and the poetics of technology

 "Best Version": performing middle-classness through the consumption of pirated DVDs

 Embroideries on the web

 "Samples" of copyright's multiple meanings: intellectual ownership and cultural representation in world-music

 The paradox of gypsy music revised: properties and improprieties of gypsyness at world music scene

 W086 Transcultural montage: the uses of filmic montage in conveying diversity and mutuality

 Memory, imagination, and montage

 Cinematic constraints and ritual dances

 Deterritorialization of power: filmic representations as a critique of representation

 Representing the "Other" in "global documentary": intersections between political commitment and reality claim

 The dynamics of "assemblage": an analysis of Perrault multiple uses of editing in "The Land Without Trees or the Mouchouânipi"

 (RE:) Image-ining African experimental ethnographic film: insights from the surrealist movement and contemporary African philosophy on the ethnological importance of montage

 Non-representational and anti-didactic: the ethnographic exhibition as collage

 How to 'cut' without loosing your head?

 W087 Phenomenological anthropology as research method: debating the pre-textual basis of ethnographic fieldwork

 The pre-textual basis of ethnographic knowledge step by step

 A phenomenology and praxeology of Dogon landscape: sensory kinetic experiences as modes of writing and constructing anthropological knowledge

 Observant participation among immigrant amateur football matches

 Movement of large bodies impaired: somatic and semiotic Issues

 Audio anthropology: chances and challenges

 The structure of anthropological research: a phenomenological hermeneutics

 The methodological problem of the epoché

 W088 Migrant associations in Europe: simultaneous incorporation, everyday cosmopolitanisms and actually existing citizenship

 Migrant and "second generations" associations in Italy

 Politicizing ethnicity: African Associations in Belgium

 Diverse meanings and uses of Germanness: who is when a German in Kazakhstan?

 The "Peruvian Association of Siena": negotiation between different cultural identities and strategies of incorporation within the local community

 The influence of local administration and policy on the structuring and dynamics of migrants' associationism: Castelfiorentino and migrants from Morocco

 Bolivian domestic workers in Barcelona: negotiations of citizenship rights in the context of precarious labour markets, migration policies, and non-governmental associations

 Women, associative groups and practices of citizenship

 Ghanacoop case: diasporic discourses and localised practices of co-development

 Associational life, citizenship and the public sphere in Britain: the case of two Ghanaian associations in London

 W089 Europe and anthropology: new themes and directions in Europeanist eesearch

 Socio-cultural anthropology and the European research area: a Europeanist turn in the discipline?

 An anthropological approach to hegemony in Catholic majority societies across Europe

 Deepening urban democracy?

 A new subject at the margins: migration studies in Bulgaria

 Reclaiming European heritages of transatlantic migration: politics of identity of the descendants of early east European immigrants to Texas

 Where postcolonialism meets postsocialism: African migrants in Russia as a new research field

 (Re)creation of Europeanness: construction of Self and the Other by Polish tourists visiting former Soviet Union countries

 Anthropological inquiries on the politics of memory in contemporary Europe

 W091 Teaching diversity (workshop of the EASA TAN network)

 Teaching human sameness, a neglected prerequisite

 Cultural diversity: content, context and possibilities

 Rethinking diversity through peace education

 The European joint MA "CREOLE": teaching diversity on diverse levels

 When diversity enters the classroom: experiences from a Slovenian minority school on the Italian border

 Articulating ’diversity’ in Swedish teacher education programmes

 W093 On 'Souvenir': experiencing diversity, objectifying mutuality

 The notion of anti-souvenirs

 Maasai beadwork for sale: destruction of culture or perpetuation of traditional handicraft?

 Du souvenir a l'avenir: animal memories, animal futures

 Books on culture as souvenirs of cultural adventure

 Of tourist art and souvenirs: for a transversal analysis of travellers and their objects

 Collecting souvenirs, collecting tourists scientists, tourists and travel objects of the Canary Islands

 W094 Rethinking spirit possession

 Religious experience among the members of Hare Krishna community in Zagreb, Croatia: approaches and interpretations

 Be(com)ing a cult member or spirit medium: the malopo cult in South Africa revisited

 Spirit possession among the Miskitu of Nicaragua

 Hypnosis - a trance of possession without possession

 On somatic markers of trance and possession trance in three cultures: similarities and differences

 Spirit possession in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal

 Demons and paths to church adherence ('votserkovlenie'): possession and conversion around a Russian Orthodox exorcist

 the work of imagination in religious experience

 Les cris des dieux dans la umbanda

 The enactment of self and the nature of knowledge among mediums in Cuban espiritismo

 Learning possession in the Xangô cult of Recife (Brazil): outline of an emotional theory

 "Possession" and anthropology's containment of a crisis in categories

 e-paper Narrative reconstruction of spirit possession experience: the double hermeneutic of Gaddis religious specialists in Western Himalaya (India)

 e-paper Voyages chamaniques et expériences profanes en Sibérie du Sud

 W095 East looks West and West looks East - mutual constructions of anthropology

 On "at home anthropology": "indigenous" perspectives

 Pathways of anthropology in South Eastern Europe: an ethnographic approach of the discipline and its disciples in Bulgaria and Greece

 East looks east: Slovenian and Chinese (post)socialisms compared

 Making sense of ideologies and practices of local democracy circulating between East and West: fieldwork in a local community office in Bosnia-Herzegovina

 Third Age as an ideology and as an analytical category: how the concept can be applicable in Polish anthropology?

 Effects of legal changes in Lithuanian countryside after the entrance to the EU

 Death in the life of Ukrainian migrants to Italy

 Multiple temporalities of Chechen and Ingush refugees in Lublin (Eastern Poland)

 What we missed: institutions and community care in psychiatry (Czech Republic)

 W096 Memory and material culture in post-conflict societies

 Socialis art, socialist lifestyle - alleviating memories of socialist past in Poland

 Material hyper-evidence: objects of the new plutocracy in Bratislava

 Bones, buttons and photographs: objects for remembrance in the exhumation of mass graves of the Spanish civil war

 Materializing memory: the Armenian loss after the postsocialist changem

 The policies of identity: the Lithuanian case

 New patterns of local identity based on the enacted historic landscape: example of the Gdansk (Danzig) recollections literature

 W097 New vocabularies of method: experts, ethics and the mutuality of ethnographic fieldwork

 The extended case for method

 Bohemian methodologies?

 On methodological relics: etic outsiders, emic insiders, and fieldwork relationships

 Personal relations, interlocution and ethnographic knowledge

 Sensuous anthropology: rehabilitating craftsmanship in scientific practice

 South African fieldwork, intimacy, and anxiety: how methodological problems turn out to be theoretical insights

 From kinship studies to the analysis of relatedness: a new method of mutuality to the analysis of mutuality in everyday life

 W098 Islam within and across religiously diverse communities: case studies from Muslims in the Balkans and Europe

 "It has always to do with the veil...": experiences with discrimination and racism of muslim women from the Islamic Centre Munich

 Veiled women and bearded men: transforming Muslim identities in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina

 The Rufai order in Croatia through an ethnomusicological and a gender perspective

 Experiencing Sufi music abroad: the case of Sudanese living in Austria

 Redefining the Muslim identity: Tatars in Poland

 Living in America, believing in Macedonia: an ethnographic account on mimicry and creativity in representations of Bektashism

 The experience of diversity and mutuality through an ethnography and historical anthropology of Islam in Albania

 The production of 'Norwegian Muslims': from immigrants to citizens?

 The day they caught Saddam: diasporic public space among Iraqi refugees in Finland

 Proper 'traditional' versus dangerous 'new': religious ideology and idiosyncratic Islamic practices in post-Soviet Chechnya

 W099 Collection itineraries

 Collecting thoughts - about collecting

 Collecting/exposing the self: the museum as photo opportunity

 Collected — neglected a fictive biography of ceramics from Asyut, Egypt

 Thinking about the different meanings of collecting: the case of the collections of images and objects of the Bamileke's community of Bandjoun, Cameroon

 Micromuseums for big questions: collecting maritime remains as an everyday political practice

 aesthetics of care among the elderly

 W100 Peripheral Europe as moralized landscapes

 Views of Europe: debatable lands

 "The state is only on the map": narratives on Calabria

 Movements of opening and closure in everyday Balkanism

 Mountains, valleys and other divisions in Bosnia and Hercegovina

 “The Mediterranean as it once was” (and will be): valorizing the Adriatic seascape

 Contrasting moralities of rural landscapes in southern Europe

 W101 Getting behind 'no man is an island' phrase: volunteering between altruism and self-interest

 'This is the way we do it': enacting efficient charity

 Crowd crystals and birdwatchers: charismatic leadership in volunteer organisations

 Pensioned Norwegians in Spain: adaption, networking and identities in making

 Selfish giving: the discourse of volunteering motivations

 Watching nature: birdwatchers as volunteers for biodiversity monitoring

 W102 Societies and protected areas

 Are the Gredos Mountains only to be for the wolves? The control and management of a Spanish protected area

 Balkans Peace Park project

 Farmers and/or hunters: negotiating heritage in an Alpine National Park

 Local ecological knowledge also comes "from books": cultural change, landscape transformation and conservation of biodiversity in two natural protected areas in Portugal

 The french model of national parks: territoriality and temporality

 W103 Belonging embodied, reciprocity materialised: migrants' transnational practices

 Follow the container: negotiating belonging and loyalties through transnational charity

 Paying off the debt: Filipino transnational belonging and engagement in development projects

 Significance of remittances in formation of social networks among Arabs and Bosniaks in Slovenia

 Objects, scents and tastes from a distant home: Goan Catholic Brahmin families

 The emigrated saint: ritual practices of reciprocity among Sicilian migrants in Germany

 "Everything has changed": anchoring the transnational practices and incorporation

 Reciprocity materialised: ethnicity and class as empirical questions

 W104 Eastbound: perspectives on tourism in Central and Eastern Europe

 Struggling anthropologically and politically with tourism in Central/Eastern Europe: cases from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro

 Perspectives on tourism in the Czech Republic: old approaches, new dilemmas

 “Sustainable” tourism and area studies - west looking east 1932 - 2007

 Tourism in the Karst region in Slovenia: redevelopment after the decline during the Socialist period

 Welcoming the guest: a new attitude or an old habit?

 W105 Globalisation as diffusion? Critical re-assessments and contemporary researches

 Holy Ghost festivals In the Americas: spontaneous diffusionism and ritual differentiation

 Suomen Papagaio: a samba school in Helsinki

 Export processing zones within the project of modernisation: a theoretical and empirical re-evaluation of diffusionism, imperialism and globalism

 Diffusion of culture in the cross river region

 Moral responses to an HIV/AIDS epidemic: a comparison of Russian Orthodox Church and secular NGO discourse and practice

 W106 'Kinning' with the neighbours, ritualizing the kin: ritual bonding and negotiating resources

 Patron-client relations: ritualized Okyl ata-ene in Kyrgyzstan

 "Godparenthood capitalism": strong ties as anchor and shield in illegal economic practices

 Next door neighbour relations - the case of a rural community in Patkovac, Croatia

 W107 From structure to conjucture: social networks and rhizomatic connnections

 Between groups and rhizomes: a pragmatic perspective on anthropological means of presentation

 Easy come, easy go: arbitrary encounters and homeless survival in post-Soviet Russia

 Indonesian labor Brokers and rhizomatic connections

 Temporary connections and stable social networks. the case of diasporic Hadhrami Arabs in peripheral Indonesia

 Toward the ethnography of the rhizomatic

 W108 Class as a subtext to neonationalism after 1989

 "Because I am not happy that Audi is prospering": reshaping workers' nationalist sentiments in postsocialist Hungary

 Articulating the right to the city. Working class nationalism in Cluj after the fall of the socialism

 Class without consciousness: regional identity in northern Italy in late modernity

 Nationalism versus European belonging: the usefulness of 'class' in reading through 'identity dilemmas' in contemporary Serbia

 The sin of socialism: nationalist mobilization in "transitional" Hungary

 Together, but still apart: class positions and identities among football fans in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

 W109 Happiness: anthropological engagements

 Experiencing happiness in anthropology: methodological concerns with theoretical, moral and political implications

 Title: 'Bollywood makes you happy': visual and other pleasures among European fans

 Happiness, uncertainty and ethical dilemmas in a neonatal care unit

  Between momentary happiness and lifelong fulfilment: emotional trajectories of British migrants to southwest France

 W110 Enacting pasts and futures: memory, identity and imagination

 “Writing up” imaginatively: memory, evocation and (re-)presentation

 Semiotic-material aspects of memory practices at school

 Local landscape as a substratum for the collective memory

 Building possible pasts

 Stereotypes and emblems in the construction of social imaginatio: the case of a French "new city", Villeneuve d'Ascq

 Visualizing the past: monuments and commemoration in border areas

 Remembering a monumental dismantlement

 Imaging and remembering incorporation of disaster

 Symbolic interactionism: self-presentation based on semantics of time related constructs

 Staged history in local settings

 La construction de la mémoire coloniale en Erythrée: les Erythréens, les Métis, les Italiens

 Sensing memories among Portuguese Muslims of Indian-Mozambican origin

 Between two culturally diverse countries: constructing the Georgian identity in the Israeli society

 "Italiani Brava Gente" ("Italians good people"): reflections on myths, nationhood and entertainment in contemporary Italian public culture