Evolving humanity, emerging worlds
Manchester, UK; 5th-10th August 2013
All Panels
- BH01 Health, nutrition and physical growth in developing nations
- BH02 Co-evolution of humans and their foods: cross-disciplinary perspectives (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition)
- BH03 Human origins in sociocultural and biological perspectives (IUAES Commission on Theoretical Anthropology)
- BH04 Indigenous knowledge and sustainable development (IUAES Commission on Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development)
- BH05 Evolving family types and evolving humanity
- BH06 Diverse starting points, common end(s): anthropology and the person
- BH08 Ways of be(com)ing human
- BH09 Race in anthropology
- BH10 Development of the underdeveloped
- BH11 The evolution of human cooperation and prosociality: does capitalism produce the fairest society on earth?
- BH12 Forensic anthropology; emerging issues and challenges in the 21st century
- BH13 Exploring human origins: exciting discoveries at the start of the 21st century
- BH14 Human responsiveness
- BH15 Querying domestication: the ethnography of human-animal entanglements
- BH16 Osteobiographies: studies from ancient human skeletal remains
- BH17 Aesthetics of development: art, anthropogy and spiritual transformations of self and society
- BH18 The revival of matricentric female power in the light of scientific updates from the Pleistocenic age
- BH19 Malnutrition and its impact on child development in India
- BH20 Inheritance as a contemporary anthropological issue
- BH23 Non-human and human beings and their entanglements within Muslim milieux
- BH24 Politics and social mobilization: contemporary insights in the relations among governments, states and civil societies in Africa and Latin America
- BH25 Culture studies
- BH26 Development, Socio-cultural and Political Change in South Asia
- G01 The gendering of public space in the globalized world (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women)
- G02 Towards a universal paradigm in political anthropology (IUAES Commission on Theoretical Anthropology)
- G03 Social exclusion and human development in the era of human dignity
- G04 Local and global emergence of women's leadership in a changing world (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women)
- G05 Doing autoethnography: a practice of realist ethnography or rewriting memory?
- G06 Empowerment of women in different social and cultural settings
- G07 Tribal situation in India's North-east: emerging issues and ongoing anthropological attention
- G08 Linking anthropology and tourism
- G09 Belonging, heritage and the predicament of authenticity: anthropological encounters and dilemmas
- G10 Comparing urban poverty from an ethnographic perspective
- G11 Urban renewal over the globe: the spatial dimensions of citizenship
- G12 Beyond anthropology
- G13 Between gaze and daze: ethnographic prospects to reflexive and critical social intervention
- G14 Anthropology in schools: a global perspective
- G15 Re-thinking collaboration: between research and socio-political interventions
- G16 Towards an anthropology of sustainability?
- G17 Anthropology in-the-making: exploring dynamic ways of story-telling and non-conventional methods of presentation
- G18 Anthropology of tourism, embodiment and the senses
- G19 The Middle East: is it facing its spring or fall? (IUAES Commission on Middle East Anthropology)
- G20 Trust in super-diversity
- G21 Diversity of the meaning of being 'single' in the globe: drastic changes of the way of life, human relations, and kinship
- G22 Exoticisation, self-exoticisation: agency, identity and transformation
- G23 Disjoining approaches: tropes, hubs, and production of knowledge on East Asia
- G24 The anthropology of sport in a changing world
- G25 Missing out on manifest destiny: anthropology on the periphery of the American dream
- G26 Contemporary methodological approaches in Egyptian anthropological research on customary social order institutions
- G28 The impact of development projects on the quality of life of women in rural and tribal societies
- G30 Iranian family, kinship and community evolving and emerging in a changing world (IUAES Commission on Middle East Anthropology)
- G31 Iranian family, kinship and community II: evolving and emerging in Iran and abroad (IUAES Commission on Middle East Anthropology)
- G32 Legal pluralism and transnational politics of securitization (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G33 Governance of natural resources under conditions of legal pluralism (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G34 Legal pluralism in the practice of development agencies: towards an empirical understanding of current approaches (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G35 Gender, religion and legal pluralism: issues of governance in South and South East Asia (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G36 Instruments of global regulation : the emergence of a pluralist global law? (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G38 Contesting universality and particularity in legal and cultural pluralism: an interdisciplinary approach (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G39 Makers, brokers, breakers: children and young people in legally plural worlds (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G40 Law and public morality: pluralism beyond law (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G41 Dynamic gendered media presentation and diversified ownership: China's gendered media anthropological studies since 1978 (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women)
- G42 Tourism and anthropological theory and practice (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism)
- G43 New topics in the field of legal pluralism (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G45 Land and property through a legal pluralism lens (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G46 State strategies for navigating plural legal orders (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G47 Re-imagining the local: legal pluralism in a transnational world (IUAES commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G49 Self-regulation, customary law, protest movements: historical and modern experience (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G50 'All the world's a stage': the social and political potentialities of theatre and performance
- G51 Exploring frontiers of tourism research and theory in Latin America and the Caribbean (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism)
- G52 Rights, institutions and governance: perspectives on legal pluralism from Asia (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G53 The application of quantitative comparative methods to the study of legal pluralism (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- G54 Roundtable: An International Conversation on Public Anthropology
- G55 World Anthropologies Today
- G56 New Directions in Anthropology
- LD01 The vulnerable child: biological responses to life in the past
- LD02 The role of cosmopolitan modern medicine and its social and cultural challenges
- LD03 Health and emerging regional demographic trends
- LD04 The future agenda for anthropological research on the HIV/AIDS pandemic (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of AIDS)
- LD05 Urbanization and reproductive health (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
- LD06 Anthropologies in and of public health in the 21st century
- LD07 Landscapes of life-and-death in India, South Arabia and Asia Minor
- LD08 Social debate over the prevention, mitigation and rehabilitation for disaster affected children
- LD09 Anthropology of ageing
- LD10 Menopausal women and assisted reproduction: rights to access of ART in an ethical context (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
- LD11 The states of welfare and wellbeing of indigenous populations?
- LD12 Health and nutrition: changes in lifestyle in the era of globalization
- LD13 Gender equity in nutrition and child health
- LD14 Disjunctions of deathscapes: ways of suffering, dying, and death
- LD15 Status of the aged in the Third World
- LD16 Techniques of healing in traditional societies
- LD17 Changing values and youth identity
- LD18 Dominant caste and their culture: health perspective of the indigenous communities in the South Asian subcontinent and beyond
- LD19 Traditional and medicinal knowledge among the indigenous communities
- LD20 Child and youth development: problems, perspective and dimensions in the 21st century
- LD21 Cultural conflict and criminal activities of children in present scenario
- LD22 The problems and values of old age in the post-modern era
- LD23 Tribal health: emerging consequences in the era of globalization
- LD24 Documenting the meanings of life and death in the Americas
- LD25 Health concerns of women during and after menopause
- LD26 Identified skeletal collections: the testing ground of anthropology?
- LD27 Health and wellness through time and space and across the life course (IUAES Commission on Ageing and the Aged)
- LD28 Ageing and the digital life course (IUAES Commission on Ageing and the Aged)
- LD29 Age-friendly communities: from research to practice (IUAES Commission on Ageing and the Aged)
- LD30 Ageing and quality of life of the aged with special reference to Himalayan tribes
- LD33 Medical anthropology and epidemiological paradigms on new anthropology
- LD34 Exploring well-being in later life: crossing cultures, crossing borders (IUAES Commission on Ageing and the Aged)
- LD35 Health, ageing and life: recent knowledge revealed in dental anthropology
- LD36 Ethnographic perspectives on 'global mental health'
- LD37 Changes in death rituals in the Middle East (IUAES Commission on Middle East Anthropology)
- LD38 Illness, Childhood and Institutions in Southern Africa
- LD39 Learning, Education and Knowledge Transmission in Cultural and Intercultural contexts
- LD40 Gendered social problems
- MMM01 Himalaya: ecology, adaptability and culture
- MMM02 Human trafficking and female migration: the problem of an evolving humanity and emerging world
- MMM03 Mobile objects and transnational crafts
- MMM04 Mobile sentiments: transformations of affect amid transnational migration
- MMM05 Commodifying urban poverty, social exclusion and marginalisation: spatial and social consequences (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
- MMM06 Mobile cultures, cultural (im)mobilities (EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network)
- MMM07 Migration and indigenous peoples
- MMM08 Migration and the labour market: a comparative study between the EU and Asia (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- MMM09 The emerging world of pastoralists and nomads (IUAES Commission on Nomadic Peoples)
- MMM10 Interdisiciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants I: global resource flows, political contestations and health
- MMM11 Interdisiciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants II: memory, emotional sustenance and culinary practices
- MMM12 Lost in mutation: pastoral development rhetoric of the third millennium (IUAES Commission on Nomadic Peoples)
- MMM13 Domestic tourism and cultural bonding in plural societies
- MMM14 New geographies of hope and despair
- MMM15 Migration and its linguistic consequences in South Asia and neighbouring regions
- MMM16 Human resource and mobility: a comparative study between north America and east Asia (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- MMM17 Migration, culture and identity construction
- MMM19 Travelling cultures, creating new geographies through intangible cultural heritage (IUAES Commission on Intangible Cultural Heritage)
- MMM20 Japanese/Okinawans in Brazil: relationship and families
- MMM21 Caste, community and class identities of Dalits in a global context
- MMM22 Exploring the role of tourism in the evolving cultures of the world
- MMM24 Post-soviet migration in megalopolises: formation of new urban spaces
- MMM25 Exploring the moving body: movement, materiality and lived experience
- MMM26 Displacements and immobility: international perspectives on global capitalism (WCAA panel)
- MMM28 Reframing the discourse space around 'studies on overseas Chinese': toward an alternative anthropological approach
- MMM29 What is an Indian? How do Indians define this in terms of ethnology, identity or cultural heritage?
- MMM31 The causes and diversity of migration processes (IUAES Commission on Migration and Diaspora)
- MMM32 Management of mobility in contemporary Europe: experiences and strategies of migration
- MUS01 A museum ethnography: decolonisation, reconciliation and multiculturalism
- MUS03 Experiencing collections: display, performance and the senses
- MUS04 The production of beauty, goodness, and ethical cleanness. liminal and illegal interface in museums, companies, and institutions
- MUS05 The role of the museum of ethnography in a changing multi-cultural society: issues of ethnicity, identity and cultural heritage (IUAES Commission of Museums and Cultural Heritage)
- MUS06 Women Culture Museum in China: ways of seeing the changing national culture (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women)
- MUS07 Japanese military sexual violence in Asian regions
- MUS08 Anti-Poverty County Museum Construction Project in Yunnan
- PE01 Emerging humanity in the conservation of biosphere reserve, national parks and sanctuaries
- PE02 The changing nature of political economy and development in South Asian societies: readings from the fields and its publics
- PE03 Food and environmental security: the imperatives of indigenous knowledge systems
- PE04 Enquiring into the urban form through governing practices and social organisation (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
- PE05 Sustainable development and urbanization: socio-economic aspects (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
- PE06 Food security and rural development
- PE07 Modern urban utopias and sustainable cities (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
- PE08 Communities of practice in global sustainability
- PE09 Indigenous livestock breeds
- PE10 The dynamics of changing rural livelihood: culture and cultivation
- PE12 Micro-financing and rural poverty reduction
- PE13 Indigenous knowledge for ecological resource management
- PE14 The urban poor and their struggle for survival: search for an alternative in livelihood (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
- PE15 Anthropology of family business (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- PE17 Anthropology of arts business (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- PE18 Anthropology of knowledge business (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- PE19 Urban development, business operation and social responsibility (Social Responsibility) (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- PE20 Globalization, emerging markets and social changes in the BRIC countries (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- PE21 Human life, enterprise and market (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- PE22 Forest degradation and human health: opportunities and challenges of traditional wisdom and knowledge (IUAES Commission on Human Rights)
- PE23 Social anthropology and natural resources
- PE25 Sustainable livelihood security and human development
- PE26 Plants utility by ethnic communities of eastern India for nutritional and health security, past-present and future
- PE27 Life in a zero-sum world: capitalism, socio-ecological crisis and alternatives
- PE28 Anthropology of food and nutrition in the globalized economy
- PE29 Dialectical Anthropology Panel A: producing political positions and political futures
- PE30 Dialectical Anthropology Panel B: producing labour and the earth
- PE32 The hunger, poverty and silence: the invisible bond in social ecology
- PE33 Indigenous charity, philanthropy and development
- PE34 Reproducing disorder energetically: oil, capitalism & crisis
- PE35 Current challenges of anthropology of work
- PE37 Reconfiguring capitalism, reconfiguring industry, reconfiguring livelihoods
- PE38 The development of modern ethnology and ecological civilization
- PE39 Capitalism and global anthropology: Marxism resurgent
- PE40 Tribal communities of India: problems, prospects & role of NGOs in their development
- PE41 Conceptos y métodos para Re-conocer a los sujetos rurales, visiones desde México
- PE43 Averting a global environmental collapse: the role of anthropology and local knowledge (WCAA panel)
- PE44 Contemporary urban water ecologies: anthropological perspectives and engagements
- PE46 Anthropology, philosophy, and political economy can address crises in globalization
- PE47 Impact of food habits on cultural pattern
- PE49 Industrial worlds: anthropological gazes on materiality, class and value
- PE52 Observing the disaster and/or participating in the aftermath: Exploring the role of anthropologists and the potential of an anthropological perspective on the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
- PE53 Anthropology of crises and disasters
- PE54 Media, IT and New Technology
- SE01 Legal features of cultural diversity: experiences from the African continent (IUAES Commission on Legal Pluralism)
- SE02 Ethnic-religious segregation: the preservation of memory or the preservation of conflict (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
- SE03 Indigenous culture at the cross roads in the Indian subcontinent
- SE04 The role of law, culture & humanity in the framework of human rights
- SE05 Etiology of violence and compassion in social life
- SE06 Repulsive violence: a mandatory tool for maintaining peace, humanity, social solidarity and affinity
- SE07 Conflict, compassion and social actors
- SE08 Anthropology of local governance
- SE09 Living heritage in China today
- SE10 Are tribes actors in the 21st century?
- SE11 Contestations and aspirations of indigenous people and nation states: need for anthropological intervention
- SE12 Anthropology of cross-cultural/ethnic business (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- SE13 Anthropology of old brand business (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
- SE14 Women and children in conflict areas and the issue of human rights (IUAES Commission on Human Rights)
- SE15 Peace, conflict resolution and sustainable development:emerging human rights challenges in multi-ethnic societies (IUAES Commission on Human Rights)
- SE16 Human security, disadvantaged people and development: the emerging human rights challenges in the era of globalization (IUAES Commission on Human Rights)
- SE17 Indigenous people: struggle for survival (IUAES Commission on Human Rights)
- SE18 The meaning(s) of local ownership in and for sustainable peace-building
- SE19 Globalization and its impacts on indigenous communities
- SE20 Religious terrorism: a menace to world peace
- SE21 Environmental concerns, indigenous knowledge, dissent and governance issues among the indigenous/tribespeople
- SE22 Globalisation, indigenous communities and displacement in India: a study of development projects
- SE23 Action anthropology, tribal medicine and development
- SE24 Exclusion of de-notified (ex-criminal tribes) and nomadic tribes in India: issues and challenges for inclusion
- SE25 Health activism in the context of selective healthcare
- SE26 Between services and empowerment: how international organizations associate communities with the liberal concept of rights
- SE27 Changing faith vis-à-vis erosion of belief systems and culture changes: modern challenges among ethnic groups in south and southeast Asia
- SE28 Self-conscious indigeneity in Latin America
- SE29 Gender and domestic violence in traditional communities: a legal & human rights perspective
- SE30 Cultural regeneration, institutional creativity and social transformations in contemporary indigenous worlds
- SE31 Chiefs, presidents, shamans and priests: rethinking indigenous forms of leadership, authority, and political action in 21st century lowland South America
- SE32 Anthropology of peace and war in contemporary Asia and Africa: reflections on the meaning of 'hybridity' and 'the everyday' in conflict studies
- SE33 Health, dignity, politics for rights: escaping the neoliberal spiral of destruction (IUAES Commission on Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology)
- V01 Visual encounters: audiovisual approaches to anthropological knowledge
- V02 Establishing academic standards of evaluation for non-literary forms of representation in anthropology
- V03 The use of audio-visual media in ethnographic research: a Latin American perspective
- V04 Photography as mediation of anthropological knowledge
- V05 Anthropological visions. atlases of difference, multimedia arcades and non-linear arguments
- V06 Photography as a research method
- V07 Representing the non-representable: visual representations of extraordinary beings in ethnographic films
- V08 Exhibition: photography as a research method
- V09 Ethnographic films made by women about women: is there a feminist visual anthropology?
- WMW02 Religion In contemporary south Asia
- WMW03 Art and anthropology: common grounds (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
- WMW04 Anthropology of emotions and senses in religious performances
- WMW05 Intangible cultural heritage, memory and self-hood (IUAES Commission on Intangible Cultural Heritage)
- WMW08 Cultures of ignorance
- WMW10 Listening landscapes, speaking memories
- WMW11 Fieldwork in mind and mind in fieldwork: fostering an ethnography-oriented cognitive anthropology
- WMW12 Surfaces: contesting boundaries between materials, mind and body
- WMW13 The extended self: relations between material and immaterial worlds
- WMW14 Emotions and suffering; emotions of suffering
- WMW15 Dance, sociality and the transmission of embodied knowledge
- WMW16 Material traces: questioning authenticity in cultural heritage
- WMW17 Language, linguistics, and culture
- WMW18 Space, Culture and Society
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