ASA2014: Anthropology and Enlightenment
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P01
Enlightenment's third pillar: solidarity and solidarity economies
P02
Regeneration
P03
Exploring 'atmospheres': an anthropological approach?
P04
Architects of utopia
P05
'True religion' and the anthropology of the Scottish Enlightenment
P06
Reflections on moral sentiments within the anthropology of development
P07
Reason and passion: the parallel worlds of ethnography and biography
P08
Tobacco and Enlightenment
P09
Re-membering transnational living heritages
P10
Imaginaries of home
P11
Infectious disease and wealth: exploring the links between tuberculosis and the political economy
P12
Being, being human, and becoming beyond human
P13
Beauty traps
P14
Meetings: procedure and artifacts of modern knowledge
P15
Skulls, faces and being human
P16
The 'evidence' of death: necrographic accounts on death perspectives
P17
Repositioning health, illness and the body: the challenge of new theoretical approaches to medical anthropology
P18
The anthropology of connections: ethnography, archive and language in the work of Professor Tristan Platt
P19
Political subjectivities in resource-rich authoritarian countries
P20
New immortalities: anthropological reflections on the procurement, transformation and use of human cadaveric tissue
P21
Invisible hands: alternate modes of prosperity, wealth and well-being
P22
Health and wellbeing in post-war Europe: the contentious issue of abortion
P23
Humanity at sea: hybridity and seafaring
P24
Objects, persons or property? Revisiting human-animal relations in the Andes, Amazonia and the American Arctic
P25
Force, change and readjustment: weather and energy
P26
Nationalism, democracy and morality: a historical and anthropological approach to the role of moral sentiments in contemporary politics
P27
A world of goods and the wealth of nations: anthropologies of export
P28
ICTs, biopolitics and health: making and unmaking bodies and persons in a world of globalised telecommunications
P29
Rituals of development: the magic of a modernising project
P30
The uncertain bodily relations of contemporary economic practice
P31
"Indigenous" space and local politics
P32
Perfection: histories, technologies, cosmologies
P33
Facing outwards: anthropology beyond academia (a panel convened by the ASA's Apply Network)
P35
Light as material culture, experience and practice
P36
What is (religious) Enlightenment? Kant, freedom and obedience in religion today
P38
Moral certainty and ambiguity in research: anthropology's enlightenment legacies and the politics of ethnography
P39
'Alternative' beauty in 'alternative' communities, scenes and subcultures
P40
Ethnographies of waiting
P41
Social anthropology and human origins
P42
Difference in an interconnected world
P43
A tartan imaginary: cultural identity through the looking glass of the 'Scottish' second sight phenomena
P44
After development: critical aesthetics of past futures
P46
Global Christianity: remaking social worlds in South and Southeast Asia
P47
Risk, value, ethics: the political logics of transnational finance and medicine
P49
Commercialization, experimentation and health in low-resource countries: pharmaceuticals, collaborations and global philanthropy
P50
Social animals and us: anthropomorphism and animal utopias
P51
When means and ends coincide: beyond 'utility'
P52
Art, politics, ethnography
P53
Educated youth in search of enlightenment in South Asia (and beyond)
P54
Road biographies
P55
Ruined bodies and aging buildings: architecture, oblivion, decay
P56
Towards a gendered economic anthropology/ towards a gendered critique of political economy
P58
The enlightening museum: anthropology, collecting, encounters
P59
The place of 'place' in wellbeing scholarship
P60
Between the mediation of diversity and the diversity of mediations: considerations on contemporary world circulations, belongings and contours
P61
In the name of progress, disease control and elimination: medical research, global funds and local people
P62
Religious life and medical traditions
P63
Economic wealth and mental health: questioning the paradoxes
P64
The failed utopia: 'enlightening' the contradictions of christianisation, secularisation and civilisation in the Americas
P65
Linking the moral and the political economy in the European periphery
P66
Community, belonging and moral sentiment: is to belong to be a moral person?
P67
Anthropology in and of education: implications for representations of human nature
P68
Made to measure: measurement, anthropology and the enlightenment
P69
Designing death: fashioning ends of life and beyond
P70
Virtue in the marketplace
P71
Anthropologies of Buddhism and Hinduism
P72
Anthropology of storytelling
P74
Power, desire and social contract: power's aftermath in the contemporary world
P75
Postcolonial perspectives on the Enlightenment and ethics (World Council of Anthropological Associations Ethics Taskforce)
P77
Anthropology and the post-enlightenment person
P79
The best of 'Ideas in Movement': papers from the RAI Postgraduate Conference
Plen01
Does eliminating disease produce wealthy nations?
Plen02
Beauty, order, harmony and design
Plen03
Human / Nature
Plen04
Natural religion
Plen05
Can we have our nature/culture dichotomy back, please?
Plen06
Moral sentiments: finding again anthropology's moral voice and vision
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