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COMING of AGE on EARTH: LEGACIES and NEXT GENERATION ANTHROPOLOGY March 09-14, 2021 IUAES Congress 2020 COMING OF AGE ON EARTH: LEGACIES AND NEXT GENERATION ANTHROPOLOGY March 09-14, 2021 Book of Abstracts INSTITUTE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH ZAGREB, CROATIA International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences – IUAES Congress 2020 Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology International scientific conference March 9 – 14 2021 ONLINE CONGRESS BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 1 IUAES2020 Šibenik, March 9-14 2021 Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology BOOK OF ABSTRACTS ORGANIZER International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) HTTPS://WWW.WAUNET.ORG/IUAES/ HOST Institute for Anthropological Research Ljudevita Gaja 32 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA HTTPS://INANTRO.HR/EN/HOMEPAGE-ENG/ SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Senka Božić-Vrbančić, Tanja Bukovčan, Subhadra Channa, Victoria Chenaut, Emma Ford, Virginia García-Acosta, Caroline Hornstein Tomić, Sławomir Kozieł, Mait Metspalu, Iva Niemčić, Mario Novak, Heather O’Leary, Junji Koizumi, Noel Salazar, Leonardo Schiocchet, Janina Tutkuviene LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Saša Missoni GENERAL SECRETARY: Morana Jarec SECRETARY: Ivan Dolanc LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Luka Bočkor, Barbara Cvitkušić, Miran Čoklo, Eva Anđela Delale, Ivor Janković, Damir Krešić, Dario Novak, Natalija Novokmet, Olga Orlić, Jelena Seferović, Jelena Šarac, Sanja Tišma, Vito Turšić, Ives Vodanović Lukić TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Lucija Dodigović, Anja Iveković Martinis, Antonija Jonjić, Anita Stojanović Marković, Maja Šetinc, Željka Celinšćak STUDENTS VOLUNTEERS Ines Bačan, Laura Blažević, Anamaria Franceschi, Anastasios Gkikas, Nikolina Novaković, Damjan Roce, Rebeka Rumbak TECHNICAL ORGANIZER Conventus Credo Baltazara Bogišića 2 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA HTTPS://CONVENTUSCREDO.HR/ 2 CONTENT WELCOME NOTE .............................................................. 4 PLENARY SESSIONS .......................................................... 5 ROUNDTABLES ................................................................ 8 PANELS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS .................. 11 ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ................................................. 267 3 WELCOME NOTE Dear colleagues, The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to postpone and then move the entire Congress online. Even with the vaccinations and recent decrease of COVID-19 cases, the situation did not improve sufficiently to make the “onsite” part of the Congress a reality. Nevertheless, it is an honour and gives me enormous pleasure to welcome you to the IUAES2020 Congress “Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology”, organized in a virtual mode. I would like to start with the famous line “Stalna na tom svijetu samo mijena jest” or „The only constant in this world is change”, as cried muezzin from the homonymous poem written by Petar Preradović, back in 1871. I refer to this famous Croatian poem, since it relates to the change, the only universally constant human and environmental condition. Therefore, the theme of this Congress will be related to change that we as humanity, we as scientific discipline, even we as association are going through. “Coming of Age” is envisoned as a platform for anthropologists, but not only them, to discuss and contemplate the change that we usually do “for the sake of future generations” or “for the better future”. Communities and individuals have different ideas about paths forward, reframing who these future generations may be, what they might value, and which are the most desirable means to work towards designated goals. This Congress invites us all to scrutinize this era of anticipated extreme change for its implications on stasis, tradition and consistency. Anthropology is uniquely positioned to study the legacies that shape and are being shaped by the next generations. On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committees, I wish you a very warm welcome to IUAES2020 Congress! Saša Missoni Chair of the IUAES2020 Congress Šibenik Vice-president of the IUAES Director of the Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb 4 PLENARY SESSIONS 5 Precarity in a Time of Historical Present Senka Božić-Vrbančić University of Zadar, Croatia We live in times saturated with the sense of precarity and chronic insecurity. The notion of crisis (pandemic, economic, political, environmental, migrant …) is overwhelming. In this talk I go through some affective registers of precarity in Croatia to open up questions on the historical present and what precarity does and can do. I draw on three ethnographic fragments: (1) uber drivers, gig economy and the notion of freedom (2) feeding rats and building shelters for feral cats by using “illegal” migrants’ unwonted clothes on the edge of Zagreb (3) feeling earthquakes in times of COVID-19. Even though these three fragments portray different reactions to various forms of precarity, together they tell an ambivalent story of the historical present and vulnerable connections, one that allows us to ask: is there any potential of producing more capacious lenses for generating new futures through these vulnerable connections? 6 Anthropology in the Shadow of Anthropocene Overheating Thomas Hylland Eriksen University of Oslo, Norway Anthropology has always been informed and inspired by events and current concerns – think of the pandemic or the Syrian refugee crisis for recent examples. The considerable interest in ethnicity and nationalism towards the end of the last century was a result of the incipient shift from class politics to identity politics across the world; a decade earlier, feminism produced a heightened awareness of gender in the discipline, and historical processes such as decolonisation, the marginalisation of indigenous groups and the aftermath of the Second World War stimulated important work among anthropologists keen to understand not only what it is to be human, but also the contemporary world, perhaps motivated by a desire to use knowledge to make the world safe for difference, less unequal and saner. In the present decade, the towering concerns are to do with climate and the environment. Ranging from critical interrogations of established dichotomies between culture and nature to studies of elites devising climate agreements and local responses to climate change, this family of concerns has entered the discipline with full force. In a not too distant future, it will be difficult to imagine a major trend in anthropology that does not engage with the environmental transformations orchestrated by humans at increasing speed and at a vast scale, leaving few if any parts of the world unaffected. Rather than focus on local responses to climate change or the political economy of environmental destruction, this lecture proposes a methodology for research on ecologically embedded human lives. Drawing on biosemiotics, I propose an approach where living systems are studied as systems of communication, a methodology which dissolves the nature/culture boundary without denigrating human agency, and which also has considerable comparative potential. 7 ROUNDTABLES 8 Empowering Anthropology in the Face of Crises – sponsored by World Anthropological Union (WAU) Organizers Junji Koizumi, Osaka University and NIHU, Japan; IUAES President; WAU Co-Chair Carmen Sílvia de Moraes Rial, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; WCAA Chair; WAU Co-Chair Participants Akhil Gupta, (UCLA, USA), Michal Buchowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), Vesna Vučinić Nešković (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Subhadra Channa (University of Delhi, India), Divine Fuh (University of Cape Town, South Africa) The news that anthropology is facing crisis is on the rise. A similar process seems to be underway also in some disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Changes in classification of science, weakened position in the academic system and student enrolment, dominance by neoliberalism and instrumentalism, decreasing institutional and financial support, difficulties in field research and cases of arrests of researchers, targeted attacks on certain research areas, loss of irretrievable materials due to fire and other destruction, to name a few. On the other hand, there are cases in which anthropology goes strong and expectations are high that anthropology among human and social sciences can make valuable contributions in the contemporary globalized and globalizing world. This panel sponsored by WAU, the World Anthropological Union, asks: What exactly is the nature of these crises and what are the real threats we are facing; If we can theorize the general contexts in which they arise, or we should understand each and specific situation in order to cope with them better; What WAU can do as a newly established global organization based on the integration of IUAES and WCAA, and what are the new resources we obtained through this integration; How, after all, we can effectively empower anthropology in general and anthropologies in specific as WAU, IUAES and WCAA, and what are anthropology’s unique strengths in contributing to a global public good. These are among the central questions this panel will address. 9 Not Quite the End of Nomadism? Organizer Anthony Howarth, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Participants Ariell Ahearn (University of Oxford, UK), Thomas Barfield (University of Boston, USA), Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford, UK), Freya Hope (University of Oxford, UK), Jakko Heiskanen (University of Cambridge, UK); Cory Rodgers (University of Oxford, UK), Greta Semplici (European University Institute,
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