conference programme 9TH EASA BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ‘Europe and the World’ 18th - 21st September 2006 Bristol, UK Consider the global dimensions of particular ethnographic encounters, the wider interconnections, the spread of ideas, the dynamic relationships and processes which shape the everyday activity of social life; these lie increasingly at the centre of our methodological and theoretical preoccupations as anthropologists. Mediated by individual, institutional, national developments of enormous complexity, this link between global interchange and local creativity deserves our systematic attention and analysis. Timetable Wednesday 20th September 2006 Monday 18th September 2006 9 – 11am Third plenary session (Younger scholars' forum) Victoria Rooms 10am - 5pm Registration of delegates Wills Memorial Building 11 - 11.30am Coffee Opening ceremony and Keynote Address by 11.30am - 1pm Fourth workshop session 3 - 4.15pm Jean Comaroff: Victoria Rooms Lunch How Europe is evolving toward Africa 1 - 2pm Poster displays & explanation Wills Memorial Building 4.15 - 4.45pm Tea and Coffee Victoria Rooms Royal Anthropological Institute AGM & Special Reception Room, 1 - 2.45pm 4.45 - 5pm Memorial to Eduardo Archetti Victoria Rooms Lecture Wills Memorial Building 5 - 7pm First plenary session Victoria Rooms 3 - 4.30pm Fifth workshop session Drinks Reception - Vice-Chancellor's welcome, 4.30 - 5pm Tea 7.15 - 8.45pm Wills Memorial Building publishers' drinks 5 - 6.30pm Sixth workshop session 7 - 8.30pm Seventh workshop session Reception room, Tuesday 19th September 2006 8.30pm Berghahn book launch Wills Memorial Building Network sessions (Europeanist, Africanist, 9 - 11am Second plenary session Victoria Rooms 8.45pm Wills Memorial Building potential Anthropology of Religion) 11 - 11.30am Coffee 11.30am - 1pm First workshop session Lunch Thursday 21st September 2006 Lunchtime invited lecture by Leslie Aiello, the Victoria Rooms Director of the Wenner-Gren Foundation: 1 - 2pm 9-11am Fourth plenary session Victoria Rooms The Wenner-Gren Foundation: Supporting International Research in Anthropology 11 - 11.30am Coffee Poster displays & explanation Wills Memorial Building 11.30am - 1pm Eighth workshop session Roundtable session: Eastern Europe as a field 2 - 4pm Victoria Rooms Lunchtime lecture: Firth Lecture (contributed of anthropological enquiry 1 - 2pm Victoria Rooms by the ASA) 4 - 4.30pm Tea 2 - 3.30pm Ninth and final workshop session Launch of the Social Anthropology 4pm Wills Memorial Building Benchmarking Review 3.30 - 4pm Tea EASA business meeting and conference 4.30 - 6.00pm Second workshop session 4 - 6pm Victoria Rooms closure 6.30 - 8pm Third workshop session Empire and Network sessions (Medical Anthropology, Commonwealth 8pm Conference Banquet 8.30pm Media Anthropology, Contemporary study of Wills Memorial Building Museum, Muslims and societies) Temple Meads European Association of Social Anthropologists 9th Biennial Conference Bristol, UK 2006 Conference Programme Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor EASA Executive Committee Scientific committee Dorle Dracklé Dorle Dracklé It is with very great pleasure that we welcome the European Association of Social Andre Barrera-Gonzalez Benoît de L'Éstoile Anthropologists for their biennial conference on the theme 'Europe and the World'. It is indeed appropriate that Bristol should be the location of such an event, for the city has Benoît de L'Éstoile László Kürti played a long and varied role in the development of overseas commerce, trade and László Kürti Jon Mitchell venture. This varies from the dark days of the slave trade to some of the most Jon Mitchell Eleni Papagaroufali important developments in the industrial revolution, developments that in turn have Eleni Papagaroufali Peter Pels transformed the way that international links were forged and maintained. Brunel, Peter Pels Helena Wulff perhaps the outstanding figure in early industrial invention and design, worked and Helena Wulff Fiona Bowie lived in the city, and the results of his innovation may still be seen all around, from the David Shankland Clifton Suspension Bridge to the great railway complex at Bristol Temple Meads, some Dimitrios Theodossopoulos of which buildings now house the Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Andre Barrera-Gonzalez Modern Bristol, today a thriving multi-cultural community, retains much of this earlier sense of dynamism, and the university itself, one of the leading research institutions in Local organising committee the country, is proud to be playing a central role within it. Anthropology has long been Dr David Shankland, Dr Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Dr Fiona Bowie, Ms taught here, indeed Professor Michael Banton who has made such a great contribution Elaine Massung, Dr Wendy Coxshall to the development of social anthropology in this country, held his chair in the university throughout much of his career. Today, in recognition of the great importance of the NomadIT subject, the university is again investing significantly in this area, creating a distinct Rohan Jackson, Katie Segal, Darren Hatherley, Megan Caine Department of Archaeology and Anthropology who are your hosts for this distinguished event. Acknowledgements I have been struck by the way that the very full programme that will be presented over We would like to thank the following for their generous support of this the next four days reflects in exciting and innovative ways many of these local and event: the British Academy, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the University of international developments. It remains only for me to congratulate the organisers and Bristol and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. all who are involved with such an auspicious occasion, and offer my very best wishes for a successful meeting. Publishers The following publishers have given this event their support by either Professor Eric Thomas advertising in this programme, or in participating in the conference bookfair. The bookfair is to be found at the heart of the conference in the Great Hall, which is also the location of our Malinowski café. So do take a Welcome from the EASA President break from the papers, buy a coffee, browse the many books on display, Dear colleagues and conference guests and come and chat to the publishers. It is an exciting thing to have a finished programme booklet in the hand. Everything has been well prepared; the rooms allocated; the workshops formed; the lectures, too, let Berg Publishers us hope, are finished or receiving their final touches. All is ready; the organisers have Berghahn Books collaborated perfectly and in days and weeks of work ensured excellent conditions in which the event can unfold. It is a moment full of excitement and expectation; the Blackwell Publishing Ltd conference is beginning at last! We meet with the intention of sharing the results of our James Currey Publishers research with colleagues, of seeing again friends and acquaintances, of making new Kegan Paul contacts, and of presenting new work for the first time in public. Now that the LIT Verlag framework is in place, the ninth EASA Conference in Bristol can commence. Our Ministère de la Culture theme, ‘Europe and the World’, fascinated members, as may be seen alone by the Musée du quai Branly great increase in the number of workshops; over a hundred have been registered. Pluto Press Routledge I wish you all a stimulating, wonderful time, a pleasant stay in Bristol, and good guidance through the rich and multifarious offering of events - in short, a successful Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group conference! SAGE Publications Professor Dorle Dracklé Welcome from the local organisers We would like to welcome all our colleagues to the conference. It is with a sense of pleasure and excitement that we await the days ahead, for seldom can there have been brought together in the United Kingdom such an astonishing array of anthropological talent. It is a great honour that EASA should have chosen our department. We should like to thank immediately the Contents association's president, Professor Dracklé, and the executive committee for facilitating the preparations over the last year, and making them such a very great pleasure. We hope that this conference booklet is clear and helpful. In sum, the heart of Practical information 2 the conference lies in the Great Hall, in the Wills Building. Registration takes place there in the Reception Room, in the wonderfully capable hands of Rohan, of NomadIT. There may be also found the publishers' exhibition, many - medical care and information 4 of the parallel sessions, the ethnographic film room, many of the special events, the poster sessions, the Vice-Chancellor's drinks party, and not least - eating out and drinking in Bristol 6 the Malinowski Café, where sandwiches and coffee will be specially available throughout the days of the conference. The plenary sessions, including the conference opening, will take place in the Victoria Rooms, a short walk up from Things to do while in Bristol 13 the Great Hall. The remaining parallel sessions, likewise, are within a few minutes' distance from the Wills Building. Dimitrios’ dance recommendations 17 For those who are in university accommodation that lies on the other side of the Downs parkland, we have arranged for a shuttle service, details of which Events and meetings 18 are in this programme. Likewise, there will be transport arranged from the accommodation to the conference dinner, which will be held in the Empire and Plenaries 22 Commonwealth Museum, situated at Temple Meads railway station. With regard to the programme itself, there is one point that we would like very Workshops in chronological order 26 much to stress. The whole conference is predicated upon a simple rule: that all who are speaking have the right to hold the floor for 30 minutes, the presumption being that papers will last for 20-25 minutes, and be followed by Workshop details 35 5-10 minutes of questions. It is immensely distressing to those who have gone to great care to prepare a paper to find, only to their dismay, that they have List of details 198 little time with which to present because of others who have gone over, or a session that has been over-filled.