I am posting the following CFP for a colleague -- if interested, please 
reply to him directly.

carol

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Carol McDavid, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc.
Co-Director, Yates Community Archaeology Project
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Houston
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rice University
1638 Branard
Houston, TX 77006
www.publicarchaeology.org




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From: "Jeffrey Fleisher" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:07 PM
Subject: [Wac] CFP: Archaeologies of Anxiety, SAA, Atlanta, April 2009


> Call for Papers
>
> Proposed Session Abstract for the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society
> of American Archaeology
> Atlanta, GA
> April 22-26, 2009
>
> Session Abstract
>
> In this session, we seek papers that address the archaeological study
> of anxiety. Archaeologists have addressed the role that emotions play
> in the processes through which societies structure themselves, as well
> as the daily practices through which people found significance in
> those social worlds (e.g., Kus 1992; Cowgill 1993; Meskell 1994;
> Treherne 1995; Tarlow 2000). Yet research on particular emotional
> states remains limited, despite the fact that such states underpin
> many studies of socio-cultural transformation (Kus 1992:172; Tarlow
> 2000:721-27). We are not attempting to define a singular notion of
> anxiety and its attendant materiality, or intuit empathetically the
> emotional states of historical others. Rather, we recognize that the
> context and content of such states will be highly variable across
> human societies, and that archaeology can provide a means of
> understanding the shifting role that such states as fear,
> apprehension, and worry played in the constitution, reproduction, and
> transformation of social life. Therefore, we invite papers that
> examine the local complexities of anxiety as well as the variable
> stimuli--class or factional struggle, warfare, environmental
> degradation, resource exhaustion, and personal turmoil, to name just a
> few--that may generate emotional responses of agitation, anxiousness,
> and concern. Anxiety may be read and interpreted at the social level,
> such as that surrounding the Salem witch trials. Or it may be the
> personal, subjective anxiety realized through individuated daily
> practice (e.g., the angst of death). In this session, we are
> interested in research that addresses the material dimension of rites
> and performances related to the mitigation and negotiation of anxiety
> that, in turn, can form the subject matter of archaeological
> investigations, as well as the role of material culture in
> constituting periods or episodes of anxiety.
>
> Interested participants should contact and/or send their abstracts to
> Jeff Fleisher ([log in to unmask]) and Neil Norman
> ([log in to unmask]).
>
>
> -- 
> Jeffrey Fleisher
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology-MS 20
> Rice University
> P.O. Box 1892
> Houston, Texas 77251
> 713-348-3482
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