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From: Adam Joseph Nazaroff <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Subject: Call for Abstracts: 2011 SAC Graduate Student Conference
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Please find linked below our advertisement for the 2011 Stanford Archaeology
Center Graduate Student Conference "Entanglement in Archaeology: Exploring
Relationships between People, Environments, Objects and Ideologies" to be
held at Stanford University on April 16th, 2011.

While entanglement theory has taken several forms since its initial use in
the mid-1950’s, this conference focuses on the utility of the concept in
relation to the interactions between communities, as well as the manner in
which practices create enduring connections between people, environments,
and object worlds. The idea of entanglement, as used here, firstly explores
how relationships between communities are mitigated by subtle or
unacknowledged connections with historically contingent ideologies.
Additionally, it helps us to consider how these entanglements influence the
creation of new forms of social discourse, creolization, and hybridity.

Secondly, as applied to material culture, we use the concept of entanglement
to examine how the production and consumption of particular objects leads to
unintended connections with other facets of the material world. How do
people become bound up in the material culture they are surrounded by? How
do people and communities become possessed by the very objects they utilize,
and how do such possessions create new forms of social practice? What are
the particular attributes of objects which promote such entanglements?

The twin themes of entanglement between people and objects, as well as
amongst communities, challenge us to consider how social life becomes
increasingly irreducible to simple monocausal explanations. Possible topics
for presentation include, but are not limited to:

How entanglements structure social discourse in colonial and post-colonial
contexts, and aid in the promulgation of creolization in such contexts - The
ways in which archaeological evidence can be used to observe the
entanglements between material culture and past societies, and how these
connections influenced social change or promoted forms of continuity - How
socio-economic practices witnessed in the archaeological record tied people
to particular environments in unexpected and intriguing ways

Call for Abstracts - Submission Deadline: January 14, 2011

We invite 250 word abstracts, along with 3-5 keywords, to be submitted via
email to [log in to unmask] by January 14th, 2011. Selected
participants will be asked to present a fifteen minute presentation at the
conference.


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Sincerely,

Adam Joseph Nazaroff, M.A.

Doctoral Student
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad, Building 50
450 Serra Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305-2034
cell: 559-213-4102
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