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> From: lstrand@... <lstrand@...>
> Subject: [tsalist] Fwd: April 2-4 UCLA, Weaving Across Time and Space
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> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 12:04 PM
> website (http://seawiki.wikidot.com/annual-meeting) for the
> Society for Economic Anthropology meetings in LA from April
> 2-4 with the title
> of "Weaving Across Time and Space: The Political
> Economy of Textiles."
>
>
> 2009 Annual Meeting
>
> April 2-4, 2009 at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology,
> University of
> California, Los Angeles.
> Weaving Across Time and Space: The Political Economy of
> Textiles
>
> Archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, economists,
> historians,
> geographers and other social scientists concerned with
> economy-textile
> linkages are participating in the conference. Click for
> Preliminary
> Schedule
>
> http://seawiki.wikidot.com/local--files/annual-meeting/SEA2009Program.pdf>
>
> For questions about the conference contact:
> Program Coordinators: Walter E. Little, Associate
> Professor, University at
> Albany, SUNY (wlittle@...) and Patricia McAnany,
> Kenan Professor,
> University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> (mcanany@...)
>
> Local Arrangement Coordinators: Charles Stanish, Director,
> Cotsen Institute
> of Archaeology, (stanish@...) and Helle Girey,
> Director of
> Public Programs, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology,
> (hgirey@...)
> ------------------------------
> Registration Forms for 2009 Annual Meeting
>
> The Registration
> Form<http://seawiki.wikidot.com/local--files/annual-
> meeting/Sea2009RegistrationForms.pdf>and
> fees should be made payable to UCLA Regents. Although the
> deadline for
> hotel registration was *March 2, 2009*, registration to
> participate in the
> meeting is still open. The forms and fees can be sent to:
>
> Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
> A210 Fowler, Box 951510
> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1510
> Attn. SEA Conference
>
> For late registration inquiries, please contact Helle Girey
> (hgirey@...)
> or Walter Little (wlittle@...)
> ------------------------------
> Weaving Across Time and Space: The Political Economy of
> Textiles
>
> Textiles have been a central part of the economies and
> politics of human
> societies across culture divides and over millennia. The
> economy of textiles
> provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local
> and global
> politics, and diverse ideologies. Textile production and
> exchange represent
> a key node for the intersections of multiple aspects of
> ancient and modern
> economies, including social-class relations, gender,
> tourism, exchange,
> commerce, and trans-polity relationships. A political
> economy of textiles,
> discussed from a broad interdisciplinary perspective,
> offers ways to
> understand cloth and clothing as parts of mutually
> constitutive processes
> that shape and reflect economic practices, cultural
> ideologies, and
> socio-political rank. Clothing is a material element of
> society that fosters
> the study of continuities and disjunctions in the economic
> and social
> realities of past and present societies. From stick-loom
> weaving to
> transnational factories, the production of cloth and its
> transformation into
> clothing and other woven goods offers a way to study the
> linkages between
> economics and politics.
> ------------------------------
> Paper and Poster-presentation Topics
>
> Topics include, but are certainly not limited to, the
> following, as they
> relate to economic practices:
>
> A. Textile production. From ancient to contemporary
> periods, how has textile
> production articulated with household, regional and global
> economies? How
> have techniques of production remained constant or changed
> over time? How
> are relations between gender and power constituted by
> techniques of
> production?
>
> B. Textiles as trade goods. How do textiles function in
> ancient and
> contemporary exchange systems as gifts and commodities?
> What mechanisms
> bring textiles into and out of the household and the
> marketplace? What is
> the role of textile commodities in core-hinterland economic
> relations (past
> and present) and exchange across political boundaries?
>
> C. Textiles as symbols. How are textiles important media
> for political and
> religious iconography? Symbolically embedded, how have
> elaborate textiles
> been and continue to be markers of social or political
> standing? How is
> ethnicity reflected by fabric styles, as well as sacred
> elements of belief
> systems and cosmology?
>
> D. Textiles in touristic process. What role does indigenous
> textile
> production play in tourism? How do tourist and indigenous
> economic exchanges
> impact textile production and local economic conditions?
> What futures does
> tourism development hold for handcrafted textiles and their
> producers?
>
> E. Textiles within transnational process. How are
> traditional textiles
> connected to the global economy and what kinds of economic,
> political, and
> social capital are encompassed by these handicrafts? What
> changes have large
> clothing factories that employ outsourced labor for
> multinational industries
> precipitated in developing and developed countries? Why
> have these factories
> been a focus of controversy among both state authorities
> and activists
> concerned with globalization and its effects on the
> developing world?
> ------------------------------
> Poster presentations
>
> At the annual conference, the SEA always welcomes posters
> on any topic in
> economic anthropology. Students and scholars whose work may
> not fit the
> central theme of the meeting are encouraged to submit a
> poster. The special
> poster session/reception during the meeting is inclusive
> and a major event
> of the SEA conference. Poster presenters who focus on the
> meeting theme may
> be asked to complete a finished paper for publication in
> the annual volume.
>
> The SEA meetings provide a rare opportunity for a focused
> and coherent
> program of presentation, with time for critical discussion
> in a convivial
> intellectual setting. About 15 papers are selected from
> abstracts for a
> program that allows 20 minutes for presentation and 20
> minutes for
> discussion in a single plenary session over two days;
> around 30 additional
> abstracts will be selected for the poster session. Each SEA
> conference also
> produces a book on the conference theme. Submitting a paper
> for the plenary
> session represents a commitment that you wish to be
> considered for inclusion
> in this volume.
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