2-0300 SIGNS OF THE FETISH

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 14:00-15:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Andrew P Graan (Wake Forest University) and Rihan Yeh (El Colegio de Michoacan)

Chairs: Robert W Blunt (Lafayette College)

Discussants: Sasha Newell (College of the Holy Cross)

14:00

Difference, Equivalence, and the Emergence of the Fetish In Colonial Kenya

Robert W Blunt (Lafayette College)

14:15

A Fetish On Wheels: Patrimony, Engineering and the State In 1960s Mexico

Sandra Rozental (New York University)

14:30

Mines and Signs: Resource-Fetish and the Politics of (in)Visibility In Phulbari, Bangladesh

Nusrat S Chowdhury (university of chicago)

14:45

“Macedonia Must Improve Its Image”: The Transnational Politics of Nation-Branding and the Fetish of National Image

Andrew P Graan (Wake Forest University)

15:00

Passing: Patrons, IDs, and Time-Travel at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Tijuana)

Rihan Yeh (El Colegio de Michoacan)

15:15

Discussant

Sasha Newell (College of the Holy Cross)

15:30

Discussion

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