6-0275 THE VILLAGE GLOBAL: CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHIES OF RURAL SOCIALITY

Sunday, November 20, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Jenny Chio (University of Technology, Sydney) and Chris Vasantkumar (Hamilton College)

Chairs: Tapoja Chaudhuri (University of Washington)

Discussants: Rupert Stasch (UCSD) and John M Hartigan Jr. (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN)

10:15

World Sites: Placing the Rural In a Post-Scalar Anthropology of Global Connection

Chris Vasantkumar (Hamilton College)

10:30

From ‘Village Republics’ to ‘World Sites’: Kumily In the Age of International Tourism

Tapoja Chaudhuri (University of Washington)

10:45

The Appearance of the Rural: Constructing An Ideal Type and An Ideal Periphery In China's Tourism

Jenny Chio (University of Technology, Sydney)

11:00

"They Go to the City" (and then they come back): Community and Social Life In Rural Paraguay

Elizabeth Finnis (University of Guelph)

11:15

Discussant

Rupert Stasch (UCSD)

11:30

Discussant

John M Hartigan Jr. (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN)

11:45

Discussion

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