5-0795 INTIMATE COSMOLOGIES OF KINSHIP: TRACING SPIRITUAL AND AFFECTIVE RELATEDNESS IN TIBETAN AND INNER ASIAN SOCIETIES

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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

Organizers: Giovanni Da Col (University of Cambridge) and Nancy E Levine (University of California, Los Angeles)

Chairs: David H Holmberg (Cornell University) and Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Oslo)

Discussants: Charlene E. Makley (Reed College) and Mingming Wang (Peking University)

13:45

Introduction: Cosmoeconomies of Vitality and Intimacy In Tibetan and Inner Asian Societies

Giovanni Da Col (University of Cambridge)

14:00

Paradoxes of Tibetan Parenthood: Spiritual Relatedness, Biogenetic Kinship, and the Production of the Human Being In Pre-Modern and Contemporary Tibetan Society

Hildegard D Diemberger (University of Cambridge)

14:15

Tibetan Bodies, Buryat “roots”: Negotiating Relatedness In the Transnational Terrain

Anna (Anya) Bernstein (University of Michigan)

14:30

Transnational Reincarnations: Rebirth, Kinship, and Exchange In the Tibetan Diaspora

Timm Lau (University of Calgary)

14:45

Gifts and Returns: Adoption and Inter-House Relations In Central Tibet

Heidi E. Fjeld (University of Oslo)

15:00

Willing Disciples and Reluctant Teachers: Tibetan Narratives of Relatedness and Ritual Exchange

Martin Alwin Mills (University of Aberdeen)

15:15

Discussant

Charlene E. Makley (Reed College)

15:30

Break

15:45

Of Gifts, Gods, and the Perils of Marriage In Tibetan Society

Nancy E Levine (UCLA and University of California, Los Angeles)

16:00

Shifting Subjectivities In Tamang Conjugal Relations

Kathryn S March (Cornell-Nepal Study Program and Cornell University)

16:15

Transversal Relatedness and the Embodiment of Kinship: Drung Women Facial Tattooing Between Genealogy and Alliance

Stéphane Gros (CNRS)

16:30

Kinship without Marriage: The Cosmology of Relatedness Among the Moso

Chuan-Kang Shih (University of Florida)

16:45

Kinship and the Making of Outsiders within Nuosu Society

Ann Maxwell Hill (Dickinson College)

17:00

Discussion

17:15

Discussant

Mingming Wang (Peking University)

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