Sunday, November 20, 2011: 12:15-14:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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

Organizers: Shana Harris (University of California, Berkeley / University of California, San Francisco) and Beatriz M Reyes-Foster (University of Central Florida)

Chairs: Shana Harris (University of California, Berkeley / University of California, San Francisco) and Beatriz M Reyes-Foster (University of Central Florida)

Discussants: Kim Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

12:15

Adoring Our Wounds: Conjectures In the Making of Local, Subject-Generated Theory In Anthropology

Beatriz M Reyes-Foster (University of Central Florida)

12:30

“Islam Teaches Not Equality, But Justice”: Reflections of Muslim Women on Women's Rights

Krista Eliot (University of California, San Diego)

12:45

The Ethnographer’s Magic: Participation, Distance, and the Question of Theory In the Anthropology of Neo-Paganism

Ben Philip Joffe (University of Colorado, Boulder)

13:00

When Experts Meet: The Politics of Theorizing the Other