4-0220 ETHNOGRAPHIES OF NOSTALGIA/ETHNOGRAPHY AS NOSTALGIA
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Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students, Those involved in mentoring activities
Organizers:  David Berliner (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Olivia Angé (Oxford University)
Chairs:  Charlie Piot (Duke )
Discussants:  Petra Rethmann (McMaster University and McMaster University) and Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)
08:45
Nostalgia and Ethnogenesis In Contemporary Bolivia
Laurence Janine Cuelenaere (Harvard)
09:15
The “good Old Bad old” Days: An Ethnography of Pollution and Nostalgia In the Post-Soviet Kazakh City of Öskemen
Laetitia Atlani-Duault (University Paris X Nanterre / Laboratoire CNRS d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie comparative)
09:30
Discussant
Petra Rethmann (McMaster University and McMaster University)
09:45
Break
10:00
10:15
The Nostalgia of Suffering: Apocalypticism As Everyday Practice
Vlad Naumescu (Central European University)
10:45
Multiple Nostalgias
David Berliner (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
11:00
11:15
Final Thoughts
William Bissell (Lafayette College)
11:30
Discussant
Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)

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Duke University Press

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