3-0880 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EXPERTISE

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Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-18:00

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students, Those involved in mentoring activities

Organizers: Betsey Brada (Princeton University) and Mary Leighton (University of Chicago)

Chairs: Mary Leighton (University of Chicago)

Discussants: Summerson Carr (University of Chicago) and Elizabeth Mertz (aaa)

13:45

Expertise, Vicarious and Avocational, In a Bolivian TB Control Network

Stephen K Scott (U of Chicago)

14:00

Reluctant Experts: The Conflicted Value of Unwanted Expertise Among Family Caregivers In the U.S

Aaron T Seaman (University of Chicago)

14:15

How to Do Things with Demography: Boundary-Work, Scientific Authority, and Postsocialism

Inna Leykin (Brown University)

14:30

Kallawaya Secretism and the Interdiscursive Construction of Medical Expertise

Mollie Callahan (University of Michigan--Ann Arbor)

14:45

Expertise, Experience and Credentials In the Legitimation of Medical Knowledge

Helen Lambert (Bristol University)

15:00

Break

15:15

Nonexpertise: Negative Space or Negation of the Negation?

Ryan J Cook (Loyola University)

15:30

“Cameroon Is Just Like Bolivia!”: Enactment of Expertise and the Construction of Equivalency In South-South Scientific Collaborations

Kate McGurn Centellas (University of Mississippi )

15:45

Anxieties of Authority and Expertise: Boundary-Making In Archaeological Communities In the Andes

Mary Leighton (University of Chicago)

16:00

The Development of (Para-) Experts: Ecologies and Economies of Expertise In Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago

Nathalie M Peutz (NYU Abu Dhabi)

16:15

Experiencing African AIDS: The Moral Aesthetics of the “Global Health Experience”

Betsey Brada (Princeton University)

16:30

Discussant

Summerson Carr (University of Chicago)

16:45

Discussant

Elizabeth Mertz (aaa)

17:00

Discussion

17:15

Discussion #2

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