4-1095 KNOWN SECRETS, HIDDEN HISTORIES AND VIRTUES OF OMISSION

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Friday, November 18, 2011: 16:00-17:45

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

Organizers: Jeanette Edwards (University of Manchester) and Petra Tjitske Kalshoven (University of Manchester)

Chairs: Soumhya Venkatesan (University of Manchester)

16:00

A Skeleton In the Cupboard

Jeanette Edwards (University of Manchester)

16:15

Discussing Madness: Secrets, Hidden Etiologies and Indirect Accusation In the Southern Peruvian Andes

David Michael Orr (University College London)

16:30

Secrets As a Way of Transmitting Knowledge In the Watch-Making Industry of the Swiss Jura Region

Hervé Munz (University of Neuchâtel)

16:45

Under My Skin: The Secret Life of the Taxidermic Form

Petra Tjitske Kalshoven (University of Manchester)

17:00

Brahmins, Blood and Efficacy

Soumhya Venkatesan (University of Manchester)

17:15

Informed Savages? Secrecy and the Cosmopolitics of Conservation In Amazonia

Marc A Brightman (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)

17:30

The Perplexing Non-Secrets of Managerialism In the Public Service: Productivity Quotas In the Regulatory Evaluation of Drugs, for Instance

Jennifer Cuffe (Library and Archives Canada)

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