x-post: H-NEXA
Moscow, Russia 31 May - 3 June 1998
The Institute of Cultural Anthropology (Russian State University of Humanities, Moscow) is organizing in May/June 1998 International Conference "HUMAN DIMENSION IN TRADITIONAL CULTURES OF EAST AND WEST: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH".
The Institute of Cultural Anthropology (InCA) has been established in 1997 as a reserch and teaching institution within the framework of the Russian State University for the Humanities in order to coordinate the efforts of those scholars and teachers whose professional interests are connected with the study of the peoples and their activities (Cultural Anthropology, Linguistics, Museology, Religion Studies, Arts &c). Its aim is to provide conditions for the formation of a new education environment. One of the Conference objectives is to provide the possibility of the information exchange among the anthropologists, the coordination of the research projects and the discussion of the recent trends in Anthropology in order to optimize the research and teaching activities of the anthropological institutions.
The Program Committee welcomes proposals on all topics but is particularly interested in proposals that address one of the following
THEMES:
1) "Cultural Universals":
- it is possible that notwithstanding all the diversity of the cultural codes
any tradition has a limited set of the immanent terms ("cultural meanings",
key concepts &c) which form its conceptual space: "ultimate contexts"
of culture, moral values &c. Is there any sense in the attempts to define
the list and contents of culture terms ("cultural meanings")? Could such
attempts lead to the discovery of the foundations for the cultures typologization
or to the discovery of their absence?
2) "Culturally Determined Behaviour Patterns": - in the past the reconsideration of the problem of the human agency and autonomy often led in the European tradition to the interpretation of the non-European cultural agents and selves as "quasi-" (- personality, - rationality, - subjectivity) &c. Is the multiculturalism possible in the environment of the remaining latent europocentrism of the studies in Cultural Anthropology?
3) "Symbolical Representation Systems": - what is the impact on the cultural message of the media of its translation? Historical systems of semiotic codes (from the knot writing to the WWW): contextual coherence, or contextual freedom?
In addition to the three plenary sections we are planning to organize a few panels ("Teaching of Anthropology", "Socio- Cultural Evolution: Anthropological Approach", "Anthropology of South Arabia", "Pre-colonial Tropical African Anthropology: Genesis of the Complex Political Organization" &c). Any new panel proposals are strongly invited.
Fax or e-mail proposals for panels (or single submissions) and a short vita for each participant to:
Gregory TKACHENKO, Director
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