World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress, 2024
Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power
Johannesburg, South Africa
11th-15th November 2024
Panel (PN93)
New traditionalism and Changing Patterns in anthropological knowledge
New traditional, revival, modern pagan, ethnic, tribal etc.: new traditionalism has many faces: it may be characterized by anti-colonial appeal, but could play imperial card. This panel is aimed to study current outlook of the revivalism of ethnic, local and religious traditions of the world, and especially where their followers create the situations for a patterns change in the anthropological knowledge. How local and ethno-specific features became viral? What configuration emerges when several traditions, “large” and “small”, are clashed? How it challenges contemporary anthropology – in doing fieldwork, in creating a network of interpretations and in the application of knowledge during interactions of anthropologists with the broad public? We invite participants to study the problems of variously manifested new traditionalism, both in small and large scales; factors influencing the grow of the traditionalism, such as globalization, technological progress, informational transformation of the society, cultural changes, political processes etc.; research methods for the anthropological study of the groups and communities which have considerable traditionalist agenda.
Panel Convener
Dr. Svetlana Ryzhakova
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
Russian Academy of Sciences
Panel Co-Convener
Dr. Elizabete Taivāne
Latvian University, Faculty of Theology
