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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:22:12 -0800
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From: Ken Pomeranz <kpomeran@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu>
Subject: CFP: Conf. on Hunting and Gathering Societies, Osaka
From: "Philip C. Brown" <brown.113@osu.edu>
H-JAPAN
November 1, 1996
Call for Papers
The 8th International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies will be
held at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan during 26-30,
October, 1998.
The conference will be organized around the following topics:
1. Archaeology, Ethnoarcheology and Ethnohistory
2. Demography and Ecology
3. Gender and Social Change
4. Politics, Ethnicity and Identity
5. Foragers and Post-Foragers in Global Context
6. Education, Communication and Visions for the Future
7. Art, Symbolism and Cosmology
8. Visual Ethnography
In addition, there will be discussions of both recent and ancient
transformations, interactions of hunter-gatherers with their neighboring
groups, and representations of them in the media and by academia. Apart from
individual papers, we also welcome proposals for special sessions focused on
specific themes. If you wish to organize such a session, please send us a
one to two page statement of the focus of the session along with the names
of some likely participants. Because of the limited number of rooms
available at any one time,the number of papers presented will have to be
restricted to about 80. Some applicants may be advised to present at the
poster sessions. Only a few proposed sessions of excellence will be able to
be accepted by the organizing committee.
Titles and Abstracts of 150 words or less should be received in Osaka no
later than 30th June 1997.
The Co-chairs and other organizing committee members will meet in August
1997 to select papers and organize the sessions. Authors of accepted papers
will be notified by 1 November 1997. No handling fee is required. The
Papers, written in English, should be sent to Dr. Shuzo Koyama in Osaka by
30th June 1998. The length of each presentation including discussion will be
about 30 minutes. Papers for precirculation should be no longer than 7000
words maximum and in English.
Preregistration forms, Paper Abstracts and Titles, Papers should be sent to
the following address:
Dr. Shuzo Koyama, Co-Chair, CHAGS8, C/O CHAGS8 Project Office, 4th Research
Department, National Museum of Ethnology, 10-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita City,
Osaka, Japan 565;
Fax 81-6-876-2160, 81-6-875-8255; e-mail:chags8@idc.minpaku.ac.jp
Philip C. Brown 614-292-0904
Department of History, Ohio State University
230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus OH 43210 USA
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