P05b - The crisis of communication (2021)

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Panel 05b - The crisis of communication

Convenors: Federica Manfredi (Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon University), Lucia Portis (University of Turin)

Short abstract: Sometimes there are no words to express what we would like to say. Communication seems to be in crisis when logocentric logic shows its limits. How can anthropologists go beyond words to communicate with research participants? And after fieldwork, can words be enriched by other communicative strategies?

Papers:

• Through the vagina and into the endometrium: mixing anthropology and art to understand cancer
  Author: Susana Noronha (Centro de Estudos Sociais - UC)

• “When words are not enough”. Alternative investigation practices in the study of contemporary body suspensions in Europe
  Author: Federica Manfredi (Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon University)

• Art in Quarantine: Visual patterns of confinement in times of pandemics
  Authors: Ana Gago (School of Arts - UCP Porto), Diogo Marques (University of Coimbra)

• Communicating The Word “Home” In The Newly Rebuilt Village Of Barpak, Nepal
  Author: Abhishek Bhutoria (NA)

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