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ASA11: Vital powers and politics: human interactions with living things

University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 13/09/2011 – 16/09/2011

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P02 Whirls of organisms: forms and movements of life

Whirls of organisms

Life in flux: temporalizing cosmology in rural China

From llama caravans to trucks and jeeps: travelling and knowing with animals in Sud Lipez, Bolivia

Watercourse: a meditation on the forms and movements of life in an eco-home

Dance flows of life: entering the Punu water spirit world through movement.

Eating Schrödinger's cat

The sociality of death: movements and transformations in contemporary Viet Nam

The holographic world: movement, logics, and patterns for an anthropology beyond humans

Winding rope, harmony and memory, in the dynamics of the North Sea

P03 Biting back: eating and not eating meat in industrializing food systems

'Meaty' trust-scapes and the political economy of school meals

Beyond beef: putting Indian Christian eating practices in perspective

Activism through commensality: food and politics in a Temporary Vegan Zone.

Buddhist vegetarianism and the changing meanings of meat in urban China

Meeting the demand? Tracing meat and metabolic illness in global health nutrition

P04 Humans/animals/crime

Images of farming and profit margins: some tentative questions about situating farm animal abuse

Power and prejudice in human animal relations

In between spaces: liminal zones where horses and young offenders or victims of crime meet.

P07 'Natura artis magistra': nature is the teacher of artful skill

Replicating life: taxidermy and the natural body's artifice

Becoming animal in the Chinese martial arts

Fibrous values: an ethnographic study on fiber ontologies

Cold encounter: art meets science in Arctic landscape

P08 Exhuming the 'big picture', burying fish, cats and falcons: limits to the agency of non-human things

Conceptualising agency in human-animal relations

Fishers/Fissures of Men: Piscatorial Practice and the Pursuit of Salvation in the Russian Pacific

Fleshy fish and hidden worlds: the tangible and the intangible in coastal Sierra Leone

The palace of cats and falcons: capitalist fauna in a Stalinist skyscraper

P09 Cryptozoology: animals out of place or time

Mermaids in Brazil: The (ongoing) creolization of the water goddesses Oxum and Iemanjá

Enigmatic Bush Dwarfs of West Africa: The Case of the Siyawesi of Northwestern Benin

Cats and carcasses: animal bones as evidence of big cat kills in rural Wales

Land of beasts and dragons: modern myth-making in rural Wales

Seeing snakes and vomiting

P10 Imagining disabilities in multiple agents

Comparative socialities of migrants and the disabled

Agency, wheelchairs and the arts disability movement

Dancing impatience/in patients: building a new aesthetic in dance through fusion of disability as capacity and wheelchair as creative technology

Robots and autism spectrum conditions

P11 Living water: the powers and politics of a vital substance

Rapids on the 'stream of life' as focal point for life, use and discourse on the Kemi River

Dam(ning) North-East India for national development

Floods, hydropower and climate planning in the Indian Himalayas

The Dammed Serpent: undercurrents in Australian water policy

Water, water everywhere: perceptions of chaotic water regimes in northeastern Siberia, Russia

Water as a vital substance in post-Socialist Kyrgyzstan

Making Water Quality on the Mystic Watershed: a Multi-Species Ethnography of Advocacy Science

Sustaining vitality in coral reef waters: a case study from Sri Lanka

In the Garden of Good and Evil: the moral economy and ambivalent representations of the snake/mermaid complex in Nguni healing cosmologies, South Africa.

Keeping the faith: the cult of Taklha Wangchuk ancient governance and disaster prevention in the age of climate insecurity

Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth

ASA11: Vital powers and politics: human interactions with living things

University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 13/09/2011 – 16/09/2011