Informal Session: Experiments with and Challenges to Knowledge
Organizers: Celine Travesi and James Leach
In the Pacific, the meaning and implications of writing and producing knowledge have been debated intensely over the last decade. In this session, we ask: how should anthropologists work with documentation in Oceania today? Alternatively, how do people in Australia and the Pacific work, or make us work, with documentation? We invite contributions from those who have experimented with different ways of making documentation in the Pacific or have been challenged to do so. The idea is to share, and reflect on, all kinds of experiments regardless of their results, with an emphasis on methodological and epistemological concerns. This will provide food for thought concerning what it actually means to make knowledge through documentation in the Pacific today.
For more information, please contact Celine Travesi, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, CREDO UMR 7308 <celine.travesi@univ-amu.fr> and James Leach <james.leach@pacific-credo.fr>