Anthropology is expanding its epistemological horizon toward modes of conceptualization involving multi-species theories, the senses and the arts, and borrowing representation strategies from popular culture. Participants of this roundtable dialogue with conference attendants on the implications of these trends for the future of our discipline. Participants: Timothy Dean, Manpreet Kang, Martha Toriz-Proenza, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Alisse Waterston.
La antropología está expandiendo sus horizontes epistemológicos hacia la conceptualización desde los sentidos, el arte y las teorías multi-especies, e incorporando modos de presentación de información de resultados desde la cultura popular. Participantes en esta mesa redonda dialogan entre sí y con las y los asistentes al congreso sobre las implicaciones de estas tendencias para el futuro de nuestra disciplina. Participantes: Timothy Dean, Manpreet Kang, Martha Toriz Proenza, Gabriela Vargas Cetina, Alisse Waterston.
Virginia R. Dominguez (Ph.D. Yale University, 1979) is the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology (and member of the Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Global Studies, and Caribbean Studies faculty) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (in the U.S.). She is also Co-Founder and Consulting Director of the International Forum for U.S. Studies (first established in 1995 at the University of Iowa, in the U.S.) and Co-Editor of its book series, Global Studies of the United States. A political and legal anthropologist, she was president of the American Anthropological Association from late 2009 to late 2011, editor of American Ethnologist from 2002 to 2007, and president of the AAA’s Society for Cultural Anthropology from 1999 to 2001. In 2013 she helped the WCAA establish the Brazil-based Antropologos sem fronteiras (Anthropologists without Borders).