BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4315-5bdf69a44892cca7b81a14bbb71ce331@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260623T151324Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T113000 SUMMARY:Reanimation: Bringing the Past to Life In South American Narrative DESCRIPTION:\nThe nature and experience of temporality and history among Indigenous South Americans have been the subject of much anthropologica l discussion. In this workshop\, we develop \;the concept of reanima tion as an explanatory framework to understand the ways in which speaker s of Indigenous languages in the central Andes and Western Amazon semiot ically engage the near and more distant past\, as well as otherwise spat iotemporally inaccessible events (such as visions and dream-states) and perspectives (such as those of plants\, animals\, or the landscape).\n\n The reanimation framework is centrally concerned with drawing closer to the nature and experience of history and temporality in the Andes and Am azon. As our contributor Margarita Huayhua has written\, &ldquo\;Quechua historical knowledge works fundamentally differently as it is understoo d in the academy.&rdquo\; For Huayhua\, who is an associate professor of anthropology in the United States and a first-language Quechua speaker de comunidad from Peru trained in United States institutions\, the funda mental differences between systems of historical knowledge results in th e need to constantly translate between ways of knowing and presenting hi story. As Huayhua writes\, Quechua history is not contained in a monolog ic third-person narrative that looks like a history book. Rather\, &ldqu o\;one brings the past into the living present&mdash\;it is ñ\;awp aqniykipi\, in front of your eyes or in front of the eyes.&rdquo\; In Qu echuan languages\, the root for the words for both &ldquo\;past&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;front&rdquo\; is ñ\;awpa&mdash\;what came before is &n tilde\;awpa\, while what is in front of you is also ñ\;awpa. In co ntrast\, the words for what comes next (the future) and &ldquo\;behind&r dquo\; are the same. In this system\, the past is visible and to one&rsq uo\;s front\, while the future is found to one&rsquo\;s back\, as yet un known. \n\nTo understand this phenomenon and orientation to history\, we bring together several seemingly unrelated strands of linguistic and so ciocultural evidence from the Andean and Amazonian regions of Peru and E cuador. Our data are primarily drawn from Quechuan linguistic family\, f rom varieties spoken in the southern Peruvian highlands and the western Ecuadorian Amazon\, as well as from Matsigenka (southern Arawakan) and A ndean Spanish in intimate contact with Matsigenka and Quechua in the low lands of western Peru. \n\nReanimation\, broadly\, refers to the ways th at spatiotemporally distant events and perspectives are brought to life in the pragmatic present through discourse and other semiotic activity. Put most simply\, reanimation answers the questions: How does the past c ome to life in the present? Put in the register of theory: how do other- worlds and other-voices become semiotically present?\n\nFeaturing talks by: \;\n\nBruce Mannheim\, \;University of Michigan\, Anthropolo gy\n\nNicholas Q. Emlen\, University of Groningen - Campus Fryslan Langu age\, Technology\, and Culture\n\nIsabel Yaya McKenzie\, \;É\; cole des hautes é\;tudes en sciences sociales\n\nCatherine Allen\, George Washington University\, Anthropology and International Affairs ( emerita) \;\n\nMargarita Huayhua\, UMass Dartmouth/2021&ndash\;22&nb sp\;Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University at Buffalo Center f or Diversity Innovation\n\nGeorgia Ennis\, Penn State\, Center for Human ities and Information\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/eve nt/chi-reanimation/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The nature and experience of temporality and history among Indigenous South Americans h ave been the subject of much anthropological discussion. In this worksho p, we develop the concept of reanimation as an explanatory framewor k to understand the ways in which speakers of Indigenous languages in th e central Andes and Western Amazon semiotically engage the near and more distant past, as well as otherwise spatiotemporally inaccessible events (such as visions and dream-states) and perspectives (such as those of p lants, animals, or the landscape).

The reanimation framework is ce ntrally concerned with drawing closer to the nature and experience of hi story and temporality in the Andes and Amazon. As our contributor Margar ita Huayhua has written, “Quechua historical knowledge works funda mentally differently as it is understood in the academy.” For Huay hua, who is an associate professor of anthropology in the United States and a first-language Quechua speaker de comunidad from Peru train ed in United States institutions, the fundamental differences between sy stems of historical knowledge results in the need to constantly translat e between ways of knowing and presenting history. As Huayhua writes, Que chua history is not contained in a monologic third-person narrative that looks like a history book. Rather, “one brings the past into the living present—it is ñawpaqniykipi, in front of your eyes o r in front of the eyes.” In Quechuan languages, the root for the w ords for both “past” and “front” is ñawpa —what came before is ñawpa, while what is in front of you i s also ñawpa. In contrast, the words for what comes next (the fut ure) and “behind” are the same. In this system, the past is visible and to one’s front, while the future is found to one&rsquo ;s back, as yet unknown.

To understand this phenomenon and orient ation to history, we bring together several seemingly unrelated strands of linguistic and sociocultural evidence from the Andean and Amazonian r egions of Peru and Ecuador. Our data are primarily drawn from Quechuan l inguistic family, from varieties spoken in the southern Peruvian highlan ds and the western Ecuadorian Amazon, as well as from Matsigenka (southe rn Arawakan) and Andean Spanish in intimate contact with Matsigenka and Quechua in the lowlands of western Peru.

Reanimation, broadly, re fers to the ways that spatiotemporally distant events and perspectives a re brought to life in the pragmatic present through discourse and other semiotic activity. Put most simply, reanimation answers the questions: H ow does the past come to life in the present? Put in the register of the ory: how do other-worlds and other-voices become semiotically present?

Featuring talks by: 

Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan, Anthropology

Nicholas Q. Emlen, University of Groningen - Campus Fryslan Language, Technology, and Culture

Isabel Yaya McK enzie, École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Catherine Allen, George Washington University, Anthropology and Int ernational Affairs (emerita) 

Margarita Huayhua, UMass Dartmo uth/2021–22 Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University at Buffalo Center for Diversity Innovation

Georgia Ennis, Penn Sta te, Center for Humanities and Information

For more details: https://events.la.p su.edu/event/chi-reanimation/

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