[Sci-tech-public] Anthro Colloquium TODAY @ 12:30pm

[Amberly Steward]

Please join us.

 



 

MIT

ANTHROPOLOGY

presents

 

"Archived Relations: Repression, Rehabilitation and 

the Secret Life of Documents"

Chris Kaplonski
Cambridge University UK

 

This paper examines the rehabilitation of victims of political repression
from the 1930s, particularly Buddhist monks, in contemporary Mongolia
through archival sources that largely remain outside of public use. These
documents and the processes of their creation and recovery help us to learn
how the state justified the eradication of religion in the 1930s, and then
how it changed its logic during its rehabilitation process in the 1990s. I
trace this transformation in logic and the discourses of arrest and
rehabilitation by piecing together the case of a lama, Samdan, who was twice
arrested as a counter-revolutionary in the 1930s, and then rehabilitated in
the 1990s. Dispersed within the opaque structures of the state archives the
documents -- the ethnographic artefacts -- take us through the corridors of
archives and the logic behind the state policies and show the creation of
new forms of knowledge relationships.

 

TODAY! Monday, December 1st, 2008

12:30-2pm

16-220 

 

 

Amberly Steward
Senior Administrative Assistant
Anthropology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Bldg. 16-267
Cambridge, MA 02139
p) 617.253.3065
f) 617.253.5363 

 

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