<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues, <br></div><div>Please find below the Call for Papers for the forthcoming issue of <i>Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident </i>scheduled for publication in 2023.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">Lives of </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB">the Dead in Asia</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB">The dead inhabit the world in their own particular ways. In Asia, where life
presupposes that physical substance, spirits and the flow of vital energy are
united and held together, the moment of death </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">is one of disjunction, even
of dispersion. </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB">Faced with</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">this phenomenon, numerous techniques (soul-calling during shamanic rituals,
writing of genealogies or forensic investigations) as well as objects of various
kinds (funerary tablets, portraits or virtual-reality software) allow the
living to cultivate a relationship with the dead.<span></span></span></font><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB">Both anthropologists and historians have described and emphasised how
vividly the dead are present among the living</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">. This topic has seen new
developments since the beginning of the century,</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB"> for example with</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">Kwon Heonik's <i>Ghosts of War in Vietnam </i>in 2008, Vinciane
Despret's <i>Au bonheur des morts </i>in
2015, or the "Ghosts" issue of the journal <i>Terrain </i>directed by Grégory Delaplace in 2018. This issue of <i>Extrême-Orient</i></span><i><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">,</span></i><i><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"> Extrême-Occident </span></i><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">wishes to extend </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">these</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"> approaches by </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">bringing</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"> them </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">into</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"> dialogue with recent works that </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">focus
on</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"> the
place of materiality and techniques in </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB">relations to </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">the invisible, notably
the issue "Materializing desires. Votive techniques" of <i>Techniques et culture</i>, edited by
Pierre-Olivier Dittmar <i>et al. </i>in
2018, or the book <i>Mediums and Magical
Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places<span> </span></i>by Laurel Kendall in 2021.<span></span></span></font><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">Faced with the profusion of objects and techniques that allow the dead
to evolve in the world of the living, this issue of "Lives of the Dead in
Asia" intends to reflect on the ways the different vehicles of existence
of the dead are produced and used. The concept of "vehicle of existence"
allows a joint analysis of phenomena that are usually studied separately, from ancestral
tablets to virtual reality. It also allows to go across historical </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB">contexts and beyond
an exclusively religious or ritual perspective.</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-GB"><br></span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></font><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">The contributions expected for this issue, in the fields of anthropology,
history, art history, sociology or literature, may focus on one or more East
Asian societies at different periods and hopefully incorporate one of the
following themes:<span></span></span></font><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">- The place of materiality
in the vehicles of existence<span> of the
dead</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">. Which processes</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"> allow <span>humans</span> to develop the capacity of
these vehicles to intensify the presence of the dead? What is the role played
by the technological evolution in the techniques in use? And what about the
role of sensoriality? To what extent is materiality used to interact with the
dead?<span></span></span></font><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">- The use and purpose of objects and techniques</span></b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">. What kind of relationship
can be established and cultivated with the dead through these objects and
techniques? By what means are the dead connected to these vehicles? And for how
long is this connection maintained?<span></span></span></font><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">- The rearrangements</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"> and crises concerning
these vehicles of existence</span></b><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">. What are the implications of the potential
disappearance of existing vehicles for the dead (if they are lost, destroyed or
out of reach)? Additionally, what is the impact of their possible dispersion or
multiplication?<span></span></span></font><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></font></p><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">Proposals for papers, in English or in French,
should be addressed to the two editors of the</span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"> journal : </span><a name="_Hlk58924897"></a><a href="mailto:matthias.hayek@ephe.psl.eu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">matthias.hayek@ephe.psl.eu</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-family:Athelas;color:rgb(0,112,192)"> </span></span><span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">and </span></span><a href="mailto:pierre-emmanuel.roux@u-paris.fr" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">pierre-emmanuel.roux@u-paris.fr</span></span></a><span></span><span style="font-family:Athelas;color:black" lang="EN-US">, as well as to </span><span style="font-family:Athelas;color:black" lang="EN-US">Florence Galmiche: </span><a href="mailto:florence.galmiche@u-paris.fr" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">florence.galmiche@u-paris.fr</span></a><span style="font-family:Athelas;color:black" lang="EN-US">,
guest editor for this issue.</span><span style="font-family:Athelas;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></font><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">If
you are interested in contributing to this issue, the editors kindly ask you to
submit </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">a </span><span style="font-family:Athelas" lang="EN-US">tentative title and an abstract by <b><u>July 15, 2022</u></b>. <span></span></span></font><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas;color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Athelas;color:black" lang="EN-US">Full
manuscripts should be submitted no later than <b>October 31, 2022</b> and
follow the submission guidelines outlined here:
<u><a href="https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/739">https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/739</a></u>.</span></font><span style="font-family:Athelas;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span>
</div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Pierre-Emmanuel Roux</b><br><br><font size="1">Maître de conférences / Associate professor 副教授</font><br><div><font size="1"><span></span>Université Paris Cité</font></div><div><font size="1">UFR Langues et civilisations d'Asie orientale / Dept of East Asian Languages and Civilizations</font></div><font size="1">Adresse postale / postal mail : UFR LCAO - case 7009, Université de Paris, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75205 Paris Cedex 13 FRANCE</font></div></div></div></div>