[KS] CFP Lives of the Dead in Asia

[Pierre-Emmanuel Roux]

Dear colleagues,
Please find below the Call for Papers for the forthcoming issue of
*Extrême-Orient,
Extrême-Occident *scheduled for publication in 2023.


*Lives of **the Dead in Asia*

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 is one of
disjunction, even of dispersion. Faced with 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.

Both anthropologists and historians have described and emphasised how
vividly the dead are present among the living. This topic has seen new
developments since the beginning of the century, for example with Kwon
Heonik's *Ghosts of War in Vietnam *in 2008, Vinciane Despret's *Au bonheur
des morts *in 2015, or the "Ghosts" issue of the journal *Terrain *directed
by Grégory Delaplace in 2018. This issue of *Extrême-Orient**,**
Extrême-Occident *wishes to extend these approaches by bringing them into
dialogue with recent works that focus on the place of materiality and
techniques in relations to the invisible, notably the issue "Materializing
desires. Votive techniques" of *Techniques et culture*, edited by
Pierre-Olivier Dittmar *et al. *in 2018, or the book *Mediums and Magical
Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places *by Laurel Kendall in
2021.

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 contexts and beyond an exclusively religious or ritual
perspective.

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:
*- The place of materiality in the vehicles of existence of the dead*.
Which processes allow humans 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?
*- The use and purpose of objects and techniques*. 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?
*- The rearrangements** and crises concerning these vehicles of existence*.
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?


Proposals for papers, in English or in French, should be addressed to the
two editors of the journal : matthias.hayek at ephe.psl.eu and
pierre-emmanuel.roux at u-paris.fr, as well as to Florence Galmiche:
florence.galmiche at u-paris.fr, guest editor for this issue.
If you are interested in contributing to this issue, the editors kindly ask
you to submit a tentative title and an abstract by *July 15, 2022*.
Full manuscripts should be submitted no later than *October 31, 2022* and
follow the submission guidelines outlined here:
*https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/739
<https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/739>*.

-- 
*Pierre-Emmanuel Roux*

Maître de conférences / Associate professor  副教授
Université Paris Cité
UFR Langues et civilisations d'Asie orientale  /  Dept of East Asian
Languages and Civilizations
Adresse postale / postal mail : UFR LCAO - case 7009, Université de Paris,
5 rue Thomas Mann, 75205 Paris Cedex 13  FRANCE
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