{"id":6116,"date":"2013-11-22T08:57:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2013-11-22T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T17:26:26","slug":"how-to-dress-for-an-academic-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6116","title":{"rendered":"How to Dress for an Academic Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

This combined annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature starts this evening. As I lay in my Baltimore hotel bed this morning, thinking about what to wear for the day, my mind kept going back to an essay read yesterday, “Conference Chic, or, How to Dress like an Anthropologist<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Anthropology  . . . religious studies . . . there is about a 90-percent overlap, sartorially if not methodologically.<\/p>\n

Carole McGranhan’s piece is full of great quotes:<\/p>\n

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As one male professor offered, \u201cTo my eyes, for the ladies, it is all about the boots\/shoes. The guys, it is all about the jacket.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are subtle clues about class and region. People pretend to want to hide upper class, but want others to notice their expensive shoes and other articles.<\/p>\n

“The only place that scarves are more popular than at an anthropology conference was at an airline hostess convention in the 1970s.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m also ambivalent about the scarf\u2013they\u2019re so clich\u00e9 for anthropologists, but they are warm and pretty and useful and I have a lot of them, so\u2026 it will be a game time decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

“As a biocultural anthropologist is it appropriate for me to wear scarves?\u201d<\/p>\n

Why else expect accessories to do all our stylish heavy lifting, conveying cosmopolitaneity, political consciousness, and personal good taste at once? Such familiar, modernist anxieties lurk under our carefully chosen scarves and jackets, worrying that by acknowledging the importance of surfaces we are therefore superficial, which must mean we aren\u2019t intelligent. The bigger the earrings, the smaller the brain, so we seem to think.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now I must critically re-examine what I packed. Today: blue jeans with well-polished low boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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