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Theodoros Kyriakides

Grant Type

Conference Grant

Institutional Affiliation

Manchester, U. of

Grant number

Gr. CONF-748

Approve Date

March 2, 2017

Project Title

Kyriakides, Dr. Theodoros, U. of Manchester, Manchester, UK - To aid workshop on 'Insincerity, Parody, and the Anthropology of Humbuggery,' 2017, Umbria, Italy, in collaboration with Dr. Giovanni Da Col

Preliminary abstract: There is possibly no more timely inquiry today than the one on insincerity and humbuggery of social life, where anthropology remains somewhat absent. Semiotic manifestations of the larger notion of fake, such as humbuggery and insin