SALSA: First Sesquiannual Conference

June 7-8, 2002

Annapolis, Maryland

ABSTRACTS for the 2002 conference of SALSA are not currently available.

Program

Friday, June 7, 2002

9:00 a.m. Donald Pollock, President, SALSA--Welcome and Introduction

9:30 a.m.: John Hemming, Guest Speaker, "Karl von den Steinen and Kurt Nimuendajú."

10:45 a.m.: William Balée, "The problem of cacao in Amazonian historical ecology."

11:45 a.m.: Lunch

1:00 p.m.: Stanford Zent and Eglée Lopez Zent, "Progress report on an ongoing land demarcation project among indigenous groups of the Venezuelan Amazon."

1:45 p.m.: Lori Cormier, "Guajá women: Dynamic egalitarianism in a foraging people."

2:30 p.m.: Hanne Veber, "The social space of masato drinking and Ashéninka society in the Gran Pajonal."

3:15 p.m.: Arthur Sorensen, "Tukano's sparse century: from propitious to ad hoc grammars."

4:00 p.m.: Robert Carneiro, "Warrior women of the Amazon."

5:00 p.m. End of formal presentations

6:00 p.m. SALSA Board meeting

Saturday, June 8, 2002

9:00 a.m.: Coffee and danish

9:30 a.m.: Clark Erickson, "Large-moated settlements: A late precolumbian phenomenon in the Amazon."

10:15 a.m.: Eglée Lopez Zent and Stanford Zent, "Do hunter-gatherers know more or less about plants than horticulturalists? Testing the hypothesis with data from the Hotï."

11:00 a.m.: Manuel Lizarralde, "What makes an animal edible? Ethnozoology of the Bari of Venezuela."

11:45 a.m.: Lunch.

1:00 p.m.: Katherine Milton, "Hemoglobin values and body mass index for two forest based indigenous societies, Matis and Marubo, in the Brazilian Amazon."

1:45 p.m.: Maria Moreno, "Lokono and urban politics: Integration, acculturation, and marginalization."

2:30 p.m.: Javier Ruedas, "Unmarried women cause complications in the community: The impact of female autonomy on Marubo residential arrangements."

3:15 p.m.: Jeremy Bigwood, "The drug wars: Fungal 'solutions' in the Amazon."

4:00 p.m.: Open discussion.

5:00 p.m.: End of formal presentations.

6:00 p.m.: Tipití Board Meeting