SALSA
2004 Meetings, Miami, Florida
PROGRAM
SAT. AM 8:00-12:50 Historic and Political Ecologies
8:00-8:40 Eglee L. Zent (Departamento de Antropología, IVIC -- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela), "Céo balebï: Hunting Practices of the Hotï of the Venezuelan Guayana"
8:40-9:20 Meredith Dudley (Tulane University), "Contested Landscapes and Identities at the Andean-Amazonian Frontier: "The Historical Ecology of Lecos of Apolo, Bolivia"
9:20-9:45 Amanda Holmes (University of Florida), "Displaced Indigenous Peoples in South America due to Development Projects: For Dr. Anthony Oliver-Smith"
9:45-10:25 Lori Cormier (University of Alabama at Birmingham), "Efficacy and Symbolic Discourse of the Aiya Cannibal Ghost Repellent Plants among the Guaja of Eastern Amazonia"
10:25-11:05 William H. Fisher (College of William & Mary), "Conflicts at the Interface: Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Administration in Brazil"
11:05-12:45 William Balée (Tulane University), "An Indigenous Associação in Eastern Amazonian Brazil"
12:45-1:30 LUNCH
Sat PM Theme #1: Biomedical Anthropology
1:30-2:10 Carlos E.A. Coimbra Jr. and Ricardo Ventura Santos (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública/ Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro), "Emerging Health Needs and Bioanthropological and Epidemiological Research in Indigenous Peoples in Brazil"
2:10-2:50 Carolina Izquierdo (UCLA Sloan Center, Anthropology Department), "When 'Health' is Not Enough: Societal, Individual and Biomedical Assessmentsof Well-being among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon"
Sat. PM Theme #2: Histories, Historicities, Historiographies
2:50-3:20 Paul Valentine (University of East London), "Curripaco Warfare and Revenge"
3:20-4:00 Maria del Carmen Moreno (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "The Lokono of Guyana in Historical Perspective"
4:00-4:40 Javier Ruedas (Tulane University), "Historicity, Ethnography, and Politics in Amazonia."
4:40-5:20 John Hemming (Royal Geographic Society), "The Villas Boas and the Xingu: Contacts, contributions and controversies"
5:20-6:00 Michael Heckenberger (University of Florida), "Fractal Persons, Galactic Polity, and Idioms of Comparison in Amazonia: Historical Iterations of Amerindian Perspectivism"
6:20 PM Guest Speaker: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro), "Perspectival
anthropology and the method of controlled equivocation"
SUNDAY A.M. 8:00-12:00 Belief Systems
8:00-8:40 Stephanie W. Aleman (University of Wisconsin), "From Flutes to Boomboxes: Traditions of Musical Symbolism and ChangeAmong the Waiwai of Southern Guyana
8:40-9:20 Robert L. Carneiro (American Museum of Natural History), "My Encounters With the World's Oldest Profession: Shamanism"
9:20-10:00 Beth A. Conklin (Vanderbilt University), “Burning the Forest, Forgetting the Ancestors: Destruction and the Transformation of Memory in Amazonian Death Rituals”
10:00-10:40 Suzanne Oakdale (University of New Mexico), "Kayabi Cosmology and the Interpretation of Events."
10:40- 11:20 Bessire, Lucas (New York University) "'Gods Gone Astray:' Shifting Indigeneity and Ayoreo Sacred Curing Chants"
Sunday P.M. 12:00-2:40 Representations
11:20-12:00 Susan Staats (University of Minnesota), "Historical Shifts in Areruya Communicative Ideology"
12:00-12:40 Matthew Lauer (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Indigenous self-representation and indigenous advocacy among the Ye’kwana of the Upper Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere reserve."
POSTER SESSIONS:
Juli Hazlewood (University of Florida), "Effects of Market Integration on Socio-Environmental Dynamics of the Chachis of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.” |