SALSA: Third Sesquiannual Conference

June 10–12, 2005

Estes Park, Colorado

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See the ABSTRACTS of papers presented at SALSA's 2005 Conference

SALSA 2005: Preliminary Program

Thursday, June 09, 2005
after 3:00 PM Check-in & SALSA Registration
5:00-7:00 PM Dinner
5:00-7:00 PM Salsa Board Meeting
6:30-9:00 PM Opening Reception

Friday, June 10, 2005
7:00-8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00-8:30 AM Welcome/Announcements/Estes Park Orientation

Session: Sense, Sensibility, and Conduct

8:30 AM Laura Rival, Oxford, "Maleness, Femaleness, and the Attachment of the Soul to the Body among the Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador"

9:10 AM George Mentore, Virginia, "The Enigmatic Weave: A Waiwai Strategy for Dispelling the Propensity for Violence"

9:50-10:05 AM Coffee Break

10:05 AM Carolina Izquierdo, UC-Los Angeles, "Revenge, Envy and Cultural Change in an Amazonian Society"

10:45 AM Laura Scherberger, Cambridge, "The Janus-Faced Shaman: The Role of Laughter in Sickness and Healing Among the Makushi"

11:25 AM Minna Opas, Turku, "Food, Sexuality, and Socio-cosmological Relations among the Piro of the Eastern Peruvian Amazon"

12:05-1:30 PM Lunch (Picnic Option Available)

Session: Comparative Concepts Through Other Eyes

1:30 PM Beth Conklin, Vanderbilt, "From the Cannibals' Point of View: South American Themes and Contributions"

2:10 PM Elizabeth Ewart, Oxford, "Seeing and Being Seen: A Review of the Significance of Vision among the Panara"

2:50 PM William H. Crocker, Smithsonian, "Canela Emic Structuralism: A Report on On-going Field Research"

3:40-3:55 PM Coffee Break 3:55 PM Matthew Lauer, UC-Santa Barbara, "Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process among the Ye'kwana of Southern Venezuela"

4:35 PM Michael Cepek, Chicago, "Value and the Object of Cofan Politics"

5:15 PM Isabella Lepri, London School of Economics, "Indigenous Politics from an Amazonian Point of View: A Program of Research"

5:00-7:00 PM Dinner Keynote Address

8:00 PM Ellen Basso, Arizona: "Honorification and Avoidance"

Saturday, June 11, 2005
7:00-8:00 AM Breakfast

Session: Amazonian Ecologies of Interaction, Natural and Cultural

8:30 AM Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History, "Amazonia, Spawner of the Ethnographic Hoax"

9:10 AM Alf Hornborg, Lund, "Toward an Ethnogenetic Account of the Expansion of Arawakan Languages in Prehistoric Amazonia"

9:50-10:05 AM Coffee Break 10:05 AM Loretta Cormier, Alabama-Birmingham, "The Historical Ecology of New World Malaria"

10:45 AM Darron Collins, World Wildlife Fund, "Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity: Brazil's Tumucumaque Mountain National Park"

11:25 AM Glenn Shepard, East Anglia, "Whose Paradise? Indigenous People, Parks and Game Animal Management among the Matsigenka of Manu, Peru"

11:30-1:00 PM Lunch

Session: Remaking Relations: Historicities and the State

1:30 PM Terry Turner, Cornell, "A Forty-year Comparative Genealogical and Household Census of Two Kayapo Communities: Theoretical and Political Implications"

2:10 PM Steven Rubenstein, Ohio, "The Shuar Federation, Plurinationalism, and the Re-imagining of the Ecuadorian Nation-State"

2:50-3:05 PM Coffee Break

3:05 PM Lourdes Giordani, SUNY-New Paltz, "Communicating with the Nation and the World: Old Stories, New Ways among the Gaurani Nandeva of Paraguay"

3:45 PM Maria del Carmen Moreno, Wisconsin-Madison, "Guyana's Amerindians, Post-Independence Indentity Politics, and National Discourse"

4:25 PM Suzanne Oakdale, New Mexico, "'Alterity,' History and Subjectivity"

5:05 PM Coffee Break

4:45-6:00 PM SALSA Business and Planning Meeting

5:00-7:00 PM Dinner

7:30 PM Campfire Conference Finale

Sunday, June 12, 2005
7:00-9:00 AM Breakfast
by 10:00 AM Check-out