SALSA: Fourth Sesquiannual Conference

January 12-14, 2007

Santa Fe, New Mexico

See the ABSTRACTS for the 2007 conference of SALSA

FRIDAY JANUARY 12, 2007

3:50-5:05 Check-in and registration

5:05-7:00 Board meeting

7:00-9:00 Reception

SATURDAY JANUARY 13, 2007

7:00-8:30 Breakfast

SESSION 1: LANDSCAPE, MEMORY, IDENTITY

8:30-8:55 Michael Heckenberger, University of Florida: "Amazonian Natures: The Body, the Land, and the Spaces in Between"

8:55-9:20 Warren DeBoer, Queens College: "Palladia, Prisoners, and Parole: Units of Cultural Transmission in Ucayali Deep History"

9:20-9:45 Beth A. Conklin, Vanderbilt University: "Lessons from the Amazon?"

9:45-10:10 Nina Muller-Schwarze, Tulane University: "Antes and Hoy Dia: Plant knowledge and categorization as adaptation to life in Panama in the twenty-first century"

10:10-10:25 Coffee Break

10:25-10:50 Miguel N. Alexiades: "Headwaters of the past: Ethnoecology, memory, and the struggle for nature in a Western Amazonian landscape"

10:50-11:15 H. Dieter Heinen and Rafael Gassón: "Levantamiento de los caños y asentamientos de los indígenas

11:15-11:40 Meredith Dudley: "Intermediation, ethnogenesis, and the enigmatic Apolistas: Interpreting Arawak influence in the Bolivian piedmont"

11:40-12:05 Love Eriksen and Alf Hornborg: "Places and paths: An attempt to assess and map the archaeological and historical evidence of long-distance exchange relations in pre-colonial Amazonia"

12:05-1:30: Lunch

SESSION 2: HISTORY, COSMOLOGY, AND MATERIALITY

1:30-1: 55 Robert L. Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History: "Cannibalism, a Palatable/Unpalatable Reality of Amazonian Ethnology"

1:55-2:20 Thomas Moore, Centro Eori de Investigación y Promoción Regional, Puerto Maldonado: "Perspectives of Nineteenth-century Explorers in the Madre de Dios Basin (Peru and Bolivia)"

2:20-2:45 Astrid Steverlynck, Brandeis Univeristy: "The Women of Matininó: Amazons, Exchange and the Origins of Society"

2:45-3:10 Allyn MacLean Stearman, University of Central Florida, and Eugenio Stierlin, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: "Traditional Knowledge and Uses of Beeswax Among the Yuquí of the Bolivian Amazon"

3:10-3:25 Coffee Break

3:25-3:50 Loretta A. Cormier, University of Alabama, Birmingham: "Ethnoprimatology and the Neotropical Malarias"

3:50-4:15 William H. Crocker, Smithsonian Institution: Canela Emic Structuralism: Collected in 1979, field replicated in 2005

4:15-4:40 Paul Valentine, University of East London: "Gender Politics: A Re-Analysis of the Kuai Myth"

4:40-5:05 Minna Opas, Turku University: "Piro Cosmovision and Modernisation"

5:30-6:00 Break

6:00-7:00 Guest Speaker: Stephen Hugh-Jones, Cambridge University: "DIY Anthropology: Some Reflections on Self-Reflection in Northwest Amazonia"

7:00-9:00 Conference Dinner

SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 2007

7:00-8:30 Breakfast

SESSION 3: PERSONHOOD, MORALITY, AND POLITICS

8:30-8:55 Laura Bathurst, University of the Pacific: "Being a Good Person: Give and Take among the Tacana of Northern Bolivia"

8:55-9:20 Evan Killick, London School of Economics: "The Role of Compadrazgo (Co-Parenthood) in Inter-Ethnic Relations in Peruvian Amazonia"

9:20-9:45 Carlos David Londoño Sulkin, University of Regina: "Evaluations of the Morality of Gendered Persons among People of the Center (Colombian Amazon)"

9:45-10:10 Amy McLachlan, University of Regina: "Sólo las brujas mambean!"

10:10-10:25 Coffee Break

10:25-10:50 Sara Jamieson, University of New Mexico: "Wayuu Girls’ Initiation Rituals in an Urban Context"

10:50-11:15 Carmen da Silva, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso : "The Trauma of Losing One’s Society: Xetá women who Survived the Genocide"

11:15-11:40 Laura Rival, Oxford University: "Warfare and Human Sacrifice in the Americas"

11:40-12:05 Michael L. Cepek, University of Chicago: " Of Worlds and Their Creators: Difference and Power in Cofán Politics"

12:05 -1:30 Lunch

SESSION 4: DISCURSIVE PRACTICE, NARRATIVE, AND AGENCY

1:30-1:55 E. Jean Langdon, UFSC, Brazil: "Dialogicality, Conflict and Memory in Siona Historical Narratives"

1:55-2:20 Suzanne Oakdale, University of New Mexico: "New Table Manners: Food and Ethnic Transformations"

2:20-2:45 Waud Kracke, University of Illinois: "Agency in a Tupí Culture: Ergativity, Shamanism and the Visual Representation of Myths"

2:45-3:10 Julie Velásquez Runk, School for Advanced Research/Instituto de Ecología: "Wounaan Cosmology and Landscape: From Colombia to Panama"

3:10-3:25 Coffee Break

3:25-3:50 Daniela Peluso, University of Kent: "When Names become Faces: Inter-Community Video-Messaging among the Ese Eja of Bolivia and Peru"

3:50-4:15 Hanne Veber, University of Copenhagen: "'Let's go and ...!' Notions of leadership as reflected in autobiographical chronicles by Asháninka leaders"

4:15-4:40 Giovanna Bacchiddu, University of St. Andrew's: "From Mouse to Lion: Jokes and their Counter-Value in Apiao Society"

4:40-5:05 Juan Luis Rodriguez, Southern Illinois University: " The Translation of Poverty and the Poverty of Translation in the Orinoco Delta"

5:05-7:00 Business Meeting

9:00--- Finale

MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 2007

7:00-8:30           Breakfast

By 10:00 a.m.    Check-out