The following panels of the opening today American Anthropological
Association meeting might be of interest to WSN's subscribers.
Elena Ermolaeva
Nov. 20
- New Perspectives on the origin of pristine states
- Strategies for development of Latin American Campesino Communities in
the Emerging Global Economy
- 3000 years of identity, cultural continuity and adaptation: Mixtec
Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Ethnography
- Critique-ing the new world order I: Indigenous and postcolonial
interrogations
- What's the big secret, anyway? How knowledge changes from place to
place, time to time
- Critique-ing the new world's order II: the shifting terms of global
capitalism
- Transformations: Discourse and Identity in postcolonial Pacific
Nov. 21
- Traditional textiles of Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the Modern
world
- The Development and organization of sociopolitical complexity in
tropical environment
- Memory/Identity/History
- Shades of Enlightenment and the cultural geography of hope, identity,
and control
- New world historical reconstructions
- Grounding learning in place: strengthening the periphery in the face of
globalization
Nov. 22
- The role of national elites in the development process
- Institutions and identities: unity and diversity in Europe-Building
- Travel and transnational cultural production
- Assesing the Anthropology of religion: past achievements and future
directions
- Reconsidering theories of labor in Europe
Nov. 23
- The Global economy and poor women, the North in the South and the South
in the North
- Splitting the difference: transnational culture and the politics of
localization
- Gramsci, Hegemony and the critique of anthroplogy
- Geographies of culture and power: critical localities,
territorialization, and spatial imaginaries
- Social Change and material culture
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9 pm - 1 am - AAA reception and dance. Back by popular demand: Dr Loco's
Rockin' Jalapeno Band
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Nov 24
- Snort it, pop it, slam it, smoke it: Man, Woman.
- Culture and political economy: Prospect and Retrospect
- Place and Process: Indigeneity and Ethnicity in North America
- How others see us: american cultural anthropology as the observed rather
than the observer
- Marginal expressions in global culture: case studies from Mexico
- Gender, social change, resistance
- Ritual practice: studies of identity, resistance, and alliance
- Global and local forces of development
- Configuring Race and Ethnicity Within and Across Nation-States