2000 ANNUAL MEETING

19 October - Plenary Session (Morning)

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PLENARY SESSION:
AMAZONIAN HISTORIES AND HISTORICITIES

Organizer: Marshall Sahlins

Chairs: Manuela Carneiro da Cunha (University of Chicago) and Neil Whitehead (University of Wisconsin)

Carlos Fausto (Museu Nacional-U. Federal do Rio de Janeiro) The Bones Affair: On Cultural Representations and Historical Practice

Berta E. Perez (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas) Power Encounters

Rafael A. Gasson (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas) Feasting as a Social Context for Native History in Prehispanic Western Venezuela

Silvia M. Vidal (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas) The Arawak-Speaking Groups of Northwestern Amazonia: Amerindian Cartography as a Way of Preserving and Interpreting the Past

Aparecida Villaca (University Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional) Being War': Structure at the Encounter Between an Amazonian People and the White Man

Domingo Medina Amazonian Histories and Historicity

Nadia Farage (Unicamp) Memories of Rebellion: The Wapishana in the Rapuni Uprising, Guyana, 1969

Discussants: Manuela Carneiro da Cunha (University of Chicago) and Neil Whitehead (University of Wisconsin)