2001 ANNUAL MEETING

20 October - Afternoon Session

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New Directions in Anishinaabeg Ethnohistory
Acacia A: 1:20 2:40

Organizer & Chair: James Carson (Queen's University)

Catherine Stoehr (Queen's University) Why the Eagle Flew into the Tent: Peter Jones and the Origins of Anishinaabeg Methodism in Upper Canada

Cary Miller (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Gifts as Treaties: The Use of Received Gifts to Make Political Statements in Ojibwe Communities, 1831-1832

Norman Shields (Queen's University) The Grand General Indian Council of Ontario and the "Woman Question"

Discussant: Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Riverside)

Working in Spirit Worlds: Ritual Inebriation in Colonial Latin America
Park Theater: 1:20 4:00

Organizers: John F. Chuchiak IV (Assumption College) and Bret Blosser (Tulane University)

Chair: Martha Few (University of Miami)

John F. Chuchiak IV (Assumption College) "It is Their Drinking that Hinders Them": Balché and the Use of Ritual Intoxicants among the Colonial Yucatec Maya, 1550-1780

Bret B. Blosser (Tulane University) "He Saw a Snake Who Told Him, 'Turn your Eyes and See Your Wife'": Divination in Colonial Mexico, 1622-1737

Rick Warner (Wabash College) Alcohol, Peyote, and Mitotes: Colonial Roots of Cora Ceremonialism

Break

Philip E. Coyle (Western Carolina University) From Legitimation to Legitimation Crisis: Ritual Drinking and the Drug Economy of an Indigenous Western Mexican Town in Historical Perspective

David E. Tavárez (Bard College) Embodiment vs. Chaos: Indigenous and Ecclesiastical Notions about the Ritual use of Plants in 17th Century Central Mexico

Gender, Authority, and the Body
East Grove: 2:40 4:20

Organizers: Program Committee
Chair: Karen Anderson (University of Arizona)

Maureen T. Schwarz (Syracuse University) "The Holy People Gave it to the Men"

Tricia Gabany-Guerrero (University of Texas, El Paso) The Geography of the Early Colonial Tarascan Body: The Ethnohistorical Context of Terminology in the Tarascan-Spanish Lexicon (El Diccionario Grande de Mechuacan)

Peter Sigal (California State University, Los Angeles) Masculine Sexual Magic among the 17th Century Nahuas: A Seduction Ritual

Rowena McClinton (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) Cherokee Women's Authority: Dawnee as a Case Study

Discussant: Ana Alonso (University of Arizona)

Icons and Others: The Contradictory Role of Ethnicity in Latin American Nation-State Formation
West Grove: 3:00 4:20

Organizers: René Reeves (Fitchburg State College) and Patrick J. McNamara (University of Minnesota)
Chair: Anne MacPherson (State University of New York, Brockport)

Patrick J. McNamara (University of Minnesota) Saving Private Ramírez: The Search for Indigenous National Heroes in 19th Century Mexico

Nancy P. Appelbaum (State University of New York, Binghamton) Beauty and the Beast: Mapping Race and Region in 19th Century Colombia

René Reeves (Fitchburg State College) Ethnicity and Citzenship in 19th Century Guatemala

Discussant: Anne MacPherson (State University of New York, Brockport)