2002 ANNUAL MEETING

17 October - Afternoon Session

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Northern Shamanism and Its Observers and Interpreters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Organisateurs/Organizers: Sergei Kan, Dartmouth College; Andrei Znamenski, Alabama State University

Présidents/Chairs: Sergei Kan, Andrei Znamenski

13:30-17:00 Salle/Room Drapeau I

13:30 Thomas R. Miller, Columbia University, Object Lessons: Waldemar Jochelson, Museum Collections and Shamanic Artifacts

13:50 Sergei Kan, Dartmouth College, “Divine Election in Primitive Religion”: Ethnography and Evolutionist Theory in Lev Shternberg's Interpretation of Shamanism

14:10 Andrei Znamenski, Alabama State University, Indigenous Shamanism and “Ethnographic Fantasies” of Siberian Regionalists, 1860s-1920s

14:30 Pause/Break (Café-bar l'Emprise)

14:50 Frederic Laugrand, Laval University and Jarich G. Oosten, University of Leiden, “The Decline of Inuit Shamanism” in the Ethnography of the Canadian Arctic (1880-1930)

15:10 Jennifer S.H. Brown, University of Winnipeg and Maureen Matthews, CBC Radio, Winnipeg, Ojibwe Medicine Men and Anthropologists: Teaching and Learning along the Berens River across Seven Decades

15:30 Marie-Francoise Guedon, Universite d'Ottawa, For Lack of a Better Word: the Notions of Shamanic Spirit and Power in Northern Athapaskan Studies

15:50 George Charles, University of Alaska, Angalkum Yuaruti (A Medicine Man's Song)

16:10 Commentatrice/Discussant: Petra Rethman, McMaster University

Commentateur/Discussant: Richard Preston, McMaster University

Commentatrice/Discussant: Roberte N. Hamayon, Sorbonne-EPHE

Totems and Transcriptions: Social Relations and Picture-Writing

Organisatrice/Organizer: Cory Silverstein, University of Winnipeg

Présidente/Chair: Cory Silverstein, University of Winnipeg

13:30-17:00 Salle/Room Dufour II

PART 1: Multiple Contexts of “Picture-Writing”: Issues and Interpretation

13:30 Joyce M. Szabo, University of New Mexico, Warriors, Enemies, and Scouts: Late Nineteenth Century Drawings as Visual Testimony

13:50 Arnaud Balvay, Université Paris 1 Sorbonne-Université Laval, Le tatouage chez les Amérindiens et son rôle dans les relations franco-amérindiennes

14:10 Denys Delâge, Université Laval, American Indian Signatures: A Tentative Interpretation of the Montréal Peace Treaties of 1700 and 1701

14:30 Cory Silverstein, University of Winnipeg, A Picture's Worth: Algonquian Totemic Emblems in Multiple Contexts of “Picture-Writing”

14:50 Pause/Break (Café-bar l'Emprise)

PART 2: Algonquian Totems and Totemic Emblems

15:10 Charles Bishop, Union College, Ojibwa Clans: A History of the Debate

15:30 Theresa Schenck, University of Wisconsin, Madison, What's in a Word?: Shifting Meanings of the Term “Totem”

15:50 Heidi Bohaker, University of Toronto, Nindoodem: Mapping Iconic Imagery on Treaty Documents to Algonquian Kinship Networks

16:10 Commentateur/Discussant: Cory Silverstein, University of Winnipeg

Wampum, Atlantic Creoles, and Slavery: New Perspectives on Amerindian-European Relations in the Champlain Corridor

Organisateur/Organizer: Mark Meuwese, University of Notre Dame

Présidente/Chair: Catherine Desbarats, McGill University

13:30-15:00 Salle/Room 108

13:30 Peter Cook, McGill University, The Esnoguy of Hochelaga: Deciphering Early Sixteenth-Century Documentary Evidence of Wampum Use Among the Northern Iroquoians

13:50 Mark Meuwese, University of Notre Dame, Spanish or African? Reconstructing the Career and Identity of Juan Rodriguez, Atlantic Creole Factor, 1609-1614

14:10 Brett Rushforth, University of California, Davis, A Manly Indian Slave and His Dissatisfied English Wife: Masculinity and Intercultural Unfreedom in New France

14:30 Commentatrice/Discussant: Cynthia Jean Van Zandt, University of New Hampshire

Religion in Colonial Mesoamerica: Piety and Practice

Organisateur/Organizer: Louise M. Burkhart, SUNY, Albany

Président/Chair: John F. Chuchiak IV, Southeast Missouri State University

13:30-17:00 Salle/Room Drapeau

13:30 Dominique Raby, SUNY, Albany, Metamorphosis of a Witch: Malinalxochitl through Colonial Nahua Documents

13:50 Louise M. Burkhart, SUNY, Albany, Marian Nature Symbolism in don Bartolomé de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s La Madre le la Mejor

14:10 Stafford Poole, C.M., Vincentian Studies, L.A., Our Lady of Guadalupe in an 18th Century Drama

14:30 Annette McLeod, SUNY, Albany, Native Management of Social Boundaries within the Colonial Mexican Cofradía

14:50 Pause/Break (Café-bar l'Emprise)

15:10 Caterina Pizzigoni, King’s College London, The Nahua Household Between Life and Death in Eighteenth-Century Toluca Valley: Another Way to Measure the Role of the Church

15:30 Laura Matthew, University of Pennsylvania, The Penance of Saints: Franciscan Piety in Baroque New Spain

15:50 Martha Few, University of Miami, The Marvelous and Hysterical Body: Gender and the Medicalization of a Stigmatic Nun in Late-Colonial Guatemala

16:10 Commentateur/Discussant: David E. Tavárez, Bard College

Ritual Violence in the Latin American Colonies

Organisateur/Organizer: Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University

Présidente/Chair: Renée Soulodre-LaFrance, York University

13:10-14:40 Salle/Room 115

13:10 Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University, Agony as Entertainment: Ritual Violence and Public Executions in Spanish America

13:30 Hal Langfur, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Moved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazil

13:50 Kris Lane, College of William & Mary, Talking Heads: Cutting off Communication in the Colombian Rainforest

14:10 Commentateur/Discussant: Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Translations and Transitions: Material Objects in Contact Zones

Organisateur/Organizer: Program Committee

Présidente/Chair: Patricia Rubertone, Brown University

15:00-17:00 Salle/Room 115

15:00 Kenneth H. Lokensgard, College of Charleston, Unbroken Circle: The Persistence of Reciprocity among Plains Peoples

15:20 Desiree Zymroz, Brown University, “Uncomely, Mixt, and False Peag”: Documentary and Archaeological Evidence of Algonquian Use of Wampum as Gifts and Symbols of Social Identity in 17thCcentury New England

15:40 Stephen A. Mrozowski, Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts Boston, Maguno: An Archaeology of Native Cultural Persistence

16:00 Holly Martelle, University of Toronto & Archaeologix Inc., Some Thoughts on the Impact of Epidemic Disease and European Contact on Traditional Systems of Production in 17th Century Huronia

16:20 Commentatrice/Discussant: Patricia Rubertone, Brown University