2005 ANNUAL MEETING

17 November - Noon Session

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Native People Living in or Through Spanish and British Borderlands: Negotiating Their Political and Cultural Identities

Organizer: Denise Ileana Bossy: “The Path to Florida”: Negotiating Kin Identities and Political Alliances in the Colonial Southeast 

Presenters:  

R. Jovita Baber: Cultural Borders and Contested Spaces, the Making of a Colonial Landscape in New Spain

Joseph Hall: The Gifts of Empire: The Native Construction of La Florida, 1565-1604

Josh Piker: Killing Acorn Whistler: Stories of Nation & Empire in the 18-Cent Southeast

Roundtable: The Ethnohistory of the American South

Organizer: James T. Carson

Discussants:  Greg O’Brien and Robbie Ethridge

"Spiritual Border Spaces in Colonial Mexico and Oaxaca."  

Chair: Kevin Terraciano

Presenters:  

Lisa Sousa: Gendered Spaces in Zapotec & Mixe Sacred Ceremonies of Colonial Oaxaca

Leon Garcia: TBA

Verónica A. Gutiérrez: "They Form a Path Like Ants:" Institutionalizing Confession  among the Nahuas in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

Peter Villella: Mestizos Before Mestizaje: Fernando de Alva Ixtlixóchitl, Diego Muñoz Camargo, and the Urban Indigenous Nobility of Central Mexico, 1580 - 1630

Discussant:  Stafford Poole

Captivity Narratives the Americas 

Chair: Ben Cowan: Transgendering Magic, or How to Separate the Men from the Others; Machi Weye and the Construction of Difference in Cautiverio Feliz

Presenters:  

Joaquin Rivaya-Martinez: “Más allá de Río Grande: Hispanic Captives among the Comanche Indians”

Alice Kehoe: Raiding for Horses, Raiding for Slaves

Scots and Native Americans: 18th and 19th Century Cultural Borders

Chair: David R. Edmunds

Organizer:  Colin G. Calloway: Highland Exiles and Indian Lands

Presenters:  

Margaret Connell-Szasz: TBA

Lisa J. Brown: Threads of Capitalism: Displacement of the Scottish Highlanders and the Cherokees

Discussant: Marjory Denoon Harper