2005 ANNUAL MEETING

17 November - Afternoon Session

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Brownbag: Performance & Mediation

Organizer: Maureen Konkle: George Johnston: An Ojibwe writer in the 19th century

Presenters:

Grant Arndt: Ho-Chunk Cultural Self-Representation in Tourist Performances: Whiteness and the Articulation of Indigenous Identities

C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa: Re-examining Ely Parker: Indigenous Leadership and the Dissenting Tradition in the post-Civil War Era

Paul R. Picha: Frances Densmore and ‘The Dream:’ Early 20th Century Cognitive Anthropology on the Upper Missouri

Brenda Farnell and Genevieve Tenoso: “Like a mud hole full of frogs”; discourses of authenticity in the Reginald and Gladys Laubin collection.    Thursday, November 17, 2:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 

"Ethnopornography -- Sexuality, Colonialism, and Anthropological Knowing," Pt. 1

Organizers / Discussants:  Neil Whitehead     and               Peter Sigel

Presenters:

Zeb Tortorici: Animals, Indians, and the Category of the ‘Unnatural’ in            Colonial Mexico

John Chuchiak: Vergüenzas y pecados sin nombres: Franciscan Obsessions with Sexual Perversity and the Elicitation of Ethnopornography, 1573-1588

Martin Brienen: Filthy Savages - Education, hygiene, and the struggle against filth, alcoholism, and carnal excess in Bolivia

Martha Few: Nature, Sexual Desire, and Colonial Medicine in Guatemala

New Perspectives on Treaty Making, Part One

Chair: John S. Long: ‘They Accepted the Terms as Stated’: Making Treaty No. 9 in 1905

Organizer: Laurie Meijer Drees: “Bridging Borders:  First Nations protocols and the moral evolution of treaty signing in Canada”

Presenters:

Jen Brown: TBA

Sheldon Krasowski: Conceptions of Place in the Eyewitness Accounts of Treaty Six: The Treaty of Forts Carlton and Pitt, 1876

Dan Shaule: Williams Treaties

David G. McCrady: Borders as Blinders: Historians and the Numbered Treaties of the Canadian Plains

James Morrison: The Gens des Terres are Not an Ethnic Group

Christine Smillie: The People Left Out of Treaty No. 8 Mary Black-Rogers: Choosing a Place for Treaty: The Start of a Permanent Gathering Centre for a Subarctic Hunting Society Who Signed One of the Last Historic Treaties in Canada: A 1930 “Adhesion” to Treaty No. 9Rhonda Telford & Victor Lytwn: Aboriginal Minerals in the Treaty No. 9 Area

Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica: Archaeological, Documentary, and Ethnographic Evidence

Organizer: Janine Gasco: Post-Independence and Early-20th Century Economic

Discussant: John K. Chance: Change and Cacao Cultivation in Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico

Presenters:

John Monaghan: Indigenous Nobles and Political Bosses: Southern Mexican Caciques in Local Discourse, 1800-2000

Joel Palka: Lacandon Demography in the Lowland Maya Frontier

Judith Francis Zeitlin: Isthmus Zapotec Cultural Persistence: Demographic and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nineteenth-Century Tehuantepec

Thomas H. Charlton: Evolution or Revolution? The Basin of Mexico 1810-1910, Archaeological and Historical Perspectives

Rani Alexander: Maya Settlement Shifts and Agrarian Ecology in Yucatan, 1800-2000

Susan Kepecs: One hundred and fifty Years of Solitude: Postcolonial Northeast Yucatan

Jason Yaeger, Jennifer L. Dornan, John R. Gust, Richard M. Leventhal, 

Minette Church: "Honest Indian Labourers" or "Uncivilized Indian Neighbours": The San Pedro Maya in British Honduras

Indigenous Mesoamerican Texts from the 15th through 18th Centuries

Organizer: Bret Blosser: Container, Aperture, and Flow in Borgia Group Codices

Presenters:

Merideth Paxton: The Map of the Province of Mani and Solar-Based Boundary Conventions

Gabrielle Vail: The Burden of Time: Yucatec Maya Calendrical Texts

Robert M. Hill II: Kaqchikel Chronicles as Redactions of Preconquest Pictorial Documents: A Review of the Evidence

Elizabeth Oster: Images of Resistance: Mexican Codices of the Sixteenth Century and the Battlegrounds of Nueva Galicia

Discussant:  John Chuchiak

Roundtable on Politics and Theory from the 1950s

Organizer:  David Dinwoodie

Presenters:

Mark Pinkoski: Julian Steward: Then and Now

Arthur Ray: Politics in Ethnohistory from the 1950s

Helen Tanner: Ethnohistory Land Claims From the 1950s

Joseph Jorgensen: Life Experiences Applying Ethnohistory

Ray Fogelson: Theory in Ethnohistory

Bruce Rigsby: Applying Ethnohistory in N. America and Australia

Robert Wishart: Debt Peons and Refugees: Elman Service's

Misrepresentation of the Mackenzie Athabaskans