2005 ANNUAL MEETING

18 November - Afternoon Session

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"Ethnopornography -- Sexuality, Colonialism, and Anthropological Knowing,"  Pt 2

Organizer / Discussant: Neil Whitehead

Presenters:  

Rebecca Brienen: Ethnographic Images and the Pleasures of Possession: Dirk Valkenburg's Slave Dance (ca 1707)

Harriet Lyons: Her Story and His Story:  Male and Female Perspectives in the Anthropology of Sexuality

Maria Lepowsky: Sex, Sexuality, and the South Seas

Mary Wesimantel: Mouth to mouth: studying Moche Sex Pots

Martha Chaiklin: Unseasonal Winds of Love -Prostitution and the Foreign Community in Early Modern Nagasaki

Andrew Lyons: Missing Ancestors, Missing Narratives in the History of Anthropology and Sexuality

Juliana Barr: Diplomatic Visions of Gender; Political Disasters of Rape in 17th-Century Borderlands

New Perspectives on Treaty Making, Part Two

Organizers: John S. Long / Laurie Meijer Drees

Presenters:  

Janet Armstrong: Treaty No. 9

Mike Ashley: Inheritance Denied: Treaty No. 8’s Land in Severalty Provision

Allyson Stevenson: The Métis Cultural Brokers and the Western Numbered Treaties, 1869-77

Randy Sawyer: The Métis Cultural Brokers and the Western Numbered Treaties, 1869-77

Peter Cook: Metaphors of Kinship and Descent in Native-French Diplomacy in  the Northeast, 1640s-1660s

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

Brenda Macdougall: Wahkootowin, Worldview, and Socio-Cultural Relationships in Nineteenth Century Ile a la Crosse

Robert Alexander Innes:  The Influence of Kinship Ties to Cowessess First Nations’ Response to Bill-C31

Religious Encounters & the Creation of Border Spaces in Post-Contact Americas

Organizer: Nathalie Ouellette

Presenters:

Julie Rodrigue & Nathalie Ouellette: Interactions between Inuit & non-humans beings: An analysis of contemporary narratives from the Canadian Eastern Arctic

Guillaume Teasdale and Claude Gélinas: ‘Learning From the Ancestors Through the Sweat Lodge’: Abenakis of Odanak and Traditional Spirituality

Alice Nash: Translating the Faith of My Ancestors: Joseph Laurent and the Abenaki Vow of 1691

Laurent Jérome: Religion and Dogmatism in Aboriginal Spirituality : Translocal Networks of Ritual Exchanges Among Aboriginal People in Quebec

Véronique Audet: The indigenization of western music by the Innu of Quebec and Labrador (Canada)

Cécile Pacochinski: North Amerindian spiritual gatherings as a border space: ‘Ritual interplay’ in cross-cultural relations

Martin Hébert: Should we pray in the Forest? Religious Contact, Power Relations and Regimes of Nature in Colonial Guerrero and Chiapas (Mexico)

Mapping the Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and the Southeastern Indians, Part One

Organizer: Robbie Ethridge: Mapping the Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability

Presenters:

Paul Kelton: Shattered and Infected: The Native Slave Trade and Smallpox

Maureen Meyers: Westo Movements Within the Shatter Zone

Stephen Warren: From Fort Ancient to Shawnee: The Creation of a Mobile Mercenaries in the Shatter Zone

Marvin D. Jeter: Shatter Zone Shock Waves Along the Lower Mississippi

Kristalyn Shefveland: South Carolina’s Colonial Identity: The Indian Slave Trade and the Yamasee War

Discussant:  Helen Tanner

“On Political Grounds: Histories of Native Women’s Activism in New England”

Chair: Amy E. Den Ouden: Rebellious Histories: Indigenous Women, Colonial Power, and the Gender of Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut

Organizer: Linda Coombs: Sachem Awashonks of  Sakonnet: A Study in the Process of Colonization

Presenters:

Rae Gould: Passion and Persistence: A Century of Ciscoe Leadership

Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel: Tantaquidgeon Museum: Political by Nature

Trudie Lamb Richmond: Female and Indian: Coping with the Double Jeopardy of Race and Gender

Anne Foxx: Historical Continuities in Indigenous Women’s Activism on the Eastern Shore

Margaret M. Bruchac: Adirondack Abenakis - Now Appearing on Stage as Real Hollywood Indians!