Central States Anthropological Society 2008 conference
Adam's Mark Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana
March 27-29

PROGRAM

Thursday, March 27

12:00 – 5:00  Registration and James McLeod Memorial Reprint Exchange

[1-01] 1:00 – 3:00  Barriers, Borders, and Bridges:  Linguistic Reflections in Statehood, Community, and Self, Part I [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Susan Shepherd (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis)  Fortune Square A)

• Ford, O.T. (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis) Ethnologue and the Language-Dialect Question
• Manoukian, Jill (Macquarie U) Theory and Metaphor in the Media Discourse of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
• DiCamilla, Frederick J. and Emily Johnson (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis) Metaphorical Boundaries: Women in the Workplace
  Worthington, Paul (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis) Learning How to Talk about the World: Metaphor as a Bridge to Children’s Understanding and Expression of Abstract Concepts
• Reynolds, Diana Dial (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis) “Dey Don’t Know Nottin ‘Bout You”: Signifying on Women’s Abolition Fiction in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

[1-02] 1:00 – 2:45  Museums [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Elise Edwards (Butler U)  Fortune Square B

• Hyler, Samantha (Butler U) Museum Collections: Strongholds of Western Culture
• Irons, Jonathan (Butler U) The Meaning of Artifacts: Dynamics and Complexities within Museums and Archaeology
• Lear, Christina (Butler U) Women, Museums, Feminism
• Matacale, Diane (Butler U) Should Zoos be Considered as a Type of Museum?

[1-03] 1:00 – 2:45  Levantine Archaeology and History [V]. 
Chair:  Oystein LaBianca (Andrews U) Fortune Square C

• Kim, YoungHwa and Leyna Ely (Andrews U) Khirbet Rufeisah Cave Inscriptions and Drawings
• Gerard, Andrew and Jasmine Saunders (Andrews U) “The People who Sold Were Not From Hisban”: Cultural Memory and the Honor of the Ajarma Tribe of Hisban, Jordan
• Smith, Joshua T. (Andrews U) Pottery From Beyond Castles: A Study of Crusader Pottery Found at Tell Hesban
• LaBianca, Oystein S. (Andrews U) Jerusalem: Trophy Capital and Linchpin of Imperial Ambition in the Old World

[1-04] 1:00 – 3:00  Interdisciplinarity and Anthropology:  The Student-Designed Major and Its Outcomes [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Catherine A. Shoupe (Saint Mary’s C)  (Fortune Square D

• Iversen, Chelsea (Saint Mary’s C) Disempowering Women: Human Development and the Kerala Model
• Brewer, Amanda (Saint Mary’s C) Why Catholics Don’t Sing: Theorizing Community and Intentionality
• Frazier, Katherine R. (Saint Mary’s C) The Mill in Early Christian Ireland: A Study in Liminality
• Klear, Theresa (Saint Mary’s C) Grounding Fiction in Ethnography
• Scott, Erin (Saint Mary’s C) Socializing in Cyberspace: Facebook as the New Common Room and Little Black Book

[1-05] 3:00 – 5:00  Studies in Material Culture [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Teri Klassen (Indiana U)  Golden Ballroom 1

• Klassen, Teri (Indiana U) Cherokee Dolls: Distinction and Solidarity
• Berlinger, Gabrielle A. (Indiana U) From the Desert to the Driveway: Building the Sukkah, Crafting Identity
• Hertz, Carrie (Indiana U) Failed Gifts and Kept Commodities: How Clutter Became Inalienable
• Sarfati, Liora (Indiana U) Shopping for Spirits and Gods: The Role of Religious-Goods Stores in Contemporary Shamanism
• Jackson, Jason Baird (Indiana U) Discussant

[1-06] 3:00 – 4:45  Social Ecologies, the Natural Environment, and Mental Landscapes [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Nobuko Adachi (Illinois State U)  Fortune Square C

• Olson, Renee (Illinois State U) Going Green: The Environmental Movement at a Midwestern University
• Downing, Ashley (Illinois State U) Beliefs, Burials, and Mummification Among the Chinchorro
• Leannais, Elyse (Illinois State U) Cotton-Top Tamarin Social Behavior in US Zoo
• Stanlaw, James W.  (Illinois State U) Discussant

[1-07] 3:15 – 5:00  Barriers, Borders, and Bridges: Linguistic Reflections on Statehood, Community, and Self, Part II [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Susan C. Shepherd (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis)  Fortune Square A

• Vanegas, Joe A. (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis) Black, Brown, Yellow, and White: The New Faces of African American Vernacular English
• Arreola, Delia (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis) ¿ Qué Soy? Mexicano, Chicano, or American: Language and Identity in Two Mexican American Families
• Cook, Joshua  (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis) On Being an Oral Deaf Student in a Hearing World
• Shepherd, Susan (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis) Barriers and Bridges: Language, Oppression, and Identity

5:00 – 9:00  Outing to Indianapolis Museum of Art.  Permanent exhibits of European, South Pacific and African Art;  special exhibits;  Lilly House;  dining at Puck’s (a Wolfgang Puck restaurant) or the IMA cafe.  Transportation provided.  Meet in Main Lobby.

7:00 – 10:00  CSAS Executive Board Meeting.  Directors Row 3

Friday, March 28

8:00 – 4:30  Registration and James McLeod Memorial Reprint Exchange

[2-01]   8:30 – 10:15  Archaeology on Cyprus: Recent Work of the Athienou Archaeological project [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  P. Nick Kardulias (C of Wooster) Fortune Square B

• Dissinger, Alicia (C of Wooster) The Development of Cypriot Sanctuaries from Late Bronze Age to the Archaic
• Falletta-Cowden, Ashlan (Lawrence U) Guardian Animals and Everlasting Symposiums: An Exploration of Several Stele Fragments Found at Malloura
• Mielke, Chris (U of Central Florida) Composition, Chronology, Connotation and Context: The Signet Ring with the Pastoral Scene from Athienou-Malloura and its Context within the Late Cypro-Archaic
• Cannon, Josh (U of Pittsburgh) The Cypriot Syllabary and the Influences that Acted Upon it

[2-02] 8:30 – 12:00  American Indian Activism in the Sixties [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Anne Terry Straus (U of Chicago)  Fortune Square C

• Peters, Kurt (Oregon State U)  Vietnam and American Indians 
• Williams, Jay (U of Chicago) Conversations from the Trenches
• Jacobs, Claude (U of Michigan-Dearborn ) Black Hawk’s Black Activists
• Arndt, Grant (Saint Cloud State U) American Indian Political Imaginaries and the Struggle for Autonomy
• Laukaitis, John (Loyola U) The Indian Press and Chicago Indian Activism
• Straus, Anne Terry (U of Chicago) Civil Rights, the Great Society, and Indian Activism
• Peters, Kurt (Oregon State U) Discussant
• Straus, Anne Terry (U of Chicago) Discussant

[2-03] 9:00 – 11:30  Issues of Self-Awareness and Identity [V]. 
Chair:  Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U)  Fortune Square A

• Anderson, Myrdene and Devika Chawla (Purdue U) Lives as Semiotic Containers and Connectors
• Christodoulakis, Clara M. (Purdue U) Revisiting Honor and Shame
• Brownlee, Claire (Earlham C) “Passing”: Autistic Navigations of the Social World
• Pettinen, Katja (Purdue U) Sexuality, Kinship, and Affect: The parents of Gays and Lesbians
• Huffman, Lucy (Earlham C) The Green Washing of Advertising
• Ramaswamy, Sunil (Centre C) A Stranger in the Motherland: Ancestor Tourism in India

[2-04] 9:00 – 11:45  Art, Cultural Heritage, and Tourism [V]. 
Chair:  William Wedenoja (Missouri State U)  Fortune Square D

• Giles, Linda (Independent Scholar) Memorializing Mijikenda Ancestral Statues (Vigango): The Politics and Pleasures of Repatriating Cultural Property in Kenya (Part I)
• Udvardy, Monica (U of Kentucky) Memorializing Mijikenda Ancestral Statues (Vigango); The Politics and Pleasures of Repatriating Cultural property in Kenya (Part II)
• Larkin, Lance (U of Illinois) Entaglements in a Globalized Art Movement: Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture as Political Commentary
• Di Giovine, Michael A. (U of Chicago) The Heritage-Scape: Creating “Peace in the Minds of Men” at the Angkor Archaeological Park
• Wedenoja, William (Missouri State U) Preserving Bluefields, A Historic Community on the Coast of Jamaica
• Taulbee, Kelly (Centre C) The Impact of Tourism within India
• Buamann, Chris and Robby Lear (Centre C) The Evolution of Eco-Tourism into Geo-Tourism within Ecuador

[2-05] 9:00 – 11:30  Creation and Maintenance of the State:  Sovereignty, Power, Development, and Institutions [V]. 
Chair:  Margaret Buckner (Missouri State U)  Golden Ballroom 1

• Kilgore, Stephanie (C of Wooster) The Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement: A Native People’s Struggle for Power
• Diduk, Susan (Denison U) Transnational Beer Production, Public Culture and Political Ambivalence in the Republic of Cameroon
• Hilgers, Mathieu (Académie Louvain) Social Representations, Common World and Democratic Potentiality in the Towns of West Africa (A Case Study in Burkina Faso)
• Kane, Stephanie (Indiana U) Sense and Science in Endangered Waters: Life, Death, and Lagoa Abaete
• Anaya, Lauren A. (U of Illinois) Dismantling Structural Elements in the Law: Legal Practice, Case Outcomes, and the Hegemonic Function of Law
• André, Géraldine (Académie Louvain) Guidance Counseling in High School: A Socio-anthropological Point of View

[2-06] 9:00 – 11:30  Urban Landscapes, Gender, and Everyday Life [V].  
Chair:  Bill Guinee (Westminster C)  Golden Ballroom 2

• Henry, Hannah (DePaul U) There’s a Tear in My Beer: Gentrification and Tavern Communities in Chicago
• Callis, April Scarlette (Purdue U) Believing in Santa Claus: The Concept of “Community” and the GLBT Population of Lexington, KY
• Didier, Caitlin (Denison U) “Holy Cow! We Killed Another Bear!” Negotiating Status and Identity Through Sports
• Stambaugh, Melony (U of Cincinnati) Social Networks of Social Services
• Romano, Gina (Indiana-Purdue U at Indianapolis) Cultural and Social factors Influencing Female Teens’ Choice of Career
• Conover, Lindi (DePauw U) Third Wave Feminism and the Female Experience and Popular Music

[2-07] 10:45 – 12:15  Teaching Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: A Workshop for New Faculty and Graduate Students [W]
Organizers: Evelyn Dean and Kate Costello (Indiana U) Fortune Square B

- Lunch Break -

[2-08] 12:45 - 2:30  Post-Socialist States, Society, and Culture [V]. 
Chair:  Richard Feinberg (Kent State U)  Fortune Square A

• Bludau, Heidi (Indiana U) “Homemade is homemade”: Food and Gender in the Post-socialist Kitchen
• Eastwood, William (Indiana U) Baptist Reforms in Post-Soviet Georgia
• Smith, Marissa (Beloit C) Peace, Friendship, Copper and Molybdenum: Continuity and Change in Erdenet, Mongolia
• Chen, Junjie (U of Illinois) Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing Rural Subjects: Performing the Family Planning Project of the New Millennium in Post-socialist China

[2-09] 1:00 - 2:30  Recent Research in Biological/Physical Anthropology and Archaeology[V]. 
Chair:  Robert Ulin (Western Michigan U)  Golden Ballroom 2

• Sullivan, Timothy (Wayne County Community C) Interpreting Biological Outcomes Using Ethnographic Techniques
• Delgado, Maurya (Eastern Kentucky U) Effectiveness of Acetabulum to Estimate Age at Death
• McPherson, Christian (Indiana-Purdue U at Fort Wayne) Biological Affinities of the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1200 – 1476) Chancay Mortuary Population from Marquez, Peru: A First Approximation
• Miller, Sara E. (Indiana-Purdue U at Fort Wayne) Dentally Derived Biodistance Analysis of the Middle Horizon and Late Intermediate Mortuary sample from Cerro del Oro, Costal Canete Valley, Peru

[2-10] 1:00 – 3:00  Wars, Occupations, and Aftermaths: Explorations in the Anthropology of Conflict and Peace [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Jennie E. Burnet (U of Louisville)  Fortune Square B

• Kalb, Clare Gervasi (U of Louisville) The Performance of Resistance in Bil’in
• Riordan, Jessica (U of Louisville) Kill Them with Kindness: Ethics and Anthropology in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Burnet, Jennie (U of Louisville) Local (In)justice: Truth, Justice, and Revenge in Gacaca
• Vandenburg, Shannon (U of Northern Iowa) Romai: Life in Kosovo Post-Kosovo War
• Boswell, Katie (Indiana U East) Diaspo Identities: Burkinabe Repatriates and the Question of Familial Solidarity in Urban Burkina Faso

[2-11] 1:00 – 3:00  Language, Music, and Identity [V]. 
Chair:  MaryCarol Hopkins (Northern Kentucky U)  Global Ballroom 1

• Gonzalez, Rachel (Indiana U) Cuando Juegue El Albur: Formalized Verbal Dueling in Mexican Sexy-Comedies
• Meadows, William C. (Missouri State U) The Role of Incidence in Native American Code Talking
• Ko, Jen-Li (U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) An Ethnosemantic Analysis of Code-switching Dynamics of Adopting English in Popular Mandarin Songs
• Semchynska-Uhl, Nataliya (Purdue U) Speech Act as an Act of Magic: Semiosis of Ukrainian Performative Sacral Texts
• Nott, BreAnne M. and Bryce Peake (Eastern Illinois U) When Trees Speak: Papua New Guinea Musical Instruments of the Sepik Region and the Cultural Significance of Their Raw materials
  

[2-12] 1:15 – 3:45  Contemporary Native American Scholarship [O]
Organizer and chair:  Jonathon A. MeDrano (U of Chicago)  Fortune Square C

• MeDrano, Jonathon (U of Chicago) What is Honor? Conceptions of Honor Among Urban Native Americans
• Dvo?áková, Antonie (U of Chicago) Individuality without Individualism: native American Honor and Self-regard
• García-Orduña, Ernesto (U of Chicago) Navaho Peyotism as a Revitalization Movement
• Williams, Jay (U of Chicago) Contemporary Urban Pow-Wow Singers
• McKissick, Louise (U of Chicago) Camera Quyanna:  Psychotherapeutic Benefits of an Applied Visual Anthropological Intervention in Three Northwestern Alaskan Native Villages
• Jojola, Eric (U of Chicago) Linguistic Aspects of the American Indian Mascot Controversy
• Johnson, Meredith (Indiana U) Chickasaw Revitalization in Cultural and Educational programming

[2-13] 1:15 – 3:45  Negotiating Identity in Local Contexts and a Globalized World [V]. 
Chair:  Stephanie Kane (Indiana U)  Fortune Square D

• Ricke, Audrey (Indiana U) Oktoberfest in Brazil: Re-Landscaping a German Identity in Brazil
• Bogart, Brett (Purdue U) Troubles with Distance: Intercultural “Facework” in a Globalized World
• De Quintal, Denene (U of Chicago) Negotiating Identity in Native New England: Why Paternity Matters
• Richards-Greaves, Gillian (Indiana U) Changing Place, Saving “Face”: Afro-Guyanese and the Manipulation of Performance Space in Kweh-Kweh Ritual performances
• Allen-Wiles, Nora (Earlham C) Nailed to the X: Straight Edge Culture Reexamined
• Hurley, Jenna (Earlham C) Queer Women Out in the City

[2-14] 2:45 – 4:15  Cycles and Systems: Exploring the Long-Term Patterns of Human Development since the Pleistocene [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  P. Nick Kardulias (C of Wooster)  Golden Ballroom 2

• Sands, Robert R. (C of Wooster) Homo cursor: Running into the Pleistocene
• Kardulias, P. Nick (C of Wooster) and Thomas D. Hall (DePauw U) A World-Systems Analysis of Human Migration from the Pleistocene to the Bronze Age
• Brush, Nigel (Ashland U) Millennial-Scale Climate Change and Cultural Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands

[2-15] 2:45 – 4:20  Mediated Disconnections, Embodied Disconnections [O]
Organizer: Ilana Gershon (Indiana U) Fortune Square A

• Gershon, Ilana (Indiana U) Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover
• Robinson, Jennifer (Indiana U) Making Community Space Private: Stories of Breaking Up at the Farmers’ Market
• Christensen, Danille Elise (Indiana U) “You’ve Got to Write as if You Won’t Be There”: Mediating Temporal Gaps
• Van Hoose, Matthew J. (Indiana U) Where in the Continent is Uruguay? Popular Music and Uruguayan Disjuncture with “The Rest of Latin America”

[2-16]   3:15 – 4:15  External Program Reviews: A Discussion  [W]. 
Chair:  Martin Ottenheimer   (Kansas State U)  Fortune Square B

4:30   Distinguished Lecture by M. Nazif Shahrani (Indiana University) Chair, Department of Near eastern Languages and Cultures; and Professor, Department of Anthropology, “Nation-States, Identity Politics, Wars and Crises of Governance in Southwest Asia”  Golden Ballroom 4-5
Following the distinguished lecture:   Reception featuring Middle Eastern food and cash bar  Golden Ballroom 4-5

Saturday, March 29

8:00 – 3:00  Registration and James McLeod Memorial Reprint Exchange

[3-01] 8:30 – 11:45  Archaeology as Anthropology: Culture and the Interpretation of the Past [O].
Organizer and chair:  P. Nick Kardulias (C of Wooster)  Fortune Square A

• Jirsa, Ashley M. (C of Wooster) Interpreting Africa’s Past: The Use of Ekistics and Oral Tradition in the Examination of Great Zimbabwe
• Eckel, Elizabeth Sand (C of Wooster) Her Space: An Examination of Real and Perceived Space of Women within Anglo-Norman Castles
• Bullock, Margaret (C of Wooster) Settlement Patterns of Early Medieval Ireland
• Workman, Terry Race (C of Wooster) A Glimpse of Prehistory: Utilizing GIS to Determine Occupational History at the Morgan Farmstead Archaeological Site in Wooster, Ohio
• Brown, Aubrey (C of Wooster) Building for the Future, Saving for the Past: Historical Preservation in Wooster, Ohio
• Long, Emily (C of Wooster) Bringing History to Life: An Analysis of the Historiography and Archaeology behind Early Colonial Living History Museums in America
• Walton, David (C of Wooster) Archaeology and Public Communication
• Stelter, Christopher W. (C of Wooster) Counting Threads: Quantification as a Complexity Indicator in Egyptian Coptic Textiles

[3-02] 8:30 – 12:00  Perspectives on American Indian Anthropology at Indiana University [O].
Organizer:  Kellie Hogue (Indiana U). Chair:  Raymond J. DeMallie (Indiana U)  Fortune Square B

• Bradley, Matthew (Indiana U) Community before Location: The Life Course of Tomotley Town
• Sage, Clark (Indiana U) Within the Mother’s Womb: Religious Traditions of the 19th Century Sioux from Birth until Puberty
• Dietrich, Darlynn D. (Indiana U) “The Dream Must Be Obeyed”: Colonial-Era Native American Dream Episteme vis-à-vis Halbwach’s On Collective Memory
• Belle, Nicholas I. (Indiana U) On the Oglala Heyoka
• Hogue, Kellie J. (Indiana U) A Symbolic Language of Feathers: Reconsidering Lakota Kinship Using 19th and 20th Century Historical Narratives
• Posthumus, David (Indiana U) Animal Symbolism in the Lakota Spirit World
• Kroupa, Brad (Indiana U) The Case of Arikara: A Historical Study of an Endangered Culture and Community Revival Efforts
• Branam, Kelly M. (Indiana U) Crow Tribal Government after Self-Determination: “Politicking” and Constitution Making
• Fogelson, Raymond D. (U of Chicago) Discussant

[3-03] 9:00 – 11:45  Fertility, Morbidity, and Health Care in Cultural Context [V]. 
Chair:  Janet Dunn (U of Michigan-Dearborn)  Fortune Square D

• Dunn, Janet S. (U of Michigan-Dearborn) Media, Family, and Modernity in Northeast Brazil
• Wolfe, Misty D. (Indiana-Purdue U at Fort Wayne) The Gendered Construction of Cardiovascular Disease and Mental Illness in Pharmaceutical Print
• Guinee, Bill (Westminster C) Eddie R’s Conversion Narrative
• Seligman, Katya (Earlham C) Hospice Workers and the Social Construction of the Self
• Epling, Rebekah (Earlham C) Hogwash and Hillbillies: Stereotypes and Preventive Health Care in Appalachia
• Castañeda, Angela N. (DePauw U) Here and Now: Assessing the Multivocality of Botanicas
• Randall, Theo (Indiana U at South Bend) Understanding Medical Pluralism in the Gambia

[3-04] 9:00 – 10:45  Diaspora Populations, Political Identity, and Myth: Immigrants, Migrants, and Superheroes [V]. 
Chair:  Willie L. McKether (U of Toledo)  Golden Ballroom 1

• Buckner, Margaret (Missouri State U) From Aliens to Others: Mexican Immigrants Adapting to an Alien World
• Sharp, Ethan Philip (U of Texas-Pan American) and Tedd Grain (Indiana U) Immigrant Activism and the Promise of Citizenship in Indiana
• McKether, Willie L. (U of Toledo) African-American Migration: Social Inequality and the Fight for Rights
• Howard, Erza (Centre C) The Shield on an Alter:  The Death of Captain America as an Illustration of the Sacrificial Process

[3-05] 9:00 – 11:45  Anthropological Studies of Religious Behavior and Religious Worlds [V]. 
Chair:  Patric Giesler (Gustavus Adolphus C)  Fortune Square C

• Giesler, Patric (Gustavus Adolphus C) Touched by Death: Psychocultural Dynamics, Belief, and a Frightening Event in the African-Brazilian Secret Society of the Baba Eguns
• Passariello, Phyllis (Centre C) Documenting the Folk Practice of “Catastrophe Control”: A Pre-meditated Look at Spontaneous Shrines
• Hughes, Caitlin (Gustavus Adolphus C) Transcultural Symbols for Society-Specific Fears: The Case of the Living Dead
• Landry, Timothy R.  (U of Illinois) Local Production and Global Imaginings of Vodun in Benin
• Abrams, Andrea (Centre C) Theology and Pedagogy of Blackness:  The Construction of Identity in an African American Church
• Enslow, Stacey (Purdue U) Crossed Words: A Comparative Study of the Way in which Commune and Cult Studies Cross Borders
• Dow, James W. (Oakland U) The Natural Selection of Religious Behavior: An Agent-Based Coevolutionary Computer Model
  
• Hyler, Samantha (Butler U) The Importance of Reindeer in Saami Society
• Park, JooWon (DePauw U) A Backward Flow of Time: The Kamba People’s Concept of Time
• Domashev, Nikolay (Westminster C) Russia and Siberia: Transforming Indigenous Cultural Systems Through Four Centuries of Contacts via Physical Proximity and Intellectual Discourse
• Kaul, Adam R. (Augustana C) The Revival, Reinvention, and Reproduction of a Musical Tradition in Ireland

12:00 – 12:45 Ticketed Lunch  Quincy
12:45 – 1:30 CSAS Annual Business Meeting – Open to all Attendees  Quincy

[3-07] 1:45 – 3:45  Tibetan Encounters [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Deborah Akers (Miami U)  Fortune Square A

• Akers, Deborah (Miami U) The Concept of Nagas in Human-Environment Interactions

Milton, Valerie (Miami U) Tibetan Medicine an its Philosophical Underpinnings

Slife, Charles (Miami U) Fifty Years in Exile: Coping with Cross-Cultural Problems as Refugees

Spicer, Angie (Miami U) Dharma in America: Tibetan Perceptions of Tibetan Buddhism in America

Sidky, H. (Miami U) Are Tibetan Oracles Shamans?

[3-08] 1:45 – 3:45  Learning Lithics:  A Case Study from Neolithic Jordan [O].
Organizers: Jennifer Ahern and Jane Peterson (Marquette U).  Chair:  Daniel Koska (Marquette U)  Fortune Square D

• Ahern, Jennifer and Jane Peterson (Marquette U) Where Water Flows: Neolithic Settlement in West-Central Jordan
• Koska, Daniel (Marquette U) The Impact of Farming on Raw Material Use
• Rudnicki, Larissa (Marquette U) To the Point: Projectile Points from Khirbet Hammam
• Vande Walle, Abby (Marquette U) The Identification of Grain Harvesting Tools
• Winkler, Tye (Marquette U) Bloody Knuckles: Experiments in Ground Stone

[3-09] 1:45 – 3:45  Assimilation, Acculturation, and the Effects of Globalization [O].
Organizer and chair:  James Stanlaw (Illinois State U) Fortune Square B

• Marino, Joe (Illinois State U) Local “Coffee Cultures” and the Global Coffee Market
• Engle, Charles (Illinois State U) Assimilation, Acculturation, and Extinction: An Analysis of Irish Gaelic and Ainu
• Meyer, Emma (Illinois State U) Gender, Class, and Tourism at the Grand Island Popper Site
• Machek, Jonathan (Illinois State U) Korean Adoptees in the United States
• Adachi, Nobuko (Illinois State U) Discussant

[3-10] 1:45 – 4:00  Reassessing Anthropology Methods, Evidence, and Theory [V]. 
Chair:  James Dow  (Oakland U)  Fortune Square C

• Sutton, Brian (Kansas State U) Redefining the Apotheosis: Challenging Western Anthropologists’ Rights
• Messenger, John C. (Ohio State U) Publish and Perish
• Chapin, Margaret (Centre C) Encountering Ecuador:  Issues in Visual Anthropology
• Jung, Patrick (Milwaukee S of Engineering) The Location of the Proto-Historic Ho-Chunk: A New Look at the Evidence
• Foley, Vernard (Purdue U) Trans-Atlantic Paleo-migration: Some New Considerations
• Bradshaw, Brandon Cord (Indiana-Purdue U at Fort Wayne) Reinterpreted Glyphs of the Harappan Script (2500 – 1700 BCE)

[3-11] 1:45 – 3:30  Participant Spectatorship?  Thoughts on the Relationship between Participating and Spectating [O].
Organizers: Linda Horwitz and Holly Swyers (Lake Forest C).  Chair:  Holly Swyers (Lake Forest C)  Golden Ballroom 1

• Horwitz, Linda and Holly Swyers (Lake Forest C) From Fantasy Sports to Fantasy Congress: Shifting Terrains and Values of Spectatorship
• Berry, Alli (Lake Forest C) Falling Short of the Summit: Exploring Femininity and Intercollegiate Coaching
• Wolfcale, Hayley (Lake Forest C) Tutu or Briefcase? The Career Choices of Potential Ballerinas
• Austin, Kathleen (Lake Forest C) Duendes, Monitos, and Fantasmas: How the U.S.-Mexico Border Affects Cultural Perceptions of Reality

[3-12] 1:45 – 3:00  Identity and Transitions: Changing Categories [O]. 
Organizer and chair:  Lorë Phillips (U of Minnesota) Golden Ballroom 2

• Phillips, Lorë (U of Minnesota) German High-tech Immigration: Transitions in the 21st Century
• Walton, Thomas  (U of Minnesota) Growing Up, Becoming Ill: Mental Health, Subjectivity and Imagined Futures among Young Adults
• Brandt, Anna (Dennison U) Analyzing Denison University’s Curriculum Through the Perspective of First-Generation Students
• O’Leary, Heather (U of Minnesota) Structures of Dissolution: Thoreau’s Execution of Kantian Metaphor
• Hall, Kim (Centre C) The Evolution of Destruction

4:00 – 9:30   Reception at Butler University and city visit.  Reception at Butler University, followed by brief tour of downtown and dinner stop at restaurants on Massachusetts Ave.  Transportation provided.