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Speakers, 1976-1977

Fall 1976

October 7, 1976: Nancy Farriss, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Pre-Columbian Studies
Paper Title: "The Dynamics of Population Movement in Colonial Yucatan"

October 28, 1976: Barbara Klamon Kopytoff, Department of Social Relations, Lehigh University
Paper Title: "Colonial Treaty as Mythological Charter of the Jamaican Maroons"

November 18, 1976: Henrika Kuklick, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "The Therapeutic Revolution: Medicine, Meaning and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America"

December 9, 1976: Henry Glassie, Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Architectural Evidence of Social Change in Modern Ireland"

Spring 1977

January 27, 1977: Igor Kopytoff, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Traditional African Slavery"

February 17, 1977: Bernard Wailes, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Archaeological Sequences, Historical Chronology and Cultural Evolution"

March 10, 1977: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Sex as a Symbol in Victorian Purity: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of Jacksonian America"

March 31, 1977: Renata Holod, Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "History and the Physical Setting: Reconstructing Pre-Modern Isfahan"

April 21, 1977: Arjun Appadurai, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "The Pasts of a South Indian Temple"