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Speakers, 1977-1978

Fall 1977

September 22, 1977: G. William Skinner, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Paper Title: "The Social Structure of Chinese Cities: How Fare the Theories of Comparative Urban Sociologists"

October 13, 1977: Arthur G. Miller, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Pre-Columbian Studies
Paper Title: "Visual Archetypes: A Study of Meaning in Maya Art"

November 3, 1977: Lynn Lees, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "The Transformation of the Irish Religious Mentality in the Nineteenth Century"

November 17, 1977: Ronald Inden, Department of History, University of Chicago
Paper Title: "The Ceremony of the Great Gift in Indian History"

December 8, 1977: Drew Faust, Department of American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Words with the Power of Things: Rhetoric and Agriculture in Ante-Bellum South Carolina"

Spring 1978

February 2, 1978: Irene Winter, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Perspective on the 'Local Style' of Hasanlu IVB: A Study in Receptivity"

February 16, 1978: Dan Ben-Amos, Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Ake Cult and Culture"

March 9, 1978: Susan Naquin, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "The Rebellion of Wang Lun in 1774: Some Thoughts on Causality"

March 30, 1978: Natalie Davis
Paper Title: "The Sacred and the Body Social in Sixteenth Century Lyon"

April 20, 1978: Brian Spooner, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Tribal Ideal and Political Reality in a Cultural Borderland: Ethnohistorical Problems in Baluchistan"