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1979-1980 Ethnohistory Workshop Series


Speakers, 1979-1980

Fall 1979

October 4, 1979: Igor Kopytoff, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Speculations about the Internal African Frontier"

October 25, 1979: Kevin Gosner, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "The Tzeltal Revolt of 1712: A Brief Overview"

November 15, 1979: James Axtell, Department of History, William and Mary College
Paper Title: "The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North American"

December 6, 1979: Karen Kerner, Carol Parssinen, Terry M. Parssinen, and David Feingold, Institute for the Study of Human Issues
Paper Title: "Dope Fiends and Gentlewomen: Opium and Society in Victorian Britain"

Spring 1980

January, 1980: Michael Adas, Rutgers College, Rutgers University
Paper Title: "From Avoidance to Confrontation: Peasant Protest in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Southeast Asia"

March, 1980: Nancy Hewitt, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "An Ethnohistorical Approach to Women's Activism in Rochester, New York, 1820-1860"

March, 1980: David Gilmore
Paper Title: "Notes on Political-Religious Development in Medieval Spain and Morocco"

April, 1980: Barbara K. Kopytoff
Paper Title: "Religious Change among the Jamaican Maroons: The Triumph of the Christian God Within a Traditional Cosmology"


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