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1980-1981 Ethnohistory Workshop Series


Speakers, 1980-1981

Fall 1980

October 9, 1980: Basim Musallam, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Biological Theory and Social Regulation in Pre-Modern Islam: Conception, Development of the Foetus and Abortion"

October 30, 1980: Rhys Isaac, Department of History, LaTrobe University, Australia
Paper Title: "Ethnographic Method in History: An Action Approach"

November 20, 1980: Edward Schieffelin, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "The Revenge of the Animals: On the Historification of Myth"

December 11, 1980: Richard J. Evans, Department of History, University of East Anglia
Paper Title: "Rituals of Retribution: The Decline of the Public Execution in 19th Century Prussia"

Spring 1981

January 29, 1981: Paula Ben-Amos, ISHI and University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Royal Art and Ideology in 18th-Century Benin (Nigeria)"

February 19, 1981: Steven Feierman, Department of History, University of Wisconsin
Paper Title: "A History of Conceptions of Misfortune in Northeastern Tanzania"

March 12, 1981: Drew Faust, Department of American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "In Search of 'Despotic Sway': A Master and His Slaves in Antebellum South Carolina, 1830-1860"

April 2, 1981: Gillian Sankoff, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Labor Recruitment in Melanesia in the 1880's: Conflicts in Action and Understanding"

April 23, 1981: Marcus Rediker, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Anglo-American Piracy in the Early 18th Century: A Subculture of Maritime Labor"


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