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1981-1982 Ethnohistory Workshop Series
Reconstructing Popular Belief Systems
Speakers, 1981-1982
Fall 1981
September 24, 1981: Nathan Sivin, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Ailment and Cure in Traditional China"
October 15, 1981: Richard Trexier, State University of New York at Binghamton
Paper Title: "From the Mouth of Babes: Christianization by Children in Sixteenth Century New Spain"
November 5, 1981: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College
Paper Title: "The Golden Age Revisited: The History of the Chambri, 1905-1927"
Paper Title: "The Cosmic Order in Crisis"
December 10, 1981: Abner Cohen, University of London
Paper Title: "A Polyethnic London Carnival As a Contested Cultural Performance"
Spring 1982
January 21, 1982: William A. Christian, Jr.
Paper Title: "Images and Emotions in Early Modern Spain"
February 11, 1982: Jan Vansina, University of Wisconsin
Paper Title: "The History of God among the Kuba"
March 4, 1982: George Kubler, Yale University
Paper Title: "Serpent and Atlantean Columns: Symbols of Maya-Toltec Polity (Yucatan, Mexico)"
March 25, 1982: Warren Fusfeld, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "A Sufi Tradition in Dehli: Connectedness, Structure and Change"
April 15, 1982: Christraud Geary, African Studies Center, Boston University
Paper Title: "Photographs as Historical Documents: Reconstructing Court Rituals of the Bamum (Cameroon)"
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