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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Paper Title: "Photographs as Historical Documents: Reconstructing Court Rituals of the Bamum (Cameroon)"


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