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Death: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

Speakers, 1985-1986

Fall 1985

October 10, 1985: James Watson, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Paper Titles: "Funeral Specialists in Cantonese Society: Pollution, Performance and the Structure of Rites"

October 31, 1985: Paul Greenough, Department of History, University of Iowa
Paper Title: "The Death of an Uncrowned King--C.R. Das and Political Crisis in Twentieth-Century Bengal"

November 21, 1985: Diane Hughes, Department of History, University of Michigan
Paper Title: "The Death of Mourning: The Control of Ritual in the Medieval Italian City"

Spring 1986

January 30, 1986: Renato Rosaldo, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Paper Title: "Death in the Ethnographic Present"

February 20, 1986: Dale Eickelman, Department of Anthropology, New York University
Paper Title: "Death in Islam"

March 6, 1986: Maurice Bloch, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Paper Title: "Tombs and Kingship Organization in Madagascar"

March 27, 1986: Thomas Laqueur, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Paper Title: "The Birth of the Autopsy in Early Modern England"

April 17, 1986: Bernard Cohn, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Paper Title: "War Dead and the Development of Nationalism"