Ethnohistory 1991-1992 Workshops

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1991-1992 Ethnohistory Workshop Series


Race and Science

Speakers, 1991-1992

Fall 1991

October 10, 1991: Roger Abrahams, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "The Plantation and the Frontier: The Work Party as American Pastoral"

October 24, 1991: Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institution
Paper Title: "Early Representations of Africa at the Smithsonian"

November 14, 1991: Nicholas Dirks, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Paper Title: "Castes and Bodies: The Colonial Construction of the Indian Subject"

December 5, 1991: Howard Winant, Temple University
Paper Title: "Contesting the Meaning of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Period"

Spring 1992

January 30, 1992: Warwick Anderson, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Where Every Prospect Pleases, and Only Man is Vile: Laboratory medicine as Colonial Discourse in the Philippines"

February 13, 1992: Carl Degler, Stanford University
Paper Title: "Why Did Culture Triumph?"

March 5, 1992: Steven Feierman, University Florida and The Davis Center, Princeton University
Paper Title: "Conquest, Ritual Authority, and the Politics of Survival in Africa"

March 19, 1992: Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College
Paper Title: "Moral Anthropology and the Ming-Qing Transition: China's Seventeenth-Century Anthropology"

April 9, 1992: Shahid Amin, Delhi University and The Davis Center, Princeton University
Paper Title: "Local and Familial Remembrance of an Infamous Event: 4th February, 1922"


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