Monday Seminars: Fall Quarter, 2001

October 1 - Mario Rivera
(Tinker Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago;
Research Archaeologist, Chilean National Commission of Science & Technology)
Chilean Prehistory: Current Issues and Theoretical Approaches

October 8 - James Siegel
(Professor of Anthropology & Asian Studies, Cornell University)
The Truth of Sorcery

October 15 - Michele R. Gamburd
(Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Portland State University)
"That money burns like oil": A Sri Lankan Cultural Logic of Morality and Work

October 22 - Abdelmajid Hannoum
(Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Simon's Rock of Bard)
History, Myth, and Memory: The Story of a North African Heroine, the Kahine

October 29 - Kesha Fikes
(Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida)
The Spatial Mobility Industry: Emigration and the
Transnational Production of Local Difference in Cape Verde

November 12 - Bambi Schieffelin
(Professor of Anthropology, New York University)
Topic: TBA

November 12 - Fredrik Barth
(Professor of Anthropology, Boston University)
Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge

December 3 - Karl-Heinz Kohl
(Theodore Huess Visiting Professor, New School University; Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology & Director of the Frobenius Institute, University of Frankfurt)
Guided Sentiments: Prescriptive Marriage and Romantic Love in an East Indonesian Community

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Fall 2000