that time of year again for me to summarize the upcomming Northeast Anthropology
Association meetings, being held this year 24-28 March at Western Connecticut
State University, in Danbury CT. The actual sessions start on Thursday 25
March. I'll just list the day, time, session title, and session chair. If
anyone wants more info on a particular session, ask me. If you want info on
the conference itself, contact Dr Laurie Weinstein-Farson, Dept of Social
Sciences, WCSU, Danbury, CT 06810-6885.
Thursday, 25 March
8 am Food for Thought. Grace Morth Fraser
Seneca-Iroquois Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Russell Judkins
The Politics of Women's Identity in Post-Colonial Contexts.
Francois Dussart
The Economics of Power and Family Systems. ?
1015 am The Genesee Valley: Archaeological Perspectives. E R Kintz
Methods in Archaeology. ?
Symbolic and Linguistic Studies. ?
115 am Materials Analysis of Ceramics and Lithics. Barbara Calogero
& Duncan Ritchie
United States Issues. ?
Lessons from Prisons: Anthropologists in Prisons and Teaching
Anthropology to Inmates. E Filios & D G Nixon
(oops! that should have read "115 pm")
330 pm Physical and Applied Anthropology. ?
WORKSHOP: Creative Writing: How to get your work published in
the small presses. Megan Morwen Johnstone
General Archaeology. ?
Gender Related Issues. ?
Friday, 26 March
8 am Multicultural Issues in the United States. ?
Historical Archaeology in the Nineties: Case Studies from
New England. Suzanne Glover & Paul Russo
1015 am Death and Dying. Lynn Flint
Corporate Hegemony in Transition: The US Past and Present.
Brian Larkin
115 pm WORKSHOP: The Discourse of Gender and the Gender of Discourse.
Charles Briggs & Alice Greenwood
New England Ethnobotany and Ethnology. *ME*
Enduring Traditions. Laurie Weinstein
Analytical Results from the Millbury III Susquahanna Cremation
Complex. Alan Leveillee
330 pm Anthropology of Deviance: Some Applications. Philip L Kilbride
7 pm Dinner and Keynote Address: "Anthropology: Science or Humanity"
Robert Carneiro
Saturday, 27 March
8 am Prehistory and Paleoecology of Long Island Sound. David
Bernstein
Power, Nationality and Identity. ?
Native Northeastern Cultural Brokers. Robert Grumet
1015 am ROUNDTABLE: What Do I Do with an Anthro BA? Giving and Getting
Undergraduate Advice. J Omohundro
Noon Presidential Banquet: "What's Wrong with Paleoanthropology That
a Little Culture Won't Cure?" Charles Bishop
Tour of the Institute for American Indian Studies
End of Meetings
Don't ask me why the schedule says it goes through the 28th. Question marks for
session chairs mean that these sessions are composed of individually submitted
papers, and so no chair had been selected when the schedule was sent out for
printing. My own session was that way, but Dr Weinstein asked me to chair it.
(insert big smiley face here)
-Pat Crowe