Amerindian Studies Seminars
Candlemas Term 2012
The seminars will take place in the Social Anthropology Seminar Room from 3-5 pm
15th February "Pocket Calculator: Thinking Through a Humdrum Obviator" Anthony Pickles, University of St Andrews
23rd February "From Ashaninka to Kamaari and Back Again: Of Ashaninka Humanity and the Interpretation of truth(s) in the Peruvian Internal War". Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, University of St Andrews
29th February "Revealing Social Spaces: The Production of "Community" among the Amahuaca of Lowland Peru" Christopher Hewlett, University of St Andrews
21st March "Technical Competence in Andean Weaving as Means of Symbolic Distinction". Cassandra Torrico.
28th March Easter Break
4th April Easter Break
11th April " 'Jamaica 50': The Role of Peasantization in the Development of a Caribbean Nation-State. Jean Besson. Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths College.
2nd May '"Why do they steal our phonemes?" Language and the imagining of identity in the Ecuadorean Andes'. Professor Rosaleen Howard, Newcastle University.
9th may "To give a good barter: Material transactions and religious celebrations in the Argentinean Andes". Dr. Olivia Angé. University of Oxford.
Martinmas Term 2011
The seminars will take place in the Departmental Seminar Room. Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 3pm, CAS reading room unless otherwise stated.
27th September (Tuesday, 5pm start). "Migrating for an education: Family, Gender and Social Mobility among Caribbean Nurses in Britain". Professor Karen Fog Olwig, University of Copenhagen.
5th October. Dr. Hanne Cottyn. "Pastoralist communities, their struggles and archives on the Bolivian Altiplano".
12th October. Dr Clare Melhuish. "Aesthetics of Social Identity: Re-framing and Evaluating Modernist Architecture as Cultural Heritage in Martinique".
19th October (4 pm start). Dr. Emilia Ferraro. "Beads, coins and rosaries in the Andes".
26th October(4:30 pm start). Dr. Matias Viotti Barbalato. "Power and Youth: "Gangs" in Lima"
Dr. Marta Romero Delgado. "The meaning of war for the women in the Peruvian guerrila movements (1980-2000)".
2nd November. Professor Nadia Farage. "Antigone's Duty: Images of the Feminine and the Animalic in the Work of Lima Barreto".
CAS Reading Group (to take place at 4 pm on Wednesdays)
16th of November Persistence and Transformation. Readings by Rose and Baker
23rd of November (4-6 pm) Film: "O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias". [The Year My Parents Went On Vacation]
30th of November Language. Readings by Overing and Drummond
7th of December Rebellion. Readings by Farage and Benitez Rojo
For further information, please contact:
Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Department of Social Anthropology
School of Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies
University of St Andrews
71 North Street
St Andrews, Fife
KY16 9AL Scotland, UK
Email: amerindian@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 462986/2977
Fax: +44 (0)1334 462985
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