CAS Seminars
Candlemas Term 2013
The seminars will take place on Wednesday afternoons in the CAS Reading Room.
30th January. (3pm start) "Value, Community, Practice: Reflections from Highland Ecuador". Tristan Partridge, Edinburgh University.
6th February. (3 pm start) "Gravity unleashed: notes on implosion procedures for public buildings in Rio de Janeiro", Alberto Goyena, Aberdeen University/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
13th February. (4pm start) "Performing Mayaness: myth, politics and embodiment in Cosmayapolitan perspectives", Genner Llanes- Ortiz, Royal Holloway, University of London
20th February. (3pm start) "Enawene-nawe cosmogonic dam- fishing: living myth and risky predation at the hinge between levels of the universe, Chloe Nahum Claudel, University of Cambridge
10th April. (3pm start) "Recognizing Indigenous Peoples'rights: ethnographic approaches", Carlos Vladimir Zambrano Rodriguez, University of Cadiz, Spain
11th April. (3pm start) "German ethnological expeditions in Mexico. Indigenous perspectives through objects and songs", Margarita Valdovino, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin, Germany
22 April. (to be confirmed) "La construccion de los Orientes en la Bolivia Republicana, 1825-1952", Pilar Garcia Jordan, University of Barcelona
Martinmas Term 2012
The seminars will take place on Wednesday afternoons in the CAS Reading Room.
26th September. (3pm start) "Tambien la Lluvia / Even the Rain". Film showing and discussion.
3rd October. (4pm start) "The emergence of indigenous movements in the context of armed conflict and the peace process in Guatemala, 1978-96". Roddy Brett, University of St Andrews.
10th October. (4pm start) Regionalist research workshop.
17th October. (4pm start) "Manioc Beer in the Amazon: Outline of a Research Project". Peter Gow and Juan Pablo Sarmiento, University of St Andrews.
18th October. (4pm start) "Sacrificio, producción de la vida y co-actividad en Mesoamérica" Perig Pitrou, CNRS, Laboratoire D'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris.
24th October. (4pm start) "Research in the Andes - a Conversation". Sabine Hyland, University of St Andrews.
7th November. (4pm start) "Problems Around Animal Sacrifice: A Comparison of Afro-Brazilian Religious Practices in Brazil and the USA". Bettina Schmidt, School of Theology, Lampeter.
14th November. (4pm start) "Social Networking in Nineteenth Century Mexico". Melissa Boyd, University of St Andrews.
21st November (4pm start) "Entanglements in Aguabuena (Colombia): Towards a Theory of Envy". Daniela Castellanos, University of St Andrews
28th November (3pm start) "Conflictive resurgence of an ethnic identity: The Leco of Apolo (Bolivian piedmont)". Francis Ferrie, Université de Paris X, Nanterre
5th December (3pm start) “The calling of deities: exploring ways of becoming a shaman among Tepehuan of North Mexico”. Antonio Reyes Valdez, University of St Andrews
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
Candlemas Term 2011
The seminars will take place in the Social Anthropology Seminar Room from 3-5 pm.
23rd Feb. “Disturbances of Relatedness: the sense and significance of madness in Quechua-speaking peasant communities of Cusco, Peru”. David Orr, UCL
2nd March “The speculum of envy: envious beings in an envious world”.
Daniela Castellanos, U. of St Andrews
9th March “Questions of (meta)freedom in a Brazilian Favela”.
Moises Lino e Silva, U. of St Andrews
16th March STAR Workshop
23rd March “Biomedicine and folkhealers in Jaré, Bahia, rural Brazil”. Paulo Alves, Visiting scholar St Andrews, Federal University of Bahia
20th Apr. “Mixed people in pueblos de indios of Córdoba. Conflicts and debates around lands (18th-19th centuries)”. Sonia Tell, Visiting Scholar
St Andrews, Universidad de Córdoba
27th Apr. “Racism, mestizaje and sex/gender relations”. Peter Wade, Manchester University
4th May “Smells Like Team Spirit: ritualizing Modernity in Peruvian Amazonia”. Harry Walker, LSE
CAS WORKSHOPS
10th May 5:00 pm Film: “La Tentación de Potosí”Director Pascale Absi. School III
11th May 5:00 pm Lecture by Emilia Ferraro, U. of St Andrews. This will be preceded by a student workshop. Details TBA
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
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