3-0655 TRACING CULTURES AND CREATING MEMORY IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-15:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Bennetta Jules-Rosette (University of California, San Diego) and Erica L Fontana (University of California, San Diego)

Chairs: Bennetta Jules-Rosette (University of California, San Diego)

Discussants: Wayne H Osborn (Georgetown University and Georgetown University)

13:45

Deeply Rooted: Cultural Continuity In the Social and Political Systems of New Orleans Second Line Traditions

Shukrani K Gray (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

14:00

The Presence of the Past: Comparing Memorial Museums

Erica L Fontana (University of California, San Diego)

14:15

Palimpsests of Place: Tourism and Memory Work In Black Paris

Bennetta Jules-Rosette (University of California, San Diego)

14:30

Consuming Death, Disaster and the Macabre: Genocide Tourism In Rwanda

Lorna Lueker-Zukas (National University)

14:45

Unmixing the Trace: A Digital Interaction with African Art

Wayne H Osborn (Georgetown University)

15:00

Discussant

Wayne H Osborn (Georgetown University and Georgetown University)

15:15

Discussion

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