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

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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Organizers: Charlie Piot (Duke ) and Joel L Robbins (UCSD)

Chairs: Jack johnson Morava (Johns Hopkins University)

Discussants: Frederick H Damon (University of Virginia)

13:45

Braids As Culture

Jack johnson Morava (Johns Hopkins University)

14:00

Napo Runa Notions of History, Value, and the New Socialism In Ecuador

Michael A Uzendoski (Florida State University)

14:15

What Are They Trying to Produce? Damon’s Question and the Anthropology of Value

Joel L Robbins (UCSD and University of California, San Diego)

14:30

Traces of Persons, Tidemarks of Things: Migration, Vodou and Christianity In Léogâne, Haiti

Karen E Richman (Notre Dame University)

14:45

Damonology: West African Pentecostalism and Debt

Charlie Piot (Duke )

15:00

Debt and Charlottesville’s First Citizen: Accountants Versus Anthropologists

Carrie B Douglass (University of Virginia)

15:15

Hegemonic Decay and the Commodification of Algonquian Symbolism: Historical, Archaeoogical, and Linguistic Measures of Reciprocity In the Multi-Cultural Chesapeake During Contact

Seth W Mallios (San Diego State University)

15:30

Break

15:45

Rethinking Omarakana: Botanical Versus Concentric Structures In the Spatio-Temporal Configuration of Trobriand Villages

Mark S Mosko (Australian National University)

16:00

From Yams to Rice

Christopher A Gregory (Australian National University)

16:15

Roads Along Which Deities Travel, or Host-Guest Relations In the Ritual Landscape of Southeast China

Mingming Wang (Peking University)

16:30

Bending the Logic: Imagining Kinship In Non-Genealogical Terms

Sandra C Bamford (University of Toronto)

16:45

Kinship As a Relation

Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge University)

17:00

Damon's Gyroscope

Roy Wagner (UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA)

17:15

Discussant

Frederick H Damon (University of Virginia)

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