In the World and About the World: Amerindian” Modes of Knowledge
November 28th and 29th, 2005
10.00 - 11.00
Why Gender Relations are Blood Relations
Luisa Elvira Belaunde Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
11.00 - 12.00
Joanna Overing, University of St. Andrews
13.00 - 14.00
Instrumental Speeches, Morality and Sociality among Muinane People (Colombian Amazon)
Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin, University of Regina, Canada
14.00 - 15.00
From One to Metaphor: Towards an Understanding of Pa’ikwené (Palikur) Mathematics
Alan Passes, Novelist, Film Writer, and Anthropologist United Kingdom
15.00 - 16.00
The Effectiveness of Symbols” Revisited: Ayoreo Curing Songs
John Renshaw, Consultant, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo United Kingdom Tuesday 29th November
09.00 - 10.00
Bororo Funerals: Images of the Refacement of the World
Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, University Of San Paulo, Brazil
10.00 - 11.00
Sensual Shadows, Insensitive Bodies: Yanesha Non-Corporeal Modes of Sensing and Knowing
Fernando Santos-Granero, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panamá
11.00 - 12.00
Pakara – The Basket of Knowledge
George Mentore, University of Virginia
13.00 - 14.00
You Shall Have the Poor with You Always” (Matt. 26:11) Images of Suffering and Charity With-in Juazeiro do Norte: Utopia and Sociality
Roberta Bivar C. Campos, University of Pernambuco-Brazil
14.00 - 15.00
Peter Gow, University of St. Andrews
15.00 - 16.00
The Seduction of the Enemy: A Strategy for Producing Persons and Artifacts among the Cashinahua
Els Lagrou, Department of Anthropology and Graduate Program of Sociology and Anthropology, UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Brazil.
Closing Remarks
Dell Hymes, University of Virginia