IN THE WORLD AND ABOUT THE WORLD:

“AMERINDIAN” MODES OF KNOWLEDGE

An International Conference

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

November 28th and 29th, 2005

Monday 28th November

Opening Remarks

Vic-Provost of the University

10.00 to 11.00

Paper Abstracts

Why Gender Relations are Blood Relations

Luisa Elvira Belaunde

Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

11.00 to 12.00

Joanna Overing

University of St. Andrews

(title to be announced)

13.00 to 14.00

Instrumental Speeches, Morality and Sociality among Muinane People

(Colombian Amazon)

Carlos D. Londońo Sulkin

University of Regina, Canada

14.00 to 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 to 16.00

“The Effectiveness of Symbols” Revisited: Ayoreo Curing Songs

John Renshaw

Consultant, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

United Kingdom

Tuesday 29th November

09.00 to 10.00

Bororo Funerals:

 Images of the Refacement of the World

Sylvia Caiuby Novaes

 University Of San Paulo, Brazil

10.00 to 11.00

Sensual Shadows, Insensitive Bodies:

Yanesha Non-Corporeal Modes of Sensing and Knowing

Fernando Santos-Granero

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Panamá

11.00 to 12.00

Pakara – The Basket of Knowledge

George Mentore

University of Virginia

13.00 to 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 to 15.00

Peter Gow

University of St. Andrews

(title to be announced)

15.00 to 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.

Dell Hymes

University of Virginia