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
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