In the World and About the World: Amerindian” Modes of Knowledge

November 28th and 29th, 2005

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Closing Remarks — Dell Hymes, University of Virginia

Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO)

February 22-24 - The 2007 Annual Meeting will be held at the Charlottesville Omni Hotel at the head of the Downtown Mall (opposite the ice skating rink)

UVa students and scholars are encouraged to attend any of 16 sessions on intellectual property rights, indigenous anthropology, violence and gender, food and globalization, empathy, mining, adoption, mortuary rites, material culture, egalitarianism and hierarchy, diaspora and identity, anthropology of the senses, imagination and innovation, indigenous struggles, race ideology, and pedagogies of colonization, decolonization, and vernacularization

Participants will include 80-120 anthropologists from universities throughout North America, the Pacific, and Europe

Session descriptions and schedules are available online at www.asao.org Please plan on attending:

• Distinguished lecture by Bradd Shore Professor of Anthropology, Emory University "Samoan Shorelines: What Thirty Eight Years Visiting Samoa has Taught me about Doing Anthropology" Charlottesville Omni Hotel, Salon C Thursday 2/22, 8-9pm Lecture will be followed by a cash bar reception, 9-11pm
• Reception for UVa and ASAO anthropologists with wine and hors d'oeuvres sponsored by the UVa Department of Anthropology, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, and The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, at the gorgeous Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, 400 Worrell Drive, Peter Jefferson Place, Pantops Friday 2/23, 6-8pm