Sessions
at a Glance
Thursday Evening, April 4
4:00 Registration Foyer
6:00 Cash Bar Foyer
Friday Morning, April 5
8:30 Key
Symposium I: Theory and Method in the Study of Southern Stuyvesant
Linguistic
Diversity
8:30 Social and
Cultural Issues in Central Africa Vanderbilt
I
8:30 Medical
and Biological Anthropology Vanderbilt II
10:30 Anthropology,
History and Native America:
New Approaches to the Past, Vanderbilt
II
Present and Future of Native North
Americans
10:30 The Culture of Children and Youth Stuyvesant
10:30 Cross-Cultural
Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality Vanderbilt I
Friday Afternoon, April 5
12:00 Executive
Board Meeting Amherst
1:30 Key
Symposium II: The Impact of Language Ideology on Language Use Vanderbilt II
and Language
Programs in the South
1:30 Race, Power and History in the U.S. Vanderbilt
I
1:30 Belief and
Practice: Reconciliations and Innovation Stuyvesant
3:30 The Dynamic Culture of the Pre-Contact and Early-Contact
Southeast Vanderbilt II
3:15 Ethnographic
Film: Ross Mountain
Community Hog Fry Vanderbilt
I
4:30 General Business
Meeting
Friday Evening, April 5
5:30 Reception
Sponosored by UNC-Asheville Foyer
6:00 Awards
Presentation Foyer
6:30 Music:
Mary Jane Queen and Family Courtyard
8:00 Film:
Songcatcher Stuyvesant
Saturday Morning, April 6
8:30 Key
Symposium III: Linguistic Complexity and Change in Southern Stuyvesant
Speech
Communities, Past and Present
8:30 Culture
and Nature: Managing Cultural and Natural Landscapes and Resources Vanderbilt
I
8:30 Archaeology
in Western North Carolina Vanderbilt
II
11:00 Subconscious
Processes and Discontinuities in Language Vanderbilt
I
11:00 Body, God
and Spirit: Enclaves and Icons of Faith Stuyvesant
Saturday Afternoon, April 6
12:40 Crafts
Traditions in the South: Legacy, Conservation, and Transformations Vanderbilt II
1:00 Green Corn
Ceremonialism Across the South Vanderbilt I
1:00 Changing
Community in the South: Context, Cause and Effect Stuyvesant
Saturday Evening, April 6
4:30 Buses
board for Cherokee
6:00 Reception,
Museum of the Cherokee Indian
7:00 Talk by
Alan Kilpatrick, Toward a Medical History of the Eastern Cherokee
Sunday Morning, April 7
8:30 Bigfoot-Big
Shoes: Remembering Grover Krantz (1931-2002) and Bigfoot Stuyvesant
8:30 Language
and the Construction of Identities Vanderbilt
II
8:30 Indigenous
and Migrant Communities in Latin America Vanderbilt I
11:00 Lessons from
Fieldwork in Nepal Stuyvesant
11:00 Anthropological
Approaches to the Study of Kinship Vanderbilt I
Official Program
Southern
Anthropological Society
April 4-7, 2002
Quality Inn Biltmore
Asheville,
North Carolina
Thursday Evening, April 4
4:00
– 8:00 Registration Foyer
6:00
– 8:00 Cash Bar Foyer
Friday Morning, April 5
9:00
– 5:00 Book
Exhibits Foyer
Key Symposium: Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes,
Practices and Ideology
Key Symposium Abstract:
This year's key symposium pays tribute to the rich tapestry of languages
and dialects spoken in the U.S. South.
Special attention is focused on changing patterns of usage, new
linguistic forms and genres, and relationships between beliefs about language
and local values, practices and institutions.
Session I: Theory and Method in the Study of Southern Linguistic Diversity Stuyvesant
Organizer and Chair: Margaret
Bender (Wake Forest
University)
8:30 Kirk Hazen
(West Virginia University)
Defining Southern English: Bidialectalism and Beyond
8:50 David
Herman (North Carolina State
University), Narrative,
Typification, and Social Cognition
9:10 Christine
Mallinson (North Carolina State
University) Constructing
Ethnolinguistic Groups: A Sociolinguistic Case Study
9:30 Walt
Wolfram (North Carolina State
University) Sociolinguistic
Involvement and Dialect Preservation: A Critical Analaysis
9:50 Discussant: Blair Rudes
(UNC-Charlotte)
10:10 Discussion
Social and Cultural Issues in Central Africa Vanderbilt
I
Organizer
and Chair: John
D. Studstill (Columbus
State University)
8:30 Florence
Wakoko (Fort Valley
State University)
Women, Economics and Empowerment in Uganda
8:50 Richard
Reid (Columbus State
University) The
AIDS Crisis in Central Africa: What Can Be Done?
9:10 Kelly
Swinyard (Columbus State
University) War and Control of
Resources in Congo
Today
9:30 Adele
Daniels (Columbus State
University) The
Refugee Crisis in the Congo:
Who They Are, Where They Are and Why
9:50 John
D. Studstill (Columbus
State University)
Traditional Religionin Congo:
The Luba Political Epic
10:10 Discussion
Medical and Biological Anthropology (Volunteered Papers) Vanderbilt II
Convener: Marie Danforth (University
of Southern Mississippi)
8:30 Nancy R.
Anderson (UT-Knoxville) Health Voices: Nuclear Waste and Toxins in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee
8:50 Julian M.
Murchison (Millsaps College)
The Woman That Gave Birth to a Box?!: Stories About an
AIDS Cure in Southern Tanzania
9:10 Marie
Danforth (University of Southern
Mississippi) Use of the Human Genome Project in
the Anthropology Classroom
9:30 Erin R.
Villarraga (University of Southern
Mississippi) Gauging Population Health With Nordin’s Index
9:50 Stacey M.
Curry (University of Southern
Mississippi) Interspecies Proximity Patterns of
Four Lemur Species in Captivity
10:10 Discussion
Anthropology, History and
Native America:
New Approaches to the Past, Vanderbilt
II
Present
and Future of Native North Americans
Organizer
and Chair: Stephen Rosecan (University
of Chicago)
Session Abstract: This panel focuses on the experiences of
Native North Americans. Attention will
be directed towards using new understandings of historical anthropology and
anthropological history to rethink empirical evidence from Native North
America. The intention is to contribute
towards new understandings of the past, present and future of Native North
America while transcending some of the simple binary oppositions (persistence
v. change; idealism v. materialism; culture v. history) that continue to
structure scholarship on American Indians.
10:30 Grandt
Arndt (University of Chicago)
Wisconsin Powwows and the Power of Cultural Performance
10:50 Wyman Kirk (Indiana
University) Collecting Histories:
Cherokee Ethnography in Oklahoma
11:10 Stephen
Rosecan (University of Chicago)
Striving to Remake Their Lives: Spirituality, Social Relations and Sweats Among the Mississippi
Choctaws
11:30 Discussant: Frederic W.
Gleach (Cornell University)
11:50 Discussion
The Culture of Children
and Youth (Volunteered
Papers) Stuyvesant
Convener: Malcolm C. Webb (University
of New Orleans)
10:30 Laura
Jewett (Louisiana State
University) Lil’ Mardi Gras and the Curriculum of Courir
10:50 Malcolm C.
Webb (University of New
Orleans) Rowling On, Rowling On:
When Potter and Anti-Potter Collide
11:10 Mike
Addabbo (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)
Rocking the Washington Monument,
Subverting Capitalism: The Punkrock Subculture in Washington,
D.C.)
11:30 Discussion
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality (Volunteered Papers) Vanderbilt I
Convener: Brian Joseph Gilley (North
Central College)
10:30 Hunter Fink
(Western Carolina
University) Women and Work: An
Exploration of Women’s Roles in the Domestic and Public Workplaces of Finland
and Russia
10:50 Patricia L. Fogarty (Georgia State University) Not Just “Bland Cultural
Relativism”: Women and the Ideology of the Scarf in Turkey
11:10 Brian Joseph Gilley (North Central College) Real Two-Spirits, Real
Indians: Authenticity, Desire and Social Belonging in Southern Indian
Communities
11:30 Discussion
Friday Afternoon, April 5
12:00 Executive Board Meeting Amherst
Key Symposium II Vanderbilt
II
The Impact of Language Ideology
on Language Use and Language Programs
in
the South
Organizer: Margaret Bender
Chair: Blair Rudes (UNC-Charlotte)
1:30 Pamela Innes (University of Wyoming) How Changing Attitudes Toward Fluency Among the Muskogee/Creek Affect Retention of
Medicine–Making Language
1:50 Willard Walker (Wesleyan University), Linda Jordan (Oklahoma State University), Raymond Vann (Ross Mountain Community Foundation) and
Frank Swimmer (Ross Mountain Community Foundation)
Language Maintenance Methods of the Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and the Ross Mountain Keetoowahs
2:10 Shana Walton (University of Southern Mississippi) Not With a Southern
Accent: Cajun English and Ethnic Identity
2:30 Anita Puckett (Virginia Tech) Identity, Hybridity, and
Ideologies of Racial Language in the Upper South
2:50 Discussant: Margaret Bender (Wake Forest University)
3:10 Discussion
Race, Power and History in
the U.S. (Volunteered Papers)
Vanderbilt
I
Convener: Harry G. Lefever (Spelman
College)
1:30 Max E.
White (Piedmont College)
and Janice Moss (Piedmont College)
Slaves of the Moss Family, and Their Descendants
1:50 Harry G.
Lefever (Spelman College)
Gender, Racial and Ideological Clashes in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), 1964-1966
2:10 Tara
Skipper (Southern Methodist University)
‘Most White Women Have Never Been Out of a Job’: The Political Economy of Race
and Deindustrialization in an Alabama
Town
2:30 Jane
Murray, Multiculturalism, Diversification and Racism: Mediating Cultural
Conflict
2:50 Discussion
Belief and
Practice: Reconciliations and Innovation Stuyvesant
Organizer and
Chair: Celeste Ray (University of the South)
1:30 Celeste
Ray (University of the South) Phenomenological Approaches to Syncretic
Practices at Irish Holy Wells
1:50 Elizabeth
Weinman (University of the South) A Neo-Antiquarian Examination of Natural
Sites of Liminality
2:10 O. Kendall
White, Jr. (Washington and Lee
University) Reflections on
Mormonism as a “New World Religion”
2:30 BREAK
2:50 Christopher
Toumey (University
of South Carolina) Catholics and
Cultural Anthropology
3:10 Daryl
White (Spelman College)
and O. Kendall White, Jr. (Washington
and Lee University)
Biblical Inerrancy, Local Church
Autonomy, and the Remaking of Southern Baptist Polity: An Atlanta
Case Study
3:30 Keith
Tidball (Charles Sturt
University) Media Portrayals of
Appalachian Pentecostal Serpent-Handlers
3:50 Discussion
The Dynamic Culture of the Pre-Contact and Early-Contact
Southeast Vanderbilt II
(Volunteered Papers)
Convener: Karl Steinen (State University
of West Georgia)
3:30 Karl
Steinen (State University
of West Georgia)
Snakes and Corn: Subsistence and Symbolism 300BC-AD 1500
3:50 Bruce
Burton (Middle Tennessee
State University)
On the Path of the Buzzard Cult: Lunar Deities and the Severed Head
4:10 Eric E.
Bowne (University of Georgia)
A Bold and Warlike People: The Basis of Westo Power
4:30 Discussion
Ethnographic Film: Ross Mountain
Community Hog Fry Vanderbilt
I
3:15 Film Viewing
4:15 Discussant: Linda Jordan (Oklahoma
State University)
4:30 – 5:30 General Business Meeting Stuyvesant
Friday Evening, April 5
5:30-8:00 Reception Sponsored by UNC-Asheville Foyer
6:00 Awards Presentation Foyer
6:30 Music: Mary Jane Queen and
Family Courtyard
8:00 Film: Songcatcher Stuyvesant
Saturday Morning April 6
9:00
– 5:00 Book
Exhibits Foyer
Key Symposium III Stuyvesant
Linguistic Complexity and Change in Southern Speech
Communities,
Past and Present
Organizer and Chair: Margaret Bender (Wake Forest University)
8:30 Jack Martin (College of William and Mary) Creek Ways of Speaking
8:50 Heidi Altman (University of California-Davis) A Fish by Any
Other Name: Maintaining Knowledge in the Face of Change
9:10 Tom Sawallis (Florida Gulf Coast University) Language in the Media
Environment of the Florida Seminole
9:30 Susan E. Stans (Florida Gulf Coast University) and Louise Gopher
(Seminole Tribe of Florida) Language and Culture
Pull-Out Program: Seminole Initiatives to Preserve Language
9:50 Discussant:
Blair Rudes (UNC-Charlotte)
10:10 Discussion
Culture and Nature:
Managing Cultural and Natural Landscapes and Resources Vanderbilt I
(Volunteered
Papers)
Convener: Laura Ogden (University
of Florida)
8:30 Laura
Ogden (University of Florida) Florida Gladesmen: Forgotten Guides in the Creation of the Everglades Scientific Landscape
8:50 Jonna
Hausser (University of Florida) Discovering the Hidden Landscapes of National Parks: Cultural
Resource Management Within the United States National Park Service
9:10 Heather
Bartley (University of South Carolina-Columbia) Seed Saving by Homegardeners and Length of
Gardening Experience
9:30 Brittany
McPherson (University of South Carolina) Do Gardeners Have Family Members Who Also Garden?
9:50 Mary B.
LaLone (Radford University) and J. Adam Sowder (Radford University) Living History: Planning a 1930s Appalachian Farming Museum
10:10 Discussion
Archaeology in Western North Carolina Vanderbilt
II
Organizer and Chair: Jane Eastman (Western
Carolina University)
8:30 Jane M.
Eastman (Western Carolina
University) Mortuary Analysis and
Gender: he Response of Siouan Peoples to European Contact
8:50 Christopher
B. Rodning (UNC Research Labs of Archaeology) Early European Trade and Trade
Goods at Coweeta Creek
9:10 H. Trawick
Ward, Fiction from Fact at the Townson Site in Southwestern North
Carolina
9:30 David G.
Moore (Warren Wilson
College) Site Evolution and
Settlement Plan at the Warren Wilson Site
9:50 BREAK
10:10 Scott
Ashcraft (U.S. Forest
Service) The Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Western
North Carolina
10:30 Larry
R. Kimball (Appalachian State University)
and M. Scott Shumate (Appalachian State
University) The
Biltmore Mound Site: Investigating a Hopewellian Platform Mound
10:50 Thomas R. Whyte (Appalachian State
University) Radiocarbon Dates from the Ward and Katie Griffith Sites and a
Reconsideration of the Pisgah Phase in Northwestern North Carolina
11:10 Edmond
A. Boudreaux (University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Fredricks Site: Social Diversity Within a Late Contact
Period Siouan Community in North Carolina
11:30 Discussion
Subconscious Processes and Discontinuities in Language (Volunteered Papers) Vanderbilt I
Convener: Daniel W. Ingersoll,
Jr. (St. Mary’s College
of Maryland)
11:00 Daniel
W. Ingersoll, Jr. (St. Mary’s College
of Maryland) Ump
11:20 Heidi
Kelley (UNC-Asheville) and Ken Betsalel (UNC-Asheville) Mind’s Fire: Language,
Power and Representations of Stroke
11:40 Hector
Qirko (University of Tennessesee-Knoxville)
Undertoads, Mondegreens, and Top-Down Theories of Speech Perception
12:00 Discussion
God, Body and Spirit: Enclaves and Icons of Faith Stuyvesant
Convener: Murl O. Dirksen (Lee
University)
11:00 Murl O.
Dirksen (Lee University)
Survival on the Edge of the Desert: A Christian
Village in Central
Jordan
11:20 Elizabeth
Gaylor (State University
of West Georgia)
Turkish Delight: A Study of Turks Who Come to Delight
in Christianity
11:40 Dionisios
K. Kavadias (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)
Challenges of Doing Cemetery Research: A Comparison of Two Sites
12:00 James G.
Flanagan (Southern Mississippi) The
Changing Face of Death in Rural Ireland:
Roadside Memorials From Heroes to Victims
12:20 Discussion
Saturday Afternoon, April 6
Crafts Traditions in the South: Legacy, Conservation, and Transformations Vanderbilt II
Organizer and Chair: Betty J.
Duggan (Harvard University)
Session Abstract: Aboriginally and
historically, a variety of crafts and crafts producers played integral roles in
regional, community, and family lifeways in ordinary functional and symbolic
ways in the South. Colonialism,
industrialization, and then modernization brought about the demise, severe
curtailment, modification, or transformation of numerous indigenous and
introduced crafts in this region. Yet,
at the beginning of the twenty-first century, a number of region-wide, local,
and ethnic crafts traditions persist--some flourishing, others just holding on,
a few just emerging. Papers in this
session discuss production and marketing strategies of several crafts currently
practiced in the upland or lowland South, associated ethnic, cultural,
community, and personal values and meanings, and/or the state of being and
future prospects for these crafts and their practioners.
12:40 David P. Reddy (Florida Humanities Council) Why
Would You Want to Grind Cane? Cane Grinding and Blacksmithing to Build
Community
1:00 Melissa D.
Hargrove (University of Tennessee)
Culture for Sale: Marketing Gullah
Identity in the South Carolina Sea
Islands
1:20 Peg Wimmer
(Radford University)
A Rather Crafty Business
1:40 Elizabeth
Higgs (Western Illinois
University) Pieces from the Past:
Our Grandmothers’ Quilts
2:00 BREAK
2:20 Rachel
Bonney (University of North
Carolina at Charlotte)
American Indian Art in Miniature: Tourist Kitsch or Collectors’ Art
2:40 Betty
J. Duggan (Harvard University)
Chitimacha Basketweavers: Honor for the Past and Art for the Present
3:00 Discussant:
Helen Regis (Louisiana State
University)
3:20 Discussant:
J. Anthony Paredes (National Park Service)
3:40 Discussion
Green Corn Ceremonialism Across the South Vanderbilt
I
Organizer
and Chair: Raymond D. Fogelson (University
of Chicago)
1:00 Carter Blue
Clark (Oklahoma City
University) Comparison of Creek,
Seminole, Cherokee and Chickasaw Ceremonial Practices with Christianity
1:20 Raymond D. Fogelson (University of Chicago) A Re-look at the
Cherokee Green Corn Ceremony
1:50 Ted Isham (Creek Council House Museum) The
Visit ‘cokopericetv’ As Seen by a Contemporary Eastern Oklahoma Muscogee Creek
Indian: Thoughts for ‘Others’ to Consider
2:10 Jay Miller (BOAS and Cultrix Research)
Mounds Snaking Across America
2:30 Robert McKinley (Michigan State University) Sky and Earth: Women in
the Muscogee Ribbon Dance
2:50 Discussion
Changing
Community in the South: Context, Cause and Effect Stuyvesant
Organizer and Chair: Steven J.
Folmar (Wake Forest
University)
Session Abstract:
This panel will explore the changing nature of communities in the South in
response to current social forces, particularly recent immigration by Latinos.
It will examine how specific contexts shape community definition and formation
and how different communities foster interpersonal relationships within and
across communities. It will focus on the
practical aspects of intercommunity relations.
1:00 Stevan R. Jackson (Radford University) The
Language of Diversity: Dispelling the Myth of Homogeneity Within a Specific
Region
1:20 Carrie B.
Douglass (Mary Baldwin
College) Transnational Motherhood:
A Salvadoran Case
1:20 John D. Studstill (Columbus