6 Anthropology NewsletterfFebruary 1991

Unit NewsAMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Nancy McDowell, Contributing Bditor

Successful New Orleans Program

The AES portion of the program inNew Orleans was a resounding success,and we thank Susan Bean, AES Coun-cillor and Program Chair, for her hardwork and creative programming. Ourtwo special sessions, Author Meets Crit-ics (Ernest Gellner) and Anthropology'sInterlocutor (Joan Scott) were especiallysuccessful. Thanks not only to Susan,but to all who participated and attendedAES sessions.

Historian Joan Scott, Anthropology's Inter -locuter in New Orleans

Plan Now for Chicago Meeting

AES will again program a segment ofthe AAA annual meeting, in Chicago in•1991. Newly elected Councillor KarenSacks is our program chair. If you haveany suggestions for the Author MeetsCritics or Anthropology's Interlocutorsessions, you. should send them to herASAP. Anyone wishing to develop anInvited Session for the 1991 AAA meet-ing should send a preliminary proposalto her for consideration by February 28.Contact Karen Brodkin Sacks, Dept ofAnth, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024,orRASACKS @ UCLASSCRbitnet.

Plans for Spring Meeting

The annual spring meeting of the AESwill be held jointly with the Society forApplied Anthropology in Charleston,SC, March 14-16. The theme of themeeting is "Nations and Peoples: As-pects and Implications of Identity." Ifyou plan to attend the meeting (or wouldlike to) and have not yet received a hotelreservation form, you should call theAAA office at once and ask for one fromLucille Horn (202/232-8800) or contactthe hotel directly (803/722-4000) andmention that you will be attending theAES meeting for the conference rate of$59 per night (irrespective of room size;

this rate applies to singles, doubles andtriples).

Outbound Travel Company and DeltaAir Lines have been selected to assistmembers with transportation to themeeting. You may contact the specialagent at Outbound by calling their toll-free number (1-800-678-FARE) or bywriting to Outbound Travel Company,5909 NW Expressway, Suite 108, Okla-homa City, OK 73132. You will be eli-gible for a 5% discount off the lowestroundtr^p fare offered by Delta Air Lines(subject to availability and certain re-strictions). Outbound has also made dis-counted car rentals available through Al-amo Car Rentals. Please make your res-ervations early, (You may, of course,use any air carrier or travel agent youchoose.)

Preliminary Program for CharlestonMeeting

This preliminary program contains thelist of sessions currently scheduled forthe Charleston meeting, but sincV s ornechanges may be made, people who arepresenting papers and/or are interested inattending specific sessions should con-firm these times when they pick up theirprinted programs.

Thursday Morning (all morning)

Contesting Nationness: Sub-versionsof National and International Order

Nationalism and GenderNew Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal:

Aspects of Maori and Pakeha Identity

Thursday Afternoon (first half)

Ethnicity and Nationality on China'sFrontiers

National Parties in the Context ofState Politics

Re-presenting the Nation during Cri-sis: Voices from before, during and afterthe Fiji Military Coups

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Louise Lamphere, 'past-president-of AES-, in-troduces Joan Scott, Anthropology's Interlo-cutor

Susan Bean, AES Councillor and New Orle-ans Program Chair

Thursday Afternoon (second half)

Anthropology's Interlocutors: Bene-dict Anderson

Friday Morning (all morning)

How European Is Nationalism?Imagination and Performance: Con-

tested Identities in the Andes (Part I)

Friday Morning (first half)

Countries and Nations: Internal Spa-tial Parameters of National Territories

Friday Morning (second half)

Migrants and Nations: External Spa-tial Parameters of National Territories

Friday Afternoon (all afternoon)

Imagination and Performance: Con-tested Identities in the Andes (Part II)

Friday Afternoon (first half)

Is Culturalism an Improvement onRacism?

Re/presenting the Forgotten Others inthe "New" Europe

Friday Afternoon (second half)

Citizenship and Nationality: The Le-gal and Administrative Dimensions ofthe Nation/State Link

The Role of Intellectuals: Speakingfor Submerged Nationalities

Saturday Morning (all morning)

Imaging Identities: Power, National-ism and the Crisis of Representation

Nationalizing Gender and Domestic-ity

Saturday Morning (first half)

Many Nations under God: MobilizingWorld Religions to Support NationalCauses

Saturday Morning (second half)

Civic Rituals as Performances of Na-tionhood

Saturday Afternoon (all afternoon)

Imagining the Center and Periphery:Language, Authority and Identity in Lo-cal Discourses .

Postcolonial Predicaments of NationalIdentity

Saturday Afternoon (first half)

Imagined Communities of the Present

Saturday Afternoon (second half)

The Body Politic: Gender, Sexualityand National Identities

Saturday Night (DistinguishedLecture)

Stephen Gudeman: "Innovation,Profit and Culture: Making Savings,Making Gains"

ARCHEOLOGY DIVISION

Thomas C Patterson, Contributing Editor

Annual Meeting

The annual business meeting of theArcheology Division took place Friday,November 30, 1990, at 5:30 pm inGrand Salon C at the Hilton Hotel. Aftersummarizing the activities of the Divi-sion, there was a brief discussion abouta proposed name change; the proposalwas not supported. Elizabeth Brumfiel(Albion) had suggested leaving the Di-vision's name unchanged, since manymembers view themselves as anthropol-ogists who practice archeology, andchoose to associate themselves with theAAA instead of or in addition to one ormore of the already existing archeologi-cal associations.

Bruce1 G Trigger (McGill) deliveredthe second annual Distinguished Lec-ture, "Constraint and Freedom: A NewSynthesis in Archeological Interpreta-tion." He examined the challenges thatarose in the late 1960s to the neo-evolu-

tionary orthodoxy of the time with itsconcern for universally valid generali-zations. He argued that the assumptionof cultural continuity, posed by the ad-vocates of the direct historical approach,has proven useful in some instances. Hepointed out that the various postproces-sual archeologies have extended inquiryto those contingent aspects of history andculture that had received little attentionearlier.

Publications

Publications Editor Geoffrey Clark(Arizona S) indicated that he does not yethave manuscripts for the third number ofthe publications series. Norman Yoffee(Arizona), the Division's representativeon the Editorial Advisory Council,stated that the American Anthropologistalso has no significant backlog of man-uscripts for the space devoted to archeol-ogy. He indicated that (1) articles sub-

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