Preliminary Program
Central States Anthropological Society / Anthropology of Religion Section
April 2-5, 1998
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Kansas City, Missouri
 
CSAS will be celebrating its 75th this year, and our annual meeting will be larger than ever, covering all four subfields and both dimensions of Anthropology. Over two hundred papers and workshops have been organized into sixty sessions and we will have a full program of workshops and papers from Thursday afternoon through Sunday noon. This year we are hosting the inaugural meeting of the newly-approved Anthropology of Religion Section of the AAA; we are pleased to have them join us.

Our distinguished speaker is Jane H. Hill, President of the American Anthropological Society; her presentation, scheduled for Saturday evening, is titled, "Race, Racism, and the Unity of Anthropology."

A presidential roundtable, focusing on the history of CSAS, will provide an opportunity for our distinguished elders to reminisce and to help us plan for the future. Together with teaching workshops, a reprints-exchange in the book exhibit room, and (due to popular demand) a jazz pub crawl, the Kansas City meeting promises to be a lively one, with something for everyone!
 

Thursday Afternoon, April 2

1:50-3:15 Appropriation and Representation of Culture Through Art and Tourism (CSAS Volunteered Papers). Chair: Kathleen M. Adams (Loyola U Chicago)
 

1:50-3:15 Opportunities and Challenges in Contemporary Studies of Meditation, Conversion, Vocation, and the Establishment of Meaning - Part 1 (ARS Volunteered Papers) Chair: Andrew Buckser (Purdue U).
  1:50-3:15 Japanese Woodblock Prints and Beyond: The 19th Century Travel Prints and Their Vision. Part 1. (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Akira Y. Yamamoto. (U Kansas)
  3:15-3:30 break

3:30-5 Opportunities and Challenges in Contemporary Studies of Meditation, Conversion, Vocation, and the Establishment of Meaning - Part 2 (ARS Volunteered Papers) Chair: Andrew Buckser.
 

3:30-5:15 Japanese Woodblock Prints and Beyond: The 19th Century Travel Prints and Their Vision. Part 2. (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Akira Y. Yamamoto (U Kansas)
  3:30-5:30 Migration, Community, Tradition and Change in Mexico and Costa Rica (CSAS Volunteered Papers). Chair: James W. Dow (Oakland U)
  3:30-5:30 Fighting Invisibility and Silence: The Construction of Oppositional Discursive Space and Visions of the State in Fragmented Societies. (CSAS Organized Session). Organizer and Chair: Julianna Acheson (Indiana U)
  5:30-7:00 executive board dinner meeting

7:30-9:30 welcoming reception

Friday Morning, April 3

8:30-10:15 Issues of Race, Class, and Power. (CSAS Volunteered Papers). Chair: TBA
 

8:30-10:15 A Glimpse of Current Trends in Politics and Culture in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.. (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Michael G. Davis (Truman State U)
  8:30-10:15 The contributions of Spatial, Lithic, Ecological and Taphonomic Analysis to Paleoindian and European Archaeology. (CSAS Volunteered Papers) Chair: P. Nick Kardulias (C Wooster)
 
 
          8:30 Brent A. Buenger (U Kansas) Appendicular Skeletal Disarticulation Patterns from the Hudson-Meng Site 8:50-10:15 Ritual, Missionizing, Politics, and Identity: Religion and Symbol in Asia and Oceania - Part 1 (ARS Volunteered Papers) Chair: Morton Klass (Barnard C).
  8:30-10:15 Teaching Workshop: Social Theory. Moderators: James F. Hopgood (Northern Kentucky U) and Robert Roy Reed (Ohio State U)

8:30-10:15 Teaching Workshop: Area Courses. Moderator: Claude Jacobs (U Michigan-Dearborn)

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10:30-noon The History of the CSAS: An Open Forum Featuring Past Presidents of CSAS and Other Distinguished CSAS Elders (CSAS Presidential Session) Moderated by CSAS President James W. Dow (Oakland U).

10:30-noon Ecology and Environment in North and South America (CSAS Volunteered Papers). Chair: TBA.
 

10:30-noon Stereotype and Identity in Narrative and Discourse: Race, Racism, and Ethnicity (CSAS Volunteered Papers) Chair: TBA
  10:30-noon Ritual, Missionizing, Politics, and Identity: Religion and Symbol in Asia and Oceania - Part 2 (ARS Volunteered Papers) Chair: Morton Klass (Barnard C).
  10:30-12:30 Out of Bounds, Out of Mind: Geographies of Partition in Balkan Nationalism and Ethnography. (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer: Nathan H. Mauk (U Chicago) Chair: Marco Zivcovic (U Chicago)
  noon-1:30 Teaching Workshop: Anthropology of Religion. Moderator: Robert Roy Reed (Ohio State U)

Friday Afternoon, April 3

1:20-3:15 Native American Repatriation. - Part 1 (CSAS/ARS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Terry Straus (U Chicago)
 

1:30-3:15 Popular Culture and Identity: Music, Dance, Dress, and Skate Rinks. (CSAS Volunteered Papers) Chair: TBA
  1:30-3:15 Garden City, Kansas: A Decade of Research on Changing Ethnic Relations - Part 1 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizers: Jennifer Shaw (U Kansas) and Karla Kral (U Kansas). Chair: Karla Kral (U Kansas)
  1:30-3:15 The Anthropology of Reproduction (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: F. Allan Hanson (U Kansas)
  1:30-3:15 Theoretical and Analytical Issues in the Study of Religion - Part 1. (ARS Volunteered Papers) Chair: Benson Saler (Brandeis U)
  1:30-3:15 Teaching Workshop: Introduction to Archaeology. Moderator: Julian Dale Maxey (Ohio U-Chillicothe and Southern Campus)

break

3:30-5 Garden City, Kansas: A Decade of Research on Changing Ethnic Relations - Part 2 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizers: Jennifer Shaw (U Kansas) and Karla Kral (U Kansas). Chair: Karla Kral (U Kansas)
 

3:30-5 Theoretical and Analytical Issues in the Study of Religion - Part 2. (ARS Volunteered Papers) Chair: Benson Saler (Brandeis U)
  3:30-5 Race, Ethnicity, and Native Rights (CSAS Volunteered Papers) Chair: TBA.
  3:30-5:15 Learning and Using Language in Social Settings (CSAS Volunteered Papers) Chair: TBA
  3:30-5:30 Native American Repatriation.- Part 2 (CSAS/ARS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Terry Straus (U Chicago)
  3:30-5 Teaching Workshop: Using Ethnographies in Introductory Courses. Moderator: Alice Kehoe (Marquette U)

6-10 Jazz Pub Crawl: Meet in the lobby at 5:45.

Saturday Morning, April 4

8:30-10:15 The (Mis)uses of Stereotype: Race, Ethnicity, and Ideology (CSAS Volunteered Papers) Chair: Terry Straus (U Chicago).
 

8:30-10:15 A Glance at Recent Research in the Anthropology of the Martial Arts - Part 1 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Michael G. Davis (Truman U)
  8:30-10:15 Testing/Teasing/Transcending Boundaries: Thriving, Hoarding, and Trickster - Part 1 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizers: Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U) and Phyllis Passariello (Centre C). Chair: Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U)
  8:30-10:15 Current Research in Biological Anthropology. (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Peer H. Moore-Jansen (Wichita State U)
  8:30-10:15 Teaching Workshop: Art and Expressive Culture. Moderator: Kathleen Adams (Loyola U Chicago)

8:30-10:45 Transformations of Religious Subjects and Objects in the Global Contexts of Christianity. (ARS Organized Session) Organizers: Eric W. Kramer (U Chicago) and Katherine L. Wiegele (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Chair: Eric W. Kramer (U Chicago)
 

10:15 break (note that ARS will break at 10:45 instead)

10:30-noon Towards an Ethnography of Museums.(CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Tamara Hamlish (Beloit C)
 

10:30-12:15 A Glance at Recent Research in the Anthropology of the Martial Arts - Part 2 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Michael G. Davis (Truman State U)
  10:30-noon Testing/Teasing/Transcending Boundaries: Thriving, Hoarding, and Trickster - Part 2 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizers: Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U) and Phyllis Passariello (Centre C). Chair: Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U).
  10:30-noon Teaching workshop: Language and Culture. Moderator: James Hamill (Miami U)

10:30-12:30 Archaeology East and West: Recent Research in the Circum-Mediterranean Region and North America. (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair P. Nick Kardulias (C Wooster)
 

11-noon ARS Business Meeting

noon-1:30 Teaching Workshop: Ethnographic Methods for Undergraduates: Moderator: MaryCarol Hopkins (Northern Kentucky U)

noon-1:30 Organizational Meeting - Student Chapter of CSAS. Moderator: Martin Ottenheimer (Kansas State U)
 

Saturday afternoon

1:30-3:15 The Native Gaze: Anthropology in Northeastern Kansas (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Jane W. Gibson (U Kansas)
 

1:30-3:15 Testing/Teasing/Transcending Boundaries: Thriving, Hoarding, and Trickster - Part 3 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizers: Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U) and Phyllis Passariello (Centre C). Chair: Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U)
  1:30-3:15 Experimental Archaeology - Part 1 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Kathryn Kamp (Grinnell C)
  1:30-3:15 Religion and Coping: Event, Performance, Negotiation, and Community - Part 1 (ARS Volunteered Papers) Chair: Stephen Glazier (U Nebraska-Kearney)
  1:30-4 Martial Arts Demonstrations (CSAS Open Forum) Moderator: Michael G. Davis (Truman State U)

1:30-3:15 Teaching Workshop: Kinship and Social Organization. Moderator: Martin Ottenheimer (Kansas State U)

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3:30-4:30 Re/Reading Voices, Re/Tracing Steps, Re/Interpreting Theoretical Perspectives: Benedict, Radin, Levi-Strauss (CSAS Volunteered Papers) Chair: James F. Hopgood (Northern Kentucky U)
 

3:30-4:30 Testing/Teasing/Transcending Boundaries: Thriving, Hoarding, and Trickster - Part 4 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizers: Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U) and Phyllis Passariello (Centre C). Chair: Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U).
  3:30-4:30 Experimental Archaeology - Part 2 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Kathryn Kamp (Grinnell C)
  3:30- 4:15 Teaching Workshop: Culture Change. Moderator: Richard Feinberg (Kent State U)

3:30-5:20 Religion and Coping: Event, Performance, Negotiation, and Community - Part 2 (ARS Volunteered Papers) Chair: Stephen Glazier (U Nebraska-Kearney)
 

4:30-6 CSAS business meeting

8-10 CSAS Distinguished Lecture: Jane H. Hill (U Arizona) Race, Racism, and the Unity of Anthropology

Sunday Morning, April 5

8:30-10:15 Cultures and Developments - Part 1 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Dorothy K Billings (Wichita State U)
 

8:30-10:15 Raiding Patterns in Indo-European Societies: Beginnings to Migration Period - Part 1 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: George P. Kincaid, III (U Missouri-Columbia)
  8:30-10:15 Contributions to the Study of Islam in the Modern World. (ARS Volunteered Papers) Chair: TBA.
  8:30-10:30 Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology (CSAS Organized Session) Organizers: Elaine Drew (U Kansas) and John Janzen (U Kansas). Chair: Elaine Drew (U Kansas)
  break (but note that Medical Anthropology session will break at 10:30 instead)

10:30-noon Cultures and Developments - Part 2 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Dorothy K. Billings
 

10:30-noon Raiding Patterns in Indo-European Societies: Beginnings to Migration Period - Part 2 (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: George P. Kincaid, III (U Missouri-Columbia)
  10:20-noon Art and Artifacts (CSAS Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Judith Calleja (Central Michigan U)
 
 
        10:20 Judith Calleja (Central Michigan U) Introduction: The Uses of Prehistory in Contemporary Artistic Expression: A Brief Overview