Check-In & Registration (2:00 – 7:00)

Check-In & Registration (All Day starting at 7AM)

1-1 Studies in the Anthropology of Religion I – Room

Chair: Charles Laughlin, Carleton University

9:00 LAUGHLIN, Charles (Carleton University)

The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction

9:30 LIU, Tannie (University of Ottawa)

Ritual and Symbolic Function: The Biogenetic Structural Comparison of Techniques Used in Tibetan Buddhism and the Sundance Religion

10:00 DUNN, Bruce H. (Carleton University)

Liminality and the Earth Archetype: An Ecological Interpretation of the Ritual Process

1-2 Urban Anthropology – Room

Chair: Eric L. Larsen (SUNY Buffalo)

9:00 LARSEN, Eric L. (SUNY Buffalo)

Overlooking a Neighborhood: An Examination of a Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century African-American Block in Annapolis, Maryland

9:30 AMAYA, Benjamin (Université Laval)

Metropolitanization and National Identity in San Jose, Costa Rica

1-3 Anthropology on the Fringe – Room

Chair: Marc Tyrrell (Carleton University)

9:00 TYRRELL, Marc (Carleton University)

Sense and Sensibility: The "Membering" of Cyberspace Media (with apologies to Jane Austen)

9:30 CHEVALIER, Jacques (Carleton University)

Anthropology, Astrology, and the Millennium

10:00 TYRRELL, Marc (Carleton University)

FERGUSON, Ian (Carleton University)

A Realm With A View: Mapping Travels Through Cyberspace

1-4 New horizons in Physical Anthropology – Room

Chair: Steven Harrison (University of Toronto)

10:45 ALBANESE, J. (University of Toronto)

Skeletal Changes in North American Whites: Implications for the development of new forensic sexing methods

11:15 HARRISON, Steven (University of Toronto)

Ecotourism and its Effects on the People of Hua Shan, People's Republic of China

1-5 Studies in the Anthropology of Religion II – Room

Chair: Charles Laughlin, Carleton University

10:45 OLAVESON, Tim (Carleton University)

Experimental Anthropology and the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement: A New Methodological Approach

11:15 THROOP, Jason (Carleton University)

Anthropology, Religion, & Development: A Cross-Cultural Phenomenological Investigation

11:45 LAUGHLIN, Charles (Carleton University)

Biogenetic Structural Studies of Religion

1-6 History, Anthropology & Native America: Current Research in the North east – Room

Chair: Frederic W. Gleach (Cornell University)

10:45 GLEACH, Frederic W. (Cornell University)

History and Anthropology: Frank Speck in Virginia, 1914-1950

11:15 HENRY Dixie L. (Cornell University)

Archaeologists and Native Communities

11:45 STEVENS, John H., Jr. (Cornell University)

Contested Polities: Reflections on Native American Identity Politics, Law, and Sovereignty in the Next Century

12:15 DARNELL, Regna (FRCS, University of Western Ontario)

Discussant

1-7 Whose Culture is it Anyway? The place of Ethnography in the 21^st Century I – Room

Chair: Terry Plum, University of Connecticut

1:30 McGeoch, Pamela (University of Connecticut)

Anthropology's Relations of Production: The Place of the "New Ethnography"

2:00 PLUM, Terry (University of Connecticut)

Ethics, Theory and Style in Ethnography

2:30 Williamson, Eric (University of Connecticut)

The "Human Rights" Other in the Millennium

1-8 Biophysical and Psychological Anthropology – Room

Chair: Barbara A. White (University of Toronto)

1:30 WHITE, Barbara A. (University of Toronto)

Nutrition and Neurotransmitter Synthesis: Theoretical Implications for Human Brain and Cognitive Evolution

2:00 JACOBSON, Ken (Brandeis University)

A Semi-Anthropological, Semi-Neuroscientific Approach to the Role of Consciousness in Behavior

2:30 DIVALE, William (York College CUNY)

Developing Cross-Cultural Mental Illness Classification from Symptoms

1-9 Criminal and Legal Anthropology I – Room

Chairs: John Cove, Carleton University & Ian Ferguson, Carleton University

1:30 COVE, John (Carleton University)

CLARK, Scott (Department of Justice Canada)

Aboriginal Peoples and Criminal Justice: Canadian Commissions of Inquiry

2:00 FERGUSON, Ian (Carleton University)

TYRRELL, Marc (Carleton University)

Do Cybernaughts Leave Electronic Fingerprints? Theorizing Cyber Crime

2:30 FERGUSON, Ian (Carleton University)

An Anthropological Investigation into the Construction of Illegal Cyber-Pornography as a Contemporary Social Problem

1-10 Social Dynamics And Diversity – Room

Chair: Peter Woolfson, University of Vermont

1:30 PERRY, Richard J. (St. Lawrence University)

Apachean Social Diversification: Can Complexity Theory Help?

2:00 WOOLFSON, Peter (University of Vermont)

Post-Referendum Blues: Anglo Angst and French Language Hard-Liners

2:30 BURKART, Karen E. (SUNY Plattsburg)

Community Inclusion for the Developmentally Disabled and the Mentally Ill

1-11 Whose Culture is it Anyway? The place of Ethnography in the 21^st Century II – Room

Chair: Terry Plum, University of Connecticut

3:15 Jalil-Gutierrez, Sylvia (University of Connecticut)

The Politics of Ethnography

3:45 ROSKE, Shawn (Carleton University)

Anthropology as a State-Specific Science: An Undergraduate’s Perspective

4:15 PLUNKETT, Tom (University of Connecticut)

Discussant

1-12 Anthropological Examinations of Youth and Childhood – Room

Chair: William Divale (York College CUNY)

3:15 DIVALE, William (York College CUNY)

ABRAMS, Noelle (York College CUNY)

BARZOLA, Jennifer (York College CUNY)

HARRIS, Estelle (York College CUNY)

HENRY, Fred-Michael (York College CUNY)

Sleeping Distance from Mother, Gender Sleeping Segregation, and Sexual Attitudes and Practices

3:45 Kravchenko, Tasha (Carleton University)

When We Were Young: Communal Child Rearing in Retrospect

1-13 Criminal and Legal Anthropology II – Room

Chairs: John Cove, Carleton University & Ian Ferguson, Carleton University

3:15 RAMAGE, Pamela L. (Carleton University)

Examining the Limitations of Quantitative Research Processes in the study of Aboriginal Over-Representation in Prisons

3:45 RICHTER, Karen (Carleton University)

Cross Cultural Adventures in the Presentation of Self: Police in Canada and Germany

4:15 VOAKES, Les (Carleton University)

Assessing Crime Prevention Using Substance Abuse Prevention Models

1-14 Tradition & Change: The Effects of a Pluralistic Society on the Religious Traditions of Minority Faiths – Room

Chair: Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa

3:15 WILKINSON, Michael (University of Ottawa)

The Moving Spirit: The Role of Religious Experience Among Pentecostal Immigrants

3:45 SEKAR, Radhika (University of Ottawa)

Religious Minorities in Multicultural Societies: Assimilative Patterns of East Indians in Canada

4:15 RAMJI, Rubina (University of Ottawa)

Understanding the Effects of Western Culture on the Women of Islam

4:45 BEYER, Peter (University of Ottawa)

Discussant

Check-In & Registration (All Day)

2-1 Feminist Anthropology and the Social Construction of Gender – Room

Chair: Kimberly-Ann Lambert, Carleton University

9:00 COHEN, Laura (Carleton University)

Gender as a Dimension of Women Anthropologists’ Professional Identity

9:30 ROTHENBERG, Celia E. (University of Toronto)

Defining Reflexivity: A Feminist Approach to Doing Fieldwork

10:00 KINTZ, Ellen R. (SUNY Geneseo)

RITCHIE, Amanda S. (SUNY Geneseo)

The Transformation of Paradise: Political Dialogue and Gender Among the Yucatec Maya of Cobá Quintana Roo, Mexico

2-2 Rituals AND Religion – Room

Chair: Maury Hutcheson (SUNY Buffalo)

9:00 HUME, Yanique (University of Vermont)

Towards an Understanding of the Yoruba Goddess Oya

9:30 HUTCHESON, Maury (SUNY Buffalo)

Uprooting Recensions: Dictation, Inscription, Recollection, and Retellings in Iroquois Cosmology

10:00 McLeod, Annette D. (SUNY Albany)

An Ethnohistoric and Spatial Approach to the Religious Traditions of the Ancient Near East.

2-3 Archaeology I – Room

Chair: Robert A. Boisvert, N.H. Division of Natural Resources

9:00 THOMAS, Gerard (University of Buffalo)

Archaeological Investigation of a Nineteenth Century Buffalo Neighborhood

9:30 JACOBSON, Victoria (University of Massachusetts / Amherst)

Settling into Landscape: An Overview of Small Paleoindian Sites in the Northeastern U.S.

10:00 BOISVERT, Robert A. (NH Division of Natural Resources)

Three New Paleoindian Sites in New Hampshire

2-4 The Urban Swirl: Burlington and Beyond I – Room

Chair: Robert Gordon, University of Vermont

9:00 BUONINCONTRO, John (University of Vermont)

DADA: A Study of Art and Society

9:30 MATHEU, Matherine S. (University of Vermont)

Domination and Subordination in the Salvation Army

10:00 PIERSON, David DELETED TITLE NEEDED!

2-5 Anthropology for the Millennium – Room

Chair: Alex Huxley Westfried, (Western Connecticut State University)

9:00 WESTFRIED, Alex Huxley (Western Connecticut State University)

An Agenda for Women for the 21^st Century: Transformations Through Knowledge and Social Action

9:30 MacAULEY, AC (McGill University)

DELORMIER, T (McGill University)

McCOMBER, AM (Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project)

CROSS, EJ (Kahnawake Education Center)

POTVIN, LP (Université de Montreal)

PARADIS, G (McGill University)

KIRBY, R (Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project)

SAAD-HADDAD, C (Kateri Memorial Hospital)

DESROSIERS, S (Université de Montreal)

Innovative Code of Research Ethics for Participatory Research with Native Communities in Canada

2-6 Women and Ritual – Room

Chair: Janet Tulloch, University of Ottawa

10:45 DUFRESNE, Lucie (University of Ottawa)

The Geometry of Contemporary Women Goddess Rituals

11:15 TULLOCH, Janet (University of Ottawa)

Women and Ritual in Early Christian Art

11:45 PEARSON, Ann (University of Ottawa)

Overt and Covert Goddess Referents in Medieval Scripture

2-7 Economic & Exchange Systems – Room

Chair: Ken Jacobson, Brandeis University

10:45 BOUDREAU, Michael (Plymouth State College)

The World Economic System and its Effects on La Primavera, a Barrio in Managua, Nicaragua

11:15 JACOBSON, Ken (Brandeis University)

Aztec Money

11:45 WALKER, Caroline (University of Toronto)

Petunia and the World System: Both Sides Now

2-8 Archaeology II – Room

Chair: Douglas J. Perrelli, SUNY Buffalo

10:45 LANG, Kimberly Connors (Plymouth State College)

The Drake Site: Public Education in Action

11:15 BRUNTON, Thomas F. (SUNY Buffalo)

Ethnicity, Boundaries and Archaeology: A Case Study from the Southeast Shore of Lake Superior

11:45 PERRELLI, Douglas J. (SUNY Buffalo)

Owasco Occupation of South Western New York c. A.D. 1000 - 1300

2-9 The Urban Swirl: Burlington and Beyond II – Room

Chair: Robert Gordon, University of Vermont

10:45 VILLA, Catalina (University of Vermont)

Kakewalk

11:15 VANCANS, Destiny (University of Vermont)

"What a Long Strange Trip Its Been": Observations on the Last Grateful Dead Followers

11:45 Vaupel, Anne (University of Vermont)

Climbing the Ladder of Gossip

12:15 ARMSTRONG, J. (SUNY Plattsburg)

Discussant

2-10 Identity Politics and Identity Construction I – Room

Chair: Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, Cornell University

1:30 DANN, Elisa (Plymouth State College)

The Vietnam Combat Veteran: Contrasting Views on Life and the American Society

2:00 SaNtiago-Irizarry, Vilma (Cornell University)

Labels, Genuine and Spurious: "Latinidad" in the United States

2:30 WOBST, Martin (University of Massachusetts)

The Human Body as Artifact: The Early Evolution of Material Culture

2-11 Signs & SYmbols I – Room

Chair: Candice Roth, Franklin Pierce College

1:30 PICKARD, Lea (SUNY Albany)

An Examination of the Witchcraft and the Devil in Colonial Mexico

2:00 ROTH, Candice (Franklin Pierce College)

Gypsies as "Other" in Post-Communist Europe

2:30 ELDRIDGE, Lori E. (SUNY Geneseo)

New Focuses on the Mayordomia in the Mexican Cargo System

2-12 Archaeology III – Room

Chair: John Barthelme, St. Lawrence University

1:30 SOLANO, Martin C. (SUNY Albany)

Bioarchaeological Analysis and Interpretation of Skeletal Remains from Utatlan, Guatemala

2:00 NACHMAN, Brett A. (SUNY Geneseo)

Anthropological and Paleontological Investigations Across the Paleocene-Eocene in Southwestern Wyoming

2:30 BARTHELME, John (St. Lawrence University)

Middle and Upper Pleistocene Archaeology of the Southern Kenya Rift

2-13 Communication and Cultural Impact – Room

Chair: David Houston, University of Vermont

1:30 HOUSTON, David (University of Vermont)

Advertising as Ethnography

2:00 GATEWOOD, John B. (Lehigh University)

Ignorance, Knowledge, and Dummy Categories: Social and Cognitive Aspects of Expertise

2:30 SCHMEISER, Peggy (University of Ottawa)

Deathbeds and Destruction: The Faith of the Female Body in Popular Women's Films

2-14 Identity Politics & Identity Construction II – Room

Chair: Thomas A. Shaw, Harvard

3:15 SHAW, Thomas A. (Harvard)

Girls, Symbolic Violence, and Respect

3:45 SCHWARTZ, Jonathen (University of Virginia)

Aspects of Negotiated Identity: Aboriginality for the Academe

4:15 Aguilera, Miguel Astor (SUNY Albany)

Mexican Transnational Identity in California

2-15 Signs & Symbols II – Room

Chair: Karen Szala-Maneok, Wilfred Laurier University

3:15 Szala-Maneok, Karen (Wilfred Laurier University)

The Newfoundland Grocery in Toronto: Cultural Ark in a Sea of Strangers

3:45 McKERCHER, Grant (University of Manitoba)

Community Responses to Architectural Innovation: Symbolism in Architecture

2-16 Anthropology of Art and Performance – Room

Chair: Stephen Pastner, University of Vermont

3:15 PASTNER, Stephen (University of Vermont)

Anthropology in the Round and Other Synergies Between Art and the Academy

3:45 KAHN, David E.

Mystical Carvings of the Dorset Inuit of the Eastern Arctic and Greenland

2-17 Archaeology Iv – Room

Chair: John Cardinal, SUNY Potsdam

3:15 CARDINAL, John (SUNY Potsdam)

A Critique of Neanderthal Burials and the "Cave Bear Cult"

3:45 VOELKER, Judy C. (SUNY Buffalo)

Household and Village Level Ceramic Production in Northeastern Thailand: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective

4:15 KNAPP, Timothy (Binghampton University)

Whose Pottery is This? Exploring Late Woodland Interactions at the "Margins"

#1 Barzola, Jennifer (York College CUNY)

Divale, William (York College CUNY)

Cross-Cultural Tests of the Causes of Infanticide

#2 NachMaN, Brett A. (SUNY Geneseo)

A View from the Field and the Lab: Approaches to Primate Paleontology in Southwestern Wyoming

#3 KRYSKO, Susannah (SUNY Geneseo)

Habitat Structure and Utilization in Two New World Monkeys, Cebus Capucinus and Alouatta Palliata

#4 Johnson, Eric (University of Massachusetts, Archaeological Services)

Title TBA

#5 Morin, Nicole (Plymouth University)

The Russell-Colbath Field School and Lab, 1996

#6 Asten, Maureen A. (Worcester State College)

Lesbian Family Relationships in American Society: The Making of an Ethnographic Film

3-1 Maintaining, Shifting, & Creating Cross-Cultural Identity – Room

Chair: Brian Given, Carleton University

9:00 HENRY, Fred-Michael (York College CUNY)

Factors Influencing the Aged Cross-Culturally

9:30 GIVEN, Brian (Carleton University)

Ranzgen! Tibetan Cultural Survival in Canada

10:00 GUEDON, Marie-Françoise (University of Ottawa)

The Effects of a Pluralistic Society on the Religious Practices of Minority Faiths

3-2 Medical Anthropology – Room

Chair: Tracey L. Spack, University of Alberta

9:00 NICKERSON, Brian (Plymouth State College)

Ethnobotany: Discipline of Healing Plants

9:30 SPACK Tracy L (University of Alberta)

Cooperation or Appropriation? Structural Problems in the Implementation of Pluralistic Health Care Initiatives

10:00 Tasker, Monisha S. (Plymouth State College)

LaPOINTE, Terrance L. (Plymouth State College)

DONAHUE, Katherine C. (Plymouth State College)

Ayurvedic Medicine: An Alternative for the Next Century?

3-3 Archaeology V – Room

Chair: Paul Thibodeau, University of Toronto

9:00 THIBODEAUX, Paul (University of Toronto)

Slave to the Grind: Understanding Use-Wear Analysis and its Role in Analyzing European Trade Copper and Brass in Huronia

9:30 DIETERMAN, Frank A. (University of Toronto)

A Roux of Content and Context: Settlement Pattern Analyses Remade

10:00 ABEL, Tim (SUNY Albany)

BURKE, Adrian (SUNY Albany)

XRF analysis of copper artifacts from protohistoric sits in Ohio

10:30 FABER, Daniel J., SUNY Plattsburg

Bloomery Forge Technology of Clintonville N.Y.

3-4 Aspects of Social Control – Room

Chair: Andreas Tomaszewski, Carleton University

3:15 COLLINS, P.J. (Plymouth State College)

Immigrant Millworkers and the Constabulary in 19th Century Manchester, NH

3:45 TOMASZEWSKI, Andreas (Carleton University)

Traditional Social Control and Self-Determination: The Example of Nunavut

3-4 Rituals of Family & Friendship – Room

Chair: Susan Bedford, University of Ottawa

10:45 LEE, Bonnie (University of Ottawa)

Therapy as Ritual and Social Reconstruction

11:15 BEDFORD, Susan (University of Ottawa)

Romantic Love and the Fertilization Dish: Kinship for the Millennium?

11:45 RABINOVITCH, Shelley (University of Ottawa)

Nichitos of the American Southwest: Sacred Family Relationships

3-5 Symbolic Worlds – Room

Chair: Catherine M. Cameron, Cedar Crest College

10:45 MARTELOCK, Heather (University of Ottawa)

The Inuit Artist - A Creative and Symbolic Force: Two Symbolic Worlds Expressed Through Contemporary Inuit Art

11:15 GORDON, Robert J. (University of Vermont)

The Dogs of Colonialism

11:45 CAMERON, Catherine M. (Cedar Crest College)

Emergent Urban Heritage: Problems and Issues

3-6 Linguistic Anthropology – Room

Chair: Carlos R. Ruano

10:45 RUANO, Carlos R.

Obedezco, pero no cumplo: Institutional Autonomy and Bilingual Education Policy in Guatemala City, 1976-1995

11:15 BARKER, Laura A. (SUNY Geneseo)

The Effect of Gender on the Use of Space Fillers in Formal and Informal Conversation