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2007 Southern Anthropological Society Conference:
Southern Cuisines and Southern Foodways,
February 15-18, 2007, Oxford, Mississippi
Final Program (January 26, 2007)
Registration
Ole Miss Student Union, Ballroom, University of Mississippi, Student Union Blvd.
Thursday, 9:00 am - 11:00 am, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Bookroom/Exhibits
Ole Miss Student Union, Ballroom, University of Mississippi, Student Union Blvd.
Thursday, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
AV Equipment
All session rooms will have LCD projectors and laptop computers as well as any additional AV needs pre-requested by participants. Any one using PowerPoint must load their presentations onto conference computers before the session begins (please bring a CD or USB flash drive for loading; all computers are PC).
Special Meetings and Events
Thacker Mountain Live Radio Broadcast featuring Gayle Wald
Thursday, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm, Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, downtown Oxford (on the south side of the Square). See shuttle schedule for departure time for vans.
Tamale and Champagne Reception
Thursday, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm, The Longshot Bar, 1107 Jackson Ave. East, downtown Oxford (on the north side of the Square). Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Southern American Studies Association, Southern Anthropological Society, Living Blues Symposium, and the Southern Foodways Alliance. See shuttle schedule for departure times of vans.
Keynote Address
Friday, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Yerby Center Auditorium, Grove Loop, University of Mississippi (next to the Inn at Ole Miss). Thomas Hatley, The View from the Front Porch: Observations on the Sustainability of Southern Small Farms
Blueswomen at the Big Truck Theater
Friday, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Big Truck Theater, Taylor, MS. A night of blues entertainment featuring DiAnne Price and her Boyfriends and special guests. Hosted by Living Blues Symposium, Southern American Studies Society, and Southern Anthropological Society. Catfish box dinners from Taylor Grocery are available at the theater (cash only). If catfish is not to your taste, be sure to bring your own box dinner as there are no other eating establishments in Taylor. Also, alcohol is not sold in Taylor, so please BYOB. Transportation to and from Taylor will be provided on Oxford’s own Double Decker buses, check shuttle schedule for departure times. If you prefer to drive, maps to the Big Truck Theater are included in your registration packet.
Academic Coffee Reception
Saturday, 9:00 am - 10:00 am, Barnard Observatory Lobby, Grove Loop, University of Mississippi (one block north of the Inn at Ole Miss). A reception for SAS, Southern American Studies Association and Living Blues Symposium sponsored by the U. of Mississippi College of Liberal Arts and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Executive Committee Meeting and Lunch
Saturday, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Ole Miss Student Union, Chancellor’s Dining Room, University of Mississippi, Student Union Blvd.
SAS Business Meeting
Saturday, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Yerby Center Auditorium, Grove Loop, University of Mississippi, next to the Inn at Ole Miss.
SAS Banquet and Awards Ceremony
Saturday, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Oxford University Club, 300 N. Lamar Blvd., downtown Oxford (one block off the Square on N. Lamar). Cash bar-and-appetizer mixer from 6:30 to 7:30 pm; buffet dinner from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Advance tickets are $32 regular members, $16 for students. Transportation provided to and from the Oxford University Club, check shuttle schedule for departure times. For those who prefer to drive, maps to the Oxford University Club are included in your registration packet. Email Robbie Ethridge for reservations.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 (Top)
9:00am - 11:00am Registration - Ole Miss Student Union, Ball Room
2:00pm - 5:00pm Registration, Book Room/Exhibits- Ole Miss Student Union, Ball Room
Thacker Mountain Live Radio Broadcast
Location: Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, downtown Oxford (on the south side of the Square)
5:30pm - 6:30pm Live radio broadcast featuring Gayle Wald. Transportation provided; see shuttle schedule for departure times of vans.
Tamale and Champagne Reception
Location: The Longshot Bar, 1107 Jackson Ave. East, downtown Oxford (on the north side of the Square).
6:30pm - 8:00pm Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Southern American Studies Association, Southern Anthropological Society, Living Blues Symposium, and the Southern Foodways Alliance. Transportation back to hotel provided; see shuttle schedule for departure times of vans.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 (Top)
8:00am - 5:00pm Registration, Book Room/Exhibits - Ole Miss Student Union, Ball Room
Friday Morning
Symposium 1 - The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians: A Tradition of Resiliency
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 404A
Organizer: Anne Rogers, Western Carolina U.
Chair: Carrie McLachlan, Western Carolina U.
9:20-9:40 Eastman, Jane, Western Carolina U. - Spikebuck Town (31CY3): Life Across the Creek from the Mound
9:40-10:00 McLachlan, Carrie, Western Carolina U. - Cherokee “Chiefdoms” of the Eighteenth Century
10:00-10:20 Rogers, Anne, Western Carolina U. - The Role of Women in Cherokee Society
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:00 James, Jenny, Independent Scholar - Selu: Shamanic Revitalization and Reconstruction
11:00-11:20 Ragan, Angela, Western Carolina U. - Continuing a Proud Tradition: WWII and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee
11:20-11:30 Discussion
General Session 1 - The South in a Global World
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405A
Chair: Arthur Murphy, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro
9:00-9:20 Hill, Courtney, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro - Latino Avoidance, Adoption, and Adaptation of Food in the South
9:20-9:40 Moberg, Mark, U. of South Alabama - Thinking Globally, Eating Ethically: Promises and Perils of the Fair Trade Movement
9:40-10:00 Ivnanova, Sofia, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro - Immigrant Experiences of Food, Cooking, and Grocery Shopping in the US
10:00-11:20 Redvers-Lee, Peter, Vanderbilt U. - Dislocated Procurement: An Ethnographic Study of Latin American Immigrant Shoppers in Nashville, Tennessee
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:00 Vargas, Amanda Elias, U. of South Carolina - Preserving Self in Transnational Migration: The Experience of Mexican Migrants in South Carolina
11:00:11:0 Roe-Fehrman, Erica, Middle Tennessee State U. - Medicine in the Field: Healthcare Access and Alternatives for Migrant Farmworkers in North Carolina
11:20-11:40 Stroupe, Angela, Middle Tennessee State U. - Southern Exposure: How Japanese Expatriates Experience Living in the South
Symposium 2 - Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405B
Organizer: Marie Danforth, U. of Southern Mississippi
Chair: Marie Danforth, U. of Southern Mississippi
9:00-9:20 Martin, D.C., U. of Southern Mississippi and Zivin, Daniel B., U. of Southern Mississippi - Chemical Wars: The Effects of Different Cleaning Agents on Decomposition of Human Tissue
9:20-9:40 Page, Miranda, U. of Southern Mississippi - The Diet of the Mississippi Gulf Coast French Settlers as Determined from Isotope Analysis
9:40-10:00 Thompson, Andrew, U. of Southern Mississippi - A Comparison of Decomposition Patterns in the Fall and Spring in Southern Mississippi
10:00-10:20 Zivin, Daniel, U. of Southern Mississippi - Racial Differences and Secular Change of the Sacrum
Symposium 3 - Missions, Belief and Believers
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405B
Organizer: Joel Amnott, U. of South Florida
Chair: Joel Amnott, U. of South Florida
10:40-11:00 Means, Johnathan, U. of West Florida - Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Socialization: An Observation
11:00-11:20 Raab, Rebecca R., U. of North Carolina at Wilmington - Mission Trip or International Church Retreat? The Socialization of Teenage Missionaries
11:20-11:40 Amnott, Joel, U. of South Florida - Conversion Conversations: Missions and the Enculturation in Christian Fundamentalist Communities
Friday Afternoon (Top)
Poster Session
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Ballroom
3:00-3:20 Morse, Amy, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro - Help in Surviving a War Zone: Formal and Informal Social Support in the Contexts of Mass Violence and Armed Conflict
Symposium 4 - The Political Ecology of Carteret Catch: An Applied Anthropological Perspective on Fishermen’s Efforts to Sustain their Industry in North Carolina
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 404A
Organizer: Susan Andreatta, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro
Chair: Susan Andreatta, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro
1:20-1:40 Andreatta, Susan, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro - Participatory Action Research Among the Fishing Community of Carteret County, North Carolina
1:40-2:00 Parris, Michael, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro - The History and Culture of Carteret County Shrimpers
2:00-2:20 Parlier, Anne, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro - How Far Did This Fish Travel?: A Political Ecology Perspective on Local Fish Consumption in Carteret County
2:20:2:40 Wood, Patrick, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro - Policy, Issues and Concerns of Carteret County Shrimp Harvesters
2:40-2:50 Discussion
Symposium 5 - Levee Monumentality: Text and Performance Along the Mississippi
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 404A
Organizers: Amy Potter, Louisiana State U., and Miles Richardson, Louisiana State U.
Chair: Miles Richardson, Louisiana State U.
3:10-3:30 Potter, Amy, Louisiana State U. - Everyone’s Levee but Your Own: The Changing Face of the Downtown Baton Rouge Levee
3:30-3:50 Seemann, Jorn, Louisiana State U. - Let the Levee Speak to Us: Material Culture, Performance, and Spatial Representation in Baton Rouge
3:50-4:10 Wang, Guiyuan, Louisiana State U. - Mississippi Levee: Rolling Lines in My Heart
4:10-4:30 Richardson, Miles, Louisiana State U. - Looking at the Levee Strangely
4:30-4:40 Discussion
Symposium 6 - Archaeological Research in Mesoamerica
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405A
Organizer: Gabriel Wrobel, U. of Mississippi
Chair: Gabriel Wrobel, U. of Mississippi
1:30-1:50 Danforth, Marie, U. of Southern Mississippi - One Hundred Fifty Years of Maya Bioarchaeology
1:50-2:10 Hardy, Jessica L., U. of Mississippi - Forging the River: Investigating Deep Valley Rock Shelter, Cayo District, Belize
2:10-2:30 Jordan, Jillian, U. of Mississippi - Archaeological Survey at Deep Valley in the Cayo District, Belize
2:30-2:50 Bounds, Sarah B., Millsaps College - Palaces and Palace Compounds Among the Classic Period Maya in the Central and Northern Maya Lowlands
2:50-3:10 Break
3:10-3:30 Wrobel, Gabriel, U. of Mississippi - Mortuary Signatures of Peasants and Smallholders in Ancient Maya Communities
3:30-3:50 Powis, Terry, Kennesaw State U. - Food of the Gods: Chocolate and the Ancient Maya
3:50-4:10 Krause, Samantha M., U. of Mary Washington - Bilateral Asymmetry and Kingship among the Olmec
4:10-4:30 Morgan, Mary Margaret, Milsaps College - Rethinking the Origins of Maya Civilization in the Puuc Region of Yucatan, Mexico
4:30-4:40 Discussion
General Session 2 - The Anthropology of "Outsiders"
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405B
Chair: Melissa Schrift, Eastern Tennessee State U.
1:30-1:50 Webster, Harold W., U. of Southern Mississippi - Dio Vindici: Henry Hughes: 19th Century Mississippi Precocious Genius, Slavocrat, and in His Own Mind Preordained by God to be the Greatest Mortal Man that Ever Was or Will Be
1:50-2:10 Schrift, Melissa R., Eastern Tennessee State U. - Southern Comfort: Drug Advertising and the Cultural Politics of Illness in the South
2:10-2:30 Patten, Kristen, U. of West Florida and Burch, Tesa, U. of West Florida - Off the Beaten Path: Trash Trails and the Homeless as “Discarded” Components of American Society
2:30-2:50 Miller, Cynthia J., Emerson College - The Call to Look: Images and Identities from the Homelessness Photography Project
General Session 3 - Southeastern Indians
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405B
Chair: Heidi Altman, Georgia Southern U.
3:10-3:30 Altman, Heidi, Georgia Southern U. and Belt, Tom, Western Carolina U. - Tohi: The Cherokee State of Well-Being
3:30-3:50 Cozzo, David N., Western Carolina U. - Cherokee Snakebite Remedies
3:50-4:10 Sarbaugh, James, Independent Scholar - Preaching Christianity and Praying to
Thunder
4:10-4:30 Ellison, Tria Marie, U. of Florida - Gender and Power in Koasati (Wo)Men’s Speech: The Linguistic Structuration Method and New Possibilities for Historical Linguistics
Keynote Address
Location: Yerby Center Auditorium, Grove Loop, University of Mississippi (next to the Inn at Ole Miss)
5:00-6:00 Hatley, Thomas, Western Carolina U. - The View from the Front Porch: Observations on the Sustainability of Southern Small Farms
Friday Evening (Top)
Blueswomen at the Big Truck Theater
Location: Big Truck Theater, Taylor, Mississippi
7:00-10:00 Blues music featuring DiAnne Price and her Boyfriends and special guests. See Special Events (above) for details, and see shuttle schedule for departure times of the Double Decker bus.
8:00am -5:00pm Registration, Bookroom/Exhibits, Ole Miss Student Union, Ball Room
Saturday Morning (Top)
Academic Coffee Reception
Location: Barnard Observatory Lobby, Grove Loop, University of Mississippi (one block north of the Inn at Ole Miss)
9:00am -10:00am Reception with coffee and pastries, sponsored by the U. of Mississippi College of Liberal Arts and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Keynote Session - The Anthropology of Southern Foodways, Part I
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 404A
Chair: Robert Philen, U. of West Florida
10:00-10:20 Johnson, David M., North Carolina A&T State U. - Teaching Anthropology Through Food
10:20-10:40 Lefler, Lisa J., Western Carolina U. - Ramps: Appalachian Delicacies That, “Smells God-Awful, But Cures What Ails Ya”
10:40-11:00 Beriss, David I., U. of New Orleans - The Color of Roux: Culture and Restaurants in New Orleans After Katrina
11:00-11:20 Black, Connie R., Mississippi State U., Dodson, Wanda L., Mississippi State U., and Worthy, Sheri Lokken, Mississippi State U. - Pork Variety Meat Use by Elderly in Southeastern US
11:20-11:40 Philen, Robert, U. of West Florida - Southern Drinkways: Cultural Models of Drinking and Drinking Behavior at a Southern University Campus
11:40-12:00 Brisman, Avi, Emory U. - Fair Fare?: Food as Contested Terrain in U.S. Prisons and Jails
Symposium 7 - Media of Memory
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405A
Organizer: Jason James, U. of Mary Washington
Chair: Jason James, U. of Mary Washington
10:00-10:20 D’Oney, Daniel, Albany College of Pharmacy - Collective Memory In the Houma Nation offf Louisiana
10:20-10:40 Harkin, Michael, U. of Wyoming - Memories Of The Lost: The Roanoke Colony In The Early 20th Century
10:40-11:00 Huber, Peter B., P.B. Huber, Analysis and Research, Inc. - Horizons of History in Wamu, Papua, New Guinea
11:00-11:20 James, Jason, U. of Mary Washington- Recalling and Undoing Injury in Dresden
11:20-11:40 Sharp, Steve, Emeritus - Memory in a Cold and Distant Land
11:40-12:00 Williamson, Margaret Holmes, U. of Mary Washington - Mnemonic Mythology
12:00-12:10 Discussion
General Session 4 - New Directions in Ethnography
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405B
Chair: Robert Shanafelt, Georgia Southern U.
10:00-10:20 Shanafelt, Robert, Georgia Southern U. - Patterns that Connect: Unifying Themes in the Teaching of Four Fields of Anthropology
10:20-10:40 Probasco, Susan, U. of Arkansas - Sacred Spaces and Childhood Places: The Arkansas Delta in Southern Native Ethnography
10:40-11:00 Hanrahan, Kelsey B., U. of South Carolina - The Apprenticeship of Wives: Expanding the Scale of Domestic Space in Northern Ghana
11:00-11:20 Henderson, Rebecca R., U. of Mary Washington - On the Margins of the “Middle East” Western Tourism in Fes, Morocco
11:20-11:40 Trubee, Heather, U. of South Carolina - Representing Thai Identities: Displayed Material Culture in Schools and Museums
11:40-12:00 Murchison, Julian M., Milsaps College - “Knowing My Health for Myself”: Investigating the Effects of ARVs on Living with HIV in Southern Tanzania
Saturday Afternoon (Top)
Keynote Panel - The Anthropology of Southern Foodways, Part II
Chair: Donna Myers, U. of West Georgia
2:00-2:20 Gates, Laine, U. of Arkansas, Nolan, Justin M., U. of Arkansas, and Schneider, Mary Jo, U. of Arkansas - Traditional Foodways and the Politics of Obesity in the Arkansas Delta
2:20-2:40 White, Ebonee, U. of South Carolina - Dietary, Nutritional, and Health Disparities in Rural South Carolina
2:40-3:00 McClellan-Welch, Sarah, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians - Growing Good Health: Gardening and Agriculture Programs of the Eastern Cherokee
3:00-3:20 Lansdell, Brent, U. of Mississippi - Subsistence Data from a Contact Period Homestead in the Coastal Zone of South Carolina
3:20-3:40 Break
3:40-4:00 Welch, Kevin, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians - Developing the Center for Cherokee Plants
4:00-4:20 Cain, Roger, U. of Arkansas, and Cain, Shawna M., U. of Arkansas - Hunters, Gatherers, and Modernity: Traditional Foodways of the Oklahoma Cherokee
4:20-4:40 Myers, Donna, U. of West Georgia - Object as Metaphor in a Yuchi Community
Symposium 8 - Shifting Realities on the Southern Landscape
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405A
Organizer: Matt Samson, Davidson College, and Nancy Farley, Davidson College
Chair: Matt Samson, Davidson College
2:00-2:20 Bugosh, Ariel, Davidson College - Thanksgiving Tamales: Transnational Community And Foodways In Immigrant Congregations
2:20-2:40 Delozier, Julia, Davidson College - Reweaving the Fabric of Community: Evangelical Influence on a Guatemalan Widow’s Cooperative
2:40-3:00 Dennis, David, Davidson College - Backing It Up: Louisiana Style Hip Hop
3:00-3:20 Fairley, Nancy, Davidson College, and Matt Samson, Davidson College - A Gaze Southward: Gumbo as Metaphor for Changing Landscapes in the (Global) South
3:20-3:40 Break
3:40-4:00 Iafrate, Mike, Davidson College - Dancing for the Lord
4:00-4:20 Nelson, Christina, Davidson College - In Their Footsteps
4:20-4:30 Discussion
General Session 5 - Gender Studies
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405B
Chair: Margaret Holmes Williamson, U. of Mary Washington
2:00-2:20 Assimacopoulos, Alexis, U. of Mississippi - How Does School Rugby Turn Boys South African Men?
2:20-2:40 Stout, Jennifer A., U. of Mary Washington- Hair and Femininity
2:40-3:00 Nanthana, Khamla, U. of Mary Washington - The Hidden Forces: Analysis of Women’s Power in Tiwi Society of Northern Australia
3:00-3:20 Nelson, Jaclyn A., U. of Mary Washington - Fanfiction and Levi-Strauss: Real Person Slash as Modern Myth-Making
General Session 6 - The Anthropology of Religion
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 405B
Chair: Kendall White, Washington and Lee U.
3:40-4:00 Ellis, Gretchen, Wake Forest U. - An Anthropological Case-Study of La Hermandad de Nuestra Senora del Rocio
4:00-4:20 Scott, Diane E., Louisiana State U. - To the Chapel in Chains
4:20-4:40 White, Kendall O., Washington and Lee U. - Becoming Orthodox Christians: The Ascendency of Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy
General Session 7 - Archaeology
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 404B
Chair: Steve Hale, Georgia Southern U.
3:40-4:00 Greene, Emily, U. of Mississippi - Celtic Feasts
4:00-4:20 Hale, Steve, Georgia Southern U. - The First Panamanian and Kuna General Congress Approved Archaeology in San Blas, Panama
4:20-4:40 Chamlee, Sarah, U. of the South - Looting of Shipwrecks in the Dominican Republic
Symposium 9 - The Hungry World: Circum-Arctic Cultural Parallels of Individuality and Danger
Location: Ole Miss Student Union, Room 403
Organizer: Terry Prewitt, U. of West Florida
Chair: Terry Prewitt, U. of West Florida
3:30-3:50 Prewitt, Terry, U. of West Florida - The Ghost that Ate Children
3:50-4:10 Lopez, Tomas, U. of West Florida - Raven Myths and the Cultural Ecology of the Far North
4:10-4:30 Anderson, Myrdene, U. of West Florida - Saami Shamans (noaidit), Magpies (noai’di loddit), and the Ecology of Arctic Survival
4:30-4:40 Discussion
SAS Business Meeting
Location: Yerby Center Auditorium, Grove Loop, University of Mississippi (next to the Inn at Ole Miss)
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Saturday Evening (Top)
SAS Banquet and Awards Ceremony
Location: Oxford University Club, 300 N. Lamar Blvd., downtown Oxford (one block off the Square on N. Lamar)
6:30-9:30 SAS Banquet and Awards Ceremony at the Oxford University Club. See Special Events (above) for details, and see shuttle schedule for departure time of vans.
Music on the Square
Location: downtown Oxford, venues on the Square
9:30 pm until Enjoy local music at a variety of venues on the square. These events are public events, and cover charges may apply. Highlights include Bill Able Blues Band with Adam Gussow at Two Stick (electric blues). Other music venues on the Square include The Longshot, Parrish’s, Proud Larry’s, and The Library. Shuttle services not available; participants are responsible for transportation back to their hotels.