Tuesday, September 20, 2011

2011 AAA News

BUSINESS MEETING
Friday, November 18, 2011: 18:15-19:30

Organizers:
Justin R Shaffner (University of Cambridge) and Tate A LeFevre (New York University)


MIG SPONSORED SESSION

PRIMITIVIST ENCOUNTERS TODAY: NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES OF INDIGENOUS TOURISM
Saturday, November 19, 2011: 16:00-17:45

Organizers:
Rupert Stasch (UCSD)

Chairs:
Anke Tonnaer (Radboud University Nijmegen)

16:00
Wa Grotesque: Headhunting Theme Parks and the Chinese Nostalgia for Primitive Contemporaries
Magnus Fiskesjo (Cornell University)

16:15
Money, Morality, and Mapula (Payment) In Trobriand-Tourist Interactions
Michelle D MacCarthy (University of Auckland)

16:30
Tourists In a Differentiated Social Field: The Kinship, Geography, and Politics of Tourism Involvement In An Egalitarian Society
Rupert Stasch (UCSD)

16:45
In the Middle: Intermediaries' Relations with Tourists and Toured In Indigenous Australia
Anke Tonnaer (Radboud University Nijmegen)

17:00
"Beach-Boy Elders" and "Young Big Men": Age, Temporality, and Samburu Ethno-Erotic Economies In Postcolonial Kenya
George Paul Meiu (University of Chicago)

17:15
Discussant
Janet A Hoskins (University of Southern California)

17:30
Discussant
Francesca C Merlan (ANU)