Department of AnthropologyPast Events
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Asif Agha (Penn), Tropes of kinship: Fictive relations and performative realities
April 3, 2001
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Rebecca Huss-Ashmore (Penn), Healing talk: Therapeutic narratives and cosmetic surgery
March 6, 2001
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David Samuels (U Mass-Amherst), Redneck Refusals: A Western Apache Pronunciation Guide
February 13, 2001
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Douglas J. Glick (Hamilton College), Reading popular culture: The semiotics of a television 'info-mercial' as an electronic site of ritual self-transformation
November 14, 2000
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Matt Tomlinson (Penn), Light and Darkness, Power and Loss: The Metaculture of Modernity in Rural Fiji
October 31, 2000
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Hilary Dick (Penn), Sealing the Mexico-U.S. border with words: The metaculture of nation-building in a land of emigrants
October 17, 2000
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Kristina Wirtz (Penn), Divining the Spirit in the Text: an analysis of narratives about divination in Cuban Santeria
October 10, 2000
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Trevor Stack (Penn), Discourse Genres and Social Arenas: Public Knowledge in Mexican Towns
April 4, 2000
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Michael Lempert (Penn), Lab training session
March 28, 2000
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Andrew Schwalm (Penn), The Secret Examination of Monica Lewinsky: Role-playing Activity & Manipulation in the Lewinsky-Tripp Tapes
February 29, 2000