2-0170 DIVINATION, KNOWLEDGE, AND POWER: ANCESTRAL LEGACIES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORITY

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 12:00-13:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: John J McGraw (UCSD Anthropology)

Chairs: Miguel Astor-Aguilera PhD (Arizona State University)

Discussants: Philip M Peek (Drew Univ)

12:00

The Reincarnation of Meaning: Embodied Voices, Represented Divinations, and the Dialogically Extended Mind

John W Du Bois (University of California, Santa Barbara)

12:15

Divination and Hierophantic Crisis In a South Indian Village

Charles William Nuckolls (Brigham Young University)

12:30

Patterns In Divination: A Cross-Cultural Exploration

Catharina Laporte (Texas A&M University)

12:45

The Agency of Images In Place: Divination In Canadian Shield Rock Art

Dagmara Zawadzka (Université du Québec à Montréal )

13:00

Divination and Science: Divining Legacies In the Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

John J McGraw (UCSD Anthropology)

13:15

Discussion

13:30

Discussant

Philip M Peek (Drew Univ)

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