NASA Sessions 2003

TITLE		CHAIR
NASA STUDENT POSTER SESSION		N/A
STUDENTS IN THE FIELD		N/A
IN THE TURBULENCE OF PEACE: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN POSTWAR HIGHLAND GUATEMALA		John Hawkins Brigham Young U
RESOLVING CONFLICTS IN HERITAGE TOURISM: A PUBLIC INTEREST APPROACH		Benjamin Porter, U Penn Peggy Sanday, U Penn
CRAFTING PEACE AND PROSPERITY THROUGH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE 50-YEAR “CRASH” AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF DISCOURSE, THEORY AND PRACTICE		Tara Hefferan, MSU Keri Brondo, MSU
TEACHING PEACE: TRANSFORMING ANTHROPOLOGICAL EDUCATION TO TEACH METHODS WHICH SERVE OTHERS		Jason Miller
MOTIVATING STUDENTS, MOTIVATING OURSELVES: THE SPIRIT WITHIN ANTHROPOLOGY		Penny Owen Eric Haanstad

 

NASA STUDENT POSTER SESSION
Organized by reviewer
Paper titles:

1. Language Attitudes on the Standardization of Taiwan's Romanization Systems
2. HIV Testing of Pregnant Women: Anthropological Approaches
3. AComparative Study of Western and Asian Weddings in the U.S

STUDENTS IN THE FIELD
Organized by reviewer
Paper titles:

1. ‘Glocalized’ representations of ‘local’ culture: The cultural practices of tour guides in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2. Physician Authority in Holistic Clinical Practice
3. Religion, Identity and (dis)Harmony Among the Navajo
4. Effects of International Funding Sources on the Development of Civil Society in Bulgaria
5. Imagining Disabled People in ‘the South’: Representations of Western NGOs
6. Questioning Scholarly Motives: The Work of Hindu Activist Organizations in the American Diaspora
7. The House that Guru Built: Physical Manifestations and Diasporic Imaginings in Southwest Michigan

IN THE TURBULENCE OF PEACE: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN POSTWAR HIGHLAND GUATEMALA
Paper titles:

1. The Paraiso Maya School: Education Negotiating Change
2. "We have to work together": Complementarity in the Household Production System of Antigua Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán
3. The Paraiso Maya School: Education Negotiating Change
4. “Our ancestors sacrificed in order to have this land:” Issues of identity and cultural politics in the relocation of a Mayan community
5. Abandoning Community: Risk Taking in the Light of Durkhiem’s Suicide
6. We Have the Right: The Resourcefulness of New Ixtahuaqueños
7. “The Mother Suffers With Her Children”: The cultural significance of maize in a Guatemalan town
8. Inverse Typology and Ethnic Identity: An Analysis of Inverse Image Theory in Two Guatemalan Communities
9. La tejeduría y la mujer en San Pedro Petz
10. Commodity Fetisihism and Tradition: The Decline of the Cofradia System of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan
11. Sadness in the Highlands: A Cross-Cultural Study of Depression Among the Maya of Guatemala

RESOLVING CONFLICTS IN HERITAGE TOURISM: A PUBLIC INTEREST APPROACH
Paper Titles:

1. Serving Up Culture: Heritage and Its Discontents at an Industrial History Site
2. Practicing Public Interest Archaeology in Peru
3. Keeping World Heritage in the Family
4. Representing Taksim Square: The controversy over the mosque project
5. Selling a Replicated Past: Exploitation or Benefit for the Local Population?
6. Contesting and Claiming Culture at Híwus Feasthouse: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of “Nativeness.”
7. A Safe Haven in Heritage? Archaeology at an Underground Railroad Heritage Site-
8. A Site of Global Heritage? Constructing the World Trade Center Site
9. Selling a Replicated Past: Exploitation or Benefit for the Local Population? Part II
10. ‘Jesus experienced this kind of weather, too': Mediating experience on Christian tours to Jerusalem.

Invited Sessions

CRAFTING PEACE AND PROSPERITY THROUGH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE 50-YEAR “CRASH” AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF DISCOURSE, THEORY AND PRACTICE
Sponsoring Section: National Association of Student Anthropologists

Paper titles:
1. Community-Based ICT Centers for Women-Owned SMEs
2. Faith, Health, and Aid: The Challenges of Contending Ideologies and Development Coordination
3. What it Means to be Garifuna: Linking Identity Construction to “Appropriate Development”
4. Deprofessionalizing Development: Faith-based Initiatives Linking Catholic Churches in Michigan and Haiti
5. Blurring Boundaries between Aid and Charity: Reconstructing Development in the Andes of Central Ecuador
6. Race, Nation, Religion, Gender: Challenging NGO's in Niger to Confront History, Identity, and Power
7. "Building the World:" Development Lessons from a Thai Buddhist Community
8. International Development and Indigenous Agency: The Interface of Local and Global Economic Processes
9. Rural Development in Bolivia: A Discursive Study
10. Islamism and Civil Society in the Modern Middle East
11. The Rhetoric of Participation: An Analysis of the Plan Puebla-Panama

TEACHING PEACE: TRANSFORMING ANTHROPOLOGICAL EDUCATION TO TEACH METHODS WHICH SERVE OTHERS
Sponsoring Section: National Association of Student Anthropologists
Second Sponsoring Section: Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges

Round Table Discussants:

• Joyce Hammond, Western Washington University
• Siv Spain, Western Washington University
• Angana Chatterji
• Richard Shapiro
• Kenneth Rowe, CA Inst. of Integral Studies
• Lisa Citron, Teachers College, Columbia U

MOTIVATING STUDENTS, MOTIVATING OURSELVES: THE SPIRIT WITHIN ANTHROPOLOGY
Sponsoring Section: National Association of Student Anthropologists
Second Sponsoring Section: Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges

Round Table Discussants:

• Penny Owen, Shafeek Nader Trust
• Laura Nader, Univ of California, Berkeley
• Chad Morris, University of Kentucky
• John Van Willigen, University of Kentucky
• Jill Boncek, Pitney Bowes
• Mark Lewine, Ctr for Community Research
• Philippe Bourgois, University of California, San Francisco
  

 

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