IUN Anthro Newsletter: Doing fieldwork in Mexico, five speakers in one day at

IUN, events, news, scholarships.

1) events at IUN:

1A) Wed: evening talk on the Mixtec people of southern Mexico.

1B) Wed: afternoon talks by four speakers: “Science”, “Language”, “Outsourcing”,

and “Indians”

1C) Cash rewards available for IUN Anthropology students

1D) Sociology and Anthropology Clubs

2) In Indiana: Tibet, several archaeology talks and meetings, and Native Indiana

Voices

3) In Chicago: Human Rights and HIV

4) On the web, including Stories, Myths, and Legends

5) Local Jobs, Scholarships, and Travel; dissection opportunity

6) Newsletter subscription/unsubscription information.

1A) This Wednesday, February 9, 2005, John Monaghan, PhD, an internationally

known cultural anthropologist, will be coming to IUN to tell students about his

fieldwork experiences while living among the Mixtec people of southern Mexico.

Dr Monaghan’s ethnographic and linguistic studies there in Oaxaca resulted in

one of the most important anthropology books of recent times, The Covenants with

Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Society. One of

the themes of the book, “Mixtec Feasting and the Origins of Gift Exchange”, is

of special interest to students in the Food and Culture class.

From reviews of his book: “In this book, John Monaghan explores the culture of the

Mixtecs, today one of the largest Native American groups in Mexico. Focusing on the

community of Santiago Nuyoo, located in the mountainous Mixteca Alta region, he

describes Nuyooteco marriage practices, gift exchange, kinship systems, land tenure,

cosmology, ritual, and feasting.”

And: "The Covenants with Earth and Rain is probably the best anthropological

treatment of another culture that I know of, and certainly one of the most

readable."--George E. Stuart, Staff Archaeologist, National Geographic Society

And: "One of those rare books that truly impresses the reader in its

originality, revealing detail, and compelling insight. It is a tribute to the

Mixtec community of Nuyoo and a significant contribution to the study of native

cultures in Mesoamerica."--Ethnohistory

His profile is at:

http://www.uic.edu/casp/depts/paff/uicnews/articledetail.asp?id=952&IssueID=39&catID=2

Dr Monaghan speaks 5:30 to 6:45 pm, IUN Library Conference Center room 105C,

Wednesday, February 9, 2005. Free and open to the public.

1B) Darwin Day returns to IUN on Wednesday February 9, 2005, from 1 to 3:30 pm

in the Library Conference Center room 105AB; there will be speakers and cake and

other activities. Every year we present a variety of speakers and topics on the

humanities, social science, and of course natural science, in this celebration

of knowledge, scholarship, and education. Featured speakers this year are four

of IUN's newest and youngest faculty:

1:00 Kevin Kennedy from Biology speaks about the continuing conflict

between Creationism and Science;

1:30 Scooter Pegram from Modern Languages/Minority Studies speaks about

language evolution;

2:00 Cake

2:15 Jackie Zalewski from Sociology speaking on current social evolution:

“Rebadging: the in-house outsourcing of professional workers"; in which firms

outsource entire business functions to an in-house service provider. Then staff

who were terminated from the company are reemployed for less by the service

provider firm.

2:45 Mik Stokely from Anthropology speaks about "Science meets the Indian:

Perceptions & Politics"; Early encounters between Euro-Americans and indigenous

peoples generated ideas and misunderstandings that continue to this day,

influencing native identity construction and legal rights. This presentation

will explore some of that history and its legacy.

More at the event webpage: http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw/cal/2005/02-09-05.htm

1C) Did you have good grades in 2004? Are you an anthropology major or minor

or following the anthropology track to the sociology BA? If so, submit an

application and you may win a cash reward. The Anthropology Club is trying to

give away $1500 in Academic Achievement Awards, to be divided among four or more

of the best students. (So far there are more awards than applicants!) Deadline

is February 14. Membership in Anthropology Club is not required. Application

and detailed information is at: http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw/awards.htm

1D) Sociology Club Meeting Tuesday, Feb. 8th 9:15-10:00 Lindenwood 120.

Anthropology Club meeting Thursday Feb 17 at 1 pm in Savannah 207.

Anthropology Club plans on showing the movie Krippendorf's Tribe on Friday

February 25 at 5 pm, room TBA. Club will meet at 4 pm before the film, same room.

PUB N GRUB: some of the anthro (and other) students and faculty meet on Thursday

nights at the Country Lounge at 8 pm for talk, food, and drink. It is on Ridge

Road near I-65; email Kathy Forgey for more info: mkforgey@yahoo.com

2) IN INDIANA:

The Notre Dame Department of Anthropology Presents

Abraham Zablocki, Cornell University

The Maitreya Project: how and why are transnational Tibetan Buddhists

constructing the world's tallest statue in a village in North India?

Monday, February 7, 2005

4:30 PM

119 O'Shaughnessy Hall

University of Notre Dame

The efforts of one of the largest transnational Tibetan Buddhist organizations

to build a 500-foot statue of Maitreya - the Buddha-to-be - in a small village

in India have generated considerable controversy in South Asia and among

Buddhists worldwide. The statue's proponents regard it as an opportunity to

combine space age engineering techniques, environmental design, and ideologies

of development with the religious aims of Buddhist monumental architecture. They

envision it as a mixture of pilgrimage site and tourist attraction. The statue's

critics, on the other hand, object to its overwhelming scale, huge expense, and

its economic and environmental impacts on local communities. The tension between

these two perspectives on the Maitreya Project reveals the complex relationship

between modernism and traditionalism in contemporary Tibetan Buddhism. In

addition, the statue's engagement of Tibetan lamas, Western Buddhist converts,

Chinese donors, and Indian villagers in a transnational religious project

demonstrates the intricacy of cultural hybridity in a globalized world, and

reveals the benefits of multi-sited ethnography.

Contact: Diane Pribbernow

Sr. Administrative Assistant

Department of Anthropology

611 Flanner Hall

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN 46556-5611

Phone: 574-631-6433

Fourth Eli Lilly Lecture in Archaeology

Prof Timothy Pauketat

University of Illinois

"Materiality and the Forgotten History of the Mississippians"

Feb 24, 2005 4:30 pm EST

room 101 Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology

campus map at: http://www.iub.edu/~iubmap/

and their field school application is at:

http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/fschool/fschool2005.html

The 28th Annual Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory

Sponsored by The Department of Anthropology and the Program for Archaeology and

Social Context

Dates: March 4-5, 2005 (Friday and Saturday)

Venue: Indiana University Bloomington, Glenn Black Laboratory Lecture Hall.

An evening reception at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures will take place on

Saturday.

The annual meeting of the Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and

Ethnothistory will be held at IU Bloomington on March 4-5, 2005 in the Glenn

Black Laboratory Lecture Hall. The conference highlights current research by

scholars in the Midwestern United States. By providing an informal environment,

the conference seeks to promote positive discussion and interaction between

scholars in the Midwest.

There are no registration fees for this conference, and students are welcome to

attend.

For more information, including submission deadlines please visit our website:

http://mypage.iu.edu/~estockde/

Archaeology to be Focus of Sheridan Historical Society

Restoration of the George Boxley 1828 pioneer cabin has captured the interest of

Sheridan Historical Society members who have invited Jeffrey Plunkett, a 10-year

veteran in the field to explain the process of archaeology and how a site review

using those skills can reveal so much about pioneer life. On Feb. 7, 7 p.m., at

the Sheridan Historical Society museum, Plunkett, vice president of Landmark

Archaeological and Environmental Services, Inc. in Sheridan, will share slides

of digs and showcase artifacts discovered using the special skills. Plunkett,

who is a professional archaeologist and principal investigator on projects, has

worked for the Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources, Division of Historic

Preservation and Archaeology as well as the Indiana Dept. of Transportation.

His work has also involved prehistoric archaeology for the Kentucky

Transportation Cabinet in 1997.

For more information, call 317/758-5054 or e-mail <mailto:SherHistSoc@aol.com>.

http://www.sheridannews.net/historicalsociety/

Native American Indian Voices of Indiana is doing an Native American Indian

education program for students of the Columbus Indiana schools and the general

public. The program is as follows:

To be held at Southside School Auditorium March 12th at 7:00 pm, Columbus

Indiana and will start with:

A half hour program for the students (non-music just conversational) with Bill

Miller, a Mohican Indian and a 5 time Native American Music Awards winner and a

2005 Grammy nominee. And directly following that will be the public concert for

approx. 90 minutes (students included).

Bill's tribe, the Mohicans, were removed to Indiana when they were relocated

from New York. In fact his tribe came to the White River to live among the

Delawares and the Miamis. We as Native American Indian Voices of Indiana

believe that it is entirely appropriate to work with Bill because he's a great

voice for the Indian people and because he has historic ties to Indiana. His

tribe later was moved to Wisconsin where he grew up on the Stockbridge Munsee

Mohican reservation.

We are in the process of raising funds for this program. We believe

it would be a good opportunity for the native American Indian people to have a

chance to make a statement about those Native American Indians that have gone

on or that you want to remember with some words. What we hope to do is to show

the non-Indian public that we are still here and thriving and that we just

didn't exist in the 1800's.

We are offering a two to three line space for $ 25 and with that you would

receive:

your two or three line statement about someone special in the brochure with

your initials and city you live in

and 2 tickets to the concert itself .

This is a most worth while program and you would be helping the students

receive a better picture of who we are as a people. The students will be made up

of history classes and also a Native American class that is being taught by a

non-Indian teacher. And we stress emphasis on the latter. It is very important

for these students to see and hear from a Native American Indian person that

travels across this country representing the pride of his people and his family.

If you have not seen or heard of Bill Miller you can visit his website

http://www.billmiller.net

Contact: Sally S. Tuttle, Chairmen

Native American Indian Voices of Indiana

3202 Orleans Drive

Kokomo, In 46902-3951

1-765-453-1298

1-765-438-6652

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