ABA at the AAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco 2012

3-0315 Imagining Anthropology without Borders

Thursday, November 15, 2012: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM

The theme, Borders and Crossings, challenges us to consider the ways in which anthropology is influenced and reshaped as borders are crossed. This roundtable will imagine anthropology without borders. Within such a context, we will consider the implications of the varied crossing with other disciplines and the consequences for not setting boundaries within the discipline. In order to accomplish this, we will address the following questions: Does a borderless discipline limit anthropology’s ability to contribute to a better understood and more just world? For instance, has the AAA lost its center? Does the growing number of sub-sections render the AAA an increasingly diluted and fragmented organization—especially as concerns major cultural and social issues? Have anthropologists ceased raising the big and fundamental questions because of the increasing specialization within the field? When and where do the varied anthropologies and anthropologists intersect and truly speak to one another? Or, perhaps anthropology is not doing enough to protect its borders. Should anthropology be more concerned about how other disciplines borrow our theories and methodologies? Should we be more insistent that those disciplines acknowledge their anthropological heritage? Finally, are we taking the best advantage of the places where borders are crossed? Specifically, should we be more creative and flexible about existing, new and possible borders to cross in order to encourage racial and ethnic diversity within anthropology?

Organizers:

Andrea Carol Abrams (Centre College)

Chairs:

Johnnetta Betsch Cole (National Museum of African Art)

Roundtable Presenters:

Brackette F Williams (University of Arizona), Yolanda T Moses (University of California Riverside), Robert Paynter (University of Massachusetts ), Gwendolyn Mikell (Georgetown University) and Kamela S Heyward-Rotimi (University of Massachusetts)

Crossing Borders: The On-going Work and Legacy of Johnnetta Betsch Cole

Thursday, November 15, 2012: 1:45 PM–5:30 PM

1:45 PM

Introduction Faye Harrison

2:00 PM

“Nothing Is Too Good for the People” Michael L Blakey (College of William and Mary)

2:15 PM

A Tribute to Sister President: HBCUs and Their Anthropological Legacies Marla Frederick (Harvard University)

2:30 PM

We Are All Sisters: Building a Language for Theorizing Black Non-Feminist/Anti-Feminist Anthropology Riche Daniel Barnes (Smith College)

2:45 PM

Women of Color and Might:  A Consideration of Anthropology, Art, Race, Gender and Border Crossing Andrea Carol Abrams (Centre College)

3:00 PM

The Poetics and Politics of Reclaiming: Indigenous Peoples & Anthropology Robin RR Gray (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

3:15 PM

Discussant Johnnetta Betsch Cole (National Museum of African Art)

4:00 PM

Introduction A. Lynn Bolles

4:15 PM

Connecting Through Art: Johnnetta Cole’s Encore Career Mary Catherine Bateson (Professor Emerita, George Mason University)

4:30 PM

The Curatorial Life Corinne A Kratz (Emory Univ)

4:45 PM

Educational Issues: The Anglophone Caribbean and the US Arthur K Spears (City University of New York – Graduate Center)

5:00 PM

Mentoring As Legacy: The Influence of Johnnetta Betsch Cole On Self and Anthropology Irma McClaurin (McClaurin Solutions)

This session would be of particular interest to:

Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers:

Riche Daniel Barnes (Smith College)

Chairs:

Faye V Harrison (University of Florida) and A Lynn Bolles PhD (University Of Maryland College Park)

Discussants:

Johnnetta Betsch Cole (National Museum of African Art)

4-0090 The Politics of Party Music: Bay Area Beats, Rhymes and Dance

Friday, November 16, 2012: 8:00 AM–9:45 AM

8:00 AM

Speaking Back and Liberating Minds: Spoken Word Among Bay Area Youth of Color Ashley D. Aaron (San Francisco State University)

8:15 AM

“So After All My Logic and My Theory”: Youth Participatory Action Research Through Hiphop Christopher Roberts (San Francisco State University and San Francisco State University)

8:30 AM

The Funk Behind Street Dance Alan Mar David (San Francisco State University)

8:45 AM

“Sound of Da Police”: Bay Area Hiphop Politics, Policy and Police

9:00 AM

Discussion

9:15 AM

Discussion

9:30 AM

Discussion

This session would be of particular interest to:

Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers:

Dawn-Elissa Fischer (San Francisco State University)

Chairs:

Dawn-Elissa Fischer (San Francisco State University)

4-0220 Haitian Protestantism Across National Borders

Friday, November 16, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:45 AM

8:00 AM

The Army of Heaven: Strength and Ambiguity In Haitian Pentecostalism Frederick J Conway (San Diego State University)

8:15 AM

Notes Toward a Discussion of Protestantism, Creolization, and Self In 19th-Century Haiti Landon Yarrington (The University of Arizona)

8:30 AM

Salomon Sevère Joseph (1891-1973) and the Mission From God: The Founder and Internationalization of Indigenous Haitian Christianity Terry Rey (Temple University)

8:45 AM

Geographies of Faith In the Popular Neighborhoods of Port-Au-Prince: Protestant, Catholic, and Vodouist Coexistance, Solidarity, and Conflict Lynn Selby (The University of Texas at Austin)

9:00 AM

“If Any Man Be In Christ, He Is a New Creature”: Evangelicalism Among Haitian Agricultural Workers In the Dominican Republic