TABOO
THE FORBIDDEN / FORBIDDING SUBJECT OF ANTHROPOLOGY


ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2007
16-18 November
University of Waikato
Hamilton, NZ


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Conference Organisers:
    Michael Goldsmith
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    Judith Macdonald
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Conference Secretary:
    Janice Smith
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Programme

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Friday 16 November

3:00-5:00pm Registration - J2.02
(also on the Sat and Sun mornings at 8.30am)
7:00-10:00pm Reception at Sutton/Molloy residence
19 Kelly Place, Hamilton
(see Hamilton map on site, or collect at registration)

Saturday 17 November

8:30-9:00am Registration - JG.17
9:00-9:10am Powhiri / Introduction - KG.11
Papers - KG.11 - 9:10am - 4:30pm
9:10-10:00am Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (keynote), ‘He Ngarahu Tapu Taku Ngarahu. Forbidden, or foreboding? Lines of ink, curves of knowledge: Moko Maori'.
Morning Tea Break - JG.17 - 10:00-10:30am
10:30-12:30pm Taboos in Pacific Research Contexts (1)
  Ann Chowning, ‘Discovering Taboos in Sengseng'
  Claudia Gross, ‘Mother-in-Law/Son-in-Law Avoidance and the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Upper Awara, Papua New Guinea'
  Christine Dureau, ‘Taboo Nostalgia'
  Siaosi Iailu, ‘Taboo/Tapu and Caste Ideas – A Realist Analysis'
Lunch - JG.17 - 12:30-1:30pm
1:30-3:00pm Taboos in Pacific Research Contexts (2)
  Des Kahotea. ‘Te Rangihiroa and the Burial Cave at Tutea, Tuamotu'
  Tarisi Vunidilo, ‘Tabu and Archaeological Research in Fiji '
  Floyd Robinson, ‘The Sociocultural Impacts of Tabu Sites on Men and Women – A Case Study of Cuvu District, Nadroga, Fiji'
Afternoon Tea Break - JG.17 - 3:00-3:30pm
3:30-4:30pm Religious Taboos in Multicultural Settings
  Sally McAra, ‘Profiting from Dharma Objects: Negotiating Taboos in Buddhist Fundraising'
  Dawne Sanson, ‘On Breaking Taboos: Neo-Shamans in New Zealand'
AGM - KG.09 or KG.11 - 4:30-6:00pm
7:00-10:00pm Conference Dinner
(Canvas Restaurant, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Grantham Street, towards south end of Victoria Street, in CBD)

Sunday 18 November

8:30-9:00am Registration - JG.17
Papers - KG.11 - 9:00am - 4:30pm
9:00-10:00am Doug Sutton (keynote), ‘Is Anthropology becoming Taboo in New Zealand and Pacific Universities?'
Morning Tea Break - JG.17 - 10:00-10:30am
10:30-12:30pm Taboos in Anthropological Theory and Practice
  Graeme MacRae, ‘Taboos in the Practice of Anthropology'
  Eleanor Rimoldi, ‘Zero'
  Sharyn Davies, ‘Taboo, Sexuality and Anthropology'
  Caroline Thomas, ‘Speaking the Unspeakable: When and How Do Anthropological Topics and Ideas Become Taboo?'
Lunch - JG.17 and/or outside (weather permitting) - 12:30-1:30pm
1:30-4:00pm Taboos and Modernity
  Carolyn Morris, ‘Policing the Boundary of Nature/Regulating Biopharm Crops'
  Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, ‘Cultural Taboos and “Re-Colonisation”: The Walt Disney Company in the Francilian Landscape'
  Ferne Edwards, ‘Tasting Taboo – A Subculture's Consumption of Food Waste as Political Statement'
  Julie Macdonald, ‘Independent Celebrants and Ritual Invention: Is Nothing Taboo?'
  Patrick LaViolette, 'Risk and Risque': Resemblances between the Foreboding Taboos against Tombstoning and The Totemic Danger of Epic Adventure'
Afternoon Tea Break - JG.17 - 4:00-4:30pm ...leading into farewells

 


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