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Colloquium Series 1997-1998 September 12 Catherine Boone Department of Government, University of Texas/Austin “State Building in the African Countryside: Structure and Politics at the Grassroots” September 19 Robert Johnston Department of History, Yale University “Politics and Anti-Politics: Agrarianism and the New Western History” September 26 Timothy Longman Department of Political Science, Vassar College “Protecting the Powerful and Empowering the Weak: The Contradictory Role of Christian Churches in Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire” October 3 Kathleen Stewart Department of Anthropology, University of Texas/Austin “Beyond the Pale: Current Eruptions of Monstrosity in the American ‘Country’” October 10 Bob Anderson and Paul Keene Walnut Acres Organic Farm, Penns Creek, Pennsylvania “The Walnut Acres Way: Over 50 Years of Building Organic Agriculture, Socially Responsible Businesses, and Sustainable Communities” October 17 Willard Sunderland Department of History, University of Cincinnati “News from the Eastern Frontier: Russian Peasant Settlers Go East and Tell All About It” October 24 Elizabeth Povinelli Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago “Native Sex: Sex Rites, Land Rights, and the Making of Australian Aboriginal ‘Civic Culture’” October 31 Pat Mooney Rural Advancement Foundation International, Ottawa, ONTARIO “International Agricultural Research: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research in the Age of Biotechnology and Biopiracy” November 7 Shelton Davis World Bank “The Guatemalan Peace Accords and Indigenous Communal Lands” November 14 John Vandermeer Department of Biology, University of Michigan “Modern Agriculture in Crisis: The Alternative Evolving” November 21 Georg Elwert Freie Universitt Berlin, Institut fr Ethnologie “Social Transformation as an Endogenous Process Dealing with Strangers: A Comparison of Three African Rural Communities” December 5 John and Jean Comaroff Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago “Visceral Economies and the Violence of Extraction: Notes from Postcolonial South Africa” January 16 Steven Gudeman Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota “The Duality of Economic Life: Market, Community, and Their Interaction” January 23 Ajay Skaria History, University of Virginia Some Aporias of History: Time and Truth in Dangs, Western India January 30 Ebrima Sall Sociologist, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA “Peasants and Citizens: Community Organizations and Community Responses to the Challenges of Modernity in Rural Gambia” February 6 Michael Kearney Department of Anthropology, University of California/Riverside “Rural Oaxaca and California Agribusiness: The Transfer of Economic Value from Mexican Villages to U.S. Suburbs” February 13 Miriam Wells Department of Human and Community Development, University of California/Davis “Strawberry Fields: Economic Restructuring, Class Relations, and Local Organization of Production” February 20 Angus Wright Environmental Studies, California State University/Sacramento “Who Owns Nature?: Property, Privilege, and Ecology in the Americas” February 27 Nils Erik Villstrand Pohjanmaan Museum, Vaasa, Finland “People and Power: Scandinavian History from Below 1600-1800” March 6 Peter Boomgaard Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Leiden, The Netherlands “In the Shadow of Rice: Roots and Tubers in Indonesian Agriculture, 1600-1940” March 27 Sarah Burns Department of Fine Arts, Indiana University “The Farmer’s Daughter: Country Girls in Nineteenth-Century Genre Painting and Visual Culture” April 3 Catharine Newbury Political Science, University of North Carolina David Newbury History, University of North Carolina “Rethinking Rwandan Historiography: Bringing the Peasants Back In” April 10 Ariel de la Fuente History, Purdue University “The Caudillos in Songs and Stories: Representations of Political Leadership in Nineteenth-Century Rural Argentina” April 17 Margaret Bolsterli Cattle Farmer and Professor Emeritus of English, University of Arkansas “Pretty Soon We Won’t Even Be Us, Will We?: Prosperity, Urbanization, and Cultural Change in Northwest Arkansas 1970-1996” April 24 Victoria Bernal Department of Anthropology,University of California/Irvine “When the Revolution Comes to Town: The EPLF and Civil Society in Eritrea” May 1 Tekalign Wolde-Mariam History, Addis Ababa University “What the Contracts Don’t Tell: The Politics of Power, Imperial Legality, and the Land Market in Postwar Ethiopia, 1941-1974”