A C ionference

'ehind Mny             itsks'
Geral Berremain and

Berkeley Anthropology 1959200

Friday, April 6, 2001, 8:30 AMN to 5:15 PMN
Si'bley Auditoriumm, Bechtel Hal 2nd Floor

Organized by the Kroeber Anthropological Society and the

Anthropology Graduate Organization for Research and Action,
with support from the Department of Anthropology, the Hearst
MNuseum of Anthropology, the Center for South Asia Studies,

and the Institute for the Study of Social Change.

362

Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers

No. 89/90

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

8:30am -9:00am
9:00am -9:05am
9:05am -10:35am

9:05-9:20

9:20-9:35
9:035-9:50

9:50-10:05

10:05-10:20
10:20-10:35
10:35am -10:45am
10:45am -12:00pm

10:45-1 1:00
11:000-11:15

11:15-11:030
11:30-11:045
11:45-12:00

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST SOCIAL

WELCOME BY KATHERINE MACKINNON,
PRESIDENT OF KAS

FIRST SESSION: SOUTH ASIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Chaired by Triloki Padey

Joseph Alter, Historical Magicalism: Leisure Capitalism,

Commodity Fetishism and the Transforrnation of Manure into
Milk in the Lower Himalayas

Pauline Kolenda, Premo:- Innocenlt at Home

Isabelle Nabokov, The First Born: An 'Untouchable' Myth of
Origin from South India

Erin Moore, Competing Ideologies:. Moral Discourse in a
Rajasthani Village

Kam ala Viswaswaren, Toward a Subaltern History of Class
Gautam Ghosh, Thie India That Should Have Been
BREAK

SECOND SESSION: SOCL4,L INEQUALITY
Chaired by Joseph Alter

Roberto Gonzalez, Anthropology Departments and

Underrepresented Minorities: Graduate Student Enrollment
and Faculty Hiring at the 'Top Ten'

Robert Fletcher Manlove, Social Inequality in Urban
Phillipines

John Ogbu, Ascribed Inequality and Public Policy
Roziah Omar, Gender and Aging in Malaysia

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Mixed Feelings: Dealing with

'Spoiled Identities' in the New South Africa-Voices from the
Cape Coloured and Kagga Kamma San Communities

12:00pm -1:00m

LUNCH

Appendix A

Original Conference Program

363

1:00pm - 2:15pm

1 :00-1: 15

1: 15-1:30
1:30-1:45

1 :45-2:00
2:00-2: 15
2: 15-2:30
2:,30pm - 2:45pm
2:45pm - 4:, 15pm

2:45-3:00
3:00-3: 15
3: 15-3:30
3:030-3:45
3:45-4:00
4:00-4:15
4: 15pm - 4:30pm
4:30pm - 5:15pm

1TEIRD SESSION: 'THEl POLITICS OF TRUTH':
ETIHICS, RESPONSIB ITIY AND ACTIVISM
Chaired by Conn Hallinan

Donna Brasset-Shearer, Go Tell It on the Mountain: Gerry
Berreman and the Politics of Truth

Kathryn Forbes, Hijacking Free Speech in the CSU

Vijaya Nagarajan, Hugging Trees in North India: The Chipko
Movement, The Politics of Truth and Berreman

Deborah Pruitt, Teaching Introductory Anthropology:
Comments on Advocacy and Social Action

Mark Pedelty, Optimism of the Will: Applying the Work of
Gerry Berreman to Questions of Educational Inequality

Charles Underwood and Jelani Mahin', Behind the Mask of
Technology: Educational Inequality and the Pedagogy of
Hope

BREAK

FOURT'H SESSION: OTHER REFLECTIONS
Chaired by Lucile Newman

Chris Kefer, Unmausking Anthropology for Health
Professionals

Clark Taylor, The Social Construction of HIVISTD

Prevention Technology: Are Topical Microbicides (Liquid
Condoms) Being Poured Down the Drain?

Lisa Handwerker, Social Inequality Pervades: T5he

ImplicXi"ons of Huiman Cloning and Germline Therapy for
Women and Womens' Health

Terry Haynes, Ethical Issues and Subsistence Research in
Alaska

Keiko Yamnla Transnational Activism for Local Survival:-
A Nepalese Visa-Overstayers' Community in Japan
John Ratcliffe, Gerry Berreman: Super Mentor

BREAK

CONCLUDING SESSION: A PARTICIEPATORY

CONVERSATION WITH GERALD BERREMAN
Mark Pedelty, Interlocutor

5: 15pm - 5:30pm

BREAK

364

Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers

No. 89/90

5:30pm - 8:15pm

RECEPTION: In the Courtyard of the Phoebe Hearst
(formerly Lowie) Museum of Anthropology, I st Floor
Kroeber Hall, If Weather Permits.

If Weather Prohibits, then the I1st Floor Atrium of the red

brick 'Archeological Research Facility' building behind Boalt
Law School.

Kent Lightfoot, Master of Ceremonies

Music by "Mariachi Oro" (featuring Roberto Gonzalez) !