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Conferences
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Indigenous Traditions and Ecology
November 13-16, 1997
Introduction - Lawrence Sullivan, Director, CSWR
Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee, Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy
Spirituality, Reality, and the Dynamics of the Natural World
Opening Session
Opening welcome - Russell Peters, Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council
Opening remarks - Lawrence Sullivan, Harvard University and John Grim, Bucknell University, Co-convenors
Moderator - Jacob Olupona, University of California/Davis
Ogbu Kalu, Nigeria, Visiting Professor, University of Toronto
The Sacred Egg: Worldview, Ecology and Development in West Africa - ABSTRACT
Teresia Hinga, DePaul University
African Indigenous Religions and the Search for Global Healing: The Gikuyu Case - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Pashington Obeng, Wellesley College and Harvard University
Moderator - Joel Martin, Franklin and Marshall College
Donna House, Dineh, and Gregory Cajete, Tewa, Santa Clara Pueblo
New Mexico Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Science Orientations and Community Inclusivity: Indigenous Ethics, Education, and Environmental Philosophy: A Pueblo Perspective - ABSTRACT
Ines Talamantez, Apache, University of California/Santa Barbara
Native American Paradigms for Sustainable Community - ABSTRACT
Moderator - Mary Des Chene, editor, Studies in Nepali History and Society
Piers Vitebsky, University of Cambridge
Smitu Kothari, Lokayan, India
Adivasi Autonomy and Dominant Religion: Some Reflections
Pradip Prabhu, President, National Forum for Self Rule, India
Ecological Sensibilities and Culture among the Warlis - ABSTRACT
Pramod Parajuli, Syracuse University
Rituals of Resistance, Ecology, and Adivasi Identity in India - ABSTRACT
Suresh Ale Magar, Janajatis, Nepal Federation of Nationalites
Autonomy, Ecology and the Janajati Movement in Nepal.
Respondent and Presenter - William Fisher, Harvard University
The Politicization of "Indigenous" Identity and Knowledge in South Asia - ABSTRACT
Moderator - Leslie Sponsel, University of Hawaii.
Peter Brosius, University of Georgia
Local Knowledges, Global Claims: On the Significance of Indigenous Ecologies in Sarawak, East Malaysia - ABSTRACT
Mutang Urud, Sarawak, Victoria, Canada
Kelabit Ecological Lifeways - ABSTRACT
Stephanie Fried, Environmental Defense Fund
God Squads, Believers, and Backsliders: Religion and Forest Politics in Outer Island Indonesia - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Mary Steedly, Harvard University
Moderator - Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University
Ann Fienup-Riordan, Anthropologist of Yup'ik peoples, Alaska
A Guest on the Table: Ecology from the Yup'ik Eskimo Point of View - ABSTRACT
Harvey Feit, McMaster University
Everyday Rituals and Hunting Metaphors: James Bay Cree Defense of Environments, Community and Inter-cultural Dialogue - ABSTRACT
Jiger Janabel, Kazakstan
The Popular Belief Versus Ecology in Medieval Kazakstan - ABSTRACT
Moderator - Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia, Doctorado en Historia, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas-Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia
Javier Galicia Silva, Nahuatl, Mexico
Religion, Ceremony, and Agriculture Among the Contemporary Nahuatl Communities of Mesoamerica - ABSTRACT
Angel Garcia-Zambrano, Doctorado en Historia, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas-Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia
Cucurbits and Cacti in the Indigenous Ritual Selection of Environments for Settlement in Colonial Mesoamerica - ABSTRACT
Victor Montejo, Jakaltek-Maya, University of California/Davis
The Road to Heaven: Jakaltek-Maya Beliefs, Religion and the Ecology - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia
Moderator - Kenneth Kensinger, Bennington College, Emeritus
Theodore MacDonald, Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Political Mobilization and Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) in Indigenous Amazonia: Where's the Link? - ABSTRACT
Julio Valladolid, Huanca, Peru, PRATEC, and Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Smith College
Andean Cosmovision, Biodiversity and Regeneration - ABSTRACT
Respondent and Presenter - Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez, Emeritus, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas
On the Origin of the Earth: the Basis of Ye'kuana Political Mobilization - ABSTRACT
Moderator - Rex Mansmann, Partnership for First Peoples
Manuka Henare, Maori/University of Auckland
Tapu, mauri, hau, mana: A Maori Philosophy of Vitalism and the Cosmos - ABSTRACT
Mary MacDonald, LeMoyne College, and Simeon Namunu, The Melanesian Institute, Papua New Guinea
Toward an Ethic of Interdependence: Give and Take in Melanesia - ABSTRACT
Respondent and presenter - Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Igorot, Philippines
Moderator - Victor Yellow Hawk White, Keetowah, American Indian Program of the American Friends Service Committee of the Pacific Mountain Region
Diane Bell, College of the Holy Cross
Environmental Dreamings: Of Religion, Romance, Reconciliation, and Resource - ABSTRACT
Tom Treverrow, Ngarrindjeri, Australia
A Ngarrindjeri View of Local Ecological Issues
Respondent - Ellen Treverrow, Ngarrindjeri, Australia
Overviews: Understanding Exploitation and Advocacy
Moderator - Werner Wilbert, Instituto Caribe de Antropologia y Sociologia, Fundacion La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela
Darrell Posey, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Thomas Greaves, Bucknell University
Knowledge, Innovation and Practice of Indigenous and Local Communities: Traditional Technologies in the International Political Context - ABSTRACT
David Maybury-Lewis, Harvard University
Indigenous Movements in Global Perspective: An Overview.
Screening of the documentary "Power" - FILM SUMMARY
