123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Reconsidering Power in Social Practice: Manners, Etiquette, and Acts of Hospitality

Reconsidering Power in Social Practice: Manners, Etiquette, and Acts of Hospitality

AHA Session 216

Monday, January 5, 2009: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Rendezvous Trianon (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Mary Dillard, Sarah Lawrence College

Papers:

"New Society to Insist on Good Manners": Debating Manners and Politics in Federation-Era Southern Rhodesia, 1953–63
Allison K. Shutt, Hendrix College

Trusted Fanfare: Hospitality, Alliance, and Elite Diplomacy in Sixteenth-Century Malindi-Portuguese Relations
Andrea Felber Seligman, Northwestern University

Hospitality as a Political Strategy: Strangers, Immigrants, and the Established in Southwest Tanzania, 300–1900
C. Cymone Fourshey, Susquehanna University

Comment:

Timothy J. Burke, Swarthmore College

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