123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): The Problem of Bodily Difference in Transnational Colonial Contexts

The Problem of Bodily Difference in Transnational Colonial Contexts

AHA Session 17

Friday, January 2, 2009: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Sutton South (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Thomas R. Metcalf, University of California at Berkeley

Topics:

A Genealogy of Personhood in Colonial Indian Law
Rachel L. Sturman, Bowdoin College

Natural/ National Difference in 1920s Anti-Trafficking Discourses
Ashwini Tambe, University of Toronto

Empires, Boundaries, and the Body: The Obscene as a Problem of Imperial Hygiene
Deana Heath, Trinity College

Body Language: The Body as Medium and Object of Cross-Cultural Communication in the Pacific
Anne Keary, University of Utah

Comment:

Damon Salesa, University of Michigan

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